Calvin and Hobbes were right!
I gave a two-word political update the other day to the leadership team at Clovis Community Medical Center.
Sacramento — “Disarray.” DC — “Uncertainty.”
Every year, we go through this budget meltdown that is aorta of California politics. Call it “bad things happening to good people” or, for the cynical, “fat cats getting what they deserve.”
Push for online books or books on CD for Clovis Unified School District
Clovis Unified,” hear this!” Get with the 21st. century and go to books online or books on CD. Please get rid of those large, expensive, back breaking book bricks. They are turning our kids into future othopedic/chiropractic cases. In the case of school books, bigger is not better. I think it might also save a buck.
Clovis hospital aims for upgrade
Clovis Community Medical Center would nearly triple in size over the next 10 years under a plan being proposed by Community Medical Centers.
Valley GM dealers wonder: What’s next?
Local General Motors dealers are trying to figure out what fallout the automaker’s bankruptcy Monday holds for their stores.”The [federal] government is in control, … and we just have to take instructions as they happen,” said Don Bonander, owner of Madera’s Vintage Buick Pontiac Cadillac GMC.
Clovis-based Pelco to furlough about 2,000 workers
Pelco, one of the largest employers in the San Joaquin Valley, will furlough about 2,000 of its employees this summer.Officials at the Clovis-based security equipment company made the announcement Thursday, blaming a worldwide recession for a backlog of their products.Pelco has already eliminated 36 jobs, frozen salaries, and scaled back its presence at trade shows.
Pelco plans furloughs for 2,000 employees
Pelco, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s largest employers, will furlough about 2,000 of its workers for two weeks this summer.Company officials blame a worldwide recession for creating a backlog of unsold Pelco-made video surveillance and security equipment.
DeYoung bringing in TV program designer
DeYoung Properties is celebrating new model homes at Shaw and DeWolf avenues in Clovis by bringing in “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” celebrity designer Didiayer Snyder.She first worked with DeYoung in January to build a new home for Mary Ann Rojas in Fresno as part of the ABC reality show.
Word on the Street: More room for adornment
Teresa Pries started Urban Ornaments two years ago in a cubby hole of a space in Old Town Clovis, selling mostly purses and jewelry.”I thought if I made $100 a day I could make it,” she said.She wound up doing better than that — and on Mother’s Day expanded into the adjoining storefront, instantly growing more than 1,000%.
Things to do, April 24-30
Flea market fun
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday / Yoshi Now!, 648 Broadway St. / (559) 485-8142
Yoshi Now!, the downtown emporium of all things retro and odd, is holding its annual spring flea market on Saturday.It addition to the vintage goods inside the store, local vendors and average Joes sell their valuables … or their junk … in the parking lot.
Recreation Calendar: 5/6
Submit recreation calendar items to Sports Recreation Calendar, The Fresno Bee, 1626 E St., Fresno, CA 93786; fax to (559) 441-6070; or e-mail to calendars@fresnobee.com at least two weeks before publication. Notices will not be accepted by telephone. Only events open to the public will be accepted.
