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Karen Rubalcaba, who this academic year became the new preschool teacher for the city's Community Services Department program, is seen above about to read a book to her class last week. She succeeded Diane Kubota, who retired last year after 36 years as preschool teacher for the program.
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Catholic Education
We still have spots open in our preschool class at St. La Salle. Let your child grow with us!
We foster knowledge, faith and service and prepare students to use their God-giv- en talents to the fullest later inlife. Weofferstudentsthe opportunity to explore many life paths.
This will enable them to use their talents to serve the church and our community to make the world a better place.
Call us at (559) 638-2621 to schedule a visit. You also can go online to stlasallereed- ley.org for more information.
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Please support St. La Sal- le School. When you make a purchase at Save Mart and are at the checkout stand, enter (559) 638-1916 on the keypad.
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Catholic Schools Week
In 2018, Catholic Schools Week will be Jan. 28 to Feb. 2. The theme will be “Learn. Serve. Lead. Succeed.”
The opening Mass will be at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 28, at the new St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Af- terward, an Open House will be held at St. La Salle.
We encourage everyone to attend this event.
2018 Benefit Auction
St. La Salle School will present its 27th Annual Ben- efit Auction on Saturday, Feb. 3, at the Reedley Community Center.
The event promises to be another memorable one – and all for a great cause.
We are preparing for a great auction but need your help to make it a success. We hope you will consider donat- ing an item or service to be included in the silent or live auction.
You also can be a sponsor and be recognized for your generous support in our Auc- tion Program booklet that’s given to all the guests.
Tickets for $20 each are available in our school office at 404 E. Manning Ave. The number of tickets is limited so don’t wait.
Also, the committee is en- couraging people to purchase raffle tickets, which are $100 each. The grand prize is $5,000. Second prize is $500; third prize is $400; and fourth prize is $300.
All donations, large or small, can make a difference. Please give with your hearts and make a difference that will last a lifetime.
We thank everyone for their donations to help to make this event a success!
Dates to Remember
• Jan. 18-19 – Parent Teacher conferences; early dismissal at 12:30 p.m.
• Jan. 28-Feb. 2 – Catholic Schools Week
KAREN
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Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8:45-11:45 a.m., in the pre-kindergarten class.
Rubalcaba succeeds Diane Kubota, who taught the pro- gram for 36 years and retired last year. She was honored by the Reedley City Council last May.
Sarah Reid, superinten- dent of the Reedley Commu- nity Services Department, said the search process for a teacher to succeed Kubota meant “there were big shoes to fill and a lot of stress to make sure the right person was selected.”
“Karen stood out not only because of her experience working with children but her calm manner and moth- erly voice,” Reid said. “Work- ing with 3- to 4-year-olds, you have to have the demeanor en- couraging a welcoming envi- ronment and learning friendly atmosphere, and this was seen in Karen.”
Rubalcaba’s experience also includes working for what was then called the Little Lambs preschool at Christ Lu- theran Church and as a home educator for the Dinuba Com- munity Center.
Rubalcaba, a graduate of Dinuba High School, is mar-
ried to Mathew Rubalcaba, who’s the produce manager at the Save Mart supermarket. They have two sons, Jayden, 10, and Dominik, 9.
She said she wanted to be a preschool teacher because there are so many firsts that happen as a child’s first teacher: “It’s so exciting. It’s exciting for the parents, and the parents remember you as well because you’re their child’s first teacher. It’s excit- ing to teach them a lot of all their firsts.”
Rubalcaba said she was at- tracted to the city position be- cause she had always admired Kubota, and her sons had been in the preschool program.
As the new teacher, she is using a new curriculum fo- cused on literacy that also is being used in the Kings Can- yon Unified School District. That way, the transition to kindergarten will be smooth- er. Reid said taking on the new curriculum “has worked out nicely, and staff is very pleased with the results.”
Rubalcaba also wants to teach children how to social- ize and get along with one another, which will help them as they meet more new young- sters in the grades ahead.
And, of course, there are those yoga sessions. To be clear, these are simple yoga moves that are done for about
15 minutes or so.
Rubalcaba said yoga can
benefit youngsters just as it does adults. She said she be- lieves it’s important for pre- schoolers, who aren’t used to sitting so long in a classroom setting. It’s a way, she said, “to slow your body down, slow your mind down.”
Looking at all she tries to do in the classroom, Rubalca- ba said: “There’s just a way to incorporate all of it. You can fit in all of it.”
Reid said that, in addition to the new curriculum, there also have been other firsts, such as a jog-a-thon for the preschoolers and a bike-a- thon for the pre-kindergarten youngsters. She said both events “went off very nicely with students and parents.”
In addition, Rubalcaba provides a monthly newslet- ter to keep parents informed and to show pictures from the previous month’s activities.
Rubalcaba said, just as Kubota did, she would like to teach at the community center for years to come.
“I only hope that I can stay, and that it will be that fulfilling and long because, yes, I enjoy it.”
To inquire about open- ings or for more information, call the Reedley Community Services Department at (559) 637-4203.
National exhibit in Kingsburg on WWII Japanese American experience
Friends of Reedley Library seek book donations
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Staff Report
The Friends of the Reed- ley Library are seeking books to sell.
The organization has a bookcase at the library that displays its books for sale. The group welcomes hardcov- er volumes, trade paperbacks (which are the larger-size pa-
perbacks), and smaller mass- market paperbacks. Books can be fiction and nonfiction as well as children’s books.
The prices generally are $1 each for adult hardcover books and trade paperbacks, and 30 cents each for mass- market paperbacks. Chil- dren’s books are 50 cents each.
Donated books can be brought to the Reedley Li- brary, 1027 E St. For more information about the book sale section or the Friends of the Reedley Library, call the library at (559) 638-2818.
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A national exhibit about the Japanese American ex- perience during and after World War II is in Kingsburg, one of only two California cit- ies chosen for the traveling program.
“Courage and Compas- sion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American World War II Experience” is on exhibit through the national Go For Broke Ed- ucation Center, a nonprofit organization that “educates the public on the valor of Japanese American vet- erans of World War II and their contributions to de- mocracy,” according to the group’s website.
The exhibit runs through Monday, Feb. 5, at the Kingsburg Historical Park, 2321 Sierra St.
The site is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays.
The exhibit, funded in part by a 2016 grant from the National Park Service, will be on display in “10 U.S. communities where citizens extended a helping hand to Japanese Ameri- cans during and after the turbulent days of WWII,” according to a news re- lease.
The impact on Japa- nese Americans was felt not only in Kingsburg but
in other Valley communities including Reedley.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, many Japanese Americans, U.S. citizens and immigrants alike, were harassed and forced to relocate to gov-
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The exhibit also “honors everyday people who rose above the public hysteria of WWII to recognize Japanese
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