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Westside natives offer conchas, coffee and more with new food truck

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Name of business: Conchitas Truck

Type of business: Coffee and dessert mobile catering

Location: www.conchitastruck.com

Contact information: @conchitas.truck on Instagram

Specialty: Concha ice cream sandwiches

History of business:

Two childhood friends are hoping to cure Turlock’s sweet tooth with their new food truck, which puts a unique twist on a timeless Mexican classic.

Anne DiGrazia and Martha Jauregui both grew up on Turlock’s Westside, where their 25-year friendship first began. As children, they spent plenty of time looking forward to visits from the pan dulce truck and often indulged in the Mexican treat also known as sweet bread, or concha.

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More apartments proposed for North Olive Avenue

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As the rental market both locally and nationally continues to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, yet another application to build apartments in town has been submitted to the City of Turlock.

Gilbert George of RBG Construction, a Modesto-based company, is hoping to build apartments on the bare plot of land located at 906, 908 and 930 N. Olive Ave., which he owns. According to documents posted online by the City, the apartments will consist of four two-story townhouse apartment buildings for a total of 20 units complete with garages, parking, fencing and landscaping. The units will be approximately 1,494 to 1,565 square feet in size,

The land had previously housed two homes and poultry structures, which have since been demolished, and construction on the rentals is set to begin in August, should the project be approved. The estimated completion date for the project is October 2022. 

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Program trains teens to be arts center docents

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The Carnegie Arts Center is opening a new session for teens who want to participate as docents and volunteers at the arts center. Initially funded with a grant from the Make Dreams Real Endowment Fund in 2020, the Teen Docent program continues to be a first step in getting to know more about art, history, museums, and public engagement for young people who are interested in the arts.

“Teen Docents will work with gallery visitors of all ages – including adults, children and family groups – helping them engage with and understand some amazing works of art,” said Carnegie Director Lisa McDermott. “Our exhibitions change every few months, so there is always something new to talk about. Through tours, directed dialogues, and casual conversations, our young docents can make everyone’s experience at the Carnegie Arts Center more exciting.”

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Math camps get youth ready for junior high

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A summer camp for junior high age youth aims to get them excited about math.

Sundar S.T.E.A.M. Academy will once again be providing a summer camps for students entering 6th-8th grade in fall 2021.

The Geometry and Algebra camps will be held on July 19-30.

“Our Geometry Camp ensures connection and context of geometry and the concepts in engineering,” said Viji Sundar, owner and program director of Sundar Academy. “The Algebra Camp will review equations, inequalities, number sense and fractions to get them ready to start the school year with confidence.”

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Highly transmissible Delta variant found in Stanislaus County

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Health officials are urging individuals who have yet to get a COVID-19 vaccination to do so soon as the more transmissible Delta variant grows across California, including in Stanislaus County.

“We are closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and its variants across our state. COVID-19 has not gone away. If you are not vaccinated, you are still at risk.,” said Dr. Tomás Aragón, CDPH Director and State Public Health Officer. “Currently, the Delta variant accounts for approximately 36 percent of cases sampled in California, and we expect this to rise. The most important thing we can do to stop the spread of COVID-19, and the variants, is ensure everyone who is eligible gets vaccinated.”

The Delta variant, first detected in India, has a transmission rate that is 60 percent higher than the Alpha variant, which had been the dominant strain. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that 25 percent of the new COVID-19 cases in the United States are the Delta strain and that soon it will be the prevailing strain.

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Illegal fireworks could prove costly in Turlock

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Getting caught setting off an illegal firework this holiday in Turlock could be akin to taking a $100 bill and setting it on fire.

A fine for setting an illegal firework can start at $100 and can go up to $500, said Turlock Fire Department spokesman Capt. Jason Bernard. Each violation carries a fine, so a person can get multiple violations depending on the circumstances, including if the person is a repeat offender.

It's questionable, however, if the fines are enough of a deterrent because over the last few weeks, and especially the last couple of days, illegal fireworks have been setting the night sky aglow all over Turlock. Between Tuesday and Thursday, the Turlock Police Department logged 19 calls for fireworks violations and those are just the ones that were reported.

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Community Garden back after pandemic

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It seems fitting that an empty lot in the historic part of Ceres – named for the Roman goddess of agriculture – is yielding produce in great variety thanks to a collective of green thumbs.

The 6,500-square-foot Ceres Community Garden was introduced in May 2018 at the southeast corner of Fifth and Lawrence streets thanks to the generosity of owner Shane Parson. Since then, community members who are able to get beds on a first-come, first-served basis have been successfully growing grapes, artichokes, squash, corn, green beans, carrots, turnips, okra and tomatoes.

The garden is back this year after COVID-19 stifled activity in 2020.

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Performing arts building in works

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Ceres Unified School District held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new performing arts center on June 22.

Located near the main office and E building on the Central Valley High School campus at 4033 Central Avenue, the venue will be named after retired CUSD music teacher Ricardo Campero.

Campero, who taught at Ceres High School for 25 years and spent the latter part of his career working with Ceres elementary students, spoke at the 10:30 a.m. ceremony, which was attended by family, friends, former students and colleagues, and district leaders.

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Family rejoices as mother recovers from months-long COVID illness

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It had been more than nine months since Yolanda Salinas had been inside her own home, but on Monday she got to take the step that at times over the last year seemed like it might never happen.

Salinas, 64, and a former Turlock resident who now resides in Chowchilla, was diagnosed with COVID-19 in September 2020. Over the course of her illness, she was a patient in three different hospitals and care facilities. She was in a medically induced coma and was given a tracheotomy. She has suffered partial paralysis and developed a resistant form of pneumonia. But, after all that she has finally made enough strides and improvements that on Monday she was released from the hospital and got to come home.

“We were worried she would be overwhelmed, but she held it together and was able to spend hours with a few of her brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, children and grandchildren,” said her son Omar Salinas, a Turlock resident. “It was a great day indeed.”

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Turlock mom unlocks benefits of almonds through skincare business

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Name of business: Bloom & Butter

Type of business: Skincare products

Location: www.bloomandbutter.com

Contact information: @bloom.and.butter on Instagram

Specialty: 100% natural, cold-pressed almond oil

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Almonds are a nutritious nut which have become synonymous with the Central Valley, but one Turlock resident has turned their benefits into a skincare product which has customers glowing.

Tara Tickenoff is a mother to three and when she’s not taking care of her children, she’s working at her part time job or helping her husband with one of his several businesses — one of which produces almond cooking oil. When Tickenoff learned about all of the perks of almonds from her husband, she began using a cold-pressed version of the nut’s oil as a way to ward off stretch marks during her most recent pregnancy. 

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