Who is Bump Diamond?
He's elusive, everyone knows that much. And we found one of his Vons lists recently. It had rice noodles, pad thai sauce, miso soup, bagged salad and Mammoth Brewing Co.'s Double Nut Brown.
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Wrapped Up In Chains
Walkin' The Walk In Mammoth
Sierra Centre Mall Re-Do Creates Hassle
By Bump Diamond
Wrapped Up In Chains
December 1, 2005
It's hard to imagine that anyone would miss chaining up, but there you go.
    I got through last year's epic winter in a Toyota Corolla, using chains practically the entire time. It got to the point where I could get them on in about three minutes.
    All this is in light of the fact that it is snowing right now (Thursday morning) and there is a Winter Storm Warning in effect until Friday morning.
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Walkin' The Walk In Mammoth
November 30, 2005
   I’ve been dodging cars, trucks, SUVs and skateboards in Mammoth for so long now I hardly know what to think about the new crosswalks.
    They’re lighted, by God, meaning … what?
    Not all of them, mind you. But the crosswalk on Main St. in front of the Post Office, the crosswalk across Main St. at Laurel Mountain and a coupla crosswalks across Meridian are all wired now, waiting for finishing touches before they’ll start working.
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Sierra Centre Mall Re-Do Creates Hassle
November 23, 2005

On the surface, the makeover of the Sierra Centre mall is a good thing.

Img_0547But while waiting for the faded, chipped red facing to be replaced, customers found themselves once again with parking difficulties.

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Skating Season!
November 22, 2005
It is the shortest of Mammoth’s sports seasons, and some years it doesn’t happen at all. It is the ice skating season—the season in late fall when the lakes freeze but snow has not accumulated on them. It's happening now. Ice is all over the place from about 9,000 feet up, although it's not thick enough to skate on yet. I was up at Ellery Lake and Tioga Lake on the Yosemite road this afternoon, and ice already was forming in large chucks.
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Bagged Salad Crisis At Vons
November 21, 2005
A bagged salad crisis, which also involved some bagged veggies and all alfalfa sprouts, developed overnight Nov. 20 at Vons, where bagged salads occupy a whole wall in the produce section. Nobody wanted this.
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