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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Vol. 1, No. 44
Coronavirus Shelter in Place — Week 6
Another on-campus closure extension
KCUSD to continue home-based learning through end of '19- 20, announcement on graduations scheduled
By Jon Earnest
Mid Valley Times
The Kings Canyon Unified School District is the latest school district to officially eliminate on- campus instruction of students through the end of the 2019-2020 school year because of the COV- ID-19 shelter in place order from the state.
During a live stream board meet- ing the evening of April 28, KCUSD trustees opted to continue its home- based learning through the end of the school year. Craig Cooper, board president, announced the decision in a news release.
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Andrew Gonzalez, fourth-grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Reedley, reached for a student packet in his classroom on April 28 as he prepared the coming week's packets for online instruction of his students. Students will pick up the pack- ets this week. The evening of April 28, Kings Canyon Unified School District trustees voted to extend home-based learning through the end of the 2019-20 session.
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COVID-19 update
As of 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, there had been 521 confirmed cases — 325 active — of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Fresno County, with seven deaths.
Among Mid Valley Times cities, Sanger (including the region to the northeast) had the most positive cases with 39 while Parlier had 22 cases. Reedley has 17 cases while Orange Cove has 10 cases. Fowler has four or fewer cases. The county reported that 189 of the positive cases had recovered.
In Tulare County, there were 578 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 35 deaths as of noon on April 28. Of these positive cases, 67 are listed as having occurred in the region featuring the zip codes of Dinuba, Cutler-Orosi and the rural area south of Reedley and near Orange Cove. A total of 95 people had recovered from the virus in Tulare County.
Altered graduation plans move forward at Dinuba High
District to decide on extending school closures tonight
By Rick Curiel
Mid Valley Times
The Dinuba Unified School Dis- trict’s board of trustees will decide Thursday, April 30, whether to extend the closure of its schools, after having already extended it earlier this month to May 1 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement put out by the district on April 6, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joe Hernandez expressed, though the district was holding on to hope that classes could resume this school year
April 26 fire damages Reedley meat market
By Juanita Adame
Mid Valley Times
Black smoke was seen billowing from inside the Jimenez Meat Market in Reedley on the afternoon of April 27 as reports of a fire inside the building were re- ceived by the Reedley Fire Department.
The call came in just after 6:30 p.m. when a passerby no- ticed the smoke on the roof of the building, located in the 600 block of Lincoln Avenue
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they also recognized the severity of the ongoing pandemic.
“While the likelihood that schools will reopen is doubtful, we want to leave the door slightly open to that pos-
Dinuba High School senior Noah Garza re- ceived his cap and gown and announcements from a district employee on April 23. For Garza and many of the seniors who came to the high school that day, it was the first time they had seen their high school teachers and staff in over a month.
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sibility,” said Hernandez.
But regardless of tonight’s decision,
provisional plans are already being implemented at Dinuba High School,
year’s graduating class.
In a letter to the high school com-
munity put out at the beginning of this week, first-year principal Andrew Popp laid out plans for this year’s grad- uation.
“If we are unable to hold the tradi- tional ceremony on May 28, as current- ly scheduled, we intend to postpone the live ceremony to a later date and time,” Popp announced.
He gave three tentative postpone- ment dates for the graduation ceremo- ny: June 27, July 25 and Aug. 8.
In the meantime, graduating se- niors will begin walking the stage as soon as Monday, May 4. The high school will be hosting a special photo
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An SPCA worker holds up some of the 57 dogs rescued from a Sanger home in the 800 block of North Avenue on April 23. The dogs were discovered to be living in unsanitary conditions.
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After receiving a tip from a Sanger citizen regarding the possible hoarding of dogs, the city of Sanger’s Animal Control, along the assistance of the SPCA and a few volun- teers, responded to the 800 block of North Avenue on the morning of April 23 where they found the complaint to be true.
Sanger Animal Control Of- ficer Mario Irazoqui and his team found dozens of dogs all inside a Sanger home liv-
ing in unsanitary conditions. It total, the department res- cued 57 dogs from the resi- dence, of which 22 dogs and 20 puppies were rescued by Sanger’s Animal Control De- partment while 15 dogs were sent to the SPCA.
The dogs, according to Ira- zoqui, were living in “very poor conditions and are in need of a loving home.”
Assisting with the animal rescue, along with the SPCA, were Sanger volunteers Mor- gan Shafter, Brenda Prado and Kim Reed.
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