Let the elegant magic begin

In Business

By Elizabeth Gabriel

(Updated: Friday, March 21, 2008, 12:00 AM)

OK folks, it's time to show how much you love having a community park in Oakhurst. The park land was donated and volunteers built it and maintain it. That takes money. Plenty of it. It comes from the Elegant Auction.

The 23rd annual Elegant Auction will be April 26 at the Pines Resort at Bass Lake. That means the committee needs things to auction off in the live or silent bidding wars.

There is no limit on what can be donated -- gift certificates, money, art, jewelry, services, event tickets, cruises, helicopter and plane trips, vacations (last year, a weekend at the Greenbriar in the Alleghenys had two guys bidding up a storm) or animals.

Yes, animals.

One year a horse was on the block.

The theme this year is "A Magical Black & White Ball," and the posters feature one of those fortune-telling eight-balls.

Donations or requests for pick-up of items may be made to Susan Macaulay, Elegant Auction Committee, P.O. Box 295, Oakhurst, CA 93644. For more information, call co-chairs Macaulay at (559) 683-4494 or Rhonda Salisbury at (559) 683-7162.

And remember, everyone who donates gets a "blue ribbon" sign to show who supports the park -- and who doesn't.

Times are changing

Oakhurst Family Chiropractic is changing its hours. James Starnes, who runs the place, said he's doing it to "better serve the mountain communities.

The new hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. and Saturday, 9 to 11:45 a.m.

The office also has treatments with an Erchonia medical laser, which Starnes says reduces pain by increasing endorphin release.

For additional Information or to arrange for a consultation, call (559) 683-5115.

Gas, gas, gas

Area gas prices, as that elegant chanteuse Nancy Sinatra might have put it, keep samin' when they oughta be a-changin' (for the better).

Take a look at Wednesday's prices and last Wednesday's prices:

Bass Lake Shell, $3.59 (same); Oakhurst Valero, $3.49 (same); Oakhurst Chevron, $3.65 ($3.62); Coarsegold Kwik Serv, $3.59 (same); Coarsegold Shell, $3.59 (same); Bootjack Market, $3.59 (same); Pioneer Texaco in Mariposa, $3.59 (same) and AMPM near Avenue 12, $3.45 ($3.39).