The Visalia Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the four individuals/organizations that will be presenting their ideas at Visalia SOUP on April 11th at ImagineU Interactive Children’s Museum. Presenters were selected from nine proposals that were submitted. The following proposals will be pitched to SOUP attendees in hopes of gaining community support, resources and […]
Looking for a night of laughs and fast paced antics? Then the Visalia Players’ production of Nana’s Naughty Knickers which opens at the Ice House on Friday, April 13 is just the ticket! Imagine you are an aspiring law student planning to spend the summer in New York with your favorite grandmother. You are excited […]
Essential reading for those interested in the role of religion in American life is Religious Literacy: What Every American Need to Know—And Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero. Through the pages of his evocative study, Prothero, a professor of religion at Boston University, laments over the paradoxical fact that “Americans are both deeply religious and profoundly ignorant […]
The Dixieland sound of the Big Easy is coming home to Three Rivers for a long spring weekend. The canyons and hills of Kaweah River country will echo again with the sounds of New Orleans-style Dixieland jazz April 13-15, as the 45th annual Sierra Traditional Jazz Club’s JazzAffair 2018 rambles, rolls and high steps its […]
In April for the past 12 years, Habitat for Humanity of Tulare/Kings Counties has welcomed spring with a birdhouse auction. “Everybody deserves an affordable home,” is part of their mission, so they extended that out to wildlife and now, well, it’s going to the dogs, too. It was a committee decision, said Deanna Saldana, Habitat’s […]
Mark your calendars and plan on visiting the Tulare Historical Museum between March 17 and April 7, for a special exhibition created exclusively for THM. In honor of ‘Music in Our Schools Month’ the museum presents, “Big Band Bash: Tulare School Band Retrospective” held in the Heritage Art Gallery at THM. The opening kick-off of […]
Through the years, the Visalia Rescue Mission (VRM) has received a lot of thrift items for recycling, from clothes to kitchen items, furniture to toys, and even some cars. Wait – cars? Last year VRM received and sold some 20 automotive vehicles. This, with discussion through conferences with similar non-profits providing a thrift service to […]
Under the leadership of a new CEO, the Kings Fair in Hanford is looking forward to the 2018 fair, which will take place from June 7-10. Jerome Coelho, 22, is the youngest person to run the Kings Fair in recent memory, but he feels confident that his youthful energy will help infuse life into the […]
Our Monache FFA Officer team invites you to our 3rd Annual Farm Day and 5K on Saturday, March 31 from 8am – 3pm. We are proud to showcase our school farm to members of the local community and look forward to sharing our farm fresh winter vegetables and citrus with the public. Besides the farmer’s […]
This year, sofas are moving to the extreme, in size that is, with the theme of the 23rd Annual Sofa Show in small or large art, or small or large sofas being featured. Being held, once again, in the John Ginsburg Gallery of The Creative Center, submissions are due in on Friday, Feb. 23 between […]