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The Reedley Exponent A3 Thursday, December 21, 2017 Lights & Sirens
December 7-December 13
Friday, Dec. 8
• Vehicle theft (agricultural), 1400 block of South Avenue, 12:10 p.m.
• Vehicle theft, 700 block of East Duff Avenue, 11:27 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 9
• Drug/narcotic violations, East Elizabeth Avenue and South I Street, 8:19 a.m.
• Drug/narcotic violations, 1200 block of South Rupert Avenue, 1:03 p.m.
• Liquor law violations, South Hope Avenue and West Olson Avenue, 9:05 p.m.
• Drug equipment violations,
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Most of the Reed-Aspen project will be on land used for agricultural purposes. The parcel is surrounded by “urban and built-up land” and is consistent with the city’s general plan.
Lot sizes for the devel- opment will range between 5,000 and 10,242 square feet, with the average lot size just over 6,100 square feet. There will be 161 lots for the de- velopment of single-family homes, with the initial phase north of Aspen Avenue to be 151 lots. The remaining 10 lots would be built on the east side of North Church Avenue.
Terry said that no drive- way access would go onto Reed Avenue or side yards of corner lots. Street improve- ments would be made to finish widening West Aspen Avenue and North Church Avenue, along with connect- ing Hollywood Drive with Acacia Drive.
There also will be new streets built into the project as well as two cul-de-sacs ending in the west portion of
200 block of South Kady Av- enue, 9:39 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 10
• Robbery, 600 block of North Haney Avenue, 4:21 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 11
• Commercial burglary, 1500 block of East Manning Av- enue, 2:44 a.m.
• Drug equipment violations, South Haney Avenue and East Springfield Avenue, 4:46 p.m.
• Drug/narcotic violations, 200 block of West Elizabeth Avenue, 9:52 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 13
• Aggravated assault, 1900 block of 9th Street, 5:53 p.m. • Drug/narcotic violations, G Street and 3rd Street, Or- ange Cove (Fresno County Sheriff’s Department), 7:42 a.m.
• Assault, East Adams Ave- nue and Hill Avenue (Fresno County Sheriff ’s Depart- ment), 7:50 p.m.
(Crime reports from the Reedley Police Department are available online at cri- mereports.com. Unless noted, the Reedley Police Depart- ment handled the calls.)
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Pictured on Nov. 14 from left are Joe Garza, Reedley police chief; Anita Betancourt, Reedley mayor; Joyce Brandon with the Animal Compassion Team; and John Urbano, animal control officer. Brandon and Ur- bano were awarded plaques and a city proclamation for their work in rescuing stray animals.
City proclamation salutes Animal Compassion Team
The northeast corner of Reed and Aspen Avenues is the site of a proposed 31-acre subdivision in north Reedley. The Planning Com- mission approved a conditional use permit on Dec. 14.
Staff Report
A five-year partnership to help lost and stray animals in the city received special rec- ognition from the Reedley City Council on Nov. 14.
Mayor Anita Betancourt and the council saluted the Animal Compassion Team along with Reedley’s animal control program. Joyce Bran- don heads up the ACT volun- teer program and has worked in conjunction with John Ur- bano, the city’s animal control officer.
“These two have gone above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to tak- ing care of the dogs in our community and finding them homes,” Joe Garza, Reedley police chief, said of Brandon and Urbano.
Garza explained that – of the 301 dogs impounded head- ing into November in 2017 – only 5 percent needed to be eu- thanized this year. Garza said the dogs that were put down were injured to the point that the humane action was needed, or they were a threat to public
safety.
“That’s an amazing statis-
tic,” he said. It started at 90, when the program began in 2012. and has dropped.
“We want to stay under the 2016 mark and continue to educate our community to be better and more responsible pet owners,” Garza said.
Brandon, a Squaw Valley resident, said she has sent five children to Reedley High School so the city is like a sec- ond community to her.
“I’ve enjoyed working with the city of Reedley, the police department and, most of all, John. He’s a really good guy, and I have complete
faith in him. He’s just super to work with.”
Garza praised Urbano, who’s worked with the police department in animal control for more than 30 years, for his expertise in knowing the dogs in the community. Urbano did not speak at the presentation. But he showed his memory of the animals by recalling the breed of Council Member Ray Soleno’s dog when it went missing in the past.
“I think you have a won- derful team and you have a city that cares about their ani- mals. Kudos to you,” Brandon said.
the development. A seven- foot block mason wall will be built along the north end of the project to reduce noise from an active packing facil- ity north of the project.
Commissioner Pete Per- ez asked about turnouts for school buses in the develop- ment, along with existing wells and street lights. Com- missioner Albert Custodio asked about a nearby sub-
station, and Terry said there were no plans to move it.
The average size lot in the Almond Grove project would be 6,847 feet, and the development would include a proposed southbound bus turnout on South Frankwood Avenue. There will be a block wall and 20-foot landscape/ sidewalk buffer along the west side of that street, Terry said.
Margaret Alvis
June 17, 1932 - November 8, 2017
Margaret Ellen (Parlier) Alvis, daughter and last surviving child of Chester and Melissa Parlier, died November 8, 2017. She was born on June 17, 1932, in Dinuba, California, and came to the family’s new home on Reed, north of Parlier Avenue, in Reedley, California. Already at the new home, were four older siblings; Charles, Herbert, Merton and Catheryn.
Margaret’s, great-grand- father, I.N. Parlier, was the founder of the city of Parli- er, 4 miles west of Reedley.
Chester worked in Steinfelds Hardware. He was a City Building Inspector, and for many years served on the Joint Reedley High School and Junior College Board of Trustees. Melissa taught at several elementary schools, including Frankwood and Center- ville. She was also active in the Study and Civic Club and First Methodist Church.
Margaret (or Midge, as she was known to family and friends) attended Reedley grade schools, Reedley High School and Reedley College. Midge was destined to be a nurse. She began her nursing career as a Candy Striper, while still in high school. She took pre-med classes for two years at Reedley College before enrolling at Stanford School of Nursing, and graduated from Stanford School of Nursing in 1955, as a certi ed regis- tered nurse. On April 23 of that year, she married Monte Alvis, a long-time family friend, who was recently discharged from the Navy. ey attended her graduation together.
Within six years she and Monte had ve children; Bruce, Paula, Marlin, Mark and Lyle. Bruce died short of his 22 birthday. Midge was always proud of their many accomplishments. And she was loved and held in great esteem by each of them! Her sons have been successful in the building industry and solar power installation, and Paula was an attorney and grammar school teacher and now has a growing tutoring practice.
For six or seven years, she was busy changing diapers, remov- ing ngers from under doors, putting out a young rebug’s grass re, rescuing buried o spring, and from a second story window looking at a two year old climer!
Part of this time, 1963-67, was spent in Chowchilla, Cali- fornia. By 1964, she was working in the Chowchilla hospital. e family returned to Reedley in 1967, and Midge went right to work in the newly built Sierra Kings Hospital. When she retired from Sierra Kings in 1992, she worked for another 5 years in Skilled Nursing at Sierra View Homes, for a career that spanned more than 30 years.
A er her retirement, Margaret made her long talked about trip to New Zealand. Monte and her sister, Catheryn, shared her month long visit to New Zealand and enjoyed meeting New Zealanders in their homes (Bed and Breakfast).
Some of her most enjoyable times were spent with her grandchildren; Paula’s Sean and Cameron, Marlin’s Megan, and Lyle and Mary’s Anjane, and with her two great grandchildren, MacKenzie and Jaxon, childrenof Anjanae and Johnny Gode.
She had a unique repertoire of sayings and songs, learned from her mother and at youth camp. She would sing using notes that didn’t always mesh, or with gesture and voices she would recite and delight both child and adult.
Margaret Ellen had a wonderfully undemanding kind of love for everyone she knew.
ere will be a time of sharing at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, December 30, 2017 at the First United Methodist Church, 1461 11th Street, Reedley.
BBB holiday shopping tips
Marianna Habegger
Jul. 23, 1916 ~ Dec. 11, 2017
Contributed
The Better Business Bu- reau serving Central Califor- nia and Inland Empire coun- ties remind shoppers to know policies this holiday season regarding shopping.
For example, make sure you know retailers’ return and
exchange policies.
Also, ask for a gift receipt
if you are shopping for others in case he or she decides to return the item.
And, keep in mind that some merchants can opt to charge a restocking fee upon returns of unwanted items..
Marianna was born on July 23, 1916 in Dubois, Idaho to John H. and Sara Ensz. She died on December 11, 2017 at 101 years of age at Sierra View Homes in Reedley. Beloved by her family, her many friends in Sierra View, her church community, and Reedley community, she will be deeply missed for her kindness, intelligent thoughtfulness and her ready, playful wit.
Marianna lived her rst years in the small, tight knit community in Idaho where a group of Mennonite families homesteaded. When Marianna was ve, her family moved to California. Marianna grew up in Visalia, and every Sunday the family traveled to the Reedley Mennonite Church, which became her home church for the rest of her life.
Marianna was valedictorian in her Visalia high school and graduated from Bethel College as an English major in 1937. She then attended Stanford University, followed by a year of teaching high school English and German.
At Bethel College Marianna invited a fellow student, Marden Habegger to a Sadie Hawkins Day event, and the relationship grew. ey married in Chicago on December 30, 1939, where Marden was attending medical school. In 1946 the family, now including their rst children, Alfred and Martha moved to Reedley, California which became her community for the rest of her life.
Marianna was a devoted and loving wife and mother of four children. She also played an active role in her community and church. She was president of her PTA, a deacon in her church, and a member of the Bethel College Board of Governors. Her love of literature led her to be an avid member of the Great Books Club. She was dedicated to peace and justice ideals and became an active member of the Reedley Peace Club from its inception.
Marianna and Marden opened their home to ve foreign students and Mennonite Central Committee volunteers from around the world for periods of several months to a year. In 1972 they spent a year in Kingston, Jamaica, in voluntary service at a medical clinic, an experience that Marianna called the highlight of their lives.
Marianna was predeceased by her husband, Marden Habegger in 2007 and her siblings, Elda Suderman, Elmer Ensz, and Harold Ensz. Marianna is survived by her sisters, Norma Jones and Adeline Sprunger, her children, Alfred of Lost Prairie, Oregon, Martha Lynne of Santa Rosa, CA, Valerie of Forestville, CA, and Eric of Lakeport, Ca., four grandchildren, Cybill Souza, Simon Habegger, Eliza Habegger, and Rita Mae Rodriguez plus seven great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
A burial service was held for the family, and
a public memorial will be held January 27, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at the Reedley First Mennonite Church.
Dorothy Doerksen-Reimer
December 9, 1926 - December 15, 2017
Dorothy was born on December 9, 1926 in Diller, Nebraska and
passed away peacefully on December 15, 2017, one
week a er celebrating her 91st birthday. Dorothy, the eldest of three siblings was
born in Nebraska to Henry and Emy Pingel. She later moved to Reedley, Cali- fornia.
Dorothy began her career as a teacher in Harbine, Ne-
braska in 1944 and continued teaching for Kings Canyon
Uni ed School district. She was a teacher at Great Western and
Navelencia schools, and then became the librarian for Reedley High School; later retiring in 1989.
She is preceded in death by her rst husband Wilmer Doerksen, sister Joanne Pingel; her two sons Bill and Jim; and second husband Earl Reimer.
She is survived by her brother Robert, wife Marian; sister- in-law Rachel Doerksen; son Fred, wife Norma; son Jerry; daughter-in-law Carol, widow of Jim Doerksen; grandchil- dren; Jackie, Maryjane, Amanda, James, Danielle, Freddie; great grandchildren Randy, Tyler, Kaitlyn, Alex and Natalia. She is also survived by step-son Paul Reimer, wife Sharon, and their children Johann and Dietrich; step-daughter Carol and her children, Joseph and Adam.
In her early years with Wilmer, she and the four boys spent the summers at their Hume Lake cabin. On Sundays a er church, Dorothy made it a point for the family to be together and enjoy her pot roast lunches. roughout Dorothy’s life, she enjoyed many activities, such as vacationing with her closest friends, traveling to Cayucos on the weekends, singing in her church choir, gardening, time with her grandchildren and simply enjoying her cat, Peaches. Dorothy enjoyed talking to people and was loved by many; she will always be remem- bered with a smile on her face.
Dorothy’s celebration of life will be held at 11:00 am on ursday, December 21 at e First Mennonite Church, 1208 L St, Reedley. In lieu of owers, remembrances can be made to Sierra View Homes, to which the family extends a
special thank you.
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