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Tulare County Board of Supervisor for Dis- trict 4, Eddie Valero, said the efforts of host- ing distribution and test- ing events will continue.
“As of now, we are going from community to community hosting these types of events,” Valero said. “Although these are one stop events, a variation of the event will continue.”
The event was coor- dinated by Tulare Coun- ty Health and Human Services, in addition to the Community Cares Coalition comprised of numerous nonprofit or- ganizations like United Way, CSET, Tulare Kings Hispanic Chamber, Fam- ily HealthCare Network, among others, according to Valero.
With the continual push to provide more testing in rural com- munities up and down
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traveled as a human re- source specialist for about 30 years when he decided to get quit his latest HR job and get off the road (his territory covered eight western states).
"My game plan was to stay home for two years," he said. "[Mikki] was 2 and by the time she turned 4 she could start preschool, and then I could go back out and
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Tulare County District 4 Supervisor Eddie Valero, center, and Cutler-Orosi Joint Unified School District Superinten- dent Yolanda Valdez, right, stood with members of the Coalition Advocating for Pesticide Safety during the Orosi event on Sept. 30.
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the Central Valley, the event was a success. Volunteers distributed food, household supplies, masks and resource ma- terials. The mobile test- ing was administered by Family Health Care Network.
“The event was from 3p.m.-6p.m.andwe ran out of supplies around 5 p.m.,” Martinez said Francina Martinez, Co-Chair of Community
find something. Well, here we are, 21 years later, and I never went back."
Instead, the Alvarez- es established Zweigle Septic Service — which started as a pumping and inspection service and grew into portable toilets. The company has contracts with Cal Fire to provide portables when they are working ma- jor fires, and they also do contracts with Reed- ley Sanger and Dinuba
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one held in Orosi have been taking place in each of the Tulare Coun- ty Supervisor’s areas, ac- cording to Martinez.
“We have pop-up events and much larg- er community events,” Martinez added.
Martinez said the event held at Orosi went very well as 200 families were given supplies.
chambers for events. "It's family-owned, which is how we like it," Alma said. Tino has three brothers and a nephew working with
him on the business. While their daughters grew up in sports, Tino and Alma were involved coaching multiple sports, including eight years as volunteer coaches at St. La Salle Catholic Schools. Their first crop of play- ers graduated high school in 2014, and the
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climbed by 16, to 406, while hospitalizations increased by 31, to 107.
The Kings Canyon Unified School District received good news on Oct. 2, when the county approved a waiver for the district in Reedley and Orange Cove to return to live on-campus instruc- tion for transitional kin- dergarten through sixth
final group will graduate in spring 2021.
In addition, Tino was a member of the original board of directors that brought a National Soft- ball Association junior softball program to town. Alma, a Sanger native, coached all sports as well at St. La Salle.
"We have been very very blessed," Tino said. "We try to walk with the Lord everyday, and we seem to have good things happen."
grade students. Those students are scheduled to return to campuses on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 15-16 (see related story on Page B1).
Immanuel Schools, meanwhile, has contin- ued holding on-campus classes despite re- ceiving a preliminary injunction in Fresno County court on Sept. 30. In that ruling, Judge Tyler D. Tharpe stated that the schools could
be fined. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 9, and daily fines could be instituted against the school.
Restaurants in cities in the region continue to make available outdoor seating for customers, while at the same time setting up the return of indoor seating in line with state mandates un- der the red (substantial) tier that Fresno County is maintaining.
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• The annual Fiesta Parade on Saturday, Oct. 10, will be a "reverse" drive-thru parade format. There will be a flag raising event shortly before 10 a.m. in front of City Hall featuring Reedley Veterans. The public then will drive their vehicles along G Street starting at North Avenue, passing parade floats and displays. Grand Marshal, Sister Lucy Cassarino of St. La Salle Catholic
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• The coronation of the King and Queen will be at 5:45 p.m., followed by the Frog Jump contest at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9. Both events will be livestreamed on the Greater Reedley Chamber of Commerce Facebook Page.
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As of 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, there had been 29,136 confirmed cases (9,385 active) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) out of 301,062 tests (9.8 percent) in Fresno County, with 406 deaths and 107 currently hospitalized. Among Mid Valley Times cities, Reedley leads the way with the most positive cases at 1,403 while Sanger is at 1,369 cases; Parlier was listed with 1,100 cases and Orange Cove had 667 cases. Del Rey was at 119 cases while Fowler had 236 cases. Squaw Valley and Dunlap had 17 and five positive cases, respectively. The county
reported that 19,000 of the positive cases (65.8 percent) had recovered.
In Tulare County, there were 16,607 confirmed cases (606 active) of COVID-19 with 265 deaths and 34 hospitalized as of midday on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Breakdowns by cities/regions show 1,827 cases in Dinuba, 599 in Orosi, 348 in Cutler, 82 in Traver, 13 in the rural area south of Reedley and four in the rural area southeast of Orange Cove.
A total of 15,736 people (94.8 percent) had recovered from the virus in Tulare County.
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