The Visalia City Council’s water conservation ordinance that implemented Stage 4 – Water Emergency, allows watering two days a week in May, and three days a week from June through September. In total, the changes will bring an estimated 25% annual reduction in landscape irrigation, which is responsible for about 60% of total water usage […]
Professor Toy and drummer Eric Anderson will be leading fun-filled adventures during Science Saturdays at 1pm at ImagineU Children’s Museum in May. May 3 — Learn the Science behind Gum! According to The Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest bubble gum bubble was roughly the size of an extra large pizza. Professor Toy will […]
Visalians, it’s time to adopt a new habit. One of our most important resources is in trouble, and we need to do everything we can to protect it today and into the future. Governor Brown declared a statewide drought emergency in response to our third drought year, and calls upon all citizens to reduce their […]
In honor of our county’s crime victims whose lives have been lost due to violence, the Office of the District Attorney, County of Tulare, hosted its 14th Annual Victims’ Memorial Quilt Unveiling. The event took place at the Visalia Holiday Inn on April 11, during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The Victims’ Memorial Quilt was […]
Visalia Unified School District is constantly growing and changing to better meet the needs of our students. If you read the VUSD column each month, you know that we are implementing new, more rigorous standards known as the Common Core State Standards. These standards are designed to better prepare our students to compete in a […]
The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (VR&E) Program is sometimes referred to as the Chapter 31 program. The program assists veterans with service-connected disabilities to prepare for, find and keep suitable jobs. For veterans with service-connected disabilities so severe that they cannot immediately consider work, the program offers services to improve their ability to live as […]
That gallon of milk you consider a staple in your refrigerator is missing in many of California’s food banks. According to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, milk is one of the items most requested by food bank clients, yet it is rarely donated. That will soon change with the launch of The […]
One year ago, on this date, I was acquitted on 6 counts of violating a visitation order and 6 additional counts of child deprivation/concealment. The jury found me NOT GUILTY on all 12 counts. This all came about from a local law enforcement agency(which will remain nameless, due to a civil action) and the Tulare […]
The National Park Service (NPS) announced that the centerpiece of its 2016 centennial will be a broad public engagement campaign to reintroduce the national parks and the work of the NPS to a new generation of Americans, inviting them to visit and get involved. The two-year effort will begin in 2015 and run throughout the […]
I worked with Ralph Kaelble and Tim Ward in the District Attorney’s Office from 1999 to 2010 (the year I retired). I would like to tell you why I think Ralph Kaelble is the best man for the job of Tulare County District Attorney. He is an excellent attorney and a very capable supervisor of […]