Dinuba Sentinel 6-6-19 E-Edition
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Established 1909, Dinuba, California
Car show
set for this
weekend
'Rose Royce' to headline tomorrow night's concert Sentinel staff report
It’s that time of the year again as hundreds of cars from throughout the Valley will converge onto the streets of downtown Dinuba, and Rose Ann Vuich Park, for the Annual Dinuba Car Show.
The event, which is sponsored by the Dinuba Chamber of Commerce, Ed Dena’s Auto Center and the Dinuba Lions Club, will kick off tomorrow night with the Dinuba Main Street Cruise Night and Concert. Tomorrow night’s festivities begin at 5:30 p.m. with vendors opening at the downtown entertainment plaza, located at 289 South L Street.
Headlining tomorrow night’s concert will be Rose Royce, a popular band from the Los Angeles area who broke through in the 70’s with such hit songs as ‘Carwash’, ‘I Want to Get Next to You’, ‘I’m Going Down’ and ‘Wishing on a Star’, to name a few.
Opening for Rose Royce will be Noah Claunch and the Pontune Band, who is scheduled to take the stage at 6 p.m. The band ‘Three and the Machine’ will be entertaining the crowd from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Rose Royce is scheduled to begin at approximately 8 p.m.
Many vendors will be available at the event and the Dinuba Lions Club will once again be hosting a beer garden north of the plaza.
Though there will be plenty of classic cars, hot rods and other vehicles gracing the streets in and around the plaza, the actual car show will be held on Saturday at Rose Ann Vuich Park. Registration for the car show will be held from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., with the car show to be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Vendors and bounce houses will be available at the park and entertainment will be provided at the park’s band shell. There will also be plenty of items raffled away during the event.
The awards ceremony will begin at 2 p.m.
For more information, contact the Dinuba Chamber of Commerce at 591- 2707.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
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TOP OF THE CLASS: The front row of at Thursday's graduation represented the top student of the Class of 2019. The first seven received the highest honor of Summa Cum Laude, earning a cummulative grade point average of 4.3 or higher during their tenure at Dinuba High School. They are Jackie Gallardo, Lesli Magdaleno Martinez, Stephania Velasquez Cortes, Karina Vieyra, Madisyn Skye Sylvester, Edna Villacana-Madrigal and Isabella Celine Gonzalez.
Off to greener pastures
By Rick Curiel
doctorates are 22 Valedictorians from the Class of 2019. Of those students achieving a cumulative grade point average better than 4.0 while at Dinuba High, seven earned the highest honor of receiving the title Summa Cum Laude for achieving a grade point average of 4.3 or better. Six received
Editor@thedinubasentinel.com
Over 400 students graduated this year from Dinuba High School, 404 to be exact.
For many of them, their days in the Dinuba Unified School District started as many as 13 to 15 years ago, and culminated on Thursday, May 30, in Dinuba High School’s 117th Commencement Ceremony.
Once again, it was a packed house at Claud Hebert Stadium as thousands filled the stands to celebrate the school’s biggest class yet.
For outgoing Dinuba High School Principal Dr. Michael Roberts, the evening was a better-sweet event.
“I’ve been with this group since they were in the seventh grade,” said Dr. Roberts prior to the ceremony. Roberts, before taking over as Dinuba High’s principal four years ago, also served as the Principal at Washington Intermediate School the two years prior.
“So this is an emotional night,” he
See Graduates, Page A8
Rick Curiel | The Sentinel
Stan Isaac, Ryan Manning, Danny Bauman and Glen Friesen help put up a new fence at the Open Gate Ministries Shelter on Saturday morning. The effort was part of a new men's fellowship at Dinuba Mennonite Brethren Church and was headed by Friesen as part of the groups service to the community.
added.
A graduate of Dinuba High
School himself, Roberts will also be venturing off into a brave new world as he has taken a principal’s position in Calabasas, Ca. as his wife pursues her Doctorate in Mathematics from UCLA.
Perhaps also on their way to their
Jackie Gallardo Beltran gave the final Valedictorian address at this year's Commencement Ceremony. Beltran was the top student in her class.
Cal Ripken League
District tournament for Dinuba begins Tuesday
Sports, Page B1
Rick Curiel | The Sentinel
Fittingly, on The Fourth of July, Mid Valley Publishing’s three community weekly newspapers will morph into a newly designed and comprehensive news source for the Central Valley cities now being served by The Dinuba Sentinel, Reedley Exponent and Sanger Herald.
That first Thursday publication
of The Mid Valley TIMES marks
the genesis of a bright, news packed version of the newspapers which have served this area of the Valley for over a century each. The news hole will be equally shared throughout the new paper. Your new newspaper—if you’re currently a subscriber to either The Sentinel, Exponent or Herald—will
be The Times. If you are currently a subscriber to any of these newspapers, you will automatically receive this edition in a much larger version of your current publication and it will continue throughout your subscription period. If you are not currently a subscriber, you will find it easy and inexpensive to become one. All the local news, sports and city government reports and regular columns—love them or hate them—will be retained. All of that will continue in this single source.
Increasing pressure on local newspapers to address ever changing reader preferences made it apparent we had to modernize graphically and make changes in the way we package and deliver the news--which you have come to expect, direct to your door in a redesigned package.
Mid Valley Publishing will maintain it’s current offices in each of these three communities to provide easy access to the services we provide and to meet the needs of each city. The local individuals, upon who you rely and trust with reporting your news or event, will remain right where they are to serve your needs. Personnel and ownership remain intact.
When one combines three of anything it means expanded coverage of this entire trade area. There will
be more news, advertising, classifieds, legals and obituaries for your reading, in a larger newspaper. No one understands better than we do that we essentially work for you, our valued reader.
Times have changed and times
are continuing to change. The communities in this area are no longer disparate towns but have become one large community where people often drive the small distance between them to either work or shop. Entertainment or sports events at your favorite school have become basically a 15-minute drive. We had to face the reality of serving the needs of this expanded trade area where the interests are shared among many.
An on-line version will be offered and for all of you who have already signed up, your subscription will continue for the e-paper. There will be a newly designed web site that will be more user friendly and offer the convenience of a pay wall, allowing the use of credit cards and various forms of payment.
Continue to read and enjoy
your local paper as you currently know it and remember to watch on Independence Day for your enlarged and exciting new version of that newspaper which will be The Mid Valley TIMES!
Ed: While it is not the policy to run front page columns of any kind, we felt the content and information contained in this one was warranted.
By Fred Hall
Mid Valley Publishing Editor
Mending fences to an Open Gate
Rick Curiel | The Sentinel
Glen Friesen stood up during a service one day at Dinuba Mennonite Brethren Church and said he felt God was calling him to start a men’s ministry at his church.
“We haven’t had a men’s ministry in forever,” said Friesen. “The women have been doing a great job but we needed to get the men involved.”
As it turned out, the men in the congregation heard the calling as well. Said Friesen, “We’ve had between
40 and 50 guys at our breakfast.” The group has been getting together for monthly breakfasts since January, where they fellowship and pray for the needs of their church and the community. Friesen said that led the group to put their faith into action and began to search for ways in which they
can serve their community.
“It says in the bible that we need to
take care of the widows and orphans,” Friesen said. “And that’s what we’re going to do.”
They didn’t have to look very far.
At a recent breakfast meeting with Living Word Pastor Mark Wallace, who is also the president of the board
See Fence, Page A3
By Rick Curiel
Editor@thedinubasentinel.com
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