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Quilter's Guild announces
September
festival MVT Staff Report
The Kings River Quilter's Guild holds a quilt festival ev- ery two years. This year, the guild and the Mennonite Quilt Center in Reedley have joined to coordinate what they con- sider the best show yet.
The 2019 quilt festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 20-21, at a new location — the Reedley Mennonite Breth- ren Church, located at 1362 L St. in southwest Reedley. An estimate 300 to 350 quilts will be on display as guild members exhibit the quilts they have made since the last quilt show in 2017.
The show will feature the work of Rebecca Haley, quilt artist from Springville in Tu- lare County. The exhibit begins at 9 a.m. on Sept, 20 and con- cludes at 3 p.m. on Sept. 21.
The Kings River Quilter’s Guild meets the second Satur- day of each month at the Dinu- ba Senior Citizen Center, 437 Eaton Ave. Doors open at 9:30 a.m., followed by a meeting at 10 a.m. The guild promotes quilting, educates the public and provides enrichment op- portunities and fellowship among quilters.
The Mennonite Quilt Cen- ter in Reedley is a fabric store and quilt gallery. But more im- portantly, it is a community of volunteers working together for world relief.
The MQC, located at 102 G St. in downtown Reedley, is owned and operated by West Coast Mennonite Central Com- mittee (MCC). Each purchase at the MQC benefit MCC’s work of relief, development and peace in the name of Christ.
The Arts Council in Reed- ley had tile quilt blocks placed in the sidewalks several years ago. It shows support of the art of quilts.
The Quilter's Guild has members from many commu- nities in the Central Valley, including foothill and moun- tain residents. The Mennonite Quilt Center has expanded to provide more fabric, patterns, notions and classes.
Dynamics of space, science
Visiting scientist enthralls students in May visit to Sanger's Fairmont Elementary
Mike Nemeth
Mid Valley Times
Craig Wilson teaches science al- most like a contact sport, engaging his students with rapid-fire hands- on experimentation and challeng- ing their intellect to come up with solutions — ultimately to save the planet.
But more on the saving stuff later.
On this particular spring after- noon, Wilson explained the dynamics of space travel and what it takes to leave earth's atmospheric layer and emerge into the weightless void that makes up the vastness of the solar system's neighborhood in Orion Arm of the Milky Way. He said that 250 miles up in the International Space Station the view of the planet is de- cidedly different than 300 or so feet above sea level in Fresno County.
Wilson queued up a video from his computer and showed footage that revealed what astronauts see and why early astronauts called earth the Big Blue Marble. "They're traveling 5 miles every second," Wilson said, referring to the space station. "At that speed you'll be in Fresno in three seconds. Faster than a bullet from a gun."
That's 17,150 mph, enabling the space station to orbit the planet once every 92 minutes.The station is staffed currently by astronauts Nick Hague, David Saint-Jacques, Anne McClain and Christina Koch performing continuous space biol- ogy research and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin
See SCIENTIST page A9
Photos by Mike Nemeth / Mid Valley Times
ABOVE: Craig Wilson used a pumpkin as he conducted an experiment during a visit to the Fairmont Elementary School sci- ence ag classes on May 14. Wilson, a professor at Texas A&M University, came to the school as a visiting professor. He was in the Central Valley as director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Hispanic Serving Institutions National Program Future Scientists Project.
BELOW LEFT: Fairmont students reacted when a capsule shot off.
BELOW: Students touched and felt Madagascar hissing cockroaches brought by Wilson to the class.
Cat House on Kings continues fundraising
Contributed
The Cat Huse on the Kings' "Ev- ery Kitten Counts — Every Dollar Counts" fundraiser entered its final week the first week of July, with the car rescue home next to the Kings River east of Parlier working hard to meet its fundraising goal.
Kittens like Miss Piggy count. This sweet calico was thrown from a car and badly injured (we won't even comment on what sort of hid- eous human would throw a kitten from a car!) She's got a great ap- petite and a cute corkscrew tail so the staff absolutely had no problem coming up with a name for her!
She’s got a fractured tibia and has been dealing with a splint/cast for a while and is most certainly look- ing forward to the day when she’s all healed up.
Every dollar donated goes to the nonprofit 501©3 cat rescue. The Cat- house on the Kings is able to keep rescuing, saving, spaying/neutering and adopting out cats and kittens with the public's support and gen- erosity.
To donate. visit online to cat- houseonthekings.com/contribute or send a check to:
The Cat House on the Kings 7120 S. Kings River Road Parlier, CA 93648
Cat House on the Kings / Photo Contributed
Miss Piggy is a caliico healing from injuries, and is being treated and staying at The Cat House on the Kings nonprofit cat rescue facility. The organization is winding down its "Every Kitten Counts — Every Dollar Counts" fundraiser.
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Membership is open to school employees, students, members of school organizations, and their families.
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