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Obituaries
Jose Gonzalez Jr.
Jose Juan Gonzalez Jr. of Dinuba died Feb. 19. He was 42.
Mr. Gonzalez worked as a truck driver.
He is survived by his spouse Ana, three sons, two daughters, a parent, three brothers and two sisters.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. with a rosary at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 1, at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church. A fu- neral mass will be at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 2, at the church.
James Hacker
James Otis Hacker of Sanger died Feb. 15. He was 98.
Mr. Hacker worked as a farmer.
He is survived by three sons, six grand- children and eight grand children. He was preceded in death his wife, Ramona Hacker, and one son.
Services have been held.
Wallin’s Sanger Fu- neral Home handled the arrangements.
Manuela Herrera
Manuela R. Herrera of Dinuba died Feb. 24. She was 75.
Mrs. Herrera was a homemaker.
She is survived by six sons, one daughter, five brothers, five sis- ters, 10 grandchildren and three great-grand- children.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. with a rosary at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at Dopkins Dinuba Fu- neral Chapel. A fu- neral mass will be at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4, at St. Cath- erine Catholic Church in Dinuba.
John Reed Munn
John Reed Munn of Fresno died Feb. 4. He was 97.
Mr. Munn worked as a farmer.
He is survived by five children, eight
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grandchildren and three great-grandchil- dren.
A memorial service will be held at noon on Saturday, Feb. 29, at the First Presbyterian Church of Orange Cove.
Dopkins Dinuba Funeral Chapel is han- dling the services.
Michael Vallejo
Michael Vallejo of Sanger died Feb. 21 in Fresno. He was 57.
Mr. Vallejo was born in Fowler on Oct. 20, 1963 to Gilbert and Matilda Vallejo.
Visitation will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. with a rosary at 10:30 a.m. and Mass of Chris- tian burial at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb 27, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Sanger. Burial will follow at Sanger Cem- etery.
Salser and Dillard Creighton Chapel in Kingsburg is handling the arrangements.
Guadalupe Vasquez Guadalupe Vasquez
Jr. of Orosi died Feb. 15 in Visalia. He was 57.
Mr. Vasquez worked in retail.
He is survived by his companion Brenda Valdez, his parents, seven children and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service was held Feb. 21 at Dopkins Dinuba Fu- neral Chapel. Burial was at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.
Mary Ellen Yrineo
Mary Ellen Yrineo
of Fresno died Feb. 15 in Fresno. She was 73.
Ms. Yrineo worked as a cashier.
She is survived by four daughters, 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A chapel service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28, at Dop- kins Dinuba Funeral Chapel. Burial will fol- low at Smith Mountain Cemetery in Dinuba.
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The tax season is in full swing, which means some individuals and families will begin to worry and stress on where they can find a place to help file their taxes correctly.
For low-income households, it becomes a larger issue financial- ly as costs to seek help with a tax professional are expensive and many may not be able to af- ford this service.
With a collaborative effort of Community Services Employment Training, Internal Rev- enue Service and Dinu- ba Joint Unified School District, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is here to help. Households that have income under $54,000 can get their
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Students attended two-and-a-half hours of training sessions twice a day under the careful guidance of CSET staff.
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federal and state tax re- turns prepared and filed by certified volunteer tax preparers for free in Dinuba.
As part of CSET's ex- panding services, citi-
zens in the community are encouraged to visit to get their tax returns filed. CSET Assistant Director Albert Cende- jas said the program has mobile sites throughout communities in Tulare and Kings counties in- cluding Dinuba.
"We want to go to those communities that couldn't come to us be- cause of issues with transportation," Cende- jas said.
Cendejas recalled how Dinuba became a site for the VITA pro- gram. His daughter, Kassandra, a sophomore at Dinuba High School and a volunteer with the program since she was 13, asked her father why not have services in Dinuba. The wheels began to turn. Cendejas, along with DHS account- ing and personal finance
instructor John Celum, worked on the project along with Kassandra.
“Our thought process was, if we can the stu- dents, we’ll find a way to do this, Cendejas said.
Celum said Cendejas reached out to DJUSD superintendent, Dr. Joe Hernandez and the school board. He said he got an email express- ing interest from CSET to allow for training for DHS students, so they could help residents and community members file taxes.
"I've heard of this program before," said Celum. "In fact, I have a son and a daughter in college and they both had their taxes file last year with the same VI- TA program at Fresno State and U.C. Berkeley. I was like, we can offer these services here and give back to our commu- nity that way."
There was work to do and obstacles to clear, one of which was having a site in Dinuba. A year ago students had to trav- el, according to Celum.
"We didn't have the training in Dinuba," he said. "Our students had to go to Visalia on Saturday for all-day training. They
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