Darlene Rae (Nutzman) Wilson daughter of William V. and Hansel B. Saxton Nutzman was born in Spencer, IA on March 30 1931. She entered into God’s Kingdom on January 20, 2022.
Laguna Beach Local News
Christmas Treasures
Christmas celebrates the birth of the Christ child though it’s a joyous time for children everywhere. The Beautiful Wife has a tradition of making “Santa Balls” for her grandchildren. A Santa Ball is a collection of small gifts hidden in layers of crepe paper and finished to look like Santa’s head, complete with beard and red cap. It’s the stocking of small gifts traditionally hung on the mantle turned into a treasure hunt.
This reminds of the greatest of treasure hunts the California Gold Rush of 1849. Tens of thousands of men arduously journeyed to California’s “mother lode” seeking their treasure. The mother lode was a gold-bearing rock formation running near the 2000-foot elevation of the Sierra Nevada mountains, stretching 120 miles from El Dorado County in the north down to Mariposa County. This story begins on Canyon Creek, near Gold Run, Calif., and was first told by writer-historian Craig MacDonald in his art bo