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He turns old valuables into new treasures
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New York Diamonds owner Patty Reece and her new goldsmith and designer Doug Fiez calculate the design of a new ring for a customer. - photo by GLEN KAHL/The Bulletin
Doug Fiez with some 40 years experience in fine jewelry design and sales has joined Patty Reece at her New York Diamonds store on South Main Street near Safeway and Walmart. The designer has been with New York Diamonds since March taking old valuable items and transforming them into contemporary designs for customers. He says he does the art work after picking the minds of clients, making a sketch and usually carving the creation out of wax before getting the go ahead to complete the work.
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Endless police car crashes, dump opening & more: Working for the ‘weekly squeak’ as a 15 year-old
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Unusual police vehicle crashes — such as the one shown above 25 years ago when a Manteca Police unit ended up driving off a rural dirt road south of Woodward Avenue into a drainage ditch right after the vehicle the officer was pursuing did — were a routine occurrence for a while in Lincoln in Placer County.
Fifty-four years ago in February, I became the sports editor of the “weekly squeak”, the name that almost everyone in Lincoln called the News Messenger that has been publishing every Thursday since 1891.
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