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Rep. Josh Harder of Turlock put on waders and traipsed through the water in search of swamp rats recently.
The goal: Publicizing a bill that he and three other California Democrats have introduced targeting nutria, an invasive species from South America creating havoc with irrigation canals and levees.
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When a preschool teacher at a San Mateo center began to struggle to interact with children, supervisors became concerned. The reason for the teacher’s drop in performance?
She was hungry.
“Our teachers are having to make choices between rent and food and getting to work,” said Heather Cleary, CEO at Peninsula Family Service, which runs nine centers for low-income children in San Mateo County. “Some of our children come with a lot of trauma and for our teachers to also have their own trauma that they’re bringing to work makes it really challenging to provide a quality learning environment.”
TURLOCK, Calif. — Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages ten to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, flu and chronic lung disease, combined. The state of California has a plan to combat the problem, involving your student's school ID card.
"This is the right thing to do," said Gil Ogden, director of student services at the Turlock Unified School District.
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With reference to the latest market forecast report published by Transparency Market Research, on the title ‘Lactose Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2019-2029’, revenue generated from the global lactose market has been estimated to be valued around US$ 1,750.7 Mn in 2019, which is projected to increase at a CAGR of 4.4% to US$ 2,697.3 Mn in 2029, during the forecast period (2019-2029).
Target Segments for Lactose
The global lactose market is segmented on the basis of end use, form and region. On the basis of end use, the lactose market is segmented into food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, animal feed and cosmetic and personal care. The pharmaceuticals segment is anticipated to account for a value share of 45.5% in the year 2019 owing to functional and physiological characteristics. The food and beverage segment is further sub segmented into bakery, confectionary and functional food. The bakery segment is anticipated to account for a value share of 43.7% in the year 2019. On the basis of form, the lactose market is divided into powder, and granule. The powder segment is anticipated to account for more than 90% value share of the global lactose market
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Swamp rats, troublesome rodents typically known as nutria in Louisiana, are causing problems in central California, threatening to damage levees, disrupt the state’s water supply and knock an area river delta ecosystem out of balance, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The report says that California’s "reliance on expansive waterways connected to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta make the state especially vulnerable."
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Pitman High alumnus Justin Jones is taking over the duties for the Pride boys water polo program and he has his eyes set on the future.
Last year was arguably the program’s best season ever and this year looks to be headed in the same direction.
“A lot of the guys from last season really worked hard in the off-season, all summer in Turlock United, a new program we have, combined with Turlock and Pitman, and that was successful,” said Jones, who graduated in 2008. “A lot of our guys played and they strive for a section title. It is a longshot, but this is an opportunity to show yourself and we have a group of boys that work hard.”
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Federal authorities on Tuesday said they had launched a domestic terrorism investigation into the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival after officials discovered the gunman had a list of other potential targets.
Among the targets were religious organizations, courthouses, federal buildings and political institutions involving both the Republican and Democratic parties, FBI special agent in charge John F. Bennett said during a news conference. The agency declined to provide specifics on the targets but said law enforcement officials were reaching out to notify them.
The new investigation comes as law enforcement continues to try to determine a motive for the attack.
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On May 24, we started the discussion with Turlock stakeholders, including our residents and taxpayers, on the need to balance our budget, do business differently and put Turlock back on sound fiscal ground.
Our immediate job was to stop deficit spending. City Manager Lawton and his staff launched an open budget discussion process on how best to deliver essential City services in the most economical manner.
Initial requests from City Department heads would have required $4.1 million in deficit spending. To most people, spending more money than they have is a foreign concept. In our City, deficit spending unfortunately has been common practice in recent years. No more.
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A gay California man whose mother is one of the co-organizers of a controversial “straight pride” event is speaking out against her plans.
Matthew Mason of Turlock, California, is urging the city of Modesto to reject a permit for the Stanislaus County Straight Pride Parade/Event, which was submitted last month by a group calling itself the National Straight Pride Coalition.
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The faded, creased photograph shows a 13-year-old Vallie Brown smiling shyly as she pulls back her hair in the back of a large van. She is wearing a white one-piece swimsuit and at first glance, she looks like she’s coming back from a sun-soaked day at the beach.
Looking at the picture of Brown, few people would suspect that the girl in the snapshot was living out of that van with her mother. That each night after it grew dark, she curled up on the backseats to sleep. That she wore that swimsuit under her clothes because she had to bathe in gas station bathrooms.
More than four decades later, and long before government data would ultimately confirm her suspicion, her experiences helped Brown to recognize that California’s housing crisis had taken another complicated turn – that the tenuous existence of her family in her youth had become a reality for far too many in the present.
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