Phil Weaver's blog

Well these would be mastermind alleged criminals may have figured out how to make it one.

I think everyone gets a kick out of dumb things criminals do (aside from being criminals) and a local crime just may make the books.

As the story goes the local smoke shop was broken into. Upon planning their escape these guys evidently spotted a cop car parked outside the front door. Deciding that was not a good route to leave by the burrowed through the wall. Unfortunately for them their new escape route took them through the post office.

Uh oh, I think that may be federal!

I've been going to Dr. Bloom for a long time and he's always been a fantastic chiropractor. I feel great after leaving his office and he seems to get everything in to place very skillfully.

But this weekend he went way beyond.

We at www.shengchikungfu.com had flown our grandmaster out for a series of seminars. We had black belts who flew in from all o0ver the country to attend the summit. On Friday we held a training session for upper rank black belts in Sacramento and had another planned for Valley Springs the next day.

Just saw this posted on facebook. Not sure who's organizing it but there's a recall spellman rally.
Find it on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169061939835364

Also might want to take the poll
http://www.valleyspringsca.us/do-you-think-spellman-should-be-recalled

I just heard that there is a vegetable stand just up the hill from San Andreas that is outstanding. It's run by the Mennonite Church.

I just received some green beens and cucumbers and they are delicious. I'm guessing they are organic too!

Probably no website or facebook page but easy to find. Check them out and tell us what you think

Seven LegendsThere are so many unexplored and often overlooked places in our area. Amazing gems hidden away.

Not long ago I was given an amazing tour of Seven Legends Ranches. Seven legends is a huge luxury subdivision that sits right on Lake Don Pedro. It is one of two places in the country that you can purchase lake acreage on a major lake.

What does Bret Harte High School, Turkey, and China have in common?

Internet based information censorship!

Now this is totally unsubstantiated. I'm not a reporter and I haven't taken any time to ask for comments or information from the school. But I was told last night by a parent that Bret Harte has banned the use of Google.

I googled it and it doesn't look like it's been picked up by any of the newspapers.

To me this sounds like something interesting that should come up publicly. Anyone know anything about this? Anyone want to take the time to check it out and report back?

Want an easy and inexpensive way to promote your business? Do it throught the historic dozen contest.

The Historic Dozen Contest is a Promotion sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of West Calaveras History (SPWCH), The Site Mechanics , And www.valleyspringsca.us .

Recently we've been hounded by a pretty aggressive salesman pushing display ads and search engine/ social media marketing. Normally Liz fields these things but he happened to catch me as I came in the door.
An FYI, I've been studying search engine marketing since Alta Vista was king. It not only intrigues me but I have a number of businesses that 100% of their marketing is based upon web marketing. I have rankings in very highly competitive search phrases that are extremely difficult to get. This is not meant to brag but it is to say that when it comes to SEO I'm pretty hard to trick.

The work of a husband and wife team of Valley Springs entrepreneurs has been accepted into the Apps for Healthy Kids competition led by First Lady Michelle Obama and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Created by Phil and Liz Weaver, their online wellness application Break Pal - Fitness at Your Desk will now compete against 30 other applications in its category, most of which were developed by much larger corporate game developers.

Recently the Sheng Chi Foundation has been accepted by Ebay giving works. This gives us a number of fundraising possibilities and also spreads awareness.

Here's how it works:

Ebay sellers can opt to donate a portion of their ebay auction winnings to the Sheng Chi Foundation. Simply look for the donation checkbox when you put a listing up and you'll be able to search for and select the Sheng Chi Foundation.