LATHROP – Alexandra Floresca admitted she knew very little about the Junior Reserved Officers Training Corps at Lathrop High.
Q: What is the role of NJROTC at Turlock High School? A: "The role here is to assist the core classes and graduation of our students. Our primary mission is to create better citizens; we are not recruiters." Q: What are some of the methods NJROTC uses to help develop better citizens? A: "Understanding their role in shaping them from teenagers to young adults. By focusing them and creating goal-oriented scenarios. We help them to ...
STOCKTON - It has been a while since Chris Isaak has played in Stockton. Isaak will be bringing his Beyond the Sun Tour home to Stockton on Saturday, April 6. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster and Stockton Arena Box Office by going to http://www.ticketmaster.com/ or www.stocktonarena.com It is a perfect tour for a homecoming concert. The Beyond the Sun Tour is in support of Isaak's most recent release, "Beyond the Sun." "This record is a ...
MODESTO - Marcelo Solis, a judge for the USA branch of the Argentine Tango World Cup competition, returns to lead two workshops and perform at a milonga (Argentine tango dance party) on Saturday, April 14, at Jacobs Fine Dining, 2501 McHenry Ave.
TUOLUMNE - Nationally known comedian Mark Pitta will take the stage on April 19 at Black Oak Casino. Pitta has appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and has made guest appearances on Mad About You and Third Rock From the Sun.
MODESTO - Two special 'Spring Break' performances of the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences production of 'Locomotion' at the Gallo Center for the Arts have just been made available to the public. Originally only offered to students through the arts education program, the Center opened the 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. shows on Tuesday, April 3, to the community to accommodate others interested in attending the play, including children and their families who may ...
JACKSON - Celebrate Spring by going Up, Up and Away and Letting the Sun Shine In with Florence LaRue & the Fifth Dimension live at Jackson Rancheria on Friday, April 6.
MODESTO - Valley's Got Talent, the popular community talent contest that debuted in 2010 as a fundraiser for the non-profit Gallo Center for the Arts, is now accepting contestant applications for the third annual event.
RIPON – Daniel Costa knew that there was a market for indoor roller hockey in the Central Valley.
MODESTO – The Great Valley Museum of Natural History at Modesto Junior College is in the middle of a major exodus.
South Stanislaus and Merced counties have a wide variety of public and private channels for golf connoisseurs and enthusiasts. The top three courses vary in landscape, as well as community and features.
You don't have to venture far in the 209 to find a golf course. There are over three dozen within an hour's drive of most spots in the heart of the 209. And prices couldn't be better. The abundance of golf courses both public and private is the direct result of overbuilding courses over the last 15 years to cash in on the game's growing popularity as America rode an economic wave. In short, you ...
MODESTO – Ken Miller might as well have been born with a golf club in his hand. The Modesto native and golf pro grew up prowling the links of the Del Rio Country Club and as he learned the ins and outs of the game quickly saw his profile as an amateur golfer improving dramatically. It wasn't long before he ended up as one of the top-ranked junior golfers in the country, earning him a ...
RIPON - George Buzzini - golf pro and owner of the Jack Tone Golf course - gets a kick out of joking with his customers while his wife Sharon shoulders the chief financial officer responsibilities of keeping the business side on track and profitable.
FRENCH CAMP - Elmer Weintz has a great love for the game. As a golf instructor at French Camp RV Park Resort and Golf Course, he's battled back from a recent illness to resume his duties at the nine-hole facility. "My love for golf has kept me going all these years," proclaimed the 81-year-old Weintz, who is currently working with the Lathrop High golf program along with that of a nearby charter school. French Camp ...
VALLECITO - Twisted Oak Winery opens the 2013 concert series with the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band under the stars at the winery in Vallecito.
NAPA (AP) - Love the lush and lovely Napa Valley but hate how expensive it can be? You're not the first. In the late 19th century, writer Robert Louis Stevenson moved his honeymoon to the rustic but free setting of an abandoned mining camp when the $10-a-week going rate for Calistoga hotels proved too much for his slender purse.