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Thursday, May 19, 2022
The View From Here
The sign out front said “No trespass-
ing.” Howev-
A team of Reedley High School students competed in the Fresno County and Cali- forniaStateHistoryDaycom- petitions from May 6 through 8 in Rocklin, Ca.
The team was made up of students from 9th through 12 grades. The team competed in the group performance and group exhibit categories, producing a ten-minute play and three museum exhibit boards. According to the Na- tional History website, nhdca. org National History Day, is a year-long educational pro- gram that encourages stu- dents to explore local, state, national, and world history.
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lived there because their home was in the path of a fast moving wildfire. So trespassing we did.
My angle on this story would be talking to people who lived in the area and get their reaction.
The location was Toll- house Road, and this was on the afternoon of May 18. ThatWednesdayafter- noon was uncomfortably hot. I do believe half of it came from the weather and the other half from the fire.
For us in news, fire sea- son had officially kicked off. This was the first wild- fire we sent all our news crews to. Each team had a different angle and we would have live hits every 10 minutes throughout the show.
After arriving at the fire, we realized that crews had fought it so ag- gressively that it was no longer actively burning. At least, we could not see flames from where we were. There was plenty of smoke though.
A few hours later, my camera girl and myself found ourselves on the side of Tollhouse Road re- porting on a giant cloud of smoke. No more fire.
The homeowner whose property we trespassed on was actually really nice. He gave us an on camera interview and told us he wasn’t too worried because he had plenty of faith in the Cal Fire Crews who were battling the blaze from all angles. [There were at least 2 to 3 helicopters circling above dumping water on it every few minutes]
The homeowner also told me he had created a fairly large defensible space, so he was not too worried about the fire reaching his home.
According to the Cal Fire website, defensible space, coupled with home hardening, is essential to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wild- fire.
Cal Fire defines “De- fensible Space” as the buffer you create between a building on your prop- erty and the grass, trees, shrubs, or any wildland area that surround it. This space is needed to slow or stop the spread of wildfire
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Juanita Adame
RHS History Day team excels at state competition Contributed
Photo Contributed / KCUSD
StudentsfromReedleyHighSchoolcompetedattheCaliforniaHistoryDayCompetition.Thecompetitionconsistedof se- lecting a historical topic that relates to an annual theme, students then conducted extensive research and created projects that were evaluated by historians and educators.
Reedley family searching for missing Dalmatian, 'Olive'
Sanger's Hallmark Charter releases next year's options
Photo Contributed
A Dalmatian named "Olive" went missing in Reedley on April 27.
Staff Report
The 2022-2023 virtual platform schedule for Hall- mark Academy in Sanger was released on May 10 for parents and students.
The virtual and home based platforms assist stu- dents from grades kinder- garten through 12th grade.
The school's learning sys- tem is divided into two cat- egories, a home school cat- egory and a virtual platform category.
In the home school cat- egory, students in kinder- garten through 4th grade have traditional home school setting with on campus en- richment and an advisory teacher.
Students in grades 5th through 8th have the tradi- tional homeschool, on cam-
pus enrichment as well as homeschool with part time options.
For grades 9th through 12th, students have all the above mentioned resources but also CIF approval for sports, as well as opportunity for high school enrichments through the State Center Community College District.
The virtual platform var- ies in resources but also in- cludes daily virtual instruc- tion as well as enrichment and intervention options.
For upper grade levels, students receive indepen- dent studies, an advisory teacher, as well as CIF ap- proved sports and more.
For more information on Hallmark Charter or to en- roll a student, contact (559) 524-7170 or visit sanger.k12. ca.us.
By Juanita Adame
Mid Valley Times
A Reedley family is searching for their missing Dalmatian named Olive.
"She went missing on April 27 and we believe someone may have picked
her up," said Alexis Shamp. "She is not chipped and
has an eye condition, we can easily identify her by her spots."
Anyone with information is asked to contact (559) 417- 9723 or (559) 480-0959.
Photo of the Week
OCHS students complete career pathway
Contributed / KCUSD
Four seniors from Orange Cove High School have completed the newEducation/ChildDevelopmentcareerpathwayandhavebeen offered jobs through Fresno State's Teaching Fellows program this summer. The students all plan to attend Fresno State in the fall and major in Liberal Studies with the goal of becoming teachers in the future.
Contributed
ThisphotoofReedley's watertowersindowntownReedleyona warm afternoon was sent in by Ivan Hernandez. "I must say that life is sweet when the weather is warm," said Hernandez. Have a photo you'd like featured? Email juanita@midvalleypublishing. com