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The Reedley Exponent A8 Thursday, June 14, 2018 Educational Options graduation
Man arrested after threatening officers
The Educational Options pro- grams at Kings Canyon Unified School District held their annual graduation ceremony in the Reedley High School stadium on June 5. There were 119 gradu- ates from Kings Canyon Adult School, 40 graduates from Kings Canyon High School and 13 graduates from Mountain View School. There were 47 students in the program that received scholarships.
UPPER RIGHT: Kings Can- yon High School graduate Josue Salto Camacho smiled and waved with his diploma in hand during the group procession out of the stadium.
LOWER NEAR RIGHT: Kings Canyon Adult School graduate Sidney Lopez shook hands with Ron Pack, principal of the Edu- cational Options programs, after receiving her diploma.
LOWER FAR RIGHT: Kings Canyon HighSchoolgraduates Alexis De La Cruz, left, and Ana Saldana exit the graduation ceremony with their diplomas.
Photos by Jon Earnest / The Exponent
Staff Report
Police on June 9 arrested a Reedley man for threaten- ing officers, one day after he had been arrested and then released in a trespassing in- cident at another residence.
Jesus Campos Lopez, 49, was booked into the Fresno County Jail on a count of threats to a peace officer. Police didn’t know if he was still in custody. There was no record of Lopez’s arrest on the county jail log on June 12.
According to Reedley po- lice Sgt. Todd Lowery, Lopez was at the scene of a report trespassing at residence in the 700 block of G Street shortly before 8 a.m. He was arrested, but then released later that day.
Shortly after 10:30 p.m. on June 9, officers respond- ed to a residence in the 1100 block of North Frankwood Avenue. Lowery said Lopez was at the residence and ver- bally threatened the officers.
Lowery said Lopez for- merly lived at the Frank-
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Robertson said that there will be periods when the roadway will be com- pletely closed, but the pub- lic will be notified in ad- vance when those closures
ment; earned a degree, pref- erably in public administra- tion or a similar major; and demonstrated a commitment to high standards of integrity and to lifelong learning and professional development.
Zieba has more than 20 years of local government ex- ecutive experience, including eight years in Fresno includ- ing three years as deputy city manager before she came to Reedley. She earned a bach- elor’s degree in political sci- ence from California State University, Fullerton, and a
wood Avenue residence.
On June 6, police re- sponded to a disturbance in the 600 block of East Duff Avenue. They arrested Fran- cisco Saldana, 47, of Reedley on suspicion of assault with a
deadly weapon.
According to the weekly
summary from the Reedley Police Department, officers made 32 arrests and issued 20 citations from June 4-10.
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Reedley Police Chief Joe
Garza said that detectives continue to pursue leads in the June 1 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Reedley resident Cesar Frias in the 600 block of West Abbot Avenue.
Officers found Frias un- responsive in a parked car with gunshot wounds to the head. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Anyone with informa- tion on the shooting is asked to call the Reedley Police Department at 637-4250. Tip lines are also open at 356- 8690 (English) or 246-4183 (Spanish).
will occur.
This summer, construc-
tion crews also will be re- pairing concrete sidewalks and making curb ramp im- provements.
Robertson said the road- work is expected to be com- pleted this fall.
master’s degree in public ad- ministration from the Univer- sity of Southern California.
Zieba said her boss in Fresno, Andy Souza, told her the assessment was challeng- ing and critical it is to stay current on city issues. Souza now is executive director of the Community Food Bank in Fresno.
Zieba said taking the cre- dentialing exam always was something she wanted to do to prove to herself that she could accomplish it.
“It’s a big step for me.”
Gordon Turner and his youngest son, David Turner, smiled as they flew back to Fresno on the Central Valley Honor Flight in April. David served as guardian for his father, who served as a flight engineer — or flight mechanic — in the Air Force in the mid 1950s.
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credentialing committee. “They cover everything from financial data to [hu- man resources] data,” she said. “Streets and roads, management in general to public relations. They assess your level of skill in each of
those areas.”
To receive the designation,
the IMCA said a city manager must have significant experi- ence as a senior management executive in local govern-
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and to realize what the people experienced who did go over- seas and actually fought.”
Turner said all three bus- loads of veterans enjoyed the experienced of riding on the freeway from Baltimore, where the flight arrived, to Washington, D.C. The trip, which normally takes 90 min- utes to two hours, was covered in about 40 minutes — escort- ed by motorcycle officers with sirens riding in front of the buses.
“If the cars didn’t pull over, they would pull up to them and tap them on the win- dow. We got pictures of them. It was just amazing,” Turner said. The contingent also was allowed to go the wrong way on one-way streets when traf- fic was diverted and didn’t have to stop at any stoplights.
“It was just like you were the president. It was amaz- ing,” he said.
Turner was a flight en- gineer — or flight mechanic — during his four years of Air Force service, working on AT-6 and T-28 planes at Good- fellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas.
“In 1955, we started re- ceiving B-25s,” he said. “There were 9,890 built during World War II. Out of those, there are 54 still flying today. And 27 are on static display.”
Turner discovered the ex- act B-25 that he worked on — number 44-29939 — is still in flying condition today and is at the Mid-Athletic Air Mu- seum in Reading, Pa.
“That was my airplane,” he said. “Wherever that air- plane went, we had to have a mechanic go with it. I got hun- dreds of hours in that plane.”
Turner said he traveled around the United States in the plane and others he ser-
It’s hard to describe. We were honored so much.
— Air Force veteran Gordon Turner on attending the Central Valley Honor Flight to Washington , D.C. in April
viced. It reached the point that he became tired of flying.
“I didn’t want to see an- other B-25 again because my ears are still ringing today. The noisiest airplane in the Air Force,” he said.
When Turner rode on the planes, he was seated either in the nose rod area or right behind the pilot.
“On the trip, if we had a problem we had to take care of it,” he said. “But we had some really fun times.” One instance was what he called a “Doolittle Flight” — when the plane flew “blind” without vi- sual from the pilot.
Turner joined the Army Air National Guard in 1951 af- ter graduating from Reedley High School. Not wanting to go into the infantry, he joined the Air Force in 1953 and had just six weeks of basic train- ing in Texas around the time the conflict in Korea ended.
Gordon and Yvonne had married in 1953 when Yvonne was finishing up high school, and he left for basic training in Texas. Yvonne joined her husband in Texas six weeks later, driving with her mother right after playing a piano re- cital during her high school graduation. The couple lived in Texas four years. Their two older sons, 64-year-old Kevin and 63-year-old Dwight, were born there.
When Turner left the Air Force, he and the family re- turned to Reedley (where Da- vid, 59, was born) and moved into the house on property Yvonne’s family owned begin- ning in 1941.
Turner returned to work at the Ford Garage owned
by his father, Harold Turner. Gordon worked on Fords and later became parts manager for the business. He said the stress from the job ultimately led to him have quadruple by- pass surgery.
Turner still owns a 1920s- era vehicle parts guide for old Fords, including part infor- mation on Model T cars that Harold Turner worked on as- sembling when he was young.
In 1981, Gordon Turner left the Ford Garage and moved over to Salwasser Man- ufacturing (now Thiele Tech- nologies), where he worked until retirement.
Gordon and Yvonne re- main active, specifically in music.
“We’re going all the time,” he said. “We do a lot of singing. Sing at the rest homes. We used to have a group called ‘The Entertain- ers’ and would sing at the Reedley Opera House.”
The Turners also did USO- style shows at Wonder Valley Dude Ranch, singing service songs from the World War II era. At one point, the cou- ple performed with Theron LeMay, lead singer for re- nowned novelty musician Spike Jones.
“Music is our life,” he said. “We love singing. We do a ser- vice once a month at Sierra View homes.”
Turner rides his exercise bike twice daily to keep sharp and in condition for their busy schedule. In late May, the couple attended the annual Memorial Day ceremony at Reedley Cemetery.
“We’re not doing too bad,” he said.
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