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"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
Ada Fisher: One of the brave
Ada Fisher who served during two wars will be 99 years old on July 6.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Retired Navy First Class Petty Officer Ada Fisher came to Sanger in 1982 to be close to her good friend Betty Kellogg after Betty's husband James died.
Ada and Betty Schultz at that time had served in the Navy
Sanger man will head a company that has raised more than $5.5 billion for schools
Sanger (Fresno County) CA 93657
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By Trey Campbell
Director of Communications Southwestern Family of Companies
Aaron Lynn of Sanger has been named president of Great American Opportuni- ties, a part of the Southwest- ern Family of Companies. It's one of Tennessee's oldest and largest private corporations, according to Dustin Hillis, chief executive officer.
In his new role, Lynn will focus on talent recruitment, company sales growth, man- agement of a 300+ sales team and further building Great American’s culture.
Since joining Great American in 2011, Lynn has proven to be a rising star, becoming the youngest $1 million producer in the his- tory of the company, the top sales rep two years in a row and "Great American of the Year" for highest recognition of individual achievement and career production.
Lynn also led his team in growing its personal sales by more than 50 percent this past year.
“With his grandfather, Ralph Lynn, being one of the founders of the fundraising industry, you could say that fundraising is part of Aaron’s DNA,” said Hillis.
“Aaron is an exceptional
Aaron Lynn
leader and has contributed to the success of our company through his ability to recruit exceptional sales people, effectively manage top producing teams and drive significant results for his customers. We look forward to his continued success in his new role,” said Hillis.
As president, Lynn aspires to add another $3 billion of profits raised for schools in the next 10 years and grow Great American’s revenues 26 percent per year.
Great American is the largest school fundraising business worldwide. It has raised has raised more than $5.5 billion for schools.
together in the same places during two wars - even though they didn't actually meet until the Korean War.
They both had enlisted in the WAVES - which stood for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service - and they met at the Navy's Communication Annex in Washington, D.C.
Their jobs differed, but their shared responsibility was helping the Navy decrypt codes as communication techni- cians.
The WAVES worked eight-hour shifts that rotated every week, making sure there were workers available around the clock.
Their work was top secret, and when women from differ- ent departments talked to each other, they weren't allowed to discuss what they were doing.
Sanger's 4th of July
Spectacular and a
Jenni Park Parade
"Even after we were out of the service we never talked about it to friends who worked at the same place," Ada said.
Ada's responsibilities included transposing characters for the next person in the code-breaking pipeline.
"Messages would come in numbers," Ada said "and you would transpose them into letters or the other way around. And it was these messages that the decoders would work with."
Ada said they never knew which codes were broken, be- cause the actual code breaking was handled by someone else.
Though their responsibilities put them in close proximity with each other, Betty and Ada didn't meet. "We always wore two tags," Ada said. "One had letters on it and the other had
See HOME OF THE BRAVE, page 6A
Tale of two budgets - SUSD has one and the city is working on one as the fiscal year ends
Dick Sheppard/Sanger Herald
In a ceremonial end to the Matt Navo as superintendent era, Navo gavelled the Tuesday school board meeting to a close.
Aaron Lynn's grandfather, Ralph Lynn, was a WWII vet- eran and a longtime member of the Sanger Rotary club.
A $10 cash only parking fee includes admission for
The neighboorhood event has been a fun and patriotic tradition since Christi Garza got it started more than 17 years ago.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Sanger's Independence Day event next Wednesday evening on the high school practice fields will feature plenty of fireworks and a lot more.
There will be food, drink and arts and crafts booths, games for children, music by "The Box," a flag retirement ceremony by AMVETS Post 98 and a fireworks "spectacu- lar" beginningaround9p.m.
The gate opens at 6 p.m.
Walk up admission is $3, children 5 years old and younger are free.
up to four people. The event is sponsored by the City of Sanger and is supported by the Sanger Chamber of Com- merce.
Earlier in the day, at 10 a.m., the annual Jenni Park 4th of July Parade and Ice Cream Fest will take place.
Friends, neighbors, chil- dren on bicycles and pets
in patriotic costumes circle the block, marching to the beat of patriotic music from a boom box on little a red wagon, thenheadbacktothe park for ice cream.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The school district has approved a $137 million bud- get for the next fiscal year, which begins on Sunday.
The City of Sanger is still working on a $46.5 million budget, that will not be ap- proved before the new fiscal year begins.
The city council has scheduled a special meeting on Saturday to attempt to approve an extension of this
fiscal year's spending plan into next year.
City manager Tim Chapa cautioned the council that without that extension the city will have to stop paying bills - and employees - next week.
Last minute issues related to the grand jury's criti- cism of the way the city has handled Measure S public safety money and conten- tions that the council has failed to respond to repeated
See BUDGETS, page 7A SANGER HERALD: A MID VALLEY PUBLISHING NEWSPAPER • (559) 875-2511 • www.thesangerherald.com
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JUNE 28, 2018
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