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Christmas Tree Auction is Sunday
Community Grateful Continued from Page A1
The Dinuba Sentinel
District Doings
• Open Gate Ministries will be hosting their 6th Annual Decorated Christmas Tree Live Auction, Silent Auction and Boutique on Sunday, Nov. 25.
The event will take place at the Dinuba First Baptist Church at 600 East Nebraska Avenue from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Refreshments and live entertainment will be available.
Proceeds will benifit Open Gate Ministries. Admission is $5
For more information, contact Fran Stoner at 731-2335 or Diane Domingo at 643-6008.
• The ‘Friends of the Dinuba Library’ organization is raising money to be able to donate more books to our Dinuba Library by holding a drawing for a four foot, lighted, decorated Christmas tree which has at its base seasonal books, a stuffed Elf Shelf Sitter and a Santa Countdown Calendar. Our theme this year is ‘Toyland.’ All materials have been donated.
Tickets for a chance to win are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5. They can be purchased at the library or from one of the ‘Friends’ Board Members: Joan Truitt, Winona Campbell, Susan Abair, Angie Garcia, Rita Garcia, Carol Meinert, Shirley Stormont, Rosie Cabrera or Mae Ewert, now, through November 30th.
The drawing will be held on Friday, November 30th at 5 p.m. at the Dinuba Library. There is no need to be present to win. For more information, please call the Dinuba Library at
591-5829.
• The City of Dinuba will be hosting their annual Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 1.
The parade will begin at 5:30 p.m. in downton Dinuba and will be followed by the Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Entertainment Plaze at 289 South L Street. Deadline for parade entries is Nov. 27.
For more information, call 591-5940 or email mtapia@dinuba. ca.gov.
Candice Miza of Open Gate Thrift Store adjusts a fully decorated Christmas tree displayed in the window of the downtown shop. The tree will be one of ten decorated Christmas trees to be auctioned off on Sunday at the 6th Annual Decorated Christmas Tree Live Auction.
The event will be held at the Dinuba First Baptist Church at 600 East Nebraska Avenue beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a Silent Auction and a Boutique. The evening will also feature refreshments and live entertainment.
Proceeds from the auction will benifit Open Gate Ministries in Dinuba. The admission for the event is $5.
For more information, contact Fran Stoner at 731-2335 or Diane Domingo at 643-6008.
To subscribe to the Dinuba Sentinel, call 591-4632
Rick Curiel | The Sentinel
Careers
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introduce the students to them so they could get an idea of what they do.”
Class by class, and grade by grade, students visited the different stations in the school’s southwest lot to ask questions and hear about the various lights and sirens careers. Children also got to explore the various equipment and instruments used in the line of duty.
(Right) Mr. Allen's fourth grade class from Roosevelt Elementary School hears from an Emergency Medical Technician from the Dinuba Fire Department.
Dinuba Sentinel
17th Annual Christmas Cookie
Contest*
*Has to be considered a cookie, excludes any type of bars.
Mid-Valley Publishing’s annual cookie contest is near! Interested contestants should bring a dozen of their home- made Christmas cookies and the recipe
to Dinuba Sentinel of ce (145 S. L Street) THE
by 3 p.m. on Thursday, December 13, 2018.
So...get out those measuring cups and let’s get started!
The newspaper staff will judge the entries and select the three winning entries.
1st Place ................................ $75 2nd Place............................... $50 3rd Place................................ $25
DEADLINE IS 3 P.M. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2018
The winning recipes will be published in Dinuba Sentinel December 2018
Gift certi cate will be awarded
people here,” said Roberts. “The people there struggle with things just as we do. They struggle in their marriages. We have homelessness here they have homelessness there. We have people who are struggling to feed their children here and same there.
while traveling through India. Something he said reminded him of the Lions’ international presence.
He mentioned how philosophers have said ‘Do not do to others what you would not have done to you’ and compared
We struggle with education and some of us struggle with just paying the bills sometimes, same there.”
But it was the smiles of the people that left, perhaps, the most lasting image for Roberts.
“One of the things that really struck me was how often and how much everybody just smiled.”
— Rev. Chris Roberts
it to the Golden Rule, in that we are asked to ‘do for others’, a proactive approach and credited the Lions for being part of that proactivity, here and throughout the world.
As part of their Thanksgiving
“One of the things that really struck me was how often and how much everybody just smiled,” recalled Roberts. “Regardless of anything they were going through, regardless of everything they were going through, they knew that they still had their life. They knew that they still had what they had.”
Roberts, who is also a Dinuba Lion, shared how he also recalled seeing a Lions placard
dinner/meeting, the Lions also voted unanimously to send $500 to the fire relief efforts in Paradise, Ca. Dinuba Lions member Sean Jennings traveled to Chico on Sunday with his wife, Amber, to offer supplies and financial assistance, with Lions members also contributing out of pocket in table offerings.
With table contributions, the Dinuba Lions Club donated $1,250 to the Paradise Fire Relief.
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