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Articles from the September 1, 2024 edition


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  • Quail Park on Cypress Hosts Birthday Party, Honors Centenarians

    Updated Sep 1, 2024

    On August 19, Quail Park on Cypress honored its five residents who turn 100 to 104 years old this year. Betty Lane (100), Bea Moring (100), Patricia Pope (100), Geraldine Soultz (104) and Ken Albert (100) were presented with certificates of recognition from the County of Tulare by Supervisor Amy Shuklian. These five honorees were also presented letters of recognition from the City of Visalia. Residents filled the room to celebrate this milestone, as well as to celebrate ten...

  • National Pickleball Tournament to be Held in Washington, D.C.

    Updated Sep 1, 2024

    In honor of National Pickleball Day, the Trust for the National Mall and Humana have announced program details for the three-day monumental event, National Mall of Pickleball. The event celebrates America's most intergenerational sport September 27-29 on 11 temporary courts in the shadow of the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The weekend is themed "One for the Ages," showcasing a new era of pickleball where multiple generations play together...

  • 23rd Annual Visalia Home Expo Set for September 21-22

    Updated Sep 1, 2024

    The 23rd Annual Visalia Home Expo returns to the Visalia Convention Center on September 21-22 with an all-new assortment of home-related products and services. "Fall is a great time to consider redecorating and even remodeling before the onslaught of relatives arrives for the upcoming holidays," said Show Manager Steve Tarter. "This includes older children returning home from college, and older parents spending time with their grand and great-grand kids." There are a lot of re...

  • Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel-Tulare's Biscuits & Gravy Poet

    Terry Ommen, Dusting Off History|Updated Sep 1, 2024

    Although we were contemporaries, I never met Wilma McDaniel and I very much regret that. I hadn't discovered San Joaquin Valley literature during those years - too busy working and raising a family, I guess. I acquired my first McDaniel book by accident in probably the late 1990s. It was a small hardcover publication called The Red Coffee Can. The Raggedy Ann doll artwork on the dustcover is what caught my attention. I thought it was a children's book, so without opening it, I...