Sanger Herald e-Edition 5-16-19

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Hoping for a home
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WeeklyNewspaper Sanger(FresnoCounty)CA93657 50¢ (taxincluded) THE 95TH ANNUAL CHAMBER AWARDS BANQUET
The Greatest Show
Adam Albrecht Marissa Castillo
Citizen of the Year
Inez Gonzalez Educator of the Year
Rotary Youth of the Year
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The Sanger District Chamber
of Commerce 95th annual awards banquet to honor citizens who have gone above and beyond for the community will be held this Friday, May 17, at the community center.
A few tickets may still be avail- able at the chamber office, 1789 Jensen Ave., Suite B. Stop by, call 875-4575 or email sangerchamber@ gmail.com.
Featuring Sanger's super stars
made desserts to take home or shareatyourtable. Notmanyhave every made it all the way home. The baker whose dessert brings in the most money will get a trophy.
The evening will start with
a social hour at 5 p.m. and "The Greatest Show" will officially begin promptly at 6 p.m., said chamber president and CEO Tammy Wolfe.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
Amanda Nelson PoliceOfficer oftheYear
Robert and Debra Bagdasarian Mr. and Mrs. Farmer of the Year
Community Center 5p.m.onMay17
Dean Williams
Fire Personnel of the Year
Michael Ohashi and Brian Gong Gong's Market and Barr Pharmacy Gold Seal Recipient
The community service super stars to be honored are: Mother
of the Year, Karen Pearson; Mr. & Mrs. Farmer, Robert and Debra Bagdasarian; Hall of Fame, Rick Bubenik; Citizen of the Year, Adam Albrecht; Educator of the Year, Inez Gonzalez; Police Officer of the Year, Amanda Nelson; Fire Person-
nel of the Year, Dean Williams; City of Sanger Employee of the Year, Jose Cortez; Rotary Youth of the Year, Marissa Castillo; Recycler
of the Year, Sanger AutoZone; and Gold Seal Award, The Gong Family, Gong's Market and Barr Pharmacy.
The chamber announced the names of the Hall of Fame and the
Mother of the Year recipient last week and their photos were in last week's edition of the Herald.
This year's event will include a live auction, a silent auction, a des- sert auction, and a 50/50 raffle.
The annual dessert auction has been a crowd favorite for many years. The auction features home-
Six new principals for coming school year
SUSD stays with its tradition of promoting from within the district
Dick Sheppard/Sanger Herald
The six new principals for the next school year introduced at the May 14 school board meeting are, L-R: Alfredo Ponce, Com- munity Day School; Ryan Osier, Sequoia Elementary; Kirstin Coronado, Sanger High School; Jon Tillotson, Kings River/Taft Inde- pendent High School; Michelle Carr, Jackson Elementary; and Sokunveary (Soki) Siv, Jefferson Elementary. Ponce replaces Osier at Community Day School, Coronado replaces Dan Chacon who takes over startup duties at the new education center, Tillotson replaces Rick Church who accepted a position at the Fresno County Office of Education, Carr replaces Debbie Santos who has decided to retire and Siv replaces Sam Polanco who became a deputy principal at Sanger High School.
Michael Montelongo: "Do nonprofits deserve any Mea- sure S money at all?"
Johnny Perez: "Nonprofits de- serve more Measure S mon- ey."
Memorial service
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Every decision that
was made at the April 15 oversight meeting should be invalidated.
That contention by Jerry Valadez of SAM Academy during the opening public forum is the way the May 13 meeting started.
The committee chairman Johnny Perez acknowledged he had lost control of the April meeting and promised he would try to do better.
But at the end of what may have been an even more chaotic session Perez announced he would "resign from the committee tomor- row morning."
The four person com- mittee was one short of full strength because Melissa Griggs had resigned after the April 13 meeting and has not been replaced.
tions to send to the city council before ending the meeting by agreeing on a recommendation that many in the audience felt violated the Brown Act.
The committee agreed unanimously with staff rec- ommendations that it was ap- propriate to spend Measure S money to pay for an audit and inspection of the police property/evidence room and to buy ballistic protective shields.
The committee split on sending a recommendation to the city council to approve a Measure S budget and 10 year spending plan. Jacob Villagomez was opposed and Perez, Montelongo and Frank Valles were in favor.
The rest of the meeting was spent debating the mer- its of a staff recommendation to award a Measure S grant of $8,000 to SAM Academy's Cub Scout program - and the
Measure S Oversight
Committee chairperson
threatens to resign after
another chaotic meeting
• May 16 - City council meeting, 6 p.m. at city hall, 1700 7th St. (See details on page 6A)
• May 17 - 95th Chamber Awards Banquet, 5:30 p.m. at the community center, 730 Recreation Ave.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Friends in Sanger are starting to plan a memorial service for Dr. Marvin Call who died April 28 and his wife, Jean, who died May 13.
"We're looking at 11 a.m. on June 15 for the service," said Tom Nicholson. "We still need to find a venue."
Dr. Call practiced medi- cine in Sanger from 1963 to 1978. He once said he deliv- ered more than 650 babies while he was in Sanger.
doctor for 24 years and the press box in Tom Flores Sta- dium is named after him.
When he left Sanger he worked for the Indian Health Service as well as other jobs, traveling from Arizona, New Mexico and South Dakota.
He and Jean lived on a Ho- pi reservation not far from Albuquerque, N.M. and just an hour from the south end of the Grand Canyon.
The reporter can be contact- ed by email at sangerherald@ gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
The committee did ap- prove a few recommenda-
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THURSDAY
May 16, 2019
VOL 130 NO. 20
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