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Hall of Fame inductees announced
1950 Valley champion baseball team tops list of 10
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Coach Huntley Dayton with his 1950 Valley Championship Apache baseball team.
Sanger Rotary invites senior citizens to enjoy a holiday meal and great entertainment
Annual Jim McCaig memorial Christmas luncheon is on Dec. 7
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
“The 1950 Valley Championship Sanger High baseball team, which was enshrined in the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010, will headline the second class to be inducted into the Sanger High School Athletic Hall of Fame,” said high school athletic director Brian Penner, chairperson of the hall of fame committee.
The others to be inducted at a ceremo- ny next May 4 at the community center will be Ron Blackwood, Dave Dodson, Willie Garcia, Cole Herron, Chuck Shi- dan, Roy Tanimoto, Ted Torosian, Chris Wallin and Cindy Weibert.
“The committee decided to stick with coaches and athletes for the first class of 20 inductees. But from now on, up
to 10 inductees may come from any of five categories; athlete, team, alumnus/ alumna, coach and contributor and every nominee is going to stay on the list for selection consideration for five years,” said Penner.
“The committee started working on se- lecting the inductees for the second class soon after our first induction ceremony
in May of this year. We had quite a few nominations and it took a lot of discussion and several ballots to narrow the list to the final 10. The 1950 baseball team was already in the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame, so that seemed like the logical place to start,” said Penner.
The 1950 Apaches beat a Visalia High baseball team, 9-8, for the Valley Champi- onship. Richard “Swede” Johnson drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth and Charles Greer was the winning pitcher.
Ron Blackwood’s many contributions to Sanger High athletics include keeping detailed football, basketball and track and field statistics from the 50s to the pres- ent, researching and reporting Apache sports history and doing public address announcing at football and basketball games and track and field meets from the 70s.
The three coaches to be inducted are Sanger High legends: Dave Dodson, Chuck Shidan and Roy Tanimoto.
Dave Dodson coached track and field for 49 years and won five Valley cham- pionships. In 2002 the high school track
See HALL OF FAME, page 5A
free event for Sanger's seniors every year to help bring people together. I think a lot of folks, especially seniors in the com- munity, like to come in and have a hot meal and start to celebrate the holidays. They get to do that with our Rotary members and members of our high school version of a Rotary club, the Sanger High School Interact Club,” said Tarascou.
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See ROTARY LUNCH, page 4A
Measure S funds used to buy ladder truck
• Nov. 22 - Free holiday meal, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sanger Park
• Nov. 26 - Military banner ceremony, 6 p.m. at the community center, 730 Recreation Ave.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
Late vote counting, ac- cording to a Nov. 16 update, hasn't made much difference in the results as far as city council and school board candidates and the school bond issue.
Melissa Hurtado's lead has
grown over incumbent Andy Vidak in the 14th state senate district.
The biggest change is tak- ing place in California's 21st congressional district where late counting results show TJ Cox closing the gap on David Valadao. The margin, as of the Nov. 16 update, was 50.9% for Valadao and 49.1%
abstaining, a budget amendment that would allow more than $30,000 from Measure S to be used to buy a patient gurney for the fire department.
Melissa Hurtado, Humberto Garza and Daniel Martinez voted to approve both budget amendments.
City manager Tim Chapa
See CITY COUNCIL, page 4A
SUSD Measure B Yes 66.63% No 33.37%
SUSD district No. 6 Jesse Solorio 61.11% Gina L. Cuevas 38.80%
Sanger City Council #2 Humberto Garza 53.05% Melissa Beasley 46.52%
Sanger City Council #4
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The 40th annual edition of Sanger Rotary’s Jim McCaig Memorial Christmas Luncheon for senior citizens will welcome in the Christmas season with gifts, music and a holiday meal with all the trimmings.
The community center doors will open at 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 7 and serving will begin at noon.
By Dick Sheppard
Sanger Herald
The city council, at its Nov. 15 meeting, approved a $459,850 budget amendment for this fiscal year that will allow more than $1.6 million from the Mea- sure S public safety fund to be used to buy a ladder truck for the fire department.
Mayor pro tem Eli Ontiveros
Rotary president Greg Tarascou said, “We do this
Juan Martinez, El Gallo de Aguascaliente, will headline the entertainment
warned the council that public safety jobs could be lost down the road because, according to the current Measure S spending plan, the large one-time pur- chase would deplete the fund. The amendment was ap-
proved 3-1 with Ontiveros voting no and mayor Frank Gonzalez absent.
Earlier the council approved on a 3-0 vote, with Ontiveros
for Cox.
An estimated 30,000
Fresno County ballots remained to be counted as of the update, said Brandi Orth, county clerk and registrar of voters.
The next update will occur after the Herald goes to press this week. You can see it at: https://www.co.fresno.ca.us/ departments/county-clerk- registrar-of-voters.
Here are the most recent- ly updated results:
14th State Senate district Melissa Hurtado 54.7%
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
VOL 129 NO. 47
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Watching the results
Nov. 16 update:
Still 30,000 ballots
to be counted
• Nov. 28 - Christmas Tree lighting, 6:30 Brehler Square at 7th and N streets.
p.m.,
Andy Vidak
45.3%
The reporter can be con- tacted by email at sangerher- ald@gmail.com.
Eli Ontiveros
M. Montelongo David Sulenta
47.65%
30.47% 21.61%
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