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SANGER HERALD 6A THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2018
Help the chamber pick community all stars to honor at its 94th annual chamber banquet
COUNCIL: The long awaited Veterans Park will move one step closer to reality this evening ...
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priority of its number 5 goal.
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The 94th annual chamber of commerce's awards ban- quet will be held April 20 at the community center and the chamber is asking you to help pick the community all stars to be honored.
Nominations are being accepted for Citizen of the Year, Hall of Fame, Mr. & Mrs. Farmer, Gold Seal Awards and Mother of the Year.
"We are encouraging all service organizations, clubs, and churches to submit nominees from within their organizations for these com- munity awards," said cham- ber president/CEO Tammy Wolfe.
Citizen of the Year should be someone who has given service to the community during the past year.
Hall of Fame inductee
should be someone who has given service to the commu- nity over a period of years and could be someone who is still active or someone who has given service over a period of years in the past.
Mr. & Mrs. Farmer must have been residents of
Sanger for at least five years. They must have continuous civic involvement. They can be active farmers or retired. Please include information about their farming history.
Gold Seal Awards re- cipients have gone above and beyond service for the Sanger District Chamber of Commerce.
Sanger Mother of the Year
qualifications are:
1. She must be a success-
ful mother as evidenced by the character and achieve- ments of her children and she must have at least one child 18 years old or older.
2. She must be an active member of a religious body.
3. She must embody traits that are highly regarded in mothers:
• courage
• cheerfulness
• patience
• kindness
• affection,
• understanding, and
• homemaking ability
4. She must exemplify in
her life and conduct the pre- cepts of the “Golden Rule."
5. She must have a sense of responsibility in civic af- fairs and be active in endeav- ors for public benefit.
6. She should be qualified to represent the mothers of Sanger in all responsibili- ties attached to her role as Mother of the Year.
General guidelines for each of the above categories would include:
• Active participation
in civic, school, youth, or church activities, i.e.: service on committees, boards or commissions, leaders in girl or boy scouts, little league, or other youth activities
• religious activities benefiting the community, and in general those activi- ties for which no monetary reimbursement is received, but which benefits the com- munity and its residents.
When submitting your typed nomination to the chamber at 1789 Jensen Ave. #B, Sanger, CA 93657, include a biography of the nominee, the category he or she is being nominating for and the nominee's name, address, and phone number.
Please also include your name and phone number.
Reservations for the awards banquet are encour- aged because seating is limited, said Wolfe.
The long awaited Veterans Park will move one step closer to reality this evening with the council's budget adjustment to show receipt of a $166,050 Urban Greening Grant from the California Natural Resources Agency. Sanger's proposed project was one of only 39 selected out of 143 applicants. The grant money will fund placement and irriga- tion of trees throughout the park at Jensen and Indianola avenues.
A few of Sanger's nonprofits with gang and drug prevention programs will get
more Measure S grant money if the council approves a Measure S Citizens Oversight recommendation to divide up $18,963 among: SAM Academy's community science work- shop; Boys and Girls Club, the Big Brother
Big Sisters Unity Estates High School Bigs program; the Big Brother Big Sisters Bigs in Blue program; and the Community Resident Services Inc.
The money was either not accepted or returned by organizations that are no longer participating in the Measure S grant pro- gram.
An agenda and support package of mate- rial for this evening's council meeting may be viewed at city hall, at the library and on the city website at www.ci.sanger.ca.us.
The public is invited to attend and com- ment on items the council will vote on.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
HALL OF FAME: "Sanger High School has a long athletic history dating back to the beginning of the school in 1899." Continued from page 1A
after that, a maximum of 10 inductees, living or posthu- mous, will be selected,” said Penner.
Future nominees may come from any of four cat- egories, said Penner: athlete,
alumnus/alumna, coach and contributor.
If the nominee is an alum- nus/alumna, the nominee must have graduated at least 10 years prior to his or her selection. Every nominee will
remain on the list for selec- tion consideration for five years.
"Sanger High School has a long athletic history dating back to the beginning of the school in 1899. At long last, a Sanger High School Athletic Hall of Fame is finally being started as a way to preserve and honor that illustrious past."
“We received quite a few nominations for this first group and it took a long time and many ballots for the committee to narrow the list to the final 20,” said Penner.
Nomination forms for fu- ture inductees are available at the high school athletic office, from a high school Athletic Club Booster mem- ber and at the Sanger Herald.
Creating the Hall of Fame has been a collaborative ef- fort between Sanger Unified and the Sanger Historical Society.
The Historical Society and the school district will use the old Harding brick school- house building just south of the Sanger Depot Museum, to house Hall of Fame memorabilia. The Historical Society owns the building and together with the school
SEWER: A formal bidding process for the repairs could take approximately 2-3 months ...
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domestic trunk line on North Avenue.
The damage resulted in sewage backing
up into J Street and the 12 inch line had to be pumped daily to prevent overflow. The dam- age also allowed sewage to flow around the 12 inch line and seep into the trunk line.
"That caused underground erosion that if allowed to continue could result in the sur- rounding materials collapsing into the trunk line effectively blocking the flow entirely and causing a large sink hole in the middle of North Avenue," said Mulligan.
If the council fails to approve the emer- gency actions and tells the staff to go through
a formal competitive bidding process for the repairs it could take approximately 2 - 3 months to do the engineering, design, bid- ding, and the contract award, said Mulligan.
City staff would need to continue to pump sewage from the J Street manhole to the North Avenue manhole daily and keep the area barricaded off to assure there is no sewage overflow or street collapse while the formal bidding process was followed.
The reporter can be contacted by email at sangerherald@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
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The Historical Society and the Hall of Fame Commit- tee are looking for help with fundraising to renovate the old schoolhouse that will be used to house Hall of Fame memorabilia, said Historical Society president Ken Mar- cantonio.
If you would like to donate or help with a fundraiser call the Depot Museum which is operated by the Historical Society at (559) 875-4720.
The Hall of Fame Commit-
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tee is also asking for silent auction donations for the inaugural dinner on May 5.
"Sports related donations would be especially appreci- ated," said Penner.
Members of the Hall of Fame Committee are Penner, Ron Blackwood, Michelle Dillon, Tim Lopez, Ken Marcantonio, Tom Nicholson, Ronnie Scott and Dick Shep- pard.
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