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Tulare County Department of Public Health. As it turns out,
someone also nominated her, and she was notified last month that she was in the running and eventually declared one of the 50 winners.
Driving Buckridge's selec- tion was her work with keep- ing the library's various read- ing programs and events going throughout the COVID-19 pan- demic.
"All through the virus, we all kept programs going," she said. "We switched to virtual pro- grams, and we provided take and make crafts [kits]."
In addition, Buckridge said the library began online story times and its summer read- ing program became a virtual summer reading program. That included regular performers switching their performances to a virtual format with virtual videos.
"It worked out well," she said. "It is a team effort from every- body...It was about remaining
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Stephanie Buckridge, librarian III with the Tulare County Library's Dinuba branch, posed with her library staff employees Maria Castillo, left, and Amie Little at the Dinuba library on Aug. 26.
are starting to gear up for out- side story time."
Buckridge said it's been exciting to return to in-person programs with the community. She's looking forward to work- ing with Dinuba families on a variety of themed family work- shops (Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day to name three). She said the workshops have drawn upwards of 100 to 300 people.
A native of Lindsay who lives in Visalia, Buckridge has worked with the Dinuba library since November 2015.
"It's amazing. Dinuba is like Lindsay was growing up," she said. "It's a nice small town. A community where I see some- one I know everywhere I go. It's just a friendly community.
"The families here are ap- preciative of all the programs we have. I've missed them, and I'm glad we're seeing faces again."
Buckridge and her husband, Harl, son Erik Rodriguez and future daughter-in-law plan to make the trip to Disney World in November 2022.
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• A disturbance was reported at 10:29 p.m. in the 600 block of East Jefferson Avenue. Of- ficers arrested one of the people involved in the disturbance.
Saturday, August 28
• A subject check at 12:54 a.m. in the 600 block of East Dinuba Avenue resulted in an arrest for an outstand- ing warrant.
• A hit and run traf- fic collision was re- ported at 10:49 a.m. at East Avenue and G Street.
• A subject check at 12:31 p.m. in the 1400 block of G Street re- sulted in an arrest for narcotics possession. • A subject check at 3:52 p.m. in the 1300 block of D Street re- sulted in an arrest for an outstanding war- rant.
• A subject check at 5:32 p.m. at Dinuba and East avenues resulted in an arrest for an out- standing warrant.
• A subject check at 8:45 p.m. in the 100 block of D Street re- sulted in an arrest for narcotics possession. • Officers responded to the 1500 block of East North Avenue at 11:46 p.m. for a distur- bance where he sub- ject had fired several gunshots into the air. It was determined that a large fight started and the subject fired the gunshots to break up the fight.
Sunday, August 29
• A vehicle stop at 1:19 a.m. at Manning Avenue and I Street resulted in the arrest of the driver for sus- pected DUI.
• A disturbance was reported at 2:27 a.m. in the 1300 block of East Manning Avenue. • Commercial burglary was reported at 6:55 a.m. in the 500 block of East 11th Street.
• A disturbance was reported at 4:30 p.m. in the 200 block of East Dinuba Avenue. • A vehicle stop at 10:06 p.m. in the 800 block of West Man- ning Avenue resulted in the arrest of the driver for an outstand- ing warrant.
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Jessica Martinez with the COVID Equity Project assisted people waiting in line to enter an Aug. 20 vaccine event at Citrus Middle School in Orange Cove. Portia Alexander, licensed vocational nurse with the Fresno County Depart- ment of Public Health, said that 114 people were vacci- nated at the event; 104 with the Pfizer shot and 10 with the Johnson & Johnson single dose vaccine.
Among Mid Valley Times cities in the county through Aug. 31 (Fresno County's new dashboard surveillance has provided updates for regions rather than cities; and the first updates in weeks were reported last week), the Sanger region remains with the most total overall positive cases with 6,721 (4,900 in the city proper) and 67 deaths in data on the Fresno County Department of Public Health website.
In Tulare County, there was an adjusted total of 55,151 confirmed cases (3,066 active, an increase of 1,199 for the week) of COVID-19 with 869 deaths and 167 people (23 in ICU) hospitalized as of Tuesday, Aug. 31. Breakdowns by cities/regions through Aug. 31 show 4,764 total cases in Dinuba, 1,39 in Orosi, 802 in Cutler, 294 in Traver, 77 in the rural area south of Reedley and 28 in the rural area southeast of Orange Cove.
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one week, up to 3,066 and 55,151 overall (more than 2,000). New daily cases per 100,000 peo- ple increased to 40.6 in Fresno County and 39.8 in Tulare County, num-
bers not seen in months dating back to winter.
Cases of contact tracing requirements from the California In- terscholastic Federa- tion were showing up and causing a notice- able effect on athletic activities throughout
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Through the Aug. 31 update, Reedley (including immediate surrounding rural areas) shows 4,484 cases (3,800 in the city proper) and 73 deaths; Parlier was at 3,178 (2,600 in city) cases with 41 deaths and Orange
A total of 51,216 people (92.9 percent) in Tulare County were listed as recovered as of Tuesday, Aug. 31.
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treatments went up to 88. There were an ad- ditional 31 deaths in the county, bringing the to- tal to 1,790.
Vaccination counts al- so continued to rise, just not at the level of the new cases. As of Aug. 31, 446,135 people had been fully vaccinated in Fresno County and more than 1 million had re- ceived at least one dose (51.3 percent). In Tulare County, 381,745 had re- ceived shots through
Aug. 30, with 213,516 fully vaccinated.
Effective this week, Fresno County announced that masks and face cov- erings must be worn in all Fresno Superior Court locations. That mandate applies to all staff and visitors and includes law enforcement, attorneys, vendors and court users. Masks must be worn in- doors at all times, inside any court building, re- gardless of vaccination status.
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connected with the community while we were closed. Every- body did that here.
"That's why it's kind of hard to talk about because it's just just me, there's 45 people in our system."
Tulare County's library sys- tem, including Dinuba, closed when the pandemic broke out in March 2020. The library switched to pick-up services
until September 2020, then re- sumed lobby services until De- cember 2020. The system re- turned to pick-up service from January to April 2021, then re- opened as a browsing service in June.
"We've done one live event in the park, the last day of the summer reading program," she said. "And we're having one next month. All the branches
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