Adri Jimmerfield is 80. We first met Adri in the early 70s when she and her husband Gil came to Placer High to start a Young Life club. They started hanging out and making connections with kids at games and other school events and I remember they fist took kids to Woodleaf, Young Life’s camp…
Month: May 2016
Won’t Get Fooled Again
November 20, 1973. We’ve told the story for nearly 43 years now and we needed redemption. Some time in the late summer or early fall of 1973 my buddy-since-the-third-grade Larry Finney and I headed to downtown Sacramento and the Farmer’s Market (now the Sheraton Hotel on J Street) to line up at their box officento get…
114 Miles
We wanted the see the ocean. This would be the fifth time that Scott Evans and I would ride the Wine Country Century, but this time we decided we wanted to see the ocean. The 200K ride (124 miles) has a loop that hits the Pacific Coast Highway at Coleman Valley Road then turns north…
Thanks coach. You made me a champion.
My high school wrestling coach Bill Flake was inducted into the Placer High School Athletic Hall of Fame last night. He was also my freshman football coach. As much as anyone, this man taught me how to be a champion and made me a champion (1973 Sierra Foothill League Wrestling Champion at 177 lbs.) when…
James Mason Jordan 