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SANGER HERALD • 2B • THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2019
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Students at Madison learn all about how to milk a real cow
To get an item into the calendar, email details to nemethfeatures@gmail. com or call Mike or Sharon at 559-875-2511.
Noemi Alvarez-Hinojosa plans her 10th annual blood drive from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan. 6 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at Bethel and North avenues. Details, 559-301-1565.
The Sanger Community Task Force meets at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 15 at Crosspointe Church, 2528 S. McCall Ave.; Feb. 5 at the Sanger Library, 1812 Seventh St.; Feb. 19 at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave.; March 5 at the United Health Centers, 1570 Seventh Ave.; March 19 at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave.; April 2 at Grace Community Church, 1620 Church Ave.; May 7 at Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave.; May 21 at the Wilson Resource Center, 610 Faller Ave.; June 4 at SAM Academy, 750 N St. Details, 559-250- 6433.
Youth Basketball registration is open. Practice started in December and games will be Friday night or Saturday morning. The program runs from Jan. 11 to Feb. 16 for kindergarten through eighth grade, boys and girls at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave. Details, recinfo@ci.sanger. ca.us or 559-876-6300, ext. 1430.
Tiny Tot Basketball takes place at 5:30 p.m. Fridays from Jan. 11 to Feb. 15 at the Sanger Community Center, 730 Recreation Ave. Details, recinfo@ci.sanger. ca.us or 559-876-6300, ext. 1430.
Girl Scouts wanted.
To become a Girl Scout, contact Maribel Mendoza 800-490-8653 ext. 123 or mmendoza@girlscoutsccs. org.
Apache Football Boosters meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the activity room in the administration building at Sanger High School. Details, Monica Gaucin 559-367-2175 or apachefbfundraising@ gmail.com.
wine.
This starts with tithing
— God’s law of harvest. Resolution 5. DO NOT DESPISE THE LORD’S DISCIPLINE Verses 11-12: My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he
delights in.
Resolution 6: SEARCH
DILIGENTLY FOR WISDOM AND FIND IT.
Verses 13-24 “Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her."
Resolution 7. HAVE NO FEAR V 25-26: Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and
Meetings by Friends of the Library take place every third Tuesday of the month. They start at 6 p.m. at the Sanger Branch of the Fresno County Library, 1812 Seventh St. Details, Kent Sani 559-930-4306
Veterans of Foreign Wars Community Breakfast is from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 5 at the American Legion Hall, 1502 O St. Cost is $6. Cub Scout Pack 322 and Boy Scout Pack 322 will assist. The VFW breakfast is usually the first Saturday of the month.
American Legion Post 23 holds Bingo at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, and its meetings are 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at 1502 O St. All are welcome. Details, 559-875- 6204.
The Sanger Woman’s Club monthly luncheon meetings include Osher Lifelong Learning Center at Fresno State with Jill Wagner, executive director at noon Jan. 8; Looking back with John Alkire, Big Fresno Fair chief executive and museum curator at noon Feb. 5; Helping Students with Mary Castro, wife of Fresno State president at noon March 5; the Sierra National Forest at noon April 2; Sanger’s new Mother of the Year at noon May 7. The club is at 1602 Seventh St. Details, Liz Hudson 559-779-1569.
The Sanger branch of the Fresno County Public Library has has multiple programs. Diabetes Empowerment Education by the California Health Collaborative runs every from 3 to 5 p.m. every Tuesday from Jan. 29 to March 3. It’s geared to those at risk of diabetes to change habits and cut risks. The Builder’s Club is 3:30 p.m. the first and second Thursdays of the month for Lego enthusiasts. The library is at 1812 Seventh St. Details, 559-875-2435.
The Sanger Eagles’ taco nights are 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the first and third Mondays of the month. Breakfasts will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. every second Saturday of the month. The location is 225 J St. Details, Jim Batten 559-875-6820 or Denny Noller 559-392-1936.
will keep your foot from being snared.
Resolution 8. DO NOT WITHHOLD GOOD FROM THOSE WHO DESERVE IT V 27-28: Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back later; I’ll give it tomorrow” when you now have it with you.
Resolution 9. DO NOT PLOT HARM AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR V 29-30: Do not plot harm against your neighbor, who lives trustfully near you. Do not accuse a man for no reason — when he has done you no harm.
Resolution 10. DO NOT ENVY A VIOLENT MAN OR CHOOSE ANY OF HISWAYSV31–32:“Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways, for the LORD detests a perverse man but takes the upright into his confidence.”
By Mike Nemeth
Sanger Herald
Mishael McDougal had just given one of two presentations at Sanger’s Madison Elementary School when a kindergartener asked if cows ate “grass and stuff.”
“Yes they do,” McDougal said, explaining a bit more about their dietary habits.
As McDougal spoke, just behind her calmly munching a strand of alfalfa was Lucy, a Holstein cow. Lucy, who weighs about 1,000 pounds, stood in one of the Dairy Council of California’s Mobile Dairy Classrooms. She didn’t appear to mind that hundreds of pairs of eyes focused intently on everything she did.
“Not really the norm for a dairy cow,” McDougal said, explaining that Lucy had the laid-back temperament more like that of a big mellow dog.
But 4-year-old Lucy, who had a calf in September, had a job to do. McDougal, an instructor for the mobile classroom, travels to 185 schools in a year. The Dairy Council has five other traveling classrooms it provides at no cost to California schools to educate their students about the big bovines, healthy eating and how dairy products get from field to market.
The hands-on approach makes a lasting impression, McDougal said.
“It’s not typically something kids get to see,” she said. “They’ll pass by, but they don’t get up close.”
Even those in farm country, as the assembled students of Madison attested.
And the configuration of McDougal’s classroom, equipped with a mobile stanchion, roll-up side door and everything to make a traveling cow happy, enables students an almost nose-to-nose view of what it’s like to get up close and personal with a milk cow. The students just weren’t able to touch Lucy, who bore a heart-shaped
10 New Year’s Resolutions from the Wisest Man Who Ever Lived
New Year’s Resolutions basically fall into three categories.
They deal with: 1. Things to make us look better and live longer. 2. Things to make us have more. 3. Things that will help us to get along with everyone. I call them perpetuity, prosperity and peace. I believe we can find an answer in God’s word for any question or situation of life if we would just look.
So, what is there in God’s word about New Year’s resolutions? Well, they are not called New Year’s resolutions. But I don’t think you could do better than Proverbs Chapter 3. Read the following excerpts and see the benefits of adopting this set of New Year’s resolutions set forth
Mike Nemeth / Sanger Herald
Mishael McDougal, a Dairy Council of California instructor, demonstrates milking a cow.
white heart on her ample forehead.
The glee on their faces as they passed by Lucy after McDougal’s presentation proved the power of hands- on learning.
McDougal got her biggest reaction from the students when she demonstrated how to milk Lucy. First she demonstrated the hand-milking technique by getting her assembled viewers to practice on the thumb of one hand while gripping it with the thumb and forefinger of the other.
Easy.
Then McDougal sent streams of milk 6 feet, maybe more, toward the front row of the many students. Her effort won believers. A bunch of them.
“She’s really good,” said school principal Stephanie Rodriguez. “We learn a lot (from the program), and many of the teachers incorporate what they’ve learned in their science lessons.”
McDougal talked to the students, split in two presentations first with kindergarten through third grades and later fourth and fifth, about everything that made Lucy tick. She’s got 32 teeth. “Exactly the same number that we have,” she
here in this third chapter. “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity. (Perpetuity, prosperity) ... you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man ... He will direct your paths ... will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones ...your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine ... you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble ... you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet ... he LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being
snared.” (Peace)
The first one was:
Resolution 1: LET LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS NEVER LEAVE YOU.
This week we continue with Resolution 2. TRUST
said.
But cows have a unique
setup. Eight incisors, the teeth up front and different from the majority molars, grow on the bottom jaw. The teeth assist with the long, 20-inch tongue to extract grass and other material. “It’s rough and scratchy,” McDougal said of a cow’s tongue.
And she explained where that grass goes and how it’s digested through Lucy’s four-compartment stomach — the rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. And she discussed cud. “Once it’s soft and mushy, she brings it back up and chews it again,” she said.
That got some oohs and ahhs.
And to make milk, a cow needs a whole lot of fuel. “They eat about 50 pounds of food every day and drink almost a bathtub of water,” McDougal said.
The kindergartener who asked the question about grass discussed in detail what she thought cows eat. “I’ve seen a cow, a great big one,” she said while waiting her turn to walk past Lucy to see her up close. “They live on a farm. I know they eat mashed potatoes. I have a cow in my garage.”
Regardless of the accuracy of her information, she certainly was intrigued. And excited.
McDougal explained biology, what a cow needed to do to make milk and answered a bunch of questions. “Once a cow has a calf, her body will make milk,” McDougal said. “But a calf uses only about a gallon of milk a day. This cow makes up to 10 gallons.”
And she said that can be used by the farmer.
Lucy lives at Sweeney Dairy in Visalia. McDougal said Sweeney is family- owned and operated and has been around about 26 years. A video featured prominently on the dairy’s Facebook page shows a couple of Sweeney cattle getting milked by baseball players from the Visalia Rawhide. And they aren’t too bad.
The Dairy Council supplies curriculum to teachers by way of its website, healtheating.org.
The reporter can be contacted by email at nemethfeatures@gmail.com or by phone at the Herald at (559) 875-2511.
PASTOR’S CORNER
IN THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART.
Verses 5-6
“Trust in the
LORD with
all your heart
and lean not
on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Or will direct your paths.)”
Definitions of the word trust: a) firm belief in or confidence in, the honesty, integrity, reliability, justice, etc. of another person or thing; faith in or reliance on the person or thing trusted b) confident expectation, anticipation or hope (to have trust in the future), trust in the LORD with all your heart.
Definitions of the word acknowledge: a) to admit to be true or as stated, confess b) to recognize the authority or claims
of c) to recognize and answer (a greeting or greeter, an introduction, etc.) d) to express thanks for e) to verify receipt of (a letter, gift, favor,
PastorSamEstes payment, etc.) f) to admit or affirm as genuine; certify in legal form to acknowledge
a deed.
“In all your ways
acknowledge him!” Resolution 3. DO NOT
BE WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES Verses 7-8: Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
Resolution 4. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH Verses 9-10: Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new
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