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The Dinuba Sentinel Community Thursday, October 4, 2018 | A7 Faces in the crowd
If you were a spectator at Saturday's Raisin Harvest Festival, you may have noticed a zoom lens looking back at you from the side of a blue Shelby Cobra. This year, for a change, the Dinuba Sentinel is offering you views from the inside-out.
In keeping with this year's Raisin Harvest Festival theme, the Dinuba Sentinel keeps the beat going by offering a Parade of Spectators, celebrating you as the community. Photos taken by Sentinel Editor Rick Curiel are shown below.
Manuel Rodriguez, right, helps Yousef Awanda paint a Kindness Rock.
Learning kindness through rocks
By Rick Curiel
assisted the children with the rock painting.
Their daughter Angelique Rodriguez is in Heinrich’s class.
“We thought it would be fun for the kids to get involved too,” said Rodriguez.
After the rocks were painted, Rodriguez took them home to be sealed with a clear epoxy. Once sealed, the rocks were returned to the children where they have the option to show kindness in the most universal way, by sharing it with others.
The students were encouraged to take the rocks back home and participate in the social
experiment with their families. They were cautioned, however, to follow the Kindness Rocks Dinuba rules and not place them where they might cause a problem, such as deep grass that may be mowed, or inside stores where someone might appear to be stealing an object.
So if you find a rock somewhere that seems out of place. It may be in just the right place, offered up in kindness to whoever finds it. The person who finds the rock is free to either keep their rock in a collection, or pass on the gesture by re-hiding the rock for another person to find.
Editor@thedinubasentinel.com
There’s a new social experiment fad that is sweeping the nation, Dinuba included, and social media.
They’re called Kindness Rocks and the idea is simple. Take a rock, paint it and then place it somewhere for someone to find. The rocks take on a life of their own.
For young children, it often leads to the beginnings of a rock collection. But more than that is the excitement that comes along with the adventure of finding a uniquely painted rock.
Now the transitional kindergarten class of Julia Heinrich’s at Lincoln Elementary School is getting first hand experience in the social experiment as last Thursday the class painted some rocks of their own.
If you browse social media in Dinuba your bound to come across a page entitled “Kindness Rocks Dinuba.” The page was created by Stacy Melton and has currently has over 350 members.
A couple of those members, Manuel Rodriguez and Sylvia Orosco, both of whom regularly post rocks that have been painted with clues to their whereabouts, were the volunteer parents who
Lincoln Elementary School transitional kindergartner Noah Mendoza carefully paints a rock in Ms. Heinrich's class.
Photos by Rick Curiel | The Sentinel
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