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60th Annual Coarsegold Rodeo
May 4th 5th and 6th at Bohna Arena
Town Hall Meeting In North Fork
District 5 Supervisor Tom Wheeler will be holding a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, April 19th from 6-8pm at the North Fork Rancheria Community Center. This will be the only Town Hall meeting in North Fork in 2012, so take…
Bass Lake Fishing Derby
Bass Lake will be hosting their 32nd Annual Fishing Derby on Saturday and Sunday, May 5th and 6th. You can drop your line in the water between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. each day, and must be registered to win.
History Of North Fork
Sheltered by the vast Sierra Nevada mountain range and at the exact center of California, North Fork is a little town with a big heart. This amiable mountain village is home to artisans, writers, innovators and business folks, the hearty…
North Fork School’s 23rd Annual 8th Grade Play
Rehearsals are now underway for the 23rd annual North Fork School 8th Grade Play. This year the play is called “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. This play is a spoof on the original story written by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted…
Construction To Begin At North Fork Fire Station
NORTH FORK — Thanks to the ingenuity and dedication of Madera County, the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians and the North Fork Community Development Council (CDC), a new volunteer fire station in the mountain community of North Fork will…
Local News, Every Day
SierraNewsOnline.com is excited to launch the new best source for all your local news and happenings. Our goal in life, every single day, is to make sure of one thing – if it’s happening in our little corner of the…
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Quite a few of us have our own personal blogs these days. If you are passionate about something and are writing about it already, we invite you to consider reaching out to a broader audience by becoming part of our…
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Eastern Madera County SPCA
emcspca.org The Eastern Madera County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a non-profit charitable organization supported entirely by donations. We receive no tax dollars or national subsidies of any kind. Our mission is to promote the humane…
Sierracares.org
sierracares.org If you are interested in adopting a dog or a cat, please look at our web site and see who needs a home, then email us at adopt@sierracares.org or call us at (559) 683-1214. (We update often, but don’t…
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Set us as your home page and keep up with all the comings and goings in your community. This is the place to find your friends and neighbors, and keep up to date on what’s happening in Eastern Madera County.
Message From The Publisher
Have you always wanted to write? Are you already writing, but need a place for your work to be published? Do you have a subject on which you have expert knowledge, or an issue about which you feel the need…
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If you have an event that you would like to post, send us an email at calendar@sierranewsonline.com. Be sure to include date, start and end time, location with address, and contact phone and email for additional information. You can also…
The Golden Chain Theatre Company
In 1965 a group of community members decided that Oakhurst needed something to get the tourists driving through town on their way to Yosemite National Park a reason to stop (and spend money) in our Mountain Village. With the help…
Squirrel Cage Theatre Company
The Squirrel Cage Theatre Company was founded in 1974 by a group of local thespians as a vehicle to generate funds to maintain and improve the Town Hall, the former multipurpose room of the old North Fork School, which had…
Contact Your Representative
Governor Jerry Brown Local Office – 2550 Mariposa Mall, Suite 3013, Fresno, Ca 93721 559-477-1804 State Office – State Capitol Building, First Floor, Sacramento, Ca 95814 916-445-2841 http://gov.ca.gov/home.php State Senator Tom Berryhill – 14th District 1308 W Main Street, Suite…
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Wood Carvers Rendezvous
The Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to sponsor the 5th Annual Oakhurst Wood Carvers Rendezvous, April 15, thru April 22,2012, held at the Community Center in Oakhurst, Ca. This special week of carving is guaranteed to be fun…
Rattlesnakes
As the warm weather returns, humans are not the only species coming out to enjoy the sun. Snakes, too, can be found basking in the sun’s rays. Although most snakes in the state are harmless, the Department of Fish and…
Bear With Us
If we were Walmart or Merrill Lynch, we would have a team of dozens of designers, engineers and web builders who would put together our website, and present it, clean and perfect, for public consumption. But we are a small…
Content Typography
Typography is a fundamental part of a template, providing you with the tools to characterise your content and bring it to life. There is a vast array of typography available with Ionosphere template, as is with our previous releases, from…
Customize the Logo
The most effective way to customize the logo is to use the included Source PNG file. When opened in Adobe Fireworks, this file contains all of the Layers in the design allowing you to tweak and change any of the…
Fusion and SplitMenu
There are two menu systems that are integrated into the Ionosphere, these are the Triple Level SplitMenu and the Fusion Menu. The former is a three tiered, static menu system with configurable locations. The latter is a javascript enhanced, CSS…
Color Chooser Template
The twelve style variations are fully customizable with the most comprehensive color chooser system ever. Choose just a few tones and shades, and Ionosphere does the rest, automatically calculating an appropriate color scheme for the various template elements. All at…
RokSprocket Extension
RokSprocket is a revolutionary new Joomla 2.5 only extension that has been designed to replace a variety of our existing ‘content’ modules. These include RokStories, RokTabs, RokNewsPager, RokNewsflash, RokMicronews, and basically any module in the RT arsenal that manipulates and…
Support
Want to ask a technical question about Ionosphere? Want to a read a selection of customization tutorials from the team regarding Ionosphere? Want to read a dynamic and live knowledgeable of questions and responses? Then please visit the RocketTheme Community…
Tutorials
{loadposition fp-roktabs-1} Learn how to install the template and its associated extras, such as the Extensions, with this demo’s Installation tutorial. Learn how to customize the logo using the Adobe® Fireworks PNG Sources, with this demo’s Logo Editing tutorial.
Top Features
{socialbuttons} Featured Extensions An assortment of stylistically integrated extensions are available with Ionosphere: RokSprocket: Content ModuleCombine tabbed, showcase and other functionality within one module. RokAjaxSearch: Search ModuleA sophisticated search module with integrated Google features such as Image Search. Triple…
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About Joomla!
What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best…
Preset Styles
Integrated Extensions Access the Style Control settings from: Admin → Extensions → Template Manager → (J1.5) rt_ionosphere_j15 or (J2.5) rt_ionosphere → Settings Simple configure the options, then save and Gantry will automatically load the modified preset to your site. Style…
Logo Editing
The following is a step by step guide to customising your Ionosphere logo image by replacing the logo text with your own organization or company’s name and logo. Gantry sets the dimensions of the logo, so CSS modification is unnecessary….
Installation Instructions
The following is a guide that covers how to set up your new Ionosphere template on your Joomla! site. Here you can find an overview of the files included in the Ionosphere release and instructions on installing and activating the…
Tutorials and Guides
Installation An overview of template files and instructions for installing and activating the template. Read More Logo Editing An overview for customizing your logo with your organization or company name and logo. Read More Go to Extensions → Template Manager →…
Integrated Extensions
RokStories Module RokStories is a great module to display your articles and accompanying images as a featured item. The module itself is facilitated by Mootools to transition between images and articles seamlessly. Perfect for showcasing featured articles or image on…
Menu Options
Fusion with MegaMenu Fusion Menu is a menu theme of the RokNavMenu extension, the addon that drives all RocketTheme template menus. It is primarily a javascript enhanced CSS dropdown menu, that combines standard suckerfish type functionality with animations, transitions and…
Template Typography
Creating Beautiful Content With Simple Code Typography is a fundamental part of a template, providing you with the tools to characterise your content and bring it to life. There is a vast array of typography available with Ionosphere template, as…
Module Variations
There are 11 stylistic module class suffixes, these add a unique style variation to the module: box1-7 and title1-4; and 26 structural suffixes, these affect the layout and metrics of the module. Module Suffix “title” There are 4 variations to…
Module Positions
Module Positions Diagram If no modules are published to a position, the entire area or row will not appear/collapse. Documentation: Gantry Framework Layouts
Template Features
Revolutionary Joomla Template Ionosphere, the March 2012 template release, is an incredibly versatile template that places the artist’s palette in your hands, through our most comprehensive Color Chooser system to date. The color selection system is completely dynamic, with just…
Crewel
Crewel Gennifer Albin2012●●●●● A Definite Must read!○○○○ Really good. You should read it!○○○ It was okay, I finished it. Something was missing.○○ Read if you’ve already read the cereal box, twice.○ Time I’ll never get back. Probably didn’t finish it….
Eastern Madera County SPCA
Blue – Blue is my name and I’m kinda blue, too! You see, my family doesn’t really have time for me. They feel really bad. It’s not that they don’t love me, it’s that they want the best for me….
Kellen Rescue
Orange Roughy – This cat was recently rescued by a friend of Kellen Rescue. He was taken to Hoof and Paw where he was diagnosed with FIV (Feline AIDS), severe dehydration and an eye infection. He is currently in the…
Amy Duke
My name is Amy Duke and I’ve lived in the mountain area since I was four years old. I’ve always loved plants and gardening, but it didn’t become the obsession which slowly graduated into a calling, until about ten…