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The View From Here
I placed my two car- tons of al- mond milk down on the conveyor belt.
LEFT: From left, Leah Thomas in center, acts out a scene from "Annie" alongside Leilah Hil- vers. Hilvers played the lead role of Annie during the pro- duction. The production took place at Immanuel during the weekend of March 14.
Photo Courtesy / Immanuel Schools Instagram
The ca-
shier at the
Vons Mar-
ket in Clo-
vis looked up at me, it was Saturday, March 14 and not even 12 p.m. Yet, he looked tired and worn out.
“I can’t wait until this is all over,” I said to him. “Me either, it’s so exhausting.” he replied as he pumped some hand sanitizer onto his hands and proceeded to put on some gloves before he rang up my items.
I looked back at the droves of people in line with their grocery carts filled to the brim with everything from pastas, meats, bread, any and all types of food one could think of.
Some people wore masks, others had their hand sanitiz- er in hand. As I gathered my two cartons of almond milk, I then headed to my local gym to work out.
The place looked empty. A few machines down, a young girl paced a steady jog on a treadmill, she was dressed in some nice gym attire and a matching pink face mask.
This was no longer some- thing I could ignore, this was no longer something any of us could ignore.
The COVID-19 virus or the coronavirus as it's more commonly known, was here.
I began to examine my emotional response to the palpable panic that seemed to be everywhere.
Was I feeling scared? Was I also panicked? What was going on with me.
I don’t ever remember a time when grocery store shelves were empty. I don’t ever remember a time, nor could I imagine a time when people fought over toilet pa- per.
This was unreal.
I thought back to just days before when this prob- lem was almost non exis- tent.
We’d heard the stories out of China. Residents infected with the virus, yet we paid little to no attention. Now the virus was here staring at us in the face.
Lucky for me, I’d gone to Costco a week before this entire ordeal unfolded.
I stocked up on toilet paper and paper towels. But I wondered, when would be the next time I’d enjoy a “normal” shopping trip to Costco. Is that concept now a thing of the past?
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Juanita Adame
'Annie' production a hit at Immanuel Schools
By Juanita Adame
Mid Valley Times
Students with Immanuel’s Performing Arts department did not let any coronavirus concerns stop their produc- tion of “Annie” on the week- end of March 13 through March 15.
“When we came together for the play we weren’t re- ally worried about the Coro- navirus,” said Meredith Tor- res who played the role of Annette. “We just focused on each other and the play even though we talked about what was going on with it.”
The original broadway musical was first performed in the late 1970’s.
“Little Orphan Annie” is the story of a young girl who lives in an orphanage and be- gins to look for her biological parents.
“We’d rehearsed for it for about six weeks,” said Leah Thomas. Thomas played the
Juanita Adame / Mid Valley Times
From left, Havanah Pallares played by Ms. Hannigan performed one of the final scenes in Annie along- side Leilah Hilvers who played the lead role of Annie.
Contributed
The AB3 fundraiser auc- tion and dance has that was scheduled for March 21 has been rescheduled to August 8th, 2020 due to the coronavi- rus concerns.
If you have purchased tick- ets, you have the option of re- ceiving a full refund or you
can keep your purchased tick- ets for our rescheduled event. You may contact Rudy Lopez (559) 859-8290 or Sally Acosta (559) 259-1876 regarding tick- ets.
The AB3 foundation thank you for your understanding and hope that you can support us for our rescheduled event.
Contributed
Azusa Pacific Univer- sity, a Christian College an- nounced that five Reedley students have earned a posi- tion on the Deans List at the college.
Those students were Ka-
trina Harler, Adrian Jump, Salma Lopez , Katelyn Luna, Zoe March.
Each student was honored for earning a grade point av- erage of 3.5 or above for the 2019 Fall semester. More than 2,000 students at the col- lege have earned the honor.
role of Grace Farrell. "The cast was listed right before Christmas break," she con- tinued. "So we didn’t start re- hearsing until school started up again.”
Thomas said she and the
crew were all excited to per- form. “I’ve been in a couple casts but this was my biggest role,” she said.
“I really enjoyed the sing- ing and the music, it was re- ally fun to experience that
with all my friends.”
This was one of the last
events held at Immanuel pri- or to school's temporary clo- sure effective March 17 due to coronavirus concerns.
Andrew Bedoya, scholarship event rescheduled to August 8
Five Reedley students make Azusa Pacific University Dean's List
Dinuba students do well in Math Super Bowl
'Goat Yoga' featured in this year's Spring Tab
Mid Valley Times
Washington Intermediate students Gael Garcia Castro and Mya Martinez partici- pated the 47th annual Math Super Bowl held on March 11.
Nearly 675 seventh and eight graders representing Kings and Tulare County schools participated in the event that was sponsored by the Tulare County Office of Education. Students who took part competed in three events - working independently, in teams with their classmates and with students from other schools.
Students were divided into teams from different schools. This year, the problems they were presented all related to
choosing a crop to plant for their school’s agriculture pro- gram.
Students were asked to determine total production, earnings, expenses, and to- tal profit per year for each crop: seedless grapes, al- monds, and sweet corn. Stu- dents then worked together to write out a response to the school board with their find- ings supporting their recom- mendation.
In the Pro Bowl portion of the competition for seventh graders, Castro was a mem- ber of the top-scoring team that included students from four other schools.
Martinez was a member of the top scoring eighth grade team.
Photo by Juanita Adame / Mid Valley Times
Goats at the Dream Big Ranch outside of Sanger were curious at vis- itors, the ranch features a new form of exercise called "Goat Yoga" Full story is featured in the Mid Valley Time's Spring Tab.