ODDS & ENDS

Junior leadership is free to teens Teens have a chance to learn a lot about the community as well as develop leadership skills at no cost as part of the Manteca Chamber of Commerce Junior Leadership Program. The program involves once-a-month programs offering up close looks at how the community operates. The orientation will take place Saturday, Sept. 26. Team building exercises will take place at Venture Academy. Other monthly programs include military ...

Tickets on sale for museum BBQ soical

An old-fashioned tri-tip and turkey barbecue social is in its 17th year benefitting the Manteca Historical Society and Museum.

Tractors wanted for Main Street Day event

Wanted: Tractors to be displayed at Ripon's downtown Main Street. The event, sponsored by the Ripon Chamber of Commerce, is the 24th Annual Main Street Day & 7th Annual Car Show & Health Faire scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Those who want to enter their tractors in the car show are asked to fill out a form and indicate the make, model and year of the vehicle entry. Tractors ...

HONORING LABOR

Volunteers were out Monday placing 2,400 flags along Manteca streets to honor labor. The Manteca Chamber of Commerce is looking for help this Friday to place the flags again to mark the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America. If you can help, contact the chamber at 823-6121.

Police helping families

Manteca Police officers and employees are digging into their own pockets to help the two families displaced after tear gas was used to end a 12-hour stand-off with bank robbers who busted in and holed up in the duplex they were living in.

Training Thursday for CERT volunteers

They were there during the 12-hour standoff in the aftermath of Thursday's bank robbery directing traffic and assisting Manteca Police with logistics.

PUMPKIN FAIR CONTESTS

Are you a pumpkin carving artist? Just how good are you at turning pumpkins into desserts? You can find out Oct. 3-4 during the Sunrise Kiwanis' 25th annual Manteca Pumpkin Fair. It is part of a street fair complete with free entertainment that is expected to draw up to 30,000 people to downtown Manteca. The carnival returns this year plus there will be a scarecrow contest for Manteca Unified students, a tractor show, free kids ...

WIND GROUNDS BALLOONS

Board may tweak bus reduction strategy

Trustees of the Manteca Unified School District could look to tweak the "no bus zone" on Tuesday.

Businessman makes dough to make money

Oudom Rattanachane knew he had something special when he purchased a Pizza Guys franchise within walking distance of Manteca High school.

TEAMSTERS PICNIC MARKS LABOR DAY

Kid Zones opening at Veritas, Cowell schools

Manteca Parks & Recreation Department is launching a Kids Zone After School Program at Veritas Elementary School.

Manteca Lions plan calamari, pasta dinner on Sept. 19 at senior center

On the surface it's just another community dinner hosted by a service club where people from all different social circles will show up for a good meal and a good time.

Ripon Chamber of Commerce plans 25th annual Main Street Day Oct. 17

RIPON - The Ripon Chamber of Commerce will present the 25th Annual Main Street Day & Car Show in Ripon on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Emergency shelters allowed ‘by right’

HOPE Ministries' inital choice for Manteca's first family shelter in the early 1990s was a home on the 100 block of North Lincoln Avenue.

Warm Weather Welcome By Some

TOO SMALL FOR SOME

It sounds like a deal that's too good to pass up: A $1,100 discount once a year for non-profits to rent the City of Manteca's state-of-the-art community room at the new $7 million transit center.

2 more years of 99 road work

Two more years of road work lies ahead for motorists using 10 miles of Highway 99 from the 120 Bypass in Manteca to Arch Road in Stockton.

Lathrop honors California Natural founder

Pat Mitchell started California Natural Products with only two employees in 1980.

Agape Villages earns honor for programs

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) honored Agape Villages Foster Family Agency as an "Angel in Adoption" at an awards ceremony on Oct. 8 and gala on Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C.

Performing arts center: Act II?

A decade-old dream of a Manteca performing arts/community center could start moving forward.

Benefit for 700 homeless Manteca kids

For the second year in a row, the nearly two-dozen staff at Re/Max Executive in Manteca are stepping up to the plate to help the hundreds of homeless students attending various schools in Manteca Unified.

Police make DUI arrest, cite 8 for no licenses

One person was arrested early Friday night for driving under the influence after driving through a Manteca Police Department sobriety checkpoint.

Blood drive Friday helps 2 Ripon cancer victims

Nancy Scott and fifth grader Riley Simmons are the benefactors of a blood drive this Friday at the Ripon Fire Department headquarters in the 100 block of South Stockton Avenue from 2 until 7:30 p.m.

Man struck by train in Manteca

A pedestrian hit by a northbound train late Saturday morning at Center Street was in critical condition at San Joaquin County Hospital, according to a Manteca Police spokesman.

Lutheran food giveaway set

The United Lutheran Church will open its food pantry Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The church is located at 649 West Northgate Drive west of North Main Street in Manteca.

Former police officer new Manteca Museum manager

Clarence "Clancy" Rogers has been named as the new manager of the Manteca Museum.

Bullet train track work near

FRESNO (AP) - Trucks loaded with tomatoes, milk and almonds clog the two main highways that bisect California's farm heartland, carrying goods to millions along the Pacific Coast and beyond. This dusty stretch of land is the starting point for one of the nation's most expensive public infrastructure projects: a $68 billion high-speed rail system that would span the state, linking the people of America's salad bowl to more jobs, opportunity and buyers.

High speed thru Manteca is down the tracks a ways

Two future high speed route alternatives cut through Manteca.

SHE’S A SURVIVOR

Deborah Hoffman is a breast cancer survivor. Not once, not twice, but four times. She is living proof that prayers work, and that miracles do happen.