Week in Photos: March 26-April 1

Workshop Thursday on affordable housing issues

Developing Manteca's strategies for encouraging affordable housing is the end goal of a workshop this Thursday.

Grave golfing irks volunteers

Please don't play golf in the cemetery.

Dev taking her singing on a spin around California

Devin Tailes – a.k.a Devin Starr or just plain old Dev – is a young lady on a mission.

CORRECTIONS

• Charges were related to child custody: David Blancarte, 48, who was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant March 13, did not have any domestic violence charges associated with the $20,000 contempt of court warrant for his arrest as had been reported in the March 14 edition of the Bulletin.

Dog owners on neutering: It bites

It was a discussion about dogs in heat.

Three Manteca leaders making pitch in DC for federal funds

Three Manteca City Council members are trekking to Washington, D.C., next month in a bid to snare federal dollars.

VE Day dance leads to 60 years of marriage

Love was in the air in San Francisco at the Marines' Memorial Club on Sutter Street – the love between a husband and a wife and the many friends they had fostered during their years together.

Soldier on way home for family reunion

Jesse Noble has a much-anticipated homecoming ahead.

Eagle Scout project collects kids’ DNA

RIPON - Eagle Scout candidate Quinn McMurtrey, 14, put together a program with the help of the Polly Klaas Foundation to collect DNA samples for families for possible emergency use in locating lost children.

Group W part of free entertainment

Ed Adams is no stranger to most Mantecans who attend community functions.

Ripon park part of skate jam series

Chris Kovacs and Teresa Beaton were by no means strangers to the world of competitive skateboarding.

40 more units to help house low-income 62 and older

Dropping housing prices are doing little to help financially strapped low-income seniors.

Two cities skipping Voice One DC lobbying trip

LATHROP – Scores of Lathrop residents recently launched an unsuccessful petition to stop Mayor Kristy Sayles and interim City Manager Cary Keaten from joining the annual One Voice lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., in April.

Manteca Police starting CERT training session April 9

Can you make a difference in an emergency?

DeBrum officially in mayor’s race

Steve DeBrum has filed campaign paperwork making him an official candidate for mayor of Manteca.

Disabled activist helps with ADA needs

Jonathan Costa knew that he didn't want to see Frank's Antennas get slapped with an Americans with Disabilities non-compliance lawsuit.

Officers yell with weapons drawn, ‘get on the ground’

Editor's note: The following is Jeff Tilton's Facebook post about the Bank of the West hostage situation in Stockton on Wednesday.

‘Tactical Tacos’ benefits SWAT

A Tactical Tacos fundraiser is being held on Friday, August, 8, to benefit the Manteca and Ripon Tactical Officers Association at the Manteca Senior Center, 295 Cherry Lane, from 6 until 11 p.m. Tickets are $30 and includes tacos, two drink tickets and door prizes.

Grandmother remembers warning about ‘grandson’ fraud

One Manteca grandmother remembered a newspaper story about pleas for money to get out of jail by "grandsons" that warned her of the fraud that was confronting her on the telephone.

DeBrum: Do something about homeless

The homeless debate at Library Park is about to become political.

GATHERINGS CONTINUE

Lightning didn't strike David Fitzgerald dead on Wednesday night.

Police explorers converge on Ripon

Two days of police skills competitions face some 35 teams of teenage police explorers from throughout California and as far away as Honolulu on Friday and Saturday at Ripon High School for the Fourth Annual Central Valley Explorer Challenge.

Third fire at empty residence

A fire described as suspicious caused $150,000 in damages to a Manteca home at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the 200 block of El Capitan Avenue.

Levee work may save $$

Hundreds - if not thousands - of Lathrop and Manteca residents with government insured home mortgages could avoid spending well over $2,000 a year if future growth ends up bankrolling levees to withstand a 200-year flood.

SHELTER SPIFF UP

Second Saturday volunteers helped get work started on upgrading the exterior appearance of HOPE Ministries' seven transitional housing units in the neighborhood east of Doctors Hospital.

Two Lathrop appointees face re-election

LATHROP – Politics can get nasty in Lathrop.

Atheists, freethinkers returning to library

Just their presence alone has prompted a subsequent counter-gathering by those on the other side of the fence.

‘YARD-SALE PARADISE’ JULY 26

A combined flea market / yard sale?

Manteca share of levee study: $863K

If 200-year flood protection isn't secured - or at least a financial and implementation plan in place by July 1, 2016 - development of the Great Wolf Resort and family entertainment zone, The Trails at Manteca, and other residential projects in southwest Manteca won't take place.