CAHS fall schedule changes

Oct. 17 and Nov. 16 CAHS meetings cancelled

The Colfax Area Historical Society (CAHS) board has decided to cancel the remaining CAHS meetings for 2019.

• There will be no board meeting on Thursday, October 17, at 10 a.m.
• There will be no general fall meeting with a speaker on Saturday, November 16, at 7 p.m.

The next board meeting will be in February 2020 and the next general member meeting with a speaker will be in March 2020. When the 2020 calendar is ready, the specific dates will be posted on Facebook and the CAHS web site.

If any need or problem occurs before then, the board will convene to handle it.

Oct. 20 special presentation, Sunday afternoon

We invite you to meet with other members of the community for a special book talk and presentation on Sunday afternoon, October 20, from 2–3:30 p.m. in the city council chambers in Colfax City Hall (33 South Main St, Colfax, CA 95713).

This is a special program that was organized by Marnie Mendoza, Colfax Mayor Pro Tem.

The speaker will be Robert B. Wells, author of Voices from the Bottom of the South China Sea: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Chinese Emigrant Disaster. See the Cobblestones article on page 7 for more information.