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buttesorchard.jpgSunset in an orchard below the Sutter Buttes. Photo by queerbychoice. The Yuba-Sutter Wiki is a community wiki for [wikipedia]Yuba and [wikipedia]Sutter Counties of California. It is entirely created and maintained by the people who use it: Everyone can edit this website!

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This is a great place for local photographers to share and host photos, athletes to find places to participate in their preferred sports, event organizers to publicize upcoming events, foodies to find and review local restaurants, history buffs to share knowledge of local history, gardeners to share knowledge of plants that grow well in our area, bloggers to connect with other local bloggers, store-owners to inform the public about local businesses, activists to raise awareness of issues that concern them, and local people in general to create personal homepages and get to know each other better. In fact, you can use it to share information about virtually anything in the Yuba-Sutter area!

Why not just put all this same stuff on Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is intended for a global audience, and therefore only allows information to be posted on it that could be reasonably expected to interest a global audience. The Yuba-Sutter wiki is intended for a local audience, so you can feel free to go into a lot more detail here about things that might not interest the entire world - even rather silly things, such as posting personal pages about each of your pets. It is our hope to enhance the feeling of small-town familiarity with our neighbors by helping all of us get to know each other better.

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Can you guess where in the Yuba-Sutter area this picture was taken, or identify the building shown?
Where have you seen this mural depicting a shed or outbuilding below the Sutter Buttes?

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James and Kara Davis correctly guessed that this is the mural on the Live Wire Products, Inc. building on the corner of 12th and E Streets in Downtown Marysville.

Read other people's guesses and spoilers! Or go look at past mystery pictures.

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Featured Event: January 1, 2010

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The Polar Bear Plunge takes place annually at Gauche Aquatic Park in Yuba City on the morning of New Year's Day. It consists of sliding down a 25-foot waterslide or jumping into a pool! All participants receive a T-shirt printed with the words "I Survived the Plunge." Additional prizes are awarded for the oldest, youngest, and best dressed "polar bears."

Featured Event: March 20-21, 2010

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liondancers.jpgLion dancers in front of the Bok Kai Temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai Festival and Parade is held annually in Marysville on the weekend of Chinese New Year. The Bok Kai Parade takes place on Saturday, and Bomb Day is celebrated on Sunday.

Traditional Chinese lion dancers come from as far away as sfSan Francisco to dance in the parade, and the Ben Ali Shriners from sacramentoSacramento always bring a wide variety of different contingents. School marching bands and community organizations from throughout the Yuba-Sutter area also march in the parade.

shrinersdragon.jpgShriners' dragon float at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.

History

lunghuang.jpgLung Huang at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. A tiny portion of Hong Wan Lung is visible in the background. Photo by queerbychoice.The Bok Kai parade is the oldest continually held parade in California, having been held annually since at least 1880, and believed to have been held as far back as the 1850s. It features a huge silk dragon imported from China and carried on sticks over the heads of the marchers. The first dragon, Moo Lung ("Magic Dragon"), cost more than $5,000 in the 19th century and was the largest and considered the finest parade dragon in the United States until World War II. This gold-festooned dragon was frequently sent to participate in Chinese parades all across the United States, and was exhibited at a Worlds Fair. Due to damage to the fabric, he was retired after the 1916 parade. He was brought out again for the 1930 parade, and taken to San Francisco in 1937 for a Chinese hospital charity parade. By this time, tears in the fabric had required him to be shortened from his original more than 150 feet to only 100 feet. His head is now preserved in the Bok Kai Temple.

After World War II, the Bok Kai tradition in Marysville was preserved partly through the efforts of John and Katie Lim.1 More recently, a 152-foot dragon named Lung Huang paraded from 1991 through 2009. The 2009 parade marked the premiere of the new 175-foot dragon named Hong Wan Lung, who accompanied Lung Huang in that parade.

hongwanlung.jpgHong Wan Lung lunges at the crowd in front of the Silver Dollar Saloon while Lung Huang circles back toward the temple at the 2009 Bok Kai Parade. Photo by queerbychoice.

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[WWW]Bok Kai Festival Website

Featured Event: March 21, 2010

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Bomb Day is celebrated annually in Marysville during the weekend of Chinese New Year, in conjunction with the Bok Kai Festival and Parade. The Bok Kai parade is typically held on a Saturday, and Bomb Day is typically celebrated the following day. The main event of Bomb Day is known as "The Firing of the Bombs," and consists of exploding 100 "bombs" - special firecrackers that are handmade in Marysville specifically for Bomb Day, using bamboo, red paper, and gold leaf. The bombs have gold rings attached to them with wire. The watching crowd scrambles to retrieve these rings, which are said to bring good fortune throughout the following lunar year. Many of the rings are not kept by the finders, but rather sold to others who want good fortune. The rings are numbered, and in accordance with Chinese tradition, the #4 ring is said to be the luckiest.

History

W. T. Ellis, Jr., for whom Ellis Lake was named, wrote in his autobiography [WWW]Memories: My Seventy-Two Years in the Romantic County of Yuba, California about the Chinese immigrants' celebration of Bomb Day in Marysville in the 19th century:

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[WWW]Bomb Day information from the Bok Kai Festival website

Featured Page: Lost and Found

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Have you lost something? Found something that someone else lost? Post pictures and descriptions of your lost and found items here—including lost pets! Be sure to provide contact information where someone can easily reach you.

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The [WWW]Yuba-Sutter Craigslist Lost and Found is another good place to post lost and found items. For lost pets, the [WWW]Pet Harbor website can be helpful.

If an item goes unclaimed for longer than you want to continue to hold onto it, please consider moving it to the Free Stuff page and giving it away to anyone who wants it—whether or not that person is the original owner.

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