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Three farm workers from the area had to be taken to the hospital on Tuesday morning after being exposed to pesticides, said the Tulare County Fire Department.
On June 18, the department received a call of a possible chemical exposure in the area of Avenue 408 and Road 56, just southwest of Dinuba.
According to officials, the farm workers were exposed to the chemical while working at a vineyard near a field that was being sprayed with
pesticides. The chemical being used was hexythiazox and drifted towards the farm workers when the wind shifted.
A total of 63 workers were exposed to the chemical, with the three who needed to be transported to the hospital complaining of nausea and vomiting. All three of the farm workers were taken to Kaweah Delta Medical Center for treatment.
Other workers on the scene were decontaminated and showed no adverse symptoms, say officials.
14 Dinuba City Council meeting. At that meeting, a recommendation was made by Tulare County Planning Commissioner Maria McElroy that staff and council look at a related ordinance recently adopted by the city of Carmel.
Councilmember Linda Launer also recommended adding language in the ordinance prohibiting vendor carts to dump trash in existing receptacles of local businesses and also recommended that mobile vehicles be allowed to use attached generators.
The council is scheduled to vote on adopting the ordinance in full at the June 25 meeting.
A public hearing was also held regarding an ordinance that would amend the Dinuba Municipal Code concerning the Historic Preservation Commission. The ordinance will change the number of seats on the commission from seven to five.
“We’re just having trouble filling the seats right now,” said Dinuba City Clerk Linda Barkley.
At the beginning of council meeting, the council took the time to recognize longtime Dinuba teacher Greg Olson and also heard a report from this year’s Northern Tulare County Leadership class.
Olson recently retired after 43 years of teaching at Lincoln Elementary School. At the meeting, former student, now Vice Mayor, Armando Longoria gave Olson a bouquet of flowers and thanked him for all he did for students and the community before Mayor Kuldip Thusu provided him with a Certificate of Recognition from the city of Dinuba.
The LNTC class reported to the council that the Cinco de Mayo festival, the program’s signature event and fundraiser, was a success. The event brought in just over $80,000 and after total expenses the program ended up netting nearly $46,000.
Carnival ticket sales was the biggest revenue for the festival, bringing in approximately $62,000.
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Correction: The Dinuba Sentinel previosly ran a story reporting that the council approved the Sidewalk Vendor ordinance, however, the council approved only the ammendments to the ordinance last month. Voting for approval will he held at the June 25 meeting.
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The Dinuba Unified School District Board congratulates students who represented the district in the National History Day competition. Students attending the June 6 board meeting were (left to right) Guadalupe Hernandez, McKayla Soto, Lea Rankin and Dinuba High School student Alexandra Lacey.
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GATE Coordinator, gave a report on the continued success of the district’s History Day competitors. She reported that 44 students from the district competed this year at the county level. Of those who competed, and of the nine county representatives to move on to compete at the State level, seven from Dinuba went on to the next level.
Four of those students were present at the June 13 meeting, elementary GATE students Guadalupe Hernandez, Lea
Rankin, McKayla Soto and Dinuba High School student Alexandra Lacy.
Valley ROP Superintendent Fabrizio Lofaro solidified the district’s partnership with the program by highlighting its success over the past year.
He mentioned that one of the crowing achievements for the program this year was a weather balloon launch that Valley ROP students conducted as part of aeronautics program.
“Valley ROP was one of just five schools in the entire state
that was authorized to launch a weather balloon,” said Lofaro.
He said that the group needed to calculate where to launch the balloon and also calculate where the balloon would land. After launching the balloon and monitoring its readings after traveling to the edge of the earth’s stratosphere, the balloon landed just outside of Lemoore, only a few hundred yards away from where the launch team had calculated.
Lofaro also mentioned that a student from Dinuba was part of
that team.
Another student who Lofaro
said is capitalizing on the benefits of Valley ROP is Jesus Orozco, who is currently interning with the program’s Fire Academy and EMT course.
He also mentioned that there are currently over 50 sections offered to Dinuba High School students that count as dual- enrollment classes.
Said Lofaro, “Students can cover as much as a semester of college unites through the dual- enrollment classes.”
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