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City Council adopts plan to help businesses use outdoor spaces

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While Stanislaus County is still in the early stages of reopening its economy under State guidelines, the Turlock City Council adopted ordinances on Tuesday that are meant to help businesses use outdoor spaces to increase possibilities when they are allowed to open their doors once again.

The ordinances require a business to apply for a temporary outdoor operations permit. The applications will be reviewed by City Manager Toby Wells for approval. The permits can include allowing businesses to expand operations onto adjoining sidewalks or parking lots. Street closures will also be considered under the temporary permit process.

“The purpose here is to help our businesses move forward. This is not about holding anybody back rather allowing our businesses to start planning for that reopening process,” said Wells.

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Turlock Man Shares Story Of Survival After 25 Days In ICU With Coronavirus

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TURLOCK (CBS13) — A Turlock man who was in the ICU for 25 days with coronavirus is sharing his story of survival.

April 8, 2020, was a celebratory day for Nader Ammari and his medical team at Kaiser Permanente in Modesto.

“When I saw all the nurses, doctors saluting me for the day of the discharge, it made me in tears,” Ammari said.

After being in the hospital for four weeks — three in a medically induced coma —  Ammari is now on the road to recovery and in very good spirits.

“From the day I was admitted, I don’t remember anything until the day I was awake,” Ammari said. “And the doctor they told me, it’s better you don’t remember!”

Ammari is originally from Italy but has been living and working in Turlock for three years. He and his family traveled back to Venice in February for a funeral. One week after flying home, he was notified someone on his flight had tested positive for COVID-19. His symptoms including fatigue, high temperature, and difficult breathing, began shortly thereafter.

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Turlock care facility reports 14 residents died from coronavirus

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TURLOCK — Another three residents of a nursing facility in Turlock have died from COVID-19, bringing the total to 14, officials said.

Nearly 150 people, including 100 residents and 49 staff members, tested positive for the coronavirus at Turlock Nursing and Rehabilitation Center as of Tuesday, according to an update from healthcare company Covenant Care, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

All residents and staff have been tested and some retested. Separate wings of the facility are designated for negative and positive cases, staff continue to be screened upon entry and the facility has suspended admissions and discharges for a 14-day quarantine period, the company said.

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Turlock keeps health order noncompliance fines

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Businesses and residents in Turlock that opt to ignore public health orders are still subject to fines, as a motion to lower or eliminate the fines was not passed by the Turlock City Council on Tuesday.

The Turlock City Council unanimously approved Ordinance No. 1277-CS on April 14, adopting the Governor’s Executive Order and the County Health Order with a mechanism for enforcement by the issuance of fines through an administrative citation. The fines adopted were $250 for the first violation, $500 for the second violation and $1,000 for the third and any subsequent violations.

During the April Council meeting, Turlock Police Chief Nino Amirfar said the administrative fines would only be used after a business and/or resident was warned that they are violating shelter-in-place orders.

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Stanislaus County rescinds stay at home order

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The stay at home order for Stanislaus County residents has been rescinded by Stanislaus County Public Health Director Dr. Julie Vaishampayan effective immediately and Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday that the county will not spend any resources on enforcing the governor's stay at home order.

What exactly that will mean for residents and businesses remains to be seen.

The new public health order that went into effect on Tuesday, rescinded the stay at home order for residents with a few exceptions. The public health order for self-quarantining if you have come into contact with someone diagnosed or suspected of having COVID-19 and the order for self-isolation if you have been diagnosed or likely have COVID-19 both remain in effect. The public health orders for congregated living guidelines and food and beverage manufacturing also remain in place.

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Why the world’s greatest string cheese might be in Turlock, CA

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TURLOCK, Calif. — While known as the former home of Colin Kaepernick and a magnet for food processors like Blue Diamond and Foster Farms, Turlock might be able to comfortably add one more notch to its belt: home of the world’s greatest string cheese.

While many cheeses tout themselves as the best, Karoun Dairies might actually have enough awards to back it up.

It's claimed more than 170 national and international cheese awards, and recently steamrolled the competition at the World Championship Cheese Contest in the flavored string cheese category, an award they had never won before.
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Protesters pack corner to reopen Turlock

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An estimated 200 protesters showed up to the corner of Geer and Tuolumne roads in Turlock on Saturday, calling on city, county and state officials to reopen businesses shut down by the coronavirus pandemic.

The rally was organized by Marie Roberson of Stanislaus County Concerned Citizens for the State of Jefferson and Lew Conley of California Valley Patriots, who hoped the event would not only let legislators know how they feel about current shelter-in-place orders but also encourage business owners, churches and other nonessential businesses to open their doors in spite of them.

“...We need to open things back up and quit being scared and get our immunity built up so we can handle this better,” Roberson said. “If you have to wear a mask, wear a mask. If you want to wear a full-face shield, wear one, but we have the right not to if we don’t want to.”

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‘A little bit of normalcy’ | Stanislaus County flea markets are making cautious comeback

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TURLOCK, Calif. — After being closed for six weeks, the Turlock Flea Market is joining other markets in the county by reopening their doors.

Back in March, the market, which has been going since the '30s, closed for the first time since World War 2, according to David Linn, manager for the market.

"The why is pretty self-explanatory," said Linn, referring to the coronavirus pandemic.

While the market was categorized as a farmers market and didn't have to close, Linn said it came down to the cons outweighing the pros. They didn't want big crowds at their market to be a source of spread for the virus.
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Could California really go it alone?

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Gavin Newsom isn’t the first governor to describe California as a nation-state but he has been the term’s most vociferous gubernatorial exponent.

What does it mean?

Newsom offered this explanation in a recent interview with The Atlantic magazine:

“Look, we’re the fifth largest economy in the world, 40 million strong, we’re as diverse a state as exists in this country, [with] 20-some percent of the state foreign-born.”

He continued: “This narrative of punching above our weight, this narrative around being a nation-state – that narrative is a big part of the California spirit, of being dreamers and doers, this entrepreneurialism that the future happens here first. There’s a pride in that; there’s perhaps an arrogance at times.”

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Massive Northern California reservoir project scaled back to reduce costs

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An ambitious plan to build the largest new reservoir in California in 40 years to supply water to homes and businesses from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, along with Central Valley farmers, is being scaled back considerably amid questions about its $5 billion price tag and how much water it can deliver.

Sites Reservoir is proposed for construction in remote ranch lands in Colusa County, about 70 miles north of Sacramento. The reservoir, originally designed to be four times as big as Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park and nearly as big as San Luis Reservoir between Gilroy and Los Banos, received more money than any other project two years ago from a water bond passed by state voters during California’s historic drought.

But supporters still haven’t found enough to pay all the construction costs.

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