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Woodturning at the Nevada County Fair

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Join the Gold Country Woodturners each day at the Nevada County Fair for hands-on demonstrations on woodturning and using a lathe.

Each day, from noon – 8 pm, under the tent outside the Northern Mines Building, skilled woodturners will provide hands-on woodturning demonstrations to adults and children. Using a lathe and a grinder, these experts will be making tops, tool handles, magic wands, and small wooden boxes for the audience. The group will begin at 9 am on Friday, the Day for People with Disabilities.
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Cap City BMX Stunt Team to Perform at Nevada County Fair

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The Cap City BMX Stunt Team and two of its world-renowned riders, Mike Saavedra and Pete Brandt, will be performing at this year’s Nevada County Fair. Both riders are known world-wide for their high-energy biking skills and their ability to perform amazing feats and tricks on a bicycle.
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Real Estate

Zillow.com has Complaint Filed Against Them by NCRC

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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) filed a consumer protection complaint to the Federal Trade Commission alleging Zillow.com is misleading consumers, real estate professionals and financial service providers.

Humm, I don’t know too many consumers, real estate professionals and financial service providers that put much stock in home prices by Zillow.com or other on-line valuation services. Zillow.com states you are looking at home values, not home appraisals. How could Zillow.com come up with an accurate price of your home by just using data from recent sales? To begin with, an appraiser, in order to get a true value of your home, has to look at the exterior and interior of your home in order to find homes similar to yours. Then after finding homes that were recently sold and that are similar to yours, adjustments, plus and minus, have to be made on the homes he finds that are similar to your home to account for neighborhood, landscaping, etc. Continue reading Zillow.com has Complaint Filed Against Them by NCRC →

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Ride purchased from Jackson’s Neverland Ranch Amusement Park to be at Nevada County Fair

Ballon Samba Ride from from Jackson's Neverland
Ballon Samba Ride from from Jackson's Neverland

The Nevada County Fair, which opens on Wednesday, will feature a ride purchased from Michael Jackson’s infamous Neverland Ranch amusement park. The ride, Balloon Samba, was previously owned by Michael Jackson, operated at the Neverland Ranch and was purchased in the fall of 2008 by California-based carnival company, Butler Amusements.

The ride is designed to look like a hot-air balloon and features hot air balloon carriages. The Balloon Samba seats 32 children in six air balloons. The ride will be part of the carnival area during Nevada County’s five-day Fair.
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Nevada County Vineyards & Wineries

Nevada County Wineries – Nevada City Winery

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Located in the heart of Nevada City, we have one of the most unusual winery in Nevada County. Started in a garage like so many wineries have started, they went from a small garage to a much bigger one. Founded in 1980 in a small garage on the outskirts of town, in 1982 the Winery moved to its present location, the historic Miners Foundry Garage, on Spring St in downtown Nevada City. Remarkably, the Winery is located less than two blocks from where the original Nevada City Winery stood over a century ago.
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Family of the Year to be Honored at Nevada County Fair

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Ed and Carol Scofield of Grass Valley have been named Family of the Year by the Nevada County Fair’s Board of Directors. The Board chose the Scofield family because of their long-standing roots in Nevada County, their commitment to Nevada County, and their ongoing involvement in the Nevada County Fair.

Ed and Carol have been active in the Fair for more than 25 years, and, together, they have made significant contributions in Nevada County.
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Real Estate

Pending Homes Sales Continue Upward

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Home sales continue upward in Nevada County, increasing by 7% for the period April, May and June of this year compared to the same period last year. Nationwide, they have continued upward for the fifth consecutive month, the first time in six years for such a streak, according the National Association of Realtors®
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Nevada County Fair Starts This Month

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The Nevada County Fair starts this month and if you haven’t been to the fair, you are in for a real treat. It is a park like setting, with many tall pine trees and a small town flavor. Its hard to figure out if you are in a park or a fair, since it is so nice. I like the exhibits and love Treat Street, where all the food vendors are. You can find anything there from knishe to hot dogs on a stick. There are many local exhibits and of course the vendors booths trying to sell you anything from a trinket to whatever you might imagine.
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Mortgage Companies Profit From Foreclosures

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The White House has asked mortgage executives to come up with the manpower to stop precarious loans from becoming foreclosures, but a New York Times story says finance experts say a lack of bodies isn’t the problem. It’s greed.

Mortgage companies collect fees for appraisals, insurance, legal services and other administrative busywork when homes go into foreclosure, and many make more on delinquent loans than they do on those in good standing. So unless homeowners’ loans are through businesses that values their ability to keep roofs over their heads above the bottom line, they’re out of luck:
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