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COVID-19 gave annual events a new look
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Two annual region events underwent drastic changes because of COVID-19. ABOVE: The annual Reed- ley Fiesta on Oct. 12-13 became virual events, with the parade on Oct. 13 becoming a "reverse parade" where vehicles traveled along G Street to view the parade floats and exhibits. LEFT: The annual Dinuba Holiday Christmas Parade on Dec. 5 also bcame a "reverse parade" event. The pandemic forced the cancellation of Sanger's annual Veterans and Toyland holiday parades for 2020.
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initial court ruling allowing it to remain open, and after another in- junction resulted in fines against the district the two sides came to a settlement allowing the schools to continue on-campus learning regardless of the county's purple tier status.
The city's public school district, Kings Canyon Unified (including Orange Cove schools), went to distance learning as soon as dis- tricts throughout the state began shutting down to live instruction in March. After completing the 2019-2020 school year with a vir- tual graduation ceremony record- ed individually among families, the district began the 2020-2021 school year with distance learn- ing. St. La Salle Catholic School was the first in the region to re- ceive a waiver from the county,
and began their on-campus learn- ing in late September.
Reedley College also went to general online instruction for the vast majority of its enrolled students, with a rare lab taking place on campus. Students gen- erally have remained off campus this fall, and a virtual graduation ceremony was held in late May. Earlier this month, the college's first Flight Science class of future pilots conducted a delayed gradu- ation ceremony.
In city government, the Reedley Council added a new member as Matthew Tuttle defeated Ken Bak- er in the Nov. 3 election to succeed outgoing Mayor Frank Pinon on the council. Incumbent members Bob Beck and Anita Betancourt also were re-elected after running un- opposed, while longtime member Mary Fast took the gavel earlier this month for her third stint as mayor.
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positive COVID cases makes it unlikely that the desired start date of Jan. 11 will be reached. The district will deter- mine an alternate date if the county remains in the purple tier.
Sanger Unified's schedule to resume class for the winter- spring quarters starts on Monday, Jan. 11. Cut- ler-Orosi Joint Unified has postponed starting in-person instruction at the district's elementary schools, and will begin the new winter-spring distance learning por- tion of the school year on Jan. 11.
Names; Feb. 13, at Holy Names; Feb. 19, home vs. Academy of Art; Feb. 20, at Academy of Art; Feb. 26, home vs. Dominican; Feb. 27, at Dominican.
In soccer, each of the pod’s four teams will play each team twice, includ- ing once at each team’s home facility. The con- ference season is slated to begin on Tuesday, Feb. 2, on the road against Academy of Art. The six- match season concludes on Friday, Feb. 26.
All games, times and locations are subject to change, and schedules for other PacWest sports will be announced in the coming weeks.
COVID-19 update
As of the most recent update on Monday, Dec. 28, there had been 63,811 confirmed cases (an increase of 1,560 in a two-day span) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) out of 517,191 tests (12.3 percent) in Fresno County, with 646 deaths and 625 currently hospitalized.
Among Mid Valley Times cities in the county through Dec.10 (the county's dashboard page with information for individual cities and towns is under construction until sometime next week), Sanger had the most total overall positive cases with 1,786 (602 active or under investigation) while Reedley was at 1,686 cases (583 active or under investigation at the Dec 10 count); Parlier was listed with 1,385 cases (458) and Orange
Cove had 783 cases (264). Del Rey was at 150 cases while Fowler had 351 cases. Squaw Valley and Dunlap had 31 and six total positive cases, respectively. The county reported that through Dec. 28 that 26,752 of the positive cases (down to 41.9 percent) had recovered.
In Tulare County, there were 32,109 total confirmed cases (4,689 active) of COVID-19 with 386 deaths and 218 hospitalized as of midday on Monday, Dec. 28. Breakdowns by cities/regions show 2,938 cases in Dinuba, 963 in Orosi, 518 in Cutler, 168 in Traver, 36 in the rural area south of Reedley and eight in the rural area southeast of Orange Cove.
A total of 27,034 people (84.2 percent) had recovered from the virus in Tulare County.
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protocols include spe- cifics on how all partici- pating student-athletes will be tested during the spring semester.
Beginning in January, all teams will be consis- tently testing and follow- ing all recommended pro- tocols put forth by the nec- essary governing bodies.
In basketball, each of the pod's four teams will play one another four times for both men and women, making up a 12-game league sched- ule that features six sets of back-to-back games against the same oppo-
nent. The conference schedule is set to open on Friday, Jan. 22, with a visit to Holy Names be- fore the Hawks return to Fresno the next evening.
The final week of the regular season is still open, providing teams flexibil- ity to add non-conference games or schedule poten- tial make-up games.
Here is Fresno Pacif- ic's basketball schedule for early 2021:
Jan. 22, at Holy Names; Jan. 23, home vs. Holy Names; Jan. 29, at Academy of Art; Jan. 30, home vs. Academy of Art; Feb. 5, at Dominican; Feb. 6, home vs. Dominican; Feb. 12, home vs. Holy
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