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The Reedley Exponent A3 Thursday, March 21, 2019
Lights & Sirens March 7-March 13
Job fair at Reedley College
Thursday, March 7
• Outstanding warrant ar- rest, no address given, 9:22 p.m.
• Vehicle burglary, 1600 block of 10th Street, 9:30 p.m.
Friday, March 8
• Driving without license, 900 block of East Duff Avenue, 8:51 a.m.
• Non-injury traffic collision, 1200 block of 11th Street, 2:03 p.m.
• Report of shots fired, 1500 block of East Springfield Av- enue, 9:40 p.m.
Saturday, March 9
• Driving without license ci- tation, 900 block of East Palm Avenue, 8:51 a.m.
• Vandalism to vehicle, 900 block of F Street, 11:29 a.m. • Trespassing, 1300 block of East Early Avenue, 3:50 p.m. • Disturbance/DUI arrest, 1900 block of East Manning
Avenue, 4:10 p.m.
Sunday, March 10
• Non-injury traffic accident, 300 block of East Washington Avenue, 12:04 a.m.
• Non-injury traffic accident, 1500 block of East El Dorado Avenue, 2:14 p.m.
• Narcotics violation/arrest, 1300 block of West Henley Creek Avenue, 4:10 p.m.
• Outstanding warrant ar- rests, no address given, 11:14 p.m.
Monday, March 11
• Driving without license, East Avenue and Olson Av- enue, 12:21 a.m.
• Residential burglary, 300 block of West Manning Av- enue, 7:40 a.m.
• DUI arrest arrest, East Manning Avenue and Kady Avenue, 10:31 p.m.
• Hit-and-run collision, 900 block of East Manning Av- enue, 10:52 p.m.
Tuesday, March 12
• Outstanding warrant/resist- ing arrest, 8th Street and I Street, 12:20 p.m.
• Theft/arrest, 500 block of North Acacia Avenue, 4:57 p.m.
• Vehicle burglary, 400 block of West Manning Avenue (theft occurred week earlier, 8:59 p.m.
Wednesday, March 13
• Vandalism, Reed and North avenues, 4:17 p.m.
• Vehicle burglary, 600 block of West Parlier Avenue, 8 p.m.
(Crime reports are listed for the Reedley, Parlier and Orange Cove areas and are available online at crimere- ports.com. Online problems have prevented reports from Fresno County Sheriff, Or- ange Cove and Parlier. Un- less noted, the Reedley Po- lice Department handled the calls.)
ABOVE: Reedley College held its Career
& Employment Center’s annual Job Fair on March 13. Ellyce Parento-Garcia, career counselor/coordinator, said 49 employers had booths set up to serve 422 students who attended the job fair. “This year, our goal was to focus on student preparedness, so we strategically planned workshops and various event, from the professional clothing closet to mock interviews, to ensure our students were well-prepared,” she said.
LEFT: A representative with one of the booths at the job fair talked with Reedley College students seeking more informa- tion.
Photos by Jon Earnest / The Exponent
Grand jury applications accepted
City leaders and Michael and Karen Franzen, middle, Dopkins owner/manager, shoveled dirt during a March 14 groundbreaking ceremony.
Ground broken on new Dopkins site near cemetery
Jon Earnest / The Exponent
Contributed
The Fresno County Su- perior Court now is accept- ing applications to serve on the grand jury for 2019- 2020.
The term is 1 year and
TOWN HALL Continued from page A2
The public is invited to attend the free session and ask ques- tions of the speakers.
Past Town Hall meet- ings have talked about the city’s homeless situation and the business climate in Reedley. Both meetings were well-received with more than 50 people attend-
begins on July 1, 2019.
If you are interested in serving the community by joining the grand jury, in- formation sheets and the questionnaire are available at fresno.courts.ca.gov/
jury/grand_jury.
ing and participating. Future Town Halls are titled “City Hall 101” (Tues- day, April 30), “Where the Rubber Hits the Road” (Monday, May 20) and “Drought, Contamination and your Front Lawn”
(Monday, June 24).
For more information
on upcoming meetings, call City Hall at (559) 637-4200, ext. 212.
By Jon Earnest
jon@midvalleypublishing.com
Reedley took a step for- ward last week toward get- ting a large funeral home fa- cility across the street from Reedley Cemetery.
Michael and Karen Fran- zen, owners and managers of Dopkins Funeral Chapel of Dinuba, were joined by city leaders on March 14 for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a new funeral chapel and event center on South Reed Avenue, across the street from Reedley Cem- etery.
The new facility will in- clude a main building with full funeral services avail- able. Construction is expected to last six months. There also will be an event center and additional parking. A unique feature the site will have is a pet crematorium, the only one of it’s kind in the cen-
tral San Joaquin Valley. Also planned is a niche garden for cremations.
Co-owner Karen Franzen said the facility allows Dop- kins to better serve Reed- ley residents. Currently, the company has a downtown business office to organize fu- nerals for Reedley residents, with the main funeral chapel in Dinuba.
“Even though we’ve been around since 1895, we have to keep changing,” she said. “We need to progress with the times to serve the fami- lies with what they need to- day, not with what they need 50 years ago.”
Michael Franzen shared about the long process toward building the new facility.
“We first talked about coming over here. This was the spot that we immediately wanted,” he said. “We thought it would be great to be here,
but it was unavailable at the time. We considered lots of others around time, but none of them really worked well. And lo and behold, it ended up being this spot.”
Michael Franzen said one
of the attractions for the site will be its immediate access to the Reedley Cemetery. He said the planned expansion at the cemetery will put its main
See DOPKINS on page A5
Yasuko Murase
Yasuko Murase, age 81, beloved wife and aunt, passed away peace-
fully on Sunday, March 3, 2019, in Fresno. Yasuko was born in
Japan, and moved to Southern California before settling in Reedley. She is predeceased by her husband, Yoshio.
Yasuko is survived by her broth- er, sister, and many nephews and
nieces. She was very kind and generous to everyone she knew,
and she will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
A service will be held at Reedley Buddhist Church on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 9 a.m.
Gregorio (Greg) Quintanilla
Gregorio (Greg) Quinta- nilla, 91, of Orange Cove, joined his Lord and Savior on March 13, 2019. He passed peacefully, at home, a er a short illness.
A viewing for friends
and family is planned on ursday, March 21, 2019 from 6-8 pm at the Fellow- ship Hall of the Mennonite Brethren Church and the Funeral will be held on Fri- day, March 22, 2019 at 10 am in the main Sanctuary with interment to follow at Smith Mountain Cemetery.
Gregorio (Goyo) Quintanilla, 91 años, de Orange Cove, se unió a su Señor y Salvador el 13 de marzo de 2019. Pasó pací - camente, en su casa, después de una enfermedad corta.
La velación está prevista para el jueves 21 de Marzo de 2019 de 6:00 a 8:00 p.m. en el Fellowship Hall de la Iglesia Menno- nite Brethren de Reedley. El funeral tendrá lugar el viernes 22 de marzo de 2019 a las 10:00 a.m. en el Santuario princi- pal de la misma iglesia, seguida por la ceremonia de entierro en el cementerio Smith Mountain.
FULL GOSPEL TABERNACLE 519 E. 11th Street, Reedley
Pastor: Ron Robertson
Sunday Growth Classes: 9:30am Children’s and Youth programs
Sunday Worship: 10:30am – Service; Children’s Church, ages 4-11 5:30pm Prayer – Evening Service 6:00pm
Wednesday Dinner served at 6:00pm
Wed. Family Night at 7:00pm (Adults, Youth Children) Food Give away – the third Saturday of the Month at 9:00am Basketball – Monday 7:00pm; Wednesday 8:00pm
For more information, call the church at 559-638-2739 All are welcome to attend www.reedleyfullgospel.com
FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH 314 W. Manning Avenue • Reedley, CA 93654 638-2730
Pastor: Dr. Ernie Williams Sunday Worship: 10:45 a.m. Children’s Church for ages 3 thru 3rd grade Nursery available
Christ Lutheran
Church
1254 N Frankwood Ave. Reedley 559-638-2112 www.clcreedley.org
Join us for worship Sundays at 9:30am All are welcome!
Musicians:
Aarne Kela & Jason Awbrey
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
God’s work. Our hands.
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