Hanford Insider: UCP+ Hanford, KRH Calico Festival, Kings Symphony strikes a note!

Welcome And What’s Ahead

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On this week's Hanford Insider, we've got another triple feature with UCP Plus of Hanford, the Kings River Hardwick Calico Arts Festival, and the King's Symphony Orchestra. Rob has your community news, and I'll be back with your sports report. This is the Hanford Insider for October 5th.

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New Builds And City Updates

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In community news this week, ground was officially broken on Friday for the new Chick-fil-A, Seven Brew Coffee Shop, and Olive Garden at the corner of Twelfth and Mall Drive. The project is being developed by the Tachi Yokit Indian tribe. Superior Dairy has taken the next step in restoring their building and have announced that they will are able to sell ice cream out of their trailer inside their own building instead of Civic Park. This will be particularly useful when the weather starts changing and it gets darker earlier. Congratulations to Superior Dairy for this next step. The Hanford City Council will be meeting on Tuesday, October 6th. For a full agenda, visit Hanford.city. You can also watch and even participate in the meeting online through the city's website as well. Speaking of City Council, ballots for the November 3rd general election are being mailed this week. If you have a question or concern about your ballot, please contact the Register of Voters Lupi Via at votekingscounty.com. Now let's take a look at this week's community calendar.

Community Calendar And Local Events

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Tuesday night is Hanford Night out at the Civic Auditorium Park from 4 p.m. until sunset. It's a great chance to meet public safety personnel and staff from other city departments. Plus, you'll see some of the bigger vehicles and equipment on display. It's a family-friendly event with vendors, resources, and activities. I'll be there with the Hanford Fire Community Emergency Response Team. So come on down. Port Richards Pizza is hosting a Witches Hat Workshop on Tuesday, October 6th at 6 p.m. Tipsy Canvas is holding a date night paint night on Friday, October 9th at 6.30 p.m. The Kings County Heart League is hosting an Arson Market at Fest Plaza on Saturday, October 10th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Hanford Police Canine Foundation is hosting Oktoberfest in the Civic Park on Saturday, October 10th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you have an event coming up, large or small, and you'd like some help getting the word out, let's work together. Send your information to HanfordInsider at gmail.com. The Hanford Insider has the most comprehensive community calendar available at HanfordInsider.com. We're

UCP Plus Services For Families

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delighted to be here once again with UCP Plus Hanford. And we have with us today Victor Perez, who is the director, and we have Sarah Ramos, who is the operations manager. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having us, and thank you for visiting our program here. Victor, UCP Plus does so much for the community. And uh let's get a quick update. What are some things that are happening in the program that you're especially proud about?

SPEAKER_02 4:03

So there's there's a lot of changes. So we've had some new staff come through and which we're very proud of. And we're always proud to stretch our, I guess, our reach within the community. So we're we're definitely proud to bring on new staff, be able to train new staff, to be able to extend our reach, like I said, throughout the county and provide our great services that that we do, our early intervention services, birth to three, um, that we provide throughout the county, and then also our school readiness um services that we provide, birth to five. And again, these are all services that are at no cost to parents. And so when we talk about services, that's usually the first thing that comes to people's mind is how much it's gonna cost me, what does that look like for my family? And so being able to provide such great services within the county at no cost to families, um, for us, that's it's just very important. We like to continue to do that. And we have great partners that that uh support us in doing that, great resources. And so, yeah, to us that's um that that's always exciting to me is to provide, like I said, great services throughout the county at no little to no cost or at no cost to um to parents.

SPEAKER_06 5:11

What are some of the services that people may not realize that are available through UCP?

SPEAKER_02 5:15

So we we've talked about it a little bit here uh on the tour, but a lot of the times you you don't need us until you need us. And so sometimes you you have a child either of your own or within your family that maybe has some type of delay. Um, maybe a doctor told you about a certain diagnosis, um, something, and then and then it's like, what do I do? Where do I go? And UCP Plus here in Hanford, our children's program, has been serving our community for for 40 years, and and we've been in the same building, but nobody really knows where we are, what we do. And so um being able to provide direct service support, family support, early intervention to um children birth to three years old. Um, and what that looks like is that your your child could have a delay in speech, uh, maybe a motor impairment, maybe an intellectual disability, maybe a diagnosis of something that your doctor has said, and it's like, what's next? Um, how do I get help with that? Well, then you have you come in and and you speak with us, or or maybe you get referred to the regional center and what they call like an early start um screening, an early start evaluation. And so um what that looks like is that you have a team that evaluates your little one, and it could be a speech pathologist, an occupational therapist, uh a nurse, uh, a lead teacher that's been doing this many years. Um you have them kind of assess and and play in a sense with your child and take a look at um six different developmental uh domains. Like they take a look at their cognitive um area, their expressive language, their uh receptive language, their gross motor, their fine motor, their social and their self-help uh areas, and they determine if there's a delay there. They write up a report and they send that to the regional center, and regional center is the is the nice folks over there who fund these type of uh services and programs um for uh for your children. And so if they qualify, if they determine there's a 25% delay in one or more of those areas, then they qualify for those services. And what those services look like is that you have a teacher that goes out to where you're at, where that child is at, whether it's your own home, the grandparent's home, or another caretaker, and um we're big parent education uh model program. And so you're learning kind of what is developmentally appropriate, what milestones should they be meeting, what can help my child um develop those those milestones, what the next steps are if they're if they're crawling, what's after that? Should they be um pulling up to stand? Should they be cruising along furniture? Um and you have a teacher going out once a week for an hour working on those skills and kind of training you on what to do while they're not there because it's very important that um we do that parent education one time a week, but the parent is there with their child all day, every day after that. So really the most progress is is made when that uh that parent really buys in, that family really buys in and implements those things throughout the throughout the week. That's great.

Early Start Evaluations Explained

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Sarah, school readiness is such an important part of what you do here at UCP Plus. Uh, can you tell us a little bit about the school readiness program?

SPEAKER_04 8:21

So our school readiness program is in partnership with First Five of Kings County. We've actually been providing school readiness services since 2003 when we pilot our our first program in Corcoran, and it's expanded to different cities in Kings County. So our program is for children, birth to five, and children come about one time a week with a parent or caregiver, um, and they get to learn how to get ready for school. That sounds like a very simple answer, but it is very, very crucial. So many of our children these days do not have socialization. They are very singular with their parent and their iPad. And even then, because we have a large base population here, there's a lot of families that don't have those communities here. So our Parent and Me programs offer spaces where parent, again, caregiver, comes in and they get to find those groups within within their own community, um, coming in and teaching their child how to share, learning their colors, their alphabet. But not only are they doing that, but they're learning with their parent. And it gets them really ready before they're going off to the school district because sometimes children go from the home straight to school, and all of a sudden there's all these rules, there's sharing, there's going from these different spaces, and then there's this teacher, and they're it's so new. And some kids can do it, and some kids have it's just so new, it is just a little bit hard. So the point of our other point of our school readiness program is for parents to come into that space, make that a norm for their child to learn how to share, how to work with their peers, how to follow these transitions, but they're doing it with a trusted uh trusted parent or caregiver before they go to the schools. So they're all learning those base baseline skills together before the child goes out to school.

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Yeah. And then I think to me for to go back to what UCP does is so when people thought of UCP in the past, right? It's it's UCP United Cerebral Palsy. And then um the shift is is UCP plus. I mean, that this is what we do, and the plus really opens up of like, well, what do you guys do? Who are you? Um that that's part of it, the school readiness piece, the the other intellectual disabilities that we serve, the other diagnoses that we serve, because throughout the agency, probably CP cerebral palsy is probably two to three percent of who we actually serve right now versus this the the other the other areas that we do serve. And so um that's why the the UCP plus is so important when um people think of well, what does UCP do or who is UCP? Well, UCP is that UCP plus this this component of the program, this uh area that they serve, this this diagnosis that they serve. So really it opens it up for everybody within the county now to say, like, oh, that it's not just cerebral palsy. So if I have a need, if I have a question, if I have anything at all, a resource that I need, you come down here, you come down here to UCP Plus. You don't need an appointment. And like we talked about earlier on the tour, a lot of us have been here for 10, 15, over 20 years, some of us 30 years. And so that connection that maybe you had years ago, you're gonna come and find that same person, that same trusted individual that you can talk to, um, that you can ask th those tough questions and and really point you in the right direction. Um, and I will say we have great partnerships within this community, within this county. We do things here extremely well that we specialize in, but then there's pieces of the program that we don't offer or or that um that we don't do maybe what what a United Way would do, maybe what um what what the schools would do. And so it's really important that we have those partnerships with with our partners here in the county that we could just pick up the phone and call and say, hey, we have this family um that we're serving that also needs X, Y, and Z. And we know that you guys provide X, Y, and Z. And so we would like to connect them to those resources. And and likewise, they refer families our way too. And it's always easier buy-in with families when you have a trusted person on the other end, um, where it's not automated, it's not appointment-based, where you can say, hey, we can make this happen for you right now. Because let's be honest, a lot of the time when you pick up the phone or you look up a resource, I need it now. Like I don't need it tomorrow. I needed it yesterday, I need it today. Um, I can't wait. I can't wait a week, I can't wait a month. This is important to my family right now. And so we're we're always happy to be that that spot in the in the in the community to help families out in that way.

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Yeah, you mentioned family, and on the tour that we took, one thing that stood out to me was you had pictures of people who have gone through their program over the last 40 plus years in Hanford, I understand. And so it seems to me the word heritage jumps out to me that you you have a heritage of giving that span different family decades, and just it's it's like family, yeah.

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Yeah, so it it really is, and and family is important to me, and it always will be, not only with our staff. I mean, I consider my staff family, and and their families that they care for at home are also an extended family, but then the families that they serve out in the community, that's important to me because like we talked about earlier in the tour, when these little ones graduate from our program either at three years old or at five years old, they they don't leave this community. They stay within this great community, and and maybe their their needs change or or maybe their dynamic changes, but then we have these other partners within the community that that help support them and help take care of them and and raise them um to be the next generation of of whoever they need to be, the the leaders, the the speakers for this community. Um we've had families, um, past parents just recently come through who have been on boards that are are giving back, like they're they're planning committees to give them back to their communities, or maybe they've started their own nonprofits. And so it's really neat to see these parents kind of evolve and start these new new things in the community and give back. But then also the also the children, like the young adults, and like I I share stories all the time. I go to graduations and I hear names called and and it's like, oh my gosh, and with honors, or or they're they're playing this sport, or or they're off to college here, and um, or they're homecoming king or queen, and it's it's just really neat to see. Um I've I've lived in this community all my life. It's really important to me that we pour as much as we can into one family at a time. No, no family is not important in our eyes. Every family is important. They're all a piece of this great community that we live in, and and we go the extra mile to make sure that every family has every resource that they they need.

School Readiness And Parent Support

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Yeah, and one of the big family events you have coming up is the annual trunk retreat on Saturday, October 10th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the COS Hanford campus at 92513th Avenue. And Sarah, what is on tap for this event? I understand it's a fun one.

SPEAKER_04 15:31

So this is our third year partnering with COS to do this event in their parking lot. Um, it is a great, great setup, especially since we have so many children. That flat surface of the pavement really does help. Um, but we have we will continue to offer our face painters. We've actually moved up to two face painters, and all of our events are free for family. So we have our face painters, we have our pumpkin patch, we have a train ride, um, we have our photo booth. So we and then we have 26 cars and booths uh signed up to give out candy or other prizes and information. Uh I believe we also have three confirmed food vendors as of right now. Now, food step parents do have to pay for that. Unfortunately, that is not for free. But uh all of our other items will be for free.

SPEAKER_06 16:27

And this is the third annual one you said.

SPEAKER_04 16:29

This is our so this is our third annual one at COS. So this event actually originally started as a pumpkin patch in our backyard for our clients. Um, and it evolved over the years. And eventually one year it outgrew our backyard, and one of our teachers recommended we have a trunk retreat in our parking lot. So we cordoned off our parking lot and turned it into our clients' uh trunk retreat. And after COVID, we were like, this is a big event. Why don't we open it to the community? And that's what we did. We had our first event over uh for the public open at the Civic. Um and we we had it there for I want to say three years. Yeah. So three years. And unfortunately, we weren't able to stay at the Civic just because it's it's so hard to get booked there. Um, but again, we were uh great community partners, partnering with uh Jason from COS and his whole team out there, offered us this great space. His team is so great with helping us with the event and helping us set up.

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Yeah, and it's it's a beautiful facility too. And so um really driving by it doesn't do it justice to to walk on that campus. And he was like, Yeah, we have a beautiful area that um their gardener does a fantastic job of taking care of. It's really beautiful. He said a lot of the uh people in the community actually go walk it um because it is so peaceful and and nice. And and once you're there, you're like, oh yeah, this and we walked in, we knew that this was the place for our families, for our kiddos. And Sarah's right, having a big open parking lot um is a lot of space for kids to run around, um, a lot of grassy areas for kids to play at the pumpkin patch or do various activities at. Um some of our little ones that are in in walkers and and stuff, the pavement helps out a bunch as well. And and there's there's strollers uh that that works well. Um the shade from the solar panels um make it a great day of uh being there for a long time. Um something that we didn't really have at the Civic when that sun starts hitting you. Um people start running under trees and stuff. So really having those solar panels, the shade works out as well. And um and the community comes out and supports. Um the last couple years, we've had um probably over a thousand people um at that event each year, close to about 700 kids each time. Um and so it's really a huge event that the community um supports and turns out to. Um, and we have a lot of great partners that um that help support it, whether it's with their uh trunks that they decorate so nicely or some of the swag that they we put in our swag bags as giveaways. And I know Sarah can speak more to that. They've been behind the scenes kind of running and gunning throughout the the community, getting those things together.

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One of the things that we do for this event is we have what we call our premium swag bags. So our we partner with our uh with our community and we we have about 50 premium swag bags this year that are gonna be loaded with goodies from um either items or coupons for uh free kids' meals, ice creams. We have donations from Cornerstone, DJ's collectibles, Dutch Bros, El Pata Salada, um Hamford Applebee's, oh, I'm forgetting people, round table pizza, urban air, just all these great community partners that were willing to give items to our families. Um we have additional swag bags that don't necessarily have all of the items, but our goal is to have everybody come through, get a bag, and get information. So not only goodies, but also information.

Trunk Or Treat Details And How To Reach UCP

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What's important to us for sure, parents can always come in. Um you you can drive into our parking lot, get off, knock on the door. Like I said, you don't need an appointment. And then once you have my contact uh phone number um that that they'll give you at the front office, um I have my phone on me 24-7. I get calls uh in the evening. Um to me it's important to be accessible, um, as a lot of our management staff is because um our days aren't like eight to five, right? Like like our days are okay, well once I put once I get everybody fed at dinner, once I put the kids down, now I have time to ask those questions or or reach out. So to me, everybody in the community is always welcome to come down, see our operation, kind of learn about uh what we do, why we do it, meet the fine folks here. But yes, you're right, 606 West Sixth Street. Um, you can come physically, or Sarah will let you know kind of how to access us um online.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

So our website is ucc.org, which is our whole organization's uh website, which is an adult program as well, or they can reach out to us through our Facebook page at UCPCC Parent and Me. Or they can call our office at area code 559-584-1551.

SPEAKER_06 21:23

Well, that's fantastic. Vicar, Sarah, thank you so much for joining us, and we'll see you on Saturday. All right, thank you so much. Yeah, we look forward to having all of our families there. Thank you so much. And

Calico Arts Festival 50th Preview

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coming up on Sunday, October 18th, we have the 50th annual Kings River Hardwick Calico Arts Festival. And uh, we've had with us on the show a few months ago Megan Deprima with rounding up some volunteers and getting some vendors lined up. Uh, welcome back to the show, Megan.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Hi, thank you so much again for having me.

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So, Megan, it's been a few weeks. Uh, how are things shaping up for this Sunday's festival?

SPEAKER_00 22:00

It is going really well. We're really excited for the golden 50th and to really celebrate that and all the milestones that we have to celebrate. We have so many amazing vendors coming. We have craft vendors, we have jewelry vendors, we have hat vendors. We also have our amazing car show that is such a cool thing for everyone to go and see. We have amazing carnival that we have inflatables. We have probably 10 plus carnival games for the kids. We have a really fun haunted house that our drama club creates and puts on. It's always a kid favorite. And we have an amazing farmers market, which is really cool. It's something that we really enjoy doing. And all of the funds for our farmers market go directly towards our ag center. Something really cool at Kings River is that we do have an ag center that our kids have goats to feed. They have chickens roaming around and they're planting vegetables. So it's a really fun thing. And we're excited that all the funds from our calico farmers market go towards that. And then, of course, we have our famous sweet shop. We have the most beautiful silent auction that is now going to be in our new gym that we're super excited about.

SPEAKER_06 23:25

Yeah, this is quite a tradition. And I know that thousands of people attend this. So what is your recommendation for people that are coming in? You have special parking available. I know it's kind of tight there, but they've done some expansion work in the parking lots. But uh what does that look what does that look like for someone who uh needs to find a place to park?

SPEAKER_00 23:43

I would always say the field is probably the easiest, and it's actually pretty easy access to where all our vendors will be and our gym. It's just a quick little walk from the field right over to directly where our vendors will be, right in front of the new gym. And again, the silent auction will be in the gym. So it's a pretty quick walk, and then you just walk through that little hallway, and then we'll have our food court, our carnival, sweet shop, all the other fun things.

SPEAKER_06 24:09

So, what time does all this get started on Sunday then?

SPEAKER_00 24:12

So we start at 11 a.m. and then we end at 5 p.m. And our silent auction will close at 4 p.m.

SPEAKER_06 24:20

That's great.

Calico Origins And Volunteer Power

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Well, we're in for a treat today because we have Bonnie Coelho here, one of the people who was very important in the early stages of the Calico Arts Festival. And because it's the 50th annual Calico, I thought it would be great to talk to Bonnie about the history of how the event got started and what it means to the Kings River Hardwood community. Welcome, Bonnie.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

Thank you. I don't know how important I am. I I know that it was handed to us because this is the 50th. It was handed to us by a wonderful group of moms who uh trained us and who uh gave us the opportunity to try and take it to the next level. And we always would communicate with them about what they thought of our new ideas. And um there are so many names to name. I bet. I so many, you know, and uh it's not just the moms, it's the dads and the board members and the staff and the teachers at the school. It's it's a wonderful community event, which is why I think it is so successful.

SPEAKER_06 25:31

We were visiting earlier, and you were talking about the early uh events that were held. I understand maybe the fraternal hall actually started at the fraternal hall.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Well, you there was a fundraiser at the fraternal hall called the or the Languisa and Bean Dinner. The mascot there was Hig. And that's when I was in school there and my brother. And then Willie Camara, who was involved in arts and crafts, she had a kill in her home, and uh some of the moms uh got together and decided to do an uh arts and crafts festival as a fundraiser. So she created the calico cat, who's extremely talented, and she created the calico cat just freehand, which we still use today.

SPEAKER_06 26:15

Yeah, I saw that it's the same logo.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

It is the same. And you know, she was in that arena, so she knew a lot of arts and crafts vendors. And we just started that and then it grew from there.

SPEAKER_06 26:28

So Megan mentioned a few things that are happening this year. What are some activities that you might remember when you were a child at the Calico, some things that uh took place that well we would we in 2026 might look back and are you really? Did they do that? Uh, do you have any of those memories?

SPEAKER_03 26:44

You know, so uh I in night so this is 50 years would be 1976. So I was already in high school, so I'm not that old. Uh but I do remember, so I entered the campus um the early 90s, I would say, and started working on the Calico Art Festival. And you know, the the reason why the silent auction, as Megan was talking about, came is because all those donations went to the bingo. And we were just it was just taking too long to bingo. So we took some of those and created the silent auction. And then we started looking on our at our numbers and saw, so we started sharing prizes with bingo. And then the sweet shop, as Megan mentioned, um came about because the the people would donate to the cakewalk, and then they were just there was all this all these uh items, these sweet items, and it was just going too long. So then somebody had the idea to create a sweet shop. There you go. And, you know, I I think it's very important to honor your donors and the donation that they give. You know, how do you maximize the value so you can increase your profits? I also think it's very, very important to honor your volunteers. Without them, this would not continue. And I am just so pleased. We are all of us, you know, from generations now, are so pleased that it has gotten as big as it is. And as the school grows, there's more and more opportunity to network and more and more opportunity to get those donations and figure out how to make money with them.

SPEAKER_06 28:30

That's fantastic. Thank you for sharing that. Megan, this is coming up Sunday, and there's a lot of great things happening this year. We've mentioned it, you know, the the sweet shop and all these different games and vendors and such. But I understand you also have a a new thing that you're bringing back.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Yes, so we're super excited to um bring back the coloring of our calico cat, which used to be a really special tradition. Um, I was able to speak to some of our past board members and staff members when they talked about the students coloring cats and then that each grade level would have um one to two winners. So we thought with the 50th that it would be super special to bring that back and to also show our students what past traditions were. And so we will have that. Our winners will be featured at the silent auction area. And then the rest of our students' cats will be used as decor throughout the whole festival. So we're super excited just to see a little like hometown special, special, you know, special little touch.

SPEAKER_06 29:36

Yeah. That's great. You mentioned earlier, you talked about the farmers market proceeds going towards the school uh agricultural program. But overall in the big picture, where is this money applied uh to things that are going on at Kings River? How does it improve the educational atmosphere there?

SPEAKER_00 29:52

One of our big things that we like to help fund is our wildcat trips. They are trimestor wildcat trips for our kids, and they get to do fun things like urban air, alley, watch a movie, do anything fun like that. But our big projects that we like to do, we recently purchased um swing sets for the kids. And then now that construction's over, we're really hoping to do some other fun things with it. Um maybe revamping our junior high side a little bit, possibly adding shade structures for the kids, just any other projects that the school might need to improve for our students.

SPEAKER_06 30:31

That's great. Well, thank you so much for joining us once again. This is Sunday, October 18th on the Kings River Hardwick campus there on Excelsior Avenue. It begins at 11 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. And uh it's gonna be an outstanding event. This is always such a great event for the community. And I understand you have a Facebook page where people can find out more information about the school and about the event.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

Yes, we have a Facebook and Instagram. So our Facebook page is Kings River Hardwick Parent Booster Club, and our Instagram is KRH PBC underscore calico.

SPEAKER_06 31:03

Fantastic. Well, have a great event.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

Thank you so much. We appreciate you.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Well,

King’s Symphony Opens With Beethoven 5

SPEAKER_06 31:09

coming up on Sunday, we have the opening of the 2026-27 King's Symphony Orchestra. Uh, and they are opening with their fall concert at the Hanford Fox Theater on Sunday, October 11th. And with us we have director David Green. How are you doing, David? I'm doing fantastic. It's great to be here. David, uh, tell us about the upcoming concert and maybe a little sneak peek into what's happening with the orchestra this year.

SPEAKER_01 31:34

Well, it's the first concert of the year, um, which is always really exciting coming off of our um summer hiatus. And we're starting off with a bang. Um, we traditionally have done a full symphony um on the October concert, and we are um doing that again um and starting off the entire season with maybe the first most famous four notes of all symphonic literature. The um we're doing the entirety of Beethoven 5. So we're really excited about that's the one. That's the one. Um, so we're really excited about um performing this uh this piece of music right here.

SPEAKER_06 32:08

What does the uh personnel look like this year? You've got some outstanding musicians. I'm sure uh it's a it's a great group of people.

SPEAKER_01 32:15

Yeah, it's really fantastic. You know, we've really done a great job of just keeping our current members and expanding upon that. You know, everything from you know 15-year-olds all the way up through some people who've been out of high school a few years, let's put it that way. But yeah, Lucifritz, our concert master, kind of anchors the whole thing. And just Mike Porter on first trumpets, um, a phenomenal horn section um with Robert Woodfield and Jay O'Connos, and just like just the amount of depth behind this group is just incredible. And so, you know, we're just really uh having a great time putting this symphony together, and the the talent is pretty exceptional.

SPEAKER_06 32:53

Yeah, looking forward to it. Give us the details on the concert and how we can get tickets.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Concert is October 11th at four o'clock at Hanford Um Fox Theater. You can walk up and buy a ticket. You can also get them um at pre-sale online at um just by Googling King's Symphony Orchestra. In fact, I believe it's kingsymphony.org is the website that we've got. Um, and you can get them there, so your spots reserved. And it's gonna be, you know, a great time. Concert tickets at the current moment, $15 for a ticket. We've got 10 for senior military, and then five for high school and college age student, and kids 12 and under are free.

SPEAKER_06 33:29

Well, that's great, Dave. I want to wish you and the orchestra a great concert and a successful season.

SPEAKER_01 33:35

All right. Thanks, Rob. We really appreciate it.

Local Sports Scores And What’s Next

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And now it's time for Hanford Insider Sports with Eric Bentley.

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All three football teams were in action for the first time in a few weeks, and the only team to come away with a win was Sierra Pacific, beating Carruthers last Friday. It was an impressive performance all around from the Golden Bears, leading 28-12 at the half, and withstanding a third quarter Blue Raiders surge to win 42-28. The Golden Bears will look to keep their 1-0 league record unblemished this Friday at home versus 1-0 Selma. Speaking of Selma, it'll be two trips to Neighbor Bowl in two weeks for the Bears because they took down Hanford West in dominating fashion this past Friday, 35-0. The loss drops the Huskies to 0-1 in league action with a road game at Reidley on this week's schedule. And the Hanford High football team suffered their first defeat of the year, falling to Central Valley Christian on Friday to drop to 1-1 in league play. It was a tight game in the first half, with neither offense able to really find a rhythm, but a long Cavaliers touchdown drive at the end of the half gave CVC a 12-7 lead at the break. Hanford High would strike first in the second half with a Calen Burrell rushing touchdown to take a 14-12 advantage, but then it was all CVC. Nineteen unanswered points would be enough cushion to withstand a late Braylon Thomas kickoff return for a touchdown, and the Bullpubs would lose to the Cavaliers 31-21. After getting a friendly welcome into the new East Yosemite League with a blowout of Golden West, last week's game with CVC is a lot more indicative of the competitiveness of the league, and this week's tilt at Tiller Union is no different. The tribe enter this week's matchup with a two and four overall record, but all four losses coming to very strong competition. In notable water polo action from last week, it was a busy week for the Sierra Pacific girls, playing five games in three days at the Arroyal Grande Tournament. The Golden Bears opened the tournament Thursday, avenging last year's state playoff loss, taking down Garcis 8-6. Friday saw a comeback effort come up short versus Granite Bay before taking down Lamore 8-6, in large part due to a 7-2 scoring run to close the game. Tournament action closed on Saturday with a pair of losses to Redwood and a Royal Grande JV. The Golden Bears finished the tournament 28th after coming in seated at 37 and will take on Hanford West this week at home. Speaking of the Hanford West girls, they split their two games last week, falling to Exeter, then taking down Kingsburg 17-8, show it should be a fun game at Sierra Pacific this Tuesday. And in volleyball action, Sierra Pacific and Hanford High both went 2-0 in their matches last week. The Golden Bears improved to 4-0 in league play after taking down Washington Union and Exeter, while the Bullpups picked up their first two league wins, beating Mount Whitney and Tulary Western. As always, if you have a score report or a team update for any team in any sport at any level, you can let us know by emailing HanfordInsider at gmail.com. I'm Eric Bentley, and this has been your Hanford Insider Sports Report.

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