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Thursday, December 14, 2017
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Mother-Daughter Conference
Over 600 people attend school district's rst annual event in Orosi Community, Page A7
planning 20-acre
Santa visits London
retail center
Dinuba one by one, the city hopes that a new retail center will help drive new retail stores into a more organized and central area.
Said city of Dinuba Assistant City Manager Daniel James, “Some of the properties in front of Wal-Mart have been sold piece by piece and it lacks a cohesive flow for traffic - What we’d like to do with the 20 acres is come up with a master plan for that area that is strategic and balanced in where the stores are. It doesn’t mean we’ll fill up 20 acres immediately, the market will dictate that, but this will protect the layout so there’s a plan.”
The 20-acre plot of land accounts for about half of the undeveloped portion
See City, Page A9
By Jackson Moore
News@thedinubasentinel.com
Dinuba’s west side has boomed since the arrival of Wal-Mart. Now a new retail center could soon fill one of the few vacant plots of land adjacent to the shopping center.
A recent press release by the city of Dinuba regarding recent growth in town revealed that the city is “negotiating with a Sacramento-based developer to purchase and master plan a 20-acre retail center.” The city currently owns the 20-acre plot of land just east of Wal-Mart. The land is undeveloped to date, despite many other businesses locating near Wal- Mart in recent years.
While those businesses have come to
Holiday events
focus on giving to
the community
Thusu says the staff is preparing for close to 5,000 attendees.
“The first year we had 700 to 800 people,” Thusu explained. “We started running out of food ... But over the years it has grown and I don’t know how it happens, but it just happens. For me, the best pleasure and greatest fun is after hours, our staff will come and wrap the toys. They bring their families and kids and they are all wrapping toys. After 16 years, those four- or five- year-olds with their parents are now teenagers and now they know what to do. It’s very fulfilling to see those young people grow.”
Later that evening, the city of Dinuba will celebrate its canned food and toy drive with the second annual “Stuff the Trolley” event.
The Choices After School Program and city of Dinuba All-Stars After School Program, as well as Dinuba Area Regional Transit and city of Dinuba employees, have collected
See Holiday, Page A2
Keven J. Geaney | The Sentinel
By Jackson Moore
News@thedinubasentinel.com
The holiday season is here and multiple community members are preparing their efforts to give back to the community for those in need.
Friday will feature two events in town, starting with Alta Family Health Clinic’s Community Christmas Event. The festivities will include free food, entertainment including DHS jazz band and choir, mariachi performers, folkloric dancers and other dancers of different cultures, as well as toy and clothes giveaways to children. Santa Claus will also be in attendance, arriving on a fire engine escorted by motorcycles.
This is the 16th annual event at Alta, located at 888 North Alta Avenue in Dinuba. This year’s event will run from 1 to 5 p.m.
Alta Family Health Clinic CEO and city of Dinuba Vice Mayor Kuldip Thusu says he is “truly blessed” to have the opportunity to put on the event.
Keven J. Geaney | The Sentinel
Santa Claus and Miss Dinuba Alyssa Leal ride in Santa's sleigh, as part of the Dinuba Chamber of Commerce's float, in the London Community Christmas Parade on Saturday. More photos on pages A9 and A10.
Monson-Sultana School children dress up as various characters as they march through London.
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Two and a half hours of drawing led to winning the Walk and Roll Air Quality Art Contest and a new bike for Washington Intermediate School eighth-
grader Juan Torres.
“I drew a big smile on my face and I was in shock,” Juan
said about finding out that he was one of five winners in the Tulare County Association of Governments art contest.
The contest aimed at getting children and youth thinking creatively about ways to improve air quality by making clean transportation choices and awarded the chosen winners with a brand new bike. Three other winners were from Visalia and one was from Tulare.
“I was happy finding out I won a new bike because I have been trying to fix my old bike,” Juan said.
Juan stated that his mother told him about the contest and that he should do it on saving the earth. He decided
Washington Intermediate School eighth-grader Juan Torres.
T-Bird wins art contest, bike
to draw an ordinary person riding a bike, while wearing a cape, to show that everybody can be superheroes by doing things to help save the planet.
The 12-year-old wrote on his drawing, “Let's make earth green again! Ride, don't drive!”
Juan first brainstormed his idea, then he sketched out his drawing in pencil, and lastly he colored it in. The entire process took about two and a half hours.
Thirty minutes before the Nov. 10 deadline Juan dropped off his artwork at the Dinuba Library. On Nov. 24 he found out he was one of the contest winners.
Juan stated that he has been drawing since second grade.
“I have always loved drawing,” Juan said. “I first started drawing logos, then I started using my imagination to draw cars, clouds and flowers.”
Juan now enjoys drawing expensive cars and trucks. Besides winning a new bike, Juan recently received the
See Contest, Page A8
By Keven J. Geaney
Editor@thedinubasentinel.com
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