Archive By Author - Dennis Wyatt
Manteca safety: Here’s 5,000 or so pennies a year for your thoughts
Pennies are rather worthless things when they standalone. They collect like dust bunnies in cars, desks, and jars. Many times we don't even take pennies when getting change for a purchase. Instead we nonchalantly toss them into a container on the counter for someone else to use to complete a transaction. Many of us don't believe it is worth the bother to wrap them in 50 cent rolls and take them to the bank. So ...
State hindering better air quality?
It isn't always easy being green. Just ask the City of Manteca. The city has the start of the solution for significant water conservation and – under the Global Warming Solutions Act mandate – reducing greenhouse gas in place but isn't pulling the trigger. Municipal leaders are gun shy about proceeding with the use of treated wastewater to irrigate the Big League Dreams sports complex and landscaping in and around Stadium Retail Center due to ...
Laundry will bring 89 jobs; set new low for water use
Crothall Healthcare wants to build a 60,150-square-foot laundry facility in Manteca. But this isn't your father's laundry. The cutting edge complex planned for North Airport Way west of Del Webb at Woodbridge will use only 0.7 gallons of water per pound of laundry. That could easily qualify as the most miserly water use for an industrial laundry in California. Typically, laundries on the scale as the one the firm proposes in Manteca would consume 2.5 ...
Call it the ‘close- a-school-&-make- Ripon-Unified- even-better’ plan
It's not every day parents – even if they are educators – suggest to a school board they should close a school especially when all are performing more than decently on state test scores.
Another ½ cent for police & fire?
Manteca Police Chief Nick Obligacion has a problem. In his professional judgment, Manteca is short nine police officers, two dispatchers and two community service officers. That is how he outlined the department's staffing needs in a mid-year report to the City Council in February. Obligacion understands there are financial constraints and that it'll take time for Manteca to generate the revenue from property and sales tax gains to cover the tab. Fred Millner, for one, ...
Now if only my IQ could match the phone I use
My IQ just dropped. It's the risk you take when buying a phone that's smarter than you – a lot smarter. I've been using a flip phone for the last six years. To those under 25, it was as if I were lugging around one of the old wall crank phones. You know the technology you have is about three centuries old when those just barely out of puberty refer to it politely as "old ...
Less water use = cleaner air
Every time you turn on the faucet you are generating greenhouse gases. It is why those who crafted Assembly Bill 32 - the Global Warming Solutions Act adopted in 2006 - want you to reduce your water use by 20 percent. Reducing water use is among the many elements included in the draft climate action plan that is being reviewed during a workshop at Tuesday's Manteca Planning Commission meeting. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. ...
Moving toward cheaper Ripon power
Ripon PG&E customers will find out in the coming months if they will have cheaper power.
HELPING 150 KIDS
Nearly 150 Ripon students benefit weekly from free tutoring through Give Every Child a Chance.
Healthcare cost battle: Switching sticks for carrots
Get ready for the real healthcare crisis. A growing number of firms are being nailed with rising health insurance expenses. The consulting firm of Towers Watson projects corporate spending on health care will average $12,136 per employee this year. Firms that for years have tried soft sell approaches to get their workers to take personal responsibility for their health through offers of reduced gym memberships and such are now getting employees' attention with money. They ...
89 jobs on the way
Manteca is about to land 89 jobs. Crothall Healthcare plans to operate a laundry and linen service for client hospitals from a 60,150-square-foot industrial building proposed along Airport Way just south of the cheese factory. The Philadelphia-based firm plans to hire 89 workers to staff the operation in staggered eight-hour work shifts. The company has more than 1,500 clients in 43 states. In addition to laundry and linen services the firm provides hospitals with environmental ...
Sheriffs vowing to ignore the law is a scary trend
The next time someone takes an oath of office they might want to read the first 15 words in the constitution they're swearing to uphold.
‘Time’ for another cell tower?
Customers at Target, Home Depot, In-n-Out Burgers, Grocery Outlet, and Applebee's among others in East Manteca will know what time it is in the coming months without having to check their watch or cell phone.
5% cheaper electricity flowing
LATHROP - River Islands Tech Academy is the first beneficiary of a South County movement to put power into the hands of the people.
2,500 so far are playing in mud Saturday
LATHROP - At least 2,500 people are going to get down and dirty Saturday at Dell'Osso Family Farm off Interstate 5 at Manthey Road.
Articles By Author - Dennis Wyatt
Guns: Being judged by 12 instead of being carried by 6
She's a single mom in her early 30s. She lives in an old farmhouse in an almond orchard five miles east of Manteca. The closest neighbor is a quarter mile of a way but the trees make it impossible to see their home.
There are now 71,164 Mantecans
Manteca has bumped Turlock to become the fifth largest city in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
Extended camping illegal in parking lots in Manteca
Extended camping – more than one night – in the Wal-Mart parking lot doesn't thrill some Manteca civic leaders.
Ripon grows by 129 residents to 14,606 population
Ripon added 129 residents during 2012 to make it the third fastest growing city in San Joaquin County.
Manteca Hall of Fame awaits Judge Abdallah
Judge George Abdallah – who has served as a judge or commissioner since 1987 – is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.
Want a safe environment for vacation? Then stay out of Yosemite
Yosemite National Park is not Disneyland.
FUN Club is serious about changing lives
Quincy McClain didn't like what was happening in the neighborhood outside the confines of the Southside Christian Church where she serves as pastor.
Ripon trapshooter entering Manteca Hall of Fame 2013
Randy Ernest Albertsen – who is part of a five-man team holding a World Trapshooting Record – is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.
Perhaps Manteca should work with Wal-Mart to create a homeless park
The aging RV was parked under a stately tree providing relief from the 90-degree midday heat.
Dave Bricker being inducted into Manteca Hall of Fame
Dave Bricker - who spent 32 years serving and protecting the people of Manteca - is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.
Count your blessings that disco didn’t survive the ‘70s
Bell bottom pants. Flare-leg pants. Men's rayon tie scarves. Polyester suits.
3 more outlets on way to Manteca by Black Friday
Three more outlet stores have inked deals to locate in The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley. Manteca Councilman Vince Hernandez confirmed that Craig Realty working with center developers has secured three retailers, that are in the process of preparing to open stores in Manteca before Black Friday. Developer Poag & McEwen has submitted plans to the city to convert at least one of the spaces for the three stores. Hernandez noted the first of the ...
30,000 expected for Memorial event
Upward of 30,000 people are expected to converge on Woodward Park in Manteca on May 26 for what military leaders have described as "the biggest Memorial Day Weekend commemoration on the West Coast." The salute to those who have fallen that also serves as a way of thanking those still living who have served America costs nearly $60,000 to stage. The biggest fundraiser is the raffling of two 2013 four-door Ford Fiesta sedans being donated ...
Hernandez: 3 more outlets by Black Friday
Three more outlet stores have inked deals to locate in The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley. Manteca Councilman Vince Hernandez confirmed that Craig Realty working with center developers have secured three retailers s that are in the process of preparing to open stores in Manteca before Black Friday. Developer Poag & McEwen has submitted plans to the city to convert at least one of the spaces for the three stores. Hernandez noted the first of ...
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