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VALLEY HOME NEWS Valley Home residents are looking forward to an evening of good food and fun on this coming Friday night at the 2nd Annual Bunko Night sponsored by the Valley Home School PTC. We are told that tickets will be on sale for a $20 donation to Valley Home PTC at the door if there are some left, however, once they sell out, then the doors close. To make ... |
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VALLEY HOME NEWS Valley Home residents are looking forward to two evenings of fun this month starting off with the Valley Home School PTC sponsored 2nd Annual Bunko Night being held on Friday evening, March 12th. Dinner will commence at 6 p.m. in the School Multipurpose room with the game of Bunko beginning at 7 p.m. Remember that seating is limited for the fun event so interested parties should give Lisa ... |
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VALLEY HOME NEWS We have just received a message from Lisa Jones, president of Valley Home School PTC. She would like to thank everyone for their continued support, hard work and dedication for Valley Home School’s fundraisers. She states with everyone’s help the PTC has been able to provide students, teachers and staff with the essentials that our school budget lacks. With that in mind, Valley Home PTA members are approaching ... |
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Valley Home News for February 10, 2010 There is nothing like birthday festivities to brighten up an otherwise overcast Saturday afternoon! We received news from Hazel Rushman that husband, Pete’s granddaughter, Haydin Hale turned two years old on Sunday, celebrating the occasion with a party held at Chuck E. Cheese in Modesto. The birthday cake was decorated in pink and white frosting with a Cinderella theme and shared by all, with Haydin ... |
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Valley Home News for February 3, 2010 Highlighting this week’s activities for our Valley Home 4-H members was the group’s annual Valentine Box Social. The Social is always a fun filled evening as members have a great time bidding on beautifully decorated boxes and baskets brimming with tasty goodies guaranteed to tempt the palates of the bidders. There is always lots of excitement as each successful bidder opens his or her prize ... |
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Valley Home News Surveys are being taken, in the Valley Home area, as the Stanislaus County Redevelopment Agency is required by law to gather information for an implementation plan for 2010 through 2015. This information is to address conditions within designated redevelopment areas. This can include public infrastructure, facilities and deteriorating buildings to name a few. |
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Valley Home News Sharon Hofmann shares the following information on the installation of newly elected officers for St. John’s Lutheran Church. The installation will be held on Sunday, January 24th. Steve Neubaum will be taking over as President, Charles Eaton will be an Elder and Judy Bossard will be one of three Trustees. A special thank you goes to Charles Eaton for being our President for the last several years. Charles ... |
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Valley Home News Our Red Hat Queen, Bonny Bianchi reports that members of Oakdale’s Fun Lovin’ Ladies welcomed in the New Year with a meeting and lunch at Café Bravo in Oakdale on January 6th. Plans are already in the works to visit Bocelli’s Restaurant (Old Garlic House) for their second meeting of the New Year on February 3rd. Queen Bonny offers this reminder that if you need to cancel or ... |
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Valley Home News Valley Home 4-H member Jenna Heaton and Garrett and Justin Martin traveled to the Arizona National Livestock Show this past week to show their animals. We received word that all three had an exciting time and did great showing of their animals and representing our Valley Home community very well. Congratulations to all three young people! Valley Home is proud of you! |
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Valley Home News for December 30, 2009 Valley Home residents have enjoyed an exciting year of events! In January the O.H.S. Decathlon Team met at Valley Home members Evan Boggs and Ryan Burghardt’s homes, to gear up for the event with 6 hour practice sessions. Former resident Chad Burghardt joined the Navy and during training, out of 933 recruits, graduated with one of the highest honors, the Navy League Award for superior ... |
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Valley Home News for December 23, 2009 Good news has been received that the Valley Home Community Center park project is on the move forward again. Several volunteers have made themselves available for different jobs and the result is welcomed progress. The project of getting the ballard (a set of standing metal pipes surrounding an area to be protected) completed for the well was completed this past week. Volunteer Eldon Angle rode his tractor ... |
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Valley Home News for December 16, 2009 What a surprise and delight to wake up on Tuesday morning and discover a light blanket of snow on the ground here in Valley Home! Running late for an appointment in Oakdale, your reporter couldn’t stop to snap a photo, however on returning home we were delighted to find it had not all melted during our absence and were able to still capture some of ... |
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Valley Home News for December 9, 2009 The Valley Home Community Christmas Parade will take place this coming Saturday, December 12th at 5:30 p.m. The viewing stand will be located in front of the “old” School. Bundle up to fend off the evening chill and enjoy a steaming cup of hot chocolate and tasty cookies while viewing the parade. It is a lighted parade and this year will feature Mrs. Elsie Martin ... |
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Valley Home News for December 2, 2009 It is always nice to share Holiday visits enjoyed by our Valley Home residents. Hazel Rushman and family members enjoyed a combined Thanksgiving dinner and birthday party at her granddaughter Stacy and husband Tom Murphy’s home in Delhi. Hazel’s twin great, great granddaughters, Rylee Brooke-Lynn and Madison Elizabeth Murphy celebrated their first birthday. The birthday cake was frosted in pink and purple, with a candle ... |
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Valley Home News for November 25, 2009 Get your tickets now before the Christmas Tree Gala arrives on December 4th by calling Jenny at 847-4079. Make this a night to remember with an opportunity to win a fully decorated tree that will include the gifts placed underneath it. To order your tickets for this fun fundraiser just give Jenny a call to reserve your place at the function, which is being held ... |
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Valley Home News for November 18, 2009 Word is the Pancake Breakfast on Saturday was a hit! A special thank you to our helpers who braved the early morning chill to arrive at the multipurpose building between 4-6 a.m. to get everything started for a great morning for our Valley Home P.T.C. sponsored 1st annual “Double Barrel Pancake Breakfast.” |
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Valley Home News for November 11, 2009 Valley Home PTC president Lisa Jones reminds us that “We are pre-selling Pancake Breakfast tickets children up to 12 are $3 and adults are $6. This breakfast is going to be great: pancakes, sausage and bacon, eggs, milk, juice, water and coffee. Saturday, November 14th 6-11 a.m. Don’t miss out and get your tickets today!” What a nice way to start the day!
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Valley Home News for November 4, 2009 Valley Home PTC members would like to say “Thank You” to their numerous donors, businesses and families that helped to make our Annual Harvest Festival such a fun place to be! We appreciate all the hard work that many individuals and families put forth to make it turn out so nice! |
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Valley Home News for October 28, 2009 There were lots of happy smiles to be seen on the faces of those attending the PTC sponsored Harvest Festival held at the Valley Home School Pioneer Ave campus on Saturday evening. The parking lot at the school featured a 4-H Petting Zoo and lots of fun activity booths manned by the students. Inside the multipurpose room were tables decorated with fall foliage where family ... |
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Valley Home News for October 21, 2009 Get set for a wonderful afternoon and evening of Halloween fun and good food. Our Valley Home Harvest Festival is here! Saturday, October 24th from 3-7 p.m. in the gym at the Valley Home Pioneer Avenue Campus…12321 Pioneer Avenue and all are welcome. Plan to participate in various games offering fun prizes to be won! This year we will have a penny pitch, bring other ... |
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Valley Home News for October 14, 2009 A Memorial service was held on October 7th at the River Oak Church in Oakdale for Ed Tribby. Ed actively served the Oakdale community as an Equipment Operator for Oakdale City Public Works. He spent countless hours helping his Valley Home friends and neighbors, and his church develop and build construction projects locally. Ed was involved in work to save the old Valley Home Community ... |
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Valley Home News for October 7, 2009 We are saddened to announce the sudden passing of friend and neighbor, Ed Tribby. Ed will be deeply missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing and working with him. Ed was the chairman of the group of residents who worked so hard to try and save the old Valley Home Community Center and when that proved impossible, he worked hard to overcome County ... |
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Valley Home News for September 30, 2009 It was great to see so many Valley Home residents attending the O.I.D. “A Century of Service Celebration” held at the Gene Bianchi Community Center on Saturday. A large crowd turned out to attend the event and luncheon, which was followed by an introduction of speakers who congratulated O.I.D. on its many years of service to the community and the important role that O.I.D. has ... |
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Valley Home News for September 23, 2009 Valley Home members of the Oak Valley Art Society traveled to Escalon on Saturday to enjoy a very informative program by Robert Shatswell of Crownshield Photography in Oakdale on the use of digital cameras for capturing art subjects and the basics to be able to make use of our camera’s full potential. Members were invited to bring their own cameras to the meeting and were ... |
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Valley Home News for September 16, 2009 Mike Burghardt and son, Jeff spent the last week enjoying a fun filled trip to Indianapolis to attend the NHRA Funny Car Races and watch their friend, John Force, his daughter, Ashley and John’s son-in-law, Robert compete in the races. The trip was also a first airplane ride for Jeff. The trip began with a mix-up in seating for Mike and Jeff, both of whom ... |
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Valley Home News for September 8, 2009 We have received word that Valley Home 4-H sign-ups will be held later this month for new members, the exact date yet to be decided. This year the club is again being led by President Carly Thomason. Club officers held their first meeting last week and are very excited about plans for the coming year. One of the exciting items discussed was a community service ... |
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Valley Home News for September 2, 2009 Sharon Hofmann sends this message to share the information that St. John’s Church is starting up their Sunday School Program on Sunday, September 6th. Adult Bible Study and Sunday School will start at 9 a.m., and will be followed by the regular Church service at 10 a.m. |
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Valley Home News for August 26, 2009 Sounds like an evening filled with fun is in the works for Valley Home residents! Valley Home School PTC members are busy working on plans for Back-2-School Graffiti Night Kick-off 2009. The fun and festivities are scheduled for this coming Friday night, August 28, starting at 6:30 p.m. Yum! Word is there will be free root beer floats for all to cool down with on a “Hot August Night.” PTC members invite everyone to come ... |
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Valley Home News for August 19, 2009 Valley Home residents need to be on the alert! We have just received word that a U-Haul truck has been seen in the area and witnesses have seen its occupants break into cars and steal the contents. It was seen on Pioneer Avenue close to the schools. ***** Jenna Heaton was overheard at the Fair giving much praise to friend, Travis Kent. Travis is a great showman and helped Jenna show her meat goat at the fair, ... |
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Valley Home News for August 12, 2009 Our young County Fair entrants are enjoying a well-earned rest following the close of the fair activities. We received information that Savannah Rogers and Nikki Truhett rode their horses and competed in the fair Gymkhana and did very well in their events. We heard that both young people spent last week showing their swine.Gunter Brisi won advanced showmanship in the meat goat class for 4-H and went on to compete against the other 4-H and ... |
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Valley Home News for August 05, 2009 Members of the Oakdale Garden Club are the first group to answer the request by members of the Valley Home Community Center Board of Directors, for help in planting trees at the new Valley Home Community Park. Following a discussion of what type of tree to plant, member, Rosalie Osman made a motion for members to plant four types of Oak trees, which would include the local native Oak. The club’s donation will help call ... |
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Valley Home News for July 29, 2009 We have just received this welcome news concerning Richard Mullins from his daughter, Tena. Tena, and her family, would like to offer “a very heartfelt thank you to everyone who has helped, and offered word of comfort and prayers during our Dad’s illness…he is doing much better and is home now. Thank you! Thank you! And a special thank you to our wonderful firemen and paramedics, who have taken such good care whenever they have ... |
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Valley Home News for July 22, 2009 The temperature this last week in our community has been warm, especially the first part of the week up to news submission time. The report given to us was at least six days over 100 degrees. We know that this is the San Joaquin Valley and this is July and put those two together and what you get is hot weather but we have been spoiled a bit in early July with a small reduction ... |
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Valley Home News for July 15, 2009 We have received a news item from “Mohawk” the Valley Home School mascot who writes: I hope that everyone is enjoying their summer break and getting to have some fun with friends and family. The Valley Home Parents Teacher Club (PTC) would like to invite you to a summer meeting on Tuesday, July 21st at 6:30 p.m. in the Gym on the Pioneer Avenue campus. Discussion on the upcoming year’s calendar of events will be the main topic. |
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Valley Home News for July 8, 2009 It was reminiscent of the many good times enjoyed by residents of Valley Home/Thalheim in days past as friends and neighbors celebrated an old fashioned Fourth of July. There were lots of oohs and aahs as friends and relatives of Joe and Linda Perez enjoyed a special fireworks display on the front lawn of the couple’s home on Pleasant Valley Road. Guests enjoyed servings of ice cream and apple pie during the dazzling display. Special ... |
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Valley Home News for July 1, 2009 Have you seen it? Seen what? The picnic table pavilion on the Valley Home Community Center Park site. Yes, it has happened. The park construction has started again and is moving along nicely. Next group of things to get accomplished is the laying of the cement for the pavilion floor, the sidewalks and other miscellaneous pads, the installation of the sprinkler system, the electric wiring, and then on to the next group. Now is the ... |
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Valley Home News for June 24, 2009 It is always nice to catch up on the activities of our young people that we have written about in the Valley Home News over the years. We received word from proud Grandmother, Shirley Butler, that granddaughter, Molly Smith graduated from California State University on June 14th. Molly graduated cum laude and honors, with a Bachelor in Political Science. Attending the ceremony were Molly’s husband, Robert Smith, Molly’s parents, Cheryl Morehead and Claus Bergstrom, and ... |
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Valley Home News For June 17, 2009 This week’s news starts with the report of an incident that happened at the Valley Home School on Sunday, June 7. At about 2:30 p.m. a young boy was riding his bicycle in the area when a man in a white truck jumped out of the truck and assaulted the boy, shoving him to the ground, and stole his bicycle. The bicycle was put it into the back of the truck and the man drove off. |
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VALLEY HOME NEWS By LAURA BURGHARDT Valley Home 4-H members celebrated their final meeting of the year on Tuesday, June 2, with their traditional “end of the year” barbecue! The group met at the Valley Home School old campus, with the Club providing hot dogs and the members bringing either a dessert or side dish. The food was great and there was lots of fun all around. There is excitement in the air as members are beginning to get ready now for the fair this summer. |
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