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Thursday, January 6, 2022 | A4 | Mid Valley TiMes Editorial & Opinions
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In my OPINION A 'red sky warning' is
looming on the horizon
There is an age-old adage that pro- claims, “Red sky in the night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning.”
City governments resume business for 2022 beginning this week
Fred Hall — Publisher
Jon Earnest — Editor
Dick Sheppard — Editor Emeritus
QUOTE
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
— Thomas H. Huxley (1825-1895)
Although Jan. 1, 2022 showed no
threatening signs there were, neverthe-
less, plenty of indication that, because
of a lack of leadership, there are dan-
gerous situations all over the world.
Our failure to deal with China, their
growing influence all over the globe
and the coveting of Taiwan is indeed problematic because of our promises to help defend that small island nation.
Russia and Putin felt the time was right to amass troops on the Ukraine border and lay down a set of guidelines they want followed by the United States and NATO.
Thanks to poor (or no) planning, Afghanistan is now a threat in the Middle East. Besides us leaving hardened military bases and $85 billion in weaponry for their use, the country is becoming a hotbed of terrorism. Many of those terrorists are now crossing our Southern border which was intentionally flung wide open by the Biden administration.
North Korea and Iran are not very veiled in their ex- pectations. They want to kill Americans! Democrat poli- ticians and their ally, the corporate media, have joined forces to divide this great nation along racial and politi- cal lines.
We've allowed a handful of bureaucrats to destroy our economy and educational system while further di- viding us over a Chinese generated virus which seems to have mitigated all common sense.
Great economic damage is being inflicted upon the American citizen through profligate government spend- ing and waste. Inflation is destroying wage gains and drivingpricesoneverything. Wefearthatthefactthat so many have removed themselves from the labor pool is indicative of inroads toward socialism. One begins by having subjects rely on government for all forms of sustenance— that's beginning to be delivered — and ac- cepted by us in a slow, deliberate movement.
Along with problems associated with uncontrolled il- legal immigration — providing America with an unsus- tainable situation of drugs, terrorists and poorly trained and educated inflow of humanity — we have encoun- tered the perfect storm of existential survival of this country as we know it. Know the worst part of it? We brought it upon ourselves by electing the least qualified leadership perhaps we've ever known. Working systems existing within government have been disassembled simply for the sake of change.
Our fear is that conditions exist worldwide for the potential for military conflict. Certainly antagonists worldwide see the same weaknesses and deficiencies in our leadership of which we've become aware. Cer- tainly, with nationwide elections coming, this would not be the first time that military conflict might be seen as a rallying point for national unity. With neo-cons like Liz Cheney there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are willing, one might even say anxious, to send our children to war.
Any prospect of conflict should be a worry to every- one, particularly since our military is currently being de- graded into a social experiment by this administration. We're currently throwing some of our most qualified fighters out of service because they have objections to a government mandated vaccination. With current leader- ship of people like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley promot- ing political correctness instead of combat readiness, we have real cause to be concerned. The military has become political, which was never the intent of our forefathers.
The beginning of a new year would be the ideal time to resolve to get ourselves more involved. Politics im- pact all of us, and things we do today will affect our descendants.
Just like that, 2021 is gone. The holiday season is just about behind us, and Mid Val- ley Times' three hub cities re- turn from a near-month hiatus to once again conduct govern- ment business.
Sanger is the first to return, this Thursday, Jan. 6, with a public hearing to continue dis- cussion on possible redistrict- ing. Maps of council districts will be available to see and study, and recommendations will be made an altering dis- tricts based on population.
Both Reedley and Dinuba return to their twice-monthly council meetings on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The agendas should be released by the time you read this, so contact your city or ac- cess the website to view each agenda.
It's always a good idea to keep tabs on your cities' lead- ers and their actions, good or questionable and whatever your opinion is of them.
It's always a good idea to keep tabs on your cities' lead- ers and their actions, good or questionable and whatever your opinion is of them. Re- member that your city can be asgoodorasbadasyouthe citizen allow it to be.
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Reedley High School has
been a hub of construction for much of the past two years, particularly with two major athletic projects. Students, parents and staff now get the opportunity to enjoy some of the fruits of those labors this week, when the first soccer match in the school's new Soc-
cer Complex
— off Manning
Avenue next to
the adult school
— is played
Thursday, Jan.
6. The Pirate
boys will take
on Clovis West
High School at 5 p.m. It's a beautiful facility and field, one befitting of a strong soccer program at the school.
The next big sports facility at RHS will hosts its first activ- ity within the next two months. The Pirates' new baseball stadi- um featuring a re-seeded field, a permanent concrete grand- stand and all-news dugouts and backstop fencing, will be ready for play this spring.
Jon Earnest is news-sports editor for The Times.
Fred Hall
Jon Earnest
A milestone for Adventist Health Reedley
By Susan Chapman
Guest columnist
January 2022 marks the 10-year anniversary of Si- erra Kings District Hospital’s (SKHCD) transition to Adventist Health Reedley following a 95 percent approval of Measure G.
Since the transition to Ad- ventist Health in 2012, Adven- tist Health Reedley has had the opportunity to continue offer- ing safe and excellent patient care as well as an improved work experience for the hospi- tal staff and providers.
Adventist Health Reedley has accomplished many projects over the last 10 years includ- ing facility structure upgrades such as indoor remodeling, new furniture, an upgraded kitchen, grounds updating and state of the art central monitoring sys- tems in all clinical areas to name a few. New medication dispens- ing machines were installed as part of a comprehensive medi- cation safety program headed
by an expert pharmacy team. A new in-house Pharmacy cur- rently is under construction. A general obligation bond initiated by SKHCD has assisted in com- pleting some campus projects.
In 2013, an Electronic Health Information system was in- stalled, making documentation and record-keeping efficient and up to national standards.
A well-defined Quality Im- provement and Management process program directed by a Central Valley team of experts was added to increase patients’ safety and experience at the fa- cility.
A team of well qualified Emergency Department phy- sicians, as well as hospitalists, were brought in to serve pa- tients 24/7.
A high priority focus has been with patient experience. Adventist Health Reedley has provided extensive training programs which have resulted in excellent patient satisfac- tion scores. Recognitions also
include The Joint Commission Accreditation and Cal-Noc quality awards. Reedley has al- so maintained excellent scores for staff engagement.
During the transition, most of the staff were warmly wel- comed to the Adventist Health organization. Many are still em- ployed currently. Sally Carrillo, Lab Technician who’s been at the facility for 46 years, is an example of the dedicated em- ployees still serving the commu- nity. “The transition to Adventist Health was a very positive move to keep our community hospital accessible, allowing us to con- tinue providing the services lo- cally,” according to Carrillo.
Thank you, Adventist Health, Sierra Kings Health- care District and the communi- ty, in ensuring the hospital and surrounding medical offices continue to offer high-quality healthcare!
Susan Chapman is APCE/ Site Administrator for Adven- tist Health Reedley.
But, as always, that's only one man's opinion.
A question on facts regarding the law
I saw that there is a “Con- stitution Day” coming up and have a question:
What factual evidence does any judge, prosecutor, politi- cian, IRS agent, policeman or “educator” have that the manmade US Constitution and “law” apply to me or anyone just because of physical pres- ence in this or that state?
Caveat: Opinions, views, be-
liefs, prejudices or biases are not factual evidence.
Has anyone stepped up to the plate and provided an af- fidavit of truth stating what, when, where, why, how and by whom one has been made subject to the jurisdiction thereof? Remember that any “agreement” made where the conditions were not clear and provided up front that such are without validity and can be rescinded at any time, i.e. citizenship either assumed or
voluntary cannot be compelled and is not a proof of jurisdic- tion.
And one more thing, there are no people who have proof that they were anointed by Je- hovah God with the power and right to override God’s gifts of free will, freedom to choose.
Oh, and the colonists erred when they supplanted Jehovah God with their new god, We The People.
Jack Worthington Reedley
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