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The Reedley Exponent A8 Thursday, May 16, 2019
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People attending the May 11 Korky Kevorkian Barbecue and Fly In event at Reedley Municipal Airport patiently waited their turn in line for free airplane rides over the greater Reedley area.
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Orange Cove resident Camerina Morales was one of nine stu- dents honored as Dean’s’Graduate Medalists at Fresno State for the Class of 2019.
OC resident Morales a Fresno State Dean’s Graduate Medalist
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main hangar, and vehicle parking was set up at the former site. This eliminated cars parking along Frankwood Avenue outside the airport.
Another change was early signups for the free plane rides. Signups began at 8:30 a.m., with a limit of passengers reached shortly after the opening of the Fly In.
The old favorites remained. There was a free hot dog lunch, hosted by the Reedley Airport Commission and served by volunteers including Reedley High NJROTC, Reedley Police Explorers and other volunteers.
This year’s guest speaker was anoth- er renowned flight veteran — 94-year-old Raymond McClure, whose daughter, Lori Oken, is accounting manager for the city of Reedley. McClure shared stories of his war and peacetime flying experiences, in- cluding during the Korean conflict when a night raid on an enemy encampment put 400 holes into the outer skin of the
B-26 Invader he was flying.
McClure shared the physical chal-
lenges of flying amphibious aircraft. “You could tell a pilot, your right arm is like Popeye and your left arm is like spa- ghetti,” he joked.
Other stories featured McClure flying B-17 planes at low levels, including trips underneath the Golden Gate Bridge in
Inside the main hangar, 11-year-old Anneise Tamez of Sanger oper- ated a flight simulator while John Johnson, flight science program coordinator at Reedley College, talked to an onlooker. Children had the opportunity to ride on free flights and gain experience on the simu- lator at the Fly In.
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San Francisco. McClure flew more than 50 different aircraft in his career which includes in World War II.
Also on display at the Fly In were the electrical aircraft that are part of a part- nership involving Reedley and Mendota.
Proceeds from the annual Fly In go to help fund beautification projects at Reed- ley Municipal Airport,
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Camerina Morales of Or- ange Cove was one of nine students honored as Dean’s Graduate Medalists for the Class of 2019 at Fresno State.
Morales — who com- pleted her master’s degree in education and educational leadership and administra- tion — represents the Kre- men School of Education and Human Development. She posted a 4.0 grade point average, and previously earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UC-Mer- ced in 2017.
The daughter of Sev- erina and Martin Morales, she credits her family with instilling in her the ideals of hard work, dedication, per- severance and resistance. She was a graduate assistant for leadership programs in Student Involvement, ex- ecutive chair for the HEAL
Graduate Student Associa- tion and vice president of Bulldogs for Justice.
Morales also was a men- tor and supervisor of the Campus Involvement Am- bassadors and participated in many campus programs, committees and student ex- periences. She has a passion for social justice, challeng- ing systematic norms and institutions, and creating in- clusive spaces and programs for all students on campus.
Morales plans to contin- ue her work in higher edu- cation and focus on serving underrepresented, margin- alized students on college campuses.
Fresno State’s 108th com- mencement ceremonies take place this Saturday, May 18, at the Save Mart Center. More than 6,200 students will receive diplomas in the larg- est graduating class in the university’s history.
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an exceptional team in place right now to manage.”
Melikian said the Town Hall series is about commu-
nication and transparency. “It’s not only the people sitting in this room, it’s all the people you know and our hope is that maybe just a little bit of this gets shared along, with your neighbor, with the person you work
with,” he said. “And trans- parency is better gover- nance.”
The next town hall meet- ing is scheduled for Monday, May 20. at 6 p.m. The topic will be “Where the rubber hits the road.” Officials will
go into greater detail regard- ing street and road condi- tions, how projects are pri- oritized and funded. It will be held in the Community Cen- ter Senior room. For more in- formation contact City Hall at (559)637-4200 ext. 212.
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