Angels Camp, CA – A simple message carries a powerful reminder across Calaveras County this February: Kindness Starts With Me.
(Left to right): Vice Chair Benjamin Stopper, District 5; Chair Martin Huberty, District 3; Autumn Andahl, District 2; Jared Hungerford; Debbie Strand; Amanda Folendord, District 4; Gary Tofanelli, District 1
In celebration of Kindness Week, the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors formally proclaimed the week of Feb. 14-20th as National Random Acts of Kindness Week, Feb. 17th as Random Acts of Kindness Day, and once again designated Calaveras County as a Kindness Zone. The Board first began recognizing Kindness Week in 2010, marking 16 years of countywide commitment to fostering compassion, respect, and community connection.
Calaveras County Superintendent of Schools Jared Hungerford and Calaveras County Office of Education (CCOE) Communications Coordinator Debbie Strand accepted the proclamation on behalf of local schools and students.
Kindness Week traces its local roots to “The Seeds of Kindness,” founded in 1994 by Jim and Judy Bergantz. Since that time, the movement has grown into a sustained collaboration among schools, community organizations, and local leaders.
Through a long-standing partnership with Jim Bergantz, on behalf of CCOE, Strand coordinates the annual distribution of kindness supplies to schools throughout the county. This year, a total of 5,575 wristbands bearing the message “Kindness Starts With Me” were provided to students and staff across all Calaveras County campuses. The wristbands serve as both a symbol and a daily reminder that even small acts of kindness can create lasting impact.
The Angels Camp City Council has proclaimed Kindness Week and designated Angels Camp as a Kindness Zone since 1995, demonstrating a long-standing tradition of civic leadership in promoting kindness. During this week’s City Council meeting, Strand shared remarks about the importance of modeling kindness for young people and presented wristbands to City Council members and the Mayor, highlighting the countywide effort to ensure every student receives a visible reminder that kindness begins with individual choice.
“Kindness Week reminds us that each of us plays a role in shaping the tone of our community,” said Hungerford. “When our students see kindness modeled by adults and leaders, it reinforces the values we hope they carry forward.”
Now in its 16th year of county recognition—and more than three decades of community tradition—Kindness Week continues to ripple through classrooms, campuses, and neighborhoods across Calaveras County, proving that when kindness starts with one person, it has the power to reach many.
Calaveras County Board of Supervisors proclamation presentation to Calaveras County Superintendent of Schools Jared Hungerford and CCOE’s Communications Coordinator Debbie Strand.
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I love this!!! Great article! I’d like to also recognize Jim Hildreth of Sonora, CA!!! He has been leading an array of positive activities here in San Andreas not only for us natives & locals but also creating ways to attract visitors & tourists to stop & visit our little community of San Andreas. He has gotten so many people involved in bettering San Andreas & ALWAYS offers a bright & positive attitude among the services he also provides with his business of helping people . Thank you , Jim Hildreth for ALL you’ve done & continue to do in our little town of San Andreas!
San Andreas like the rest of Calaveras is just a Shit Hole maybe you need to open your eyes and stop smoking that shit you are growing!
^^Typical Calaveras County Republican MAGA outlook.
Kindness, what the New Testament was all about.
Not the maga type christians, but as the bible says.
The condon’s statement at his ‘Board of Peace”-
“They must make a deal. Or if that doesn’t happen, I maybe can understand. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen. But bad things will happen if it doesn’t”
WTF is this? A psychologist quote yesterday- this man has the vocabulary of a 4 year old.
I would add also a dementia patient.
The bible is Fake News.
Much to their denial, the FED, Jamie Dimon, and most economists assert the condon’s tariffs are a tax on imported goods, and are causing 90% of the cause of inflation.
The taco tariff condon is actually taxing us all for all we need.
He says it is a hoax, Sec Lutnick, says no you don’t pay the imposed tariffs.
We know we are paying them.
More lies from the 14 billionaires in the corrupt maga administration.
Where are the Republicans? Is war next to distract from the Epstein cover-up ?
ICE Concentration camps over 70,000 detained.
1930’s Germany nazi concentration camps.
For a plane ticket they should be sent home, US citizens released.
What is America now?
GOOD NEWS: Feds are coming to investigate Calif. EDD one more feather in newsom cap good bye presidential bid.
And today another democrat who has committed fraud before was busted in Los Angles for stealing more tax payer money from a non-profit who supplied supplies for LA’s drug addicts.
Dimocrats and illegal drugs go hand and hand, just like convicted dim felons and guns, just like mentally ill dim transgenders and shootings, just like dim pedophiles and rapes.
oh that’s Amy Knox , she’s in San Diego, a democrat. She spent that money on a boob job, some body sculpting surgery, and vacation. But correct on the fraud, she’s stolen money before and the left must think that’s a valuable asset to have in the CA democrats resume.
UhHuh……and Kristi Noem with her own personal jet, with a “cabin” in the back for banging Lewandowski, her own makeover including new boobs, face, lyposuction, isn’t ripping off taxpayers.
Gimme’ a freaking break Trumpster^^^^^^
AND THE DEMOCRATS ARE CRYING IT’S A POLITICAL HIT JOB FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
READ ALL ABOUT IT, CALIFORNIA POST IS NOW HERE AND DEMOCRATS ARE CRYING OVER IT
https://nypost.com/2026/02/19/us-news/california-blasts-probe-into-billions-in-edd-unemployment-fraud/
IF I REMEMBER IT RIGHT GOVERNOR NEWSOM, YOUR EXPERT TEAM WERE SENDING OUR TAX PAYER MONIES TO PRISONERS AND SCAMMERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND YOU’RE CALLING IT A HIT JOB? FOR TELLING THE TRUTH???? HOW NAZI GERMANY OF THE CA DEMOCRATS
It seems from this, democrats in CA have lied yet again, who would of thought that since being a one party rule is just like that of Nazi Germany was. Keep guzzling the Kool Aid Dimocrat Marionettes.
Double what the Dimocrat politicians tell you about the homeless population here.
From the CA GLOBE
In 2023, after Newsom administration representatives were skewered by lawmakers in an Assembly budget subcommittee on accountability and oversight hearing, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg — all Democrats — and other leaders of California’s largest cities marched in lockstep to the state Capitol to lobby for more homelessness funding, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Mayor Gloria specifically asked for another $1 billion in homeless funding.
This request came the month after the California State Auditor released a report exposing that homelessness in the State has increased significantly during the last 10 years, to more than 181,000 individuals they could count, as of 2023.
Yet the auditor reported “Data show that nearly 316,000 individuals experiencing homelessness accessed housing and services in California’s 44 Continuum of Care Programs in 2022.1“
So California is counting 181,000 homeless but serving 316,000? that doesn’t add up.
How high is the homeless count in 2026? According to the state’s California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), California’s 44 Continuum of Care Programs collectively provided services to about 337,000 people (unduplicated) who were experiencing homelessness during calendar year 2023, and about 310,000 people in 2024, although complete data for 2024 was not yet available as of the September 30, 2024 report
Great Kool Aid posts magats.
Note the citations- NY Post, really ?
Meanwhile everything is a hoax according to the orange domestic enemy the condon, Epstein, climate change, affordability, farm business bankruptcies, falling dollar, any real facts.
Reality is not for them, the magats either as we see.
The answer for them is to try to silence those who only repeat the facts, established facts.
Yes, it is the same as 1930’s Germany,the same playbook.
We can only hope enough good decent folks , Americans, stand up for what America is, not the white christo fascist authoritarian dictatorship he and his billionaire pals have paid for.
Can you not read and comprehend? No wonder you’re know as Dimocrats, dumb as dumbasrats, dumpacraps, it says plain as day, CALIFORINA POST.
CAN YOU READ THAT YOU FUCKING MORON OR DID YOU TAKE TOO MANY ILLEGAL DRUGS AND CAN’T FUCKING READ YOU IGNORANT IMBECILE.
Have a wonderful day. Idiot
“Have a wonderful day. Idiot”
So you signed your letter “Idiot”!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao made a triumphant return to the U. S.—his first visit since his release from prison in 2024—attending a crypto conference at Mar-a-Lago. He pleaded guilty to laundering money for al-Qaeda and ISIS And Trump pardoned him.
He personally profited off the deaths of Americans and helped enemies of the United States. Trump pardoned him and invited him to his home. I don’t know how to better explain that this administration hates Americans and loves America’s enemies
Have you ever listened to the left on here whine and cry saying how expensive it is to live today since Trump is our POTUS? Did you hear them whine and cry while Biden was our POTUS and caused the highest inflation in the USA in over 5 DECADES? Yeah, I didn’t either. Nor did I hear them cry about all of his disastrous policies, which made everyday living more expensive, or opening our borders which Biden and the left said were secure. ( see Trump’s borders? Those our secure)
Anyway, a long factual story short.
Today’s expensive economy, ESPECIALLY in CA is because of a dictatorship, its called the CA government, a super majority democrat one party rule. The left make up our laws in CA, the same politicians who keep raising taxing , set their own policies, their own rules, who won’t even look in to fraud allegations because chances are they would find it AND it would find them guilty of it.
Did you know living in CA is about 40% more expensive than that of the entire Nation? FORTY PERCENT HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE NATION!!!
Don’t believe it? Use your own search engine, and ask.
Here’s what I found.
Cost of Living Comparison: California vs. National Average
Overall Cost of Living
California’s overall cost of living is approximately 40% higher than the national average.
Breakdown of Major Expenses
Expense Category California vs. National Average
Housing 98% higher
Utilities 34% higher
Groceries 14% higher
Healthcare 9% higher
Goods & Services 13% higher
Yearly Cost Estimates
Average Monthly Cost in California: Approximately $3,039 for one person.
Yearly Cost: This translates to about $36,468 annually.
Comparison with National Average
The average annual cost of living in the U.S. is around $26,000 for a single person.
Therefore, living in California can cost about $10,468 more per year compared to the national average.
So next time you hear a mentally-ill liberal crybaby whine,tell them to shut their ignorant crying ass up and blame the corrupt imbeciles they elected in CA.
At least we have $1,000,000,000 worth of Communist Chinese N95 mask now. We probably could of built our own company to make them for less then that amount. Except not in CA, that would of taken 15 years just to go thru the democrat red tape and then once completed that company would shutdown and relocate to a Republican state and prosper.
Then leave and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. I hear Kentucky is nice hope you don’t get sick in one of those red states though because there some of the worst health care system around
Then leave!! Bye bye !!
Remember when the GOP had the Ca legislature, and Governor? Of course you’d rather not, because with the no tax increases as the state grew, more roads, schools, parks, the revenue didn’t keep up.
As a result with the glorious Republican government, our roads went to hell, so did our schools, black mold in classes from deferred maintenance, our parks closed. There were other austerity problems, but it was a conservative heaven right?
The voters said NO, and Jerry Brown won the election, along with the legislature , so we were able to restore Ca to it’s before GOP condition. The economy grew, our roads fixed, schools restored to health, and the parks reopened. The other parts that were neglected with GOP austerity were restored.
Contrary to the Conservative mantra, the Ca economy again roared back to it’s position as the 5th largest economy in the world.
So what were you saying? Oh. still in denial, that’s too bad, reminds me of the condon, and his anti truth maga BS, telling us it’s all a hoax.
Hopefully America will be able to vote America back to health, as the Democrats did after Arnold, and the Republican austerity hoax.
That’s if we have an election in November, they want to stop married women, and others to vote.
As they only want the “right people ” voting.
They may use ICE goons to make this so.
And yet today, CA is number ONE in the worst state for quality of life. Worst state to have a business. Worst state to raise children. Worst state to move to. Worst state it seems if you lose your home to rebuild . Worst state for fraud committed by politicians. Worst state for infrastructures repairs. Top 5 worst states for schools. Worst state for cost of living. Worst state in gasoline prices. Worst state for cost of utilities. Worst state because of a one party rule that will not even audit its own officials for fraud. Worst state for transparency. And it will only get worse because democrats love the millions of its voters who are on welfare that have their hands out for those freebies the politicians give them for their votes. Leeches taking care of their leeches.
Today, at the DOJ, a huge photo poster of the 2x convicted felon rapist condon.
Shades of Iran, Iraq, other authoritarian regimes.
So much for the separation of the Justice dept from the Executive branch of our government.
This is very clear from the clumsy cover-up attempt by the maga DOJ.
Old cut and paste seems angry today
Agreed. He is one indoctrinated doofus isn’t he?
I just wanna cry, we spent $1,500,000,000 on Kamala and that Tampon guy and lost buying the presidential election. We even have more Billionaires donating to the Communist Party than they do to the Republican Party To top it off, we couldn’t assassinate him …twice!!!
To double top it off, we have dead people and illegal migrants voting on our side. WAIT, I know, let’s give our incarcerated the Right to VOTE, and we can have our federal prisoners handle the absentee voter ballots. That should be safe, they’re under lock up. Come on guys, write your representatives in jail and demand that we, the communist and socialist party want this for Our free and safe voting right. Tell them we feel threatened and are too ignorant to get any type of ID to vote and we are afraid we will get arrested for all the countless failures to appear, failure to pay child support and just our everyday way of life.
Now lets all join hands and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAÀAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAAAAAA
Now I feel better
Take it up with Angels Camp Chevron!
So as far as these people pointing out all of the citizens leaving California for other states………..
There is some good news in that vein…………
Many are moving to Texas it seems.
And NOW!!!!
Texas is about to elect a Democratic U.S. Senator for the first time in decades!!!
Seems like all the liberals moving to that Trump stronghold are having an effect on their voting!!!
Great news……….keep moving to Texas where life is getting bluer by the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
No war with Iran to distract from the Epstein files, and financial crimes.
This criminal pedo will have some kind of event to end all his push to be like Iran the latest his huge photos at DOJ and Commerce.
Is this America?
We must stop this immoral corrupt billionaire run push to authoritarianism.