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The Reedley Exponent A2 Thursday, December 14, 2017
Patterson speaks at Reedley College Bill of Rights event
Jim Patterson, Assembly member for the 23rd Dis- trict and former Fresno mayor, spoke Dec. 7 at the Reedley College Bill of Rights event.
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Obituaries
Victoria Ambriz
Victoria Ambriz of Or- ange Cove died Dec. 9 in Fresno. She was 75.
Mrs. Ambriz was a homemaker.
She is survived by her husband, four sons, four daughters, two brothers, one sister, 19 grandchildren and four great-grandchil- dren.
A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, at Bethesda Church in Orange Cove. Burial will be at Smith Mountain Cem- etery in Dinuba.
Moses Cuevas
Moses S. Cuevas of Sanger died Dec. 7 in Fres- no. He was 79.
Mr. Cuevas worked as a forklift driver.
He is survived by two sons, two daughters, one brother, three sisters, nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be at 9 a.m. followed by a funeral service at 10 a.m. Thurs- day, Dec. 14, at Sanger Ap- ostolic Church in Sanger. Burial will be at Sanger Cemetery.
Manuela Diaz
Manuela Diaz of Reed- ley died Dec. 2 in Clovis. She was 87.
Mrs. Diaz was a home- maker.
She is survived by one son, one daughter, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Visitation and a Mass were held Dec. 13 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Sanger. A Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, St. Mary’s Catho- lic Church. Burial will be in Reedley Cemetery.
Jose Munoz
Jose Munoz of Dinuba died Dec. 2 in Dinuba. He was 58.
Staff Report
Central Valley 23rd District Assem- bly Member Jim Patterson shared his thoughts on the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights during a Dec. 7 program at the Reedley College Student Center.
The annual event was held in con- junction with the 226th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. It’s also a fundraiser for Reedley College’s Constitution Week conference held each September.
Patterson, a Republican from Fresno, served as mayor of that city from 1993
to 2001. He was elected to the Assembly in 2012. He gave a capsulized history of the Bill of Rights — passed and ratified in 1791 — in connection with the Decla- ration of Independence and Constitution.
Patterson called the Declaration of Independence “the poetry of our govern- ment” and a “beautifully written” docu- ment. He then called the Constitution the contract of how the federal government was formed and what Americans’ respon- sibilities would be. Patterson called the Bill of Rights “an addendum” to that contract.
“The key of the Constitution was the
right and duties of responsibilities of the federal government through the states, rights as free-born people,” he said. “So we see the construction of limited gov- ernment and separated government.”
Patterson spoke about the different amendments of the Constitution and later went into detail on the Bill of Rights. He said the United States’ rule of law and rights for the people was a stark contrast to the world in the late 1700s.
“These were remarkable rights, be-
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BUSES Continued from page A1
work in progress where the dis- trict has made gradual air qual- ity improvements to the buses they had until funding for the new vehicles was complete.
Now, the district has buses that cause zero and near-zero emissions. Four electric buses with zero emissions are used in the city along with the bulk of compressed natural gas buses. Even the fleet’s diesel buses are the newer clean-air variety that burn much clean- er than old 10-speed Crown buses manufactured from the late 1940s to 1991.
Clean-air diesel buses travel to KCUSD schools in Dunlap and Miramonte.
Flores said KCUSD has seen a huge reduction in its fueled costs because of less money spent on compressed natural gas compared to diesel.
“We’re probably spend- ing $1.25 a gallon compared to almost $3 a gallon in diesel,” he said. A federal rebate also knocks about 50 cents per gal- lon, helping increase the savings.
All the new buses are equipped with three-point seatbelt restraints for stu- dents on board. The buses are filled at the 31 slow fuel natu- ral gas stations at the Central Valley Transportation Center at Apple and Huntsman Av- enues in south Reedley.
An added bonus of the buses is how quiet they run. Flores said they “almost sound like an oversized golf cart.”
Kings Canyon Unified’s Transportation Department serves almost 4,500 students on a daily basis. During the 2016- 17 school year, district buses traveled more than 1.7 million miles to district schools.
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Mr. Munoz worked as a forklift driver.
He is survived by his mother, one brother and three sisters.
Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. followed by a Rosary at 11 a.m. and Mass at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 15, at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Dinu- ba. Burial will be at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Di- nuba.
Lupe Perez
Lupe Perez of Reedley died Dec. 8. She was 43.
Mrs. Perez worked as a medical assistant.
She is survived by her husband, one son, one daughter, one brother and seven sisters.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. with a Rosary at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14, St. Anthony of Padua old Catholic Church. Mass will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 15, at St. Anthony old Catholic Church.
Mack Rapisura
Mack Rene Rapisura Sr. of Sanger died Dec. 3 in Clovis. He was 63.
Mr. Rapisura worked as a truck driver.
He is survived by his spouse, two sons, one daughter, one sister and seven grandchildren.
A memorial service was held Dec. 12 at The Worship Centre in Fowl- er. Burial was at Reedley Cemetery.
Olivia Talavera
Olivia Talavera of Di- nuba died Dec. 3 in Dinuba. She was 71.
Ms. Talavera worked as a caretaker in private care. She is survived by two daughters, one sister and
two grandchildren.
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One of the Kings Canyon Unified School District’s new buses recently was being filled by compressed natural gas at a slow fuel station at the Central Valley Transportation Center.
Sammy Nakagawa
1930 - 2017
Sammy S. Nakagawa, 87 of Reedley died on December 8, 2017. He was a retired farmer and avid golfer, husband, father, grandfather, uncle and brother.
Visitation at Dopkins Funeral Home in Dinuba, Thursday from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. and Memorial Service on Friday, December
15th at 11:00 a.m.at the Reedley Buddhist Church.
Michael O'Neal
Michael O’Neal of Reedley, 74 passed away on November 26, 2017. He was an ag/heavy equipment mechanic.
He was preceded in death by his daughter Cathy O’Neal.
He is survived by his wife Allene; sons Kevin O’Neal, Tommy O’Neal and Je Miller; brother Tim O’Neal; sister Maureen Stuart; grandchil- dren Tarryn O’Neal, Teagan O’Neal, Alexis Miller, Jackson Miller, and many nieces and nephews.
His love in life was his family and his passion was drag racing and hot rods.
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