Jana Saastad, Managing Editor, a Rocklin resident, recently served as the communications director to California Senator George Runner; speechwriter and photographer to former Assembly Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy; and reporter and editor at the Lodi News-Sentinel. Saastad served in the US Navy Reserves as a photojournalist and received the Navy Achievement Medal for creating one of the first reserve unit websites when the “World Wide Web” was in its infancy. She graduated from Sacramento State with a BA in government-journalism. She can be reached at jana AT placercountyonline DOT com.
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By PLACER COUNTY ONLINE In the movie “The Dilemma,” screenwriter Allan Loeb reminds us that life is never short on predicaments; some are worse than others; and they’re almost always unexpected. And one more thing: dilemmas seem to always fall on our laps at the most inopportune times. That’s the case in “The Dilemma,”...
By PLACER COUNTY ONLINE After a four week run of delightful movies (read: Oscar bait) hitting local movie theatre screens, this week’s release of the highly anticipated movie The Green Hornet has not been met by enthusiastic reviews. (Although, my guess is a cadre of criticism by curmudgeonly film critics probably won’t stop this movie from earning the #1...
By PLACER COUNTY ONLINE A William Jessup University student has won a four-year Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship for his work in ministry and in the community. Isaiah Crockran received a $1,000 scholarship from the MLK committee in addition to a matching scholarship from Jessup. Furthermore, during the next three academic years, the freshman will...
