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A6 | Thursday, February 7, 2019 Community The Dinuba Sentinel
New blues for Orosi High FFA
California Farm Bureau
sues state water board
over new water plan
Contributed
A plan for lower San Joaquin River flows misrepresents and underestimates the harm it would cause to agricultural resources in the Central Valley, according to the California Farm Bureau Federation, which filed suit today to block the plan. Adopted last December by the State Water Resources Control Board, the plan would redirect 30 to 50 percent of “unimpaired flows” in three San Joaquin River tributaries-the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced rivers-in the name of increasing fish populations in the rivers. The flows plan would sharply reduce the amount of water available to irrigate crops in regions served by the rivers.
In its lawsuit, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, Farm Bureau said the flows plan would have “far-reaching environmental impacts to the agricultural landscape in the Central Valley,” and that those impacts had been “insufficiently analyzed, insufficiently avoided and insufficiently mitigated” in the board’s final plan.
“The water board brushed off warnings about the significant damage its plan would cause to agricultural resources in the Central Valley, labeling it ‘unavoidable,’” CFBF President Jamie Johansson said. “But that damage can be avoided, by following a different approach that would be better for fish and people alike.”
The Farm Bureau lawsuit says the water board
failed to consider reasonable alternatives to its flows-dominated approach, including non-flow measures such as predator control, food supply and habitat projects for protected fish, and said it ignored “overwhelming evidence” that ocean conditions, predation and lack of habitat-rather than river flows-have been chief contributors to reducing fish populations.
The water board’s analysis of impacts on agricultural resources “is inadequate in several respects,” Farm Bureau said. The lawsuit says the board plan fails to appropriately analyze its impact on surface water supplies and, in turn, how cutting surface water would affect attempts to improve groundwater under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act-all of which would cause direct, indirect and cumulative effects on agricultural resources.
“California farmland is a significant environmental resource, providing food, farm products and jobs for people throughout the state, nation and world,” Johansson said. “Before cutting water to thousands of acres of farmland for dubious benefit, the state must do more to analyze alternatives that would avoid this environmental harm.”
The California Farm Bureau Federation works to protect family farms and ranches on behalf of nearly 36,000 members statewide and as part of a nationwide network of nearly 5.6 million Farm Bureau members.
Boxer
impossible, nothing!” Camacho is the son of
professional boxer Hector “Macho” Camacho, who had a long successful career in the ‘80’s, fighting the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez and Oscar De La Hoya.
He told the group in London that he grew up in the streets of Spanish Harlem in New York City. He said his father showed him that with hard work you can do anything.
“Anything is possible, so long as you believe in yourself,” he said.
Camacho recalled a story from his childhood when his father brought him into the ring and lifted him up for the audience to see.
“The crowd went crazy,” said Camacho. “And I knew as of that day that I wanted to become a fighter."
He added, "I grew up in boxing. Boxing is all I know."
It wasn’t easy for the southpaw boxer. It took a lot of hard work and dedication.
“You got to sacrifice a lot,” said Camacho. “I wanted to go out, hang out with my friends, but you’ve got to put that aside and think about your future.”
He also encouraged them to leave the streets behind.
“Leave the streets alone,” said Camacho. “The streets are for cars. The streets are rough. Nobody every made anything of themselves on the streets. The only thing on the streets is jail or you end up dead.”
Camacho's father, after retiring from boxing, died after being gunned down in 2012 while sitting in a car in his home country of Puerto Rico.
He further encouraged the Youth in London to get their education and above all, choose love.
“There shouldn’t be any hating,” he stressed.
While in the Valley, Camacho also received a special invitation
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Orosi High School students Angelina Mena, Dayana Miranda and Itza Perez were awarded their FFA blue jacket on Jan. 23 as part of Tulare County Farm Bureau’s Blue Jacket Bonanza held at the Exeter Memorial Building.
The Tulare County Farm Bureau’s Education and Scholarship fund awarded a total of 21 jackets. TCFB’s blue jacket program was launched in 2012 and invites students to earn a jacket. Students had to complete an application, participate in personal interviews and complete set hours of community service throughout their four years of high school.
Generous donors throughout the county play an integral role helping TCFB’s education committee fund the program. To date, a total of 145 jackets have been awarded since the program’s inception.
Pictured are Itza Perez and Dayana Miranda. Not pictured is Angelina Mena.
Photo contributed
Professional boxer Hector Camacho Jr. poses for a picture with Connie Huerta, the Community Resource Liaison for the London Community Center. Camacho stopped by the center to speak to a large group of teens from London, encouraging them to dream big and think big.
by the Jose Ramirez camp. Ramirez, the undefeated professional boxer from Avenal, is currently the WBC Super Lightweight Champion and will be defending his title on Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Save Mart Center in Fresno.
“I might see a star in the making,” said Camacho of the young Jose Ramirez.
As for Camacho’s future, after
his fight on Feb. 25, he is hoping to lock a fight with another son of a legendary boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. For Camacho, it would be the icing on a long storied career, as both seniors fought each other back in 1992. Camacho lost that fight and Hector Camacho Jr. would like to even the score. He even teased that the fight could happen in Fresno.
Rick Curiel | The Senttinel
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