Greetings: I have posted a new endangered cemetery report to the California Saving Graves website for the Planters House Cemetery in Shingle Springs, El Dorado County. You may view the report at: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ca/state/Planters_House_Cemetery_Report.htm A construction application is being processed for the parcel adjacent to this little cemetery. The applicant's plan shows the applicant's property line taking in one of the family plots of the cemetery that was excepted in a 1929 deed and does NOT belong to the applicant. The 1929 deed also provided for an easement to and from the cemetery and the applicant's plan makes no provision for that access. I would like to ask you to email Supervisor Charlie Paine to ask him to help ensure this application is not approved without providing for an accurate depiction of the applicant's property in relation to the cemetery and to ensure that access remains available. There is a sample email text listed below for your use. I hope you will agree that we need to protect our historic cemeteries and access to them and will email Supervisor Paine accordingly. Thank you, Sue Silver, State Coordinator California Saving Graves *********************************************** Sample Email and Letter Text to [email protected]: Subject: Planters House Cemetery, Shingle Springs (DR04-0010-Williams) Honorable Charlie Paine District 4 Supervisor El Dorado County 330 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 Dear Supervisor Paine: I have learned that there have been problems in the past with construction near this historic cemetery in your county and that a new application for construction near the cemetery has been submitted. I believe that historic cemeteries should be respected and protected as historical and cultural resources of our state's past. Please protect the cemetery and access to it so that future Californians may pay their respects to the California pioneers buried there. Please help ensure that the present project application is processed in a manner that helps to ensure the preservation and protection of this early cemetery. Sincerely, [Your name, address and email address.]