Archives: September, 2009
Valley doctors focus of first “Heroes” show
Community Medical Centers is the location for filming the new nationally syndicated television series “Healthcare Heroes.” The first episode airs at 5 p.m. Sunday on KFSN (Channel 30.1). Each episode will feature Community’s doctors, staff and services. The opening episode spotlights two doctors at Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno: Dr. Don Myers removes [...]
Clovis council talks about change to Tarpey fire calls
For three years, Clovis firefighters have been responding to emergency calls in the unincorporated Tarpey Village area for $950 per call. But the Fresno County Fire Protection District, which agreed to pay Clovis the fee, wants to end the 2006 deal. Clovis City Council members discussed the service change Monday night but took no action. [...]
Little local focus in Whitman’s Valley stop
Two days after officially launching her quest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman talked in broad generalities Thursday about her campaign to businessmen and entrepreneurs at the fourth annual Central Valley Venture Forum in Clovis. Whitman’s speech was billed as “Entrepreneurship and Private Capital; Lessons for the Central Valley and [...]
Clovis Botanical Garden to host sale
Clovis Botanical Garden will host a plant sale Saturday to raise funds for the garden and the California Native Plant Society. The plant sale is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the botanical garden on Clovis Avenue just north of Alluvial Avenue. It will include California native and low-water-use plants from $7.25 to $18. [...]
$100,000 fine issued in embezzlement case
A Clovis man on Friday was fined $100,000 and sentenced to six months in a halfway house for embezzling more than $800,000 from a well-known local food processor. Jerry Burnes, 65, already had paid full restitution and agreed to pay more than $450,000 in back taxes to the state of California and the Internal Revenue [...]
Old school bell touches Clovis Unified history
For decades, a century-old piece of history gathered dust in the garage of a house in northeast Fresno, waiting to be rediscovered. Until a few months ago, members of the Mesple family didn’t know they still had the 100-year bell from the old Lincoln Elementary School, which was destroyed by fire on Oct. 29, 1944. [...]
