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Obituaries
Alice Sakiko Craig
5/7/25-7/9/22
Alice Sakiko Craig
Alice Sakiko Craig,
97, of Reedley Ca passed to Heaven on July9,2022. Alicewas born on May 7, 1925, to Yoichi and Haruyo Watada on the Hawai- ian island of Kauai.
Helen Petra Cabrera
Helen Petra Cabrera
of Reedley died July 11. She was 84.
Mrs. Cabrera worked as a bookkeeper for So- ria Trucking
She is survived by three daughters, three sisters and four grand- children.
Visitation will be at 9:30 a.m., followed by a rosary at 10 a.m. and mass at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 21, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Reedley.
Wallin's Parlier Fu- neral Home is handling the arrangements.
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Deputies, firefighters make 2
She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, David.
She is survived by her four children Wayne Craig, Clyde Craig, Becky Craig, and Katie Poe. Alice is also survived by
9 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great- grandchildren.
Alice was loved
by all of her family and friends. She was the best grandma to everyone. Whether someone knew her for only 5 minutes or 50 years she’d always be a grandma to them.
Funeral arrange- ments will be an- nounced at a later date.
Bernadette
M. Medina Bernadette M. Me-
dina of Visalia died July 7 in Dinuba. She was 53. Ms. Medina worked as a senior West Coast
representative.
She is survived by
father, Juan Medina; mother, Marta Medina; one daughter, two sons, two grandchildren and one sister.
Private services were held. Dopkins Dinuba Funeral Chapel handled the arrangements.
Douglas Naomi Misumi
Douglas Naomi Mis-
rescues July 12 on Kings River
MVT Staff Report
Deputies with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office's Boating Enforcement unit along with fire- fighters from Cal Fire were in- volved in a pair of rescues along the Kings River last week.
The incident occurred short- ly before noon on July 12 on a stretch of the river near Annad- ale and Riverbend avenues near Sanger, according to FCSO.
The father and 15-year-old son (both wearing lifejackets) were in separate kayaks, and the teen struck a tree in the river and flipped his kayak. As he clung to a tree to prevent himself from being carried downstream, his father then flipped his kayak af- ter turning around to try to help his son. The man made it safely to shore.
Firefighters launched their
FCSO / Contributed
A Fresno County Sheriff's Office boat showed the thickness of a hazardous tree along the Kings River.
boat and rescued the boy. While still on the water, another call came in for a rescue south of the
initial call. Two women and a dog, on separate floating tubes, struck a different tree along the river. Cal Fire quickly rescued the women and dog and took them to shore. Both were not wearing life jackets.
The tree involving the kayak- ers – located about a quarter-mile south of the Annadale Bridge — is a major hazard that has been the site of four different rescues within a six-day period.
The Sheriff’s Office encourag- es anyone out on the river to pay close attention to where they are going as they float downstream. Identify objects early on and create a plan to safely navigate around them. They said do not tie rafts or tubes together because if one gets stuck, they will all get stuck. Once they become entan- gled, it creates a dangerous and possibly even deadly situation.
umi of Sanger died July 18. He was 73.
Mr. Misumi worked as a farmer.
He is survived by his spouse, Saemi Misumi of Sanger.
There was no visita- tion or services.
Wallin's Sanger Fu- neral Home handled the arrangements.
Cipriano Ruiz
Cipriano Ruiz of Sanger died July 13. He was 77.
Mr. Ruiz is survived by his sister, Estella Le- on of Sanger.
Visitation will be from5to7p.m.witha
rosary at 6 p.m. Sun- day, July 24, at Wallin's Sanger Funeral Home. A mass will be at 10 a.m. Monday, July 25, at St. Mary's New Catholic Church in Sanger.
Wallin's Sanger Fu- neral Home is handling the arrangements.
Donnie Odell Stairs
Donnie Odell Stairs of Caruthers died July 6. He was 64.
Mr. Stairs worked as a farmer. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Stairs of Caruthers; two sons, one brother, one sister, his mother and two grandchildren.
There was no visita- tion. A graveside ser- vice was held July 14 at Washington Colony Cem- etery in Easton.
Wallin's Fowler Fu- neral Home handled the arrangements.
FRAUD
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had come forward. The illegal skimmer devices make it possi- ble for scammers to re- trieve account numbers and pin numbers to credit and debit cards. Once in possession of that information, scam- mers can make charges on the victims' accounts and also create dupli-
cate cards.
Vela said that a ju-
venile was arrested back in March, and had been responsible for a number of documented incidents going back to January in Dinuba, Reedley and Selma. He said that at the time of the juvenile's arrest, he had 150 cards in his possession.
"That case [involving the juvenile] has gone to court, and he was released. He was sup- posed to have moved out of state." Vela said the has been spotted on
video at other banks. Vela said that the public needs to be diligent when making transactions at public ATMs or gas stations, as they were suscep- tible to skimmer devic- es. In the latest case, an alarm sounded and bank officials were no- tified when the people installing the skimmers attempted to remove
the device.
"People need to cov-
er their pin numbers [when making a trans- action], and watch to see if they can spot a skimmer. These guys are getting more cre- ative," he said.
Vela added that no gas stations in Dinuba have been victimized, but there have been seven different docu- mented incidents of electronic fraud in the city between January and May. The skimmer thieves also tend to move often from city to city.
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