The International Agri-Center®, World Ag Expo®, and the Central Valley Toyota Dealers presented a check in the amount of $68,400 to the Guilds of Valley Children’s Healthcare on July 9 in Tulare, CA. While COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the 2021 World Ag Expo® live event, the Guilds of Valley Children’s Healthcare created pandemic-friendly ways […]
The Tulare County Library Job Center, the library’s new one-stop-shop for job seekers, is now available. The library’s virtual hub empowers anyone unemployed, underemployed, or looking for a career change to access virtual and local resources and programs. Patrons can access the virtual Job Center 24/7 on the Tulare County Library website at https://www.tularecountylibrary.org/job-center. The […]
Summer productions are back for the Tulare County Office of Education’s Theatre Company, but with a twist. Due to COVID-19 restrictions on performers and audiences, this year’s production of Little Women: The Musical has a small cast of 10 and was filmed so it could be streamed at a later date. Theatre Company director, Bethany […]
Adventist Health in the Central Valley and Minor League Baseball’s Visalia Rawhide are once again teaming up to encourage more community members to receive the COVID–19 vaccine. The first 100 people to receive the vaccine at participating Adventist Health medical offices, or at the Adventist Health Mobile Care Unit on game day, will receive two […]
Back in May, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sequoias (BGCS) held their annual Tulare COMIX fundraiser—becoming one of the first fundraisers in the county to be held in-person coming out of COVID-19. Generous Tulare community members stepped up and doubled the amount of funds normally raised—donating a total of $132,000 in benefit of the […]
This past June, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sequoias (BGCS) took eight Club members on an unforgettable trip to Washington D.C. The group consisted of CEO Galen Quenzer, Unit Directors Star Ramos and Christian Cervantes, and eight members, ages 13-18, of the Ivanhoe and Farmersville Boys & Girls Clubs. The trip served as an […]
Breaking a century-old tradition in the name of health and safety, the largest convention organization in the world has moved its annual in-person event to a virtual format for the second year in a row, canceling nearly 6,000 conventions in 240 lands. Starting in the late 1950s, Fresno welcomed Jehovah’s Witnesses as they filled hotels […]
The Citrus Research Board (CRB) has been awarded $3,438,059 in funding from the Huanglongbing Multi-Agency Coordination Group (HLB MAC) to support its California Focused Citrus Research and Field Trials (CRaFT). The overarching goal of the CRaFT project is to demonstrate additional mitigations to improve psyllid control within commercial citrus groves across the various citrus growing […]
On July 7th the Fresno Chaffee Zoo unveiled a new complex designed to hold their prized animal ambassadors. The animals are integral to the zoo’s outreach program and play a key role in educating the public. According to Fresno Chaffee Zoo Chief Executive Officer Jon Forrest Dohlin, this new complex will provide better opportunities for […]
The Source LGBT+ Center, serving Tulare, Kings, and Fresno Counties, is pleased to announce the results of the nation-wide LGBT organization fundraiser, GiveOut Day. Participating in the ‘National Large’ category for the first time and grouped with 130 other local and national organizations, The Source LGBT+ Center took the top spot, after having had won […]