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The Dinuba Sentinel Community Thursday, January 31, 2019 | A7 Emperors to crown homecoming king, queen tomorrow
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The above Dinuba High School students are competing for the Winter Homecoming King and Queen and have been participating in events all week in preparation. On Monday the candidates took part in 'Meme Day'. Candidates were scored on their events throughout the week and final scores will determine the winners. The candidates are (left to right) Henry Lowrey, Jarius Lopez, Vanessa Hernandez, Bryce Bayle, Sally Bledsoe, Lesli Magdaleno, Matthew Martinez, Andrew Santana, Ethan Tobias, Julianna Tuttle, Penelope Polanco, Felicia Vela, Richard Escobedo, Sienna Gonzales and Jacob Huerta. Not pictured are candidates Jacob Rodriguez and Ian Moos. The winners will be announced at halftime of tomorrow night's DHS boys basketball game.
Orosi High students part of architectural design internship
is to develop a comprehensive document that outlines and defines the design concept for a future public library for the City of Porterville. The teams will also work in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo under direction from Professor Thomas Fowler and his 3rd year Architecture students to design a new architecture studio for the existing building at Cal Poly. This new studio will become a space that promotes creativity and collaboration allowing students to develop their design thinking skills to generate ideas and solutions through hands on project based learning.
On February 8, 2019, all student high school teams will have a full collaboration day at Cal Poly as they perfect both project ideas and designs. The final project presentations from the students is scheduled for May 2, 2019 at the Porterville Military Academy.
The Orosi High interns participating in the program are Luis Torres, Fabian Bribiesca, Edgar Rodriguez, Raul Quintero, Verena Estrada, Ashley Raya Garcia Destidy Perez, Maria Lopez and Yazmin Meza Juarez.
New measures aim to help Valley air quality
By Lisa M. Castillo
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New air quality measures will help San Joaquin Valley meet latest PM2.5 air quality standards
The San Joaquin Valley has been working for decades to improve air quality by putting into place the toughest and most innovative clean air measures anywhere. These efforts have not been easy or cheap – billions in dollars have been invested by Valley agriculture and businesses to upgrade equipment, modernize fleets, install pollution control equipment, and enhance operating practices with the goal of improving air quality and public health. Despite decades of progress and significant reductions in air pollution, the San Joaquin Valley continues to face difficulty in meeting the latest federal health-based air quality standards due to its unique geography, topography, and frequently stagnant weather conditions that create air quality challenges unmatched by any other region in the nation.
Building on these past air quality efforts, the Valley Air District, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Valley stakeholders have worked to prepare a new PM2.5 plan that outlines the actions necessary for further improving the Valley’s air quality and meeting the newest federal air quality standards for fine particles. The new plan, unanimously approved by CARB today, was developed through an extensive public engagement process by the Valley Air District and was supported by dozens of public meetings and workshops involving residents, businesses, public agencies, and others that invested time to participate and provide valuable input.
“The adoption of this plan is the next step in our clean air journey that will require continued support from all Valley sectors and significant investment at the state and
federal level. The District will continue its work with residents, businesses, and agencies throughout the San Joaquin Valley to implement this clean air plan and continue to improve quality of life for all Valley residents,” said Samir Sheikh, Executive Director and Air Pollution Control Officer.
The plan contains a range of new regulations, clean air grants, and other innovative measures across every sector that accelerate the deployment of new technologies and will reduce air pollution significantly in the years to come, including:
• Even further restrictions on the use of residential wood- burning devices and fireplaces, increased public education on the health impacts of wood smoke, and increased grants for transitioning to clean devices
• New rules to further reduce air pollution from industrial sources such as boilers, steam generators, internal combustion engines, glass manufacturing facilities, agricultural conservation management practices, and other sources
• Innovative strategy for reducing air pollution from commercial restaurants using underfired charbroilers
• A suite of clean air grants for Valley residents, including grants for electric and other clean air vehicles, replacing gas mowers with electric mowers, grants for vanpools, and other grant opportunities
• A suite of incentive programs for Valley businesses including for the replacement of heavy duty trucks, agricultural equipment, off-road equipment, electric dairy feed mixers, locomotives, almond harvesting equipment, commercial zero- emission lawn and garden equipment, and other grant opportunities In addition to the Valley Air District’s new local measures, CARB is committing in the new plan to reduce air pollution from mobile sources
under their control that now make up the majority of particulate-forming emissions in the Valley. These measures include new regulations for cleaner vehicles and enhanced performance standards for heavy-duty trucks, as well as new incentive-based grant measures to help replace aging heavy- duty trucks and agricultural equipment with new clean technologies. To implement the new clean air grant measures in the new plan, one billion dollars per year in new funding will be required from the state over the next five years.
Moving forward with this new plan will be a major endeavor only achievable through a collaborative approach with Valley residents and businesses, and significant support and investment at the local, state and federal level. For more information, visit www.valleyair. org/pmplans or call a District office in Fresno (559-230-6000), Modesto (209-557-6400) or Bakersfield (661-392-5500).
Eight Orosi High School Students along with students from 4 other Tulare County High Schools took part in a “Community Design Meeting” on January 17, 2019, at the Porterville Military Academy, as each are all participants of “INTERNNECT”, an architectural internship competition where high school learners work with clients to design projects focused on learning spaces, all while being mentored by industry specific professionals and post-secondary students.
Each high school team presented a draft of their ideas to a community panel, which elicited feedback and comments to perfect their project designs. Community feedback for all teams to consider included additional parking for the library, location design of access to the Friends of Library Bookstore located near the library and easy access to the circulation desk from parking access and entrance.
This year students will work on two related projects: A Future Public Library and a new architectural design studio. The design challenge
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