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• 2B • THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2018
Howard Kaeding, a legend on the race circuit, stopped by the Blossom Festival.
Legend returns to Circle 61
By Mike Nemeth
Sanger Herald
Howard Kaeding, 85, visited Sanger during the Blossom Festival not to take in the various footraces but to bring a little perspective and history to another kind of race — one of internal combustion and high-octane performance.
Kaeding once drove the Circle 61 super modified open-tire 1937 Ford for Al Jorgenson, a renowned Sanger mechanic when he wasn’t out on the race circuit. That car, since restored, was one of several featured race cars to highlight the Blossom Festival car show, which started just after the footraces concluded March 3. The Jorgenson Ford and Gregg Hernandez’s Dale Earnhardt Sr. blue- and-yellow No. 3 car that Earnhardt raced in 1985 and part of 1986 drew the crowds.
“I drove it for Jorgenson for eight years,” Kaeding said of the Ford. That was in the early to mid 1960s, from speedways in Clovis to San Jose.
Kaeding is a bit of a legend. Saroyan Humphrey earlier this year in Rust Magazine summed up his 45-year short track career this way: “The Kaeding racing legacy is known throughout the motorsports world.”
Kaeding, who lives in Campbell, is also known as the Campbell Comet and even has a race named after him at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, dubbed the Howard Kaeding Classic.
The Circle 61 is currently owned by Jack Heinrich, who has raced with the Legends of Kearney Bowl, a number of other race veterans. The Fresno track
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no longer exists.
Kaeding said the last year
he raced at Kearney Bowl, “I lost the championship by two points.” Two points translates to one position.
The Circle 61 looks like it’s ready to go back out on the track. It no longer has the old flat-head engine it did when Kaeding first drove it and it’s been fully restored since its down-and- dirty race days. Kaeding said it looks a lot like it did.
“They’ve done a real nice job with the car, but they’re never quite the same,” he said.
Then Kaeding talked about how a particular race required a hard top on the vehicle rather than the open roof that it had and does today. “Jorgy got a Chevy hood and welded it on there,” Kaeding said, adding that race rules would be different from track to track. The new allowed it to race in that particular event, he said.
“Used to race three nights a week,” he said. “Won a big event in Oildale with this car.”
That may have been the race that required a half fender.
Kaeding said he keeps a 1929 Model A garaged in Campbell. He’s owned it since 1955.
Kaeding said the number on the 61 was originally painted by Danny Huerta, who he said was really involved in the race scene. The late Danny Huerta is the father of Sanger Herald press manager Mike Huerta, who helped get the car show together.
Hernandez brought a table full of photos and old magazine stories about past races and the car once raced by Dale Earnhardt Sr. Hernandez said he was a big fan of Earnhardt since
observation (what does it say?), interpretation (what does it mean?), correlation (what other verses explain what I’m reading?) and application (what will I do about it?).
Here is a passage of scripture to apply these four ways. 2 Timothy 3:12- 17 says, “In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, and being deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how
the late 1970s and knew the man for the 14 years before his death in a crash Feb. 18, 2001 at the Daytona International Speedway.
Hernandez, who lives in Fresno, was with NASCAR for 18 years and drove late models in the late 1960s at Kearney Bowl. He said he bought the Earnhardt car after it had outlived its usefulness as a racer and now just takes it out on special occasions. He said he had it repainted in 1990 and actually got permission from sponsor Wrangler to put the company name back on the car exactly as it was.
“We take it out to fundraisers and schools,” he said. “The kids get a big charge out of it.”
And in Sanger, they were no different, crawling in and out of the driver’s seat and posing for photos.
The car gets driven every so often, Hernandez said. “We drove it in the movie ‘Hot Rod Horror.’” The independent movie was released in 2008 and directed by Darrell Mapson. It stars Alexandra Gorman, who also has appeared in “Sinister Heaven” and “Two Lane Asphalt,” according to imdb.com.
“If they let me, I’ll start it up,” Hernandez said. He had disconnected the battery to avoid any chance the kids could accidentally cause problems. “That’s the fun part.”
And Dr. Christopher “Topper” Kang brought his Lotus race car to the show. “I actually shined it up,” he said. “There’s an oil pan there (under the engine to catch drips) because it’s British.”
The reporter can be contacted by email at nemethfeatures@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
The Sanger Woman's Club donated 40 bear-and-blanket packages to replentish those already handed out by Sanger's finest — police and firefighters. The Stuffy Project is just one of the programs offered by the woman's club. The packages are meant to provide comfort to children in crisis whether it be for kids whose parents have to be airlifted after an automobile accident to victims of a gas leak who have to leave their homes. Police chief Silver Rodriguez said the bears work. Fire chief Greg Tarascou echoed the sentiment.
Mike Nemeth / Sanger Herald
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AMVETS will have its fish fry from 5 to 8 p.m. every Friday for most of the month, March 9, 16 and 23. Cost is $10 and includes rice, chowder, slaw, vegetable and bread. The club also has brought back its chili dogs from 5 to 8 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month. So that will be March 21 and April 4 and 18. Everybody who’s anybody will be there. Come early. It’s popular. There will also be kraut dogs, mustard dogs and Frito boats. Details, George 559-286-5667.
Free sugar pine seedlings are to be distributed from 10 a.m. to noon March 10 at the Bear Mountain Library, 30733 E. Kings Canyon Road in Squaw Valley. The event is organized by Fresno County supervisor Nathan Magsig. He said the county has received 6,000 seedlings in 1-year-old container stock from zone 531. Details, 559-600-5000.
Proteus Inc., which provides job training, education and various community services, plans a ribbon cutting at 11 a.m. March 15 at its new location, 2570 Jensen Ave. Suite 108. The new site provides more space for operations. Old site was on Academy Avenue. Details, 559-875-7146.
St. Mary’s Annual St. Patrick’s Dinner is scheduled from noon to 5 p.m. March 11 at St. Mary’s Hall at North and Bethel avenues. The meal include chicken, all-you-can-eat spaghetti, salad, rolls, peas, beverages and dessert. Cost is $18. Details, Beth Musgrave 559-876-3936.
The Sanger Eagles’ taco nights are 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the first and third Mondays of the month. St. Patrick’s corn beef dinner is 5 p.m. March 17. Second crab feed is April 7, and cost is $60. Reservations due March 31. Breakfasts will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. every second Saturday of the month. The location is 225 J St. Details, Jim Batten 559- 875-6820 or Denny Noller 559-392-1936.
The Sanger branch of the Fresno County Public Library will be closing March 10 for interior renovations, especially to the bathrooms to make them compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, said
Terrance McArthur, an official with the library. The library should reopen sometime in the summer for the summer reading program, he said. An alternative is the Sunnyside branch at 5566 E. Kings Canyon Road.
The 11th annual Plant Give & Take will be held from 9 am to noon March 10 at the Veterans of Foreign War Post 8900 picnic area, 3585 N. Blythe Ave. west of Highway 99 in Fresno. The event is sponsored by the nonprofit Community Volunteers Central Valley. Plant Give & Take is free to the public, and organizers say all types of plants, seeds and cuttings for the home garden will be exchanged. The idea is to give what you have and take what you need. Local gardening experts will also be on hand to answer questions. Details, Margie Reisz at 559-227-9947.
The New Sanger Democratic Club meets at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month at Me-N-Ed’s Pizzaria, 2616 Jensen Ave. Call for confirmation. Details, 559-977-5956.
The Reedley/Sanger Tea Party meets at 6:30 p.m. every third Wednesday of the month at the School House Restaurant at Highway 180 and Frankwood Avenue. Details, Connie Brooks dbrooks@ brookshomecare.com.
Orthodontist K.D. Singh of Sachdeva Orthodontics has opened a Sanger office at 2570 Jensen Ave. Suite 102. Singh and his staff provide braces and Invisalign for children and adults. Singh also has an office in Madera and teaches at UCLA. Details, sachdevaortho.com or 559- 232-3737.
Big Game Feed this year will be limited to 300 tickets. Last year, the event reached capacity with more than 400 people consuming about 500 pounds of wild game, said organizer Ron Stukey with the Sanger Bible Church. Last year, also raised about $8,000 for HOPE Sanger. But Sanger High’s multipurpose room reached capacity. Details, 559-875-3031.
Gymnastics for boys and girls 4 to 12 starts at 9 a.m. Saturdays at the Sanger Youth Center, 818 L St. Times are specific to age groups. Cost is $20 per month. Details, recinfo@ ci.sanger.ca.us or 559-876- 6300, ext. 1430.
Adult open recreation volleyball is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays until June at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave. It started Feb. 28. All skill levels encouraged for ages 18 and older. Cost is $2 per visit. Details, recinfo@ ci.sanger.ca.us or 559-876- 6300, ext. 1430.
Adult open recreation basketball is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays until June 7 at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave. It started Feb. 27. All skill levels are encouraged for ages 18 and older. Cost is $2 per visit or $25 for the season. Details, recinfo@ ci.sanger.ca.us or 559-876- 6300, ext. 1430.
Karate for all ages is 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays at the Sanger Youth Center, 818 L St. Cost is $25 per month. Details, recinfo@ci.sanger.ca.us or 559-876-6300, ext. 1430.
Registration is open for the Sanger Boxing Club. Sanger Youth Center, 818 L St. Details, Mario Irazoqui 559-412-9736.
Mike Nemeth / Sanger Herald
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PASTOR’S CORNER
from infancy you
have known the
Holy Scriptures,
which are able to
make you wise
for salvation through faith in
Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God- breathed and
is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
The first step is: 1) Observation: What does it say? Simply determine what it says and don’t worry about what it says.
Write down your observations.
2) Interpretation: What does it mean? Read from many translations to help expand your knowledge. Make a list of what God is showing you based
you learn about the people, events, words, concepts and characteristics of this passage?
4) Application: What will I do about it? Here we are going to figure out how to apply this scripture in our lives, using the acrostic: SPACEPETS. These are nine useful questions to ask yourself about a passage, given in this acrostic: S — Is there a sin to confess? P — Is there a promise to claim? A — Is there an attitude to change? C — Is there a command to obey? E — Is there an example to follow? P — Is there a prayer to pray? E — Is there an error to avoid? T —
Is there a truth to believe? S — Is there something to praise God for?
If you use these four ways: observation, interpretation, correlation and application and utilize SPACEPETS to your study, you will be on your way to understanding what the Bible really means.
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Pastor Sam Estes is city advance director and facilitates the Sanger Community Task Force that meets the first and third Tuesdays every month. He can be reached at pastorsam51@gmail.com.
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on your reading.
3) Next is correlation:
Increase your clarity by looking at what other Scriptures say about this passage. Look at a concordance, or a key- word search on a site like biblegateway.com. Make a list of what God is showing based on your reading. What more do