Please mark your calendar for Saturday October 27th! Our Valley Home Fall Harvest Festival will go from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Excitement abounds, Carnival Games, Pumpkin Patch, Harvest Sweets, including Mrs. Mattos famous Portuguese Sweet Bread! There will be delicious melt in your mouth sugar cookies, candy apples, pumpkin pie, and oh so much more. Our Harvest kitchen will be serving tasty tri tip sandwiches, seasoned and cooked perfectly by our own Harvest “Chef” Mr. Glenn Rathbun! An abundance of delicious menu items will be available all evening. Come and enjoy! There will be sno-cones, cotton candy, and hot buttery popcorn. The Haunted Hayride will take you on a ride with tons of thrills and chills! Mylar Balloons and a musical cake walk will bring the school gym to life. Scarecrow contests, pumpkin carving, pumpkin decorating, pie eating contest and a milk challenge will welcome contestants early in the evening. Once again the obstacle course will welcome visitors. There will be many, many exciting items to bid on at our silent auction, special thanks to those who have donated! If anybody has anything they would like to donate, please contact Betty Sphar by leaving a message at 209-847-0117. Your donations no matter how big or small are greatly appreciated and will help our school tremendously. Our students will be preparing class baskets again this year for auction. Class themes are exciting with great items up for bid! More to come on contents of each class basket. Fire, Sheriff, and CHP will be visiting during the evening. More on the Harvest Festival in next week’s column. Hope you all come and enjoy this special evening in Valley Home!
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A very special day in the mountains! An amazing group of friends and family gathered together for the wedding of Miss Nikki Dutra and Mr. Cody Fleischer on Saturday October 6th. Congratulations to Cody and Nikki, may your married life be filled forever with love and much happiness!
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It was an exciting weekend for Kassidy Fmura. Kassidy who is a Sea Cadet was part of Fleet Week in the Bay! Kassidy’s parents Melissa and Alan Fmura traveled to the Bay Area to enjoy Fleet Week also. Melissa and Alan weren’t sure if they would get to see Kassidy, but were excited when they not only got to visit with her, but were also invited to view the Blue Angels performance from the water! After boarding the ferry, with blue skies overhead and a sparkling bay surrounding them, they were treated to an amazing performance by the Blue Angels! Alan said it was a day he would never forget.
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Please come out and support your Valley Home School volleyball and football teams this Friday. Valley Home will play Shiloh at Valley Home! Go Hawks!
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Today Wednesday Oct. 10th is our MAC meeting. Please bring any community concerns or questions. County Officials, along with School, Fire, Sheriff, and CHP are usually in attendance and are happy to answer your questions! The meeting will start at 6:30pm at Valley Home School.
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Please remember tomorrow, Thursday our Fire Board will meet at 10am at the Valley Home Station, all are welcome!
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As always you may reach me by email at winniemullins51@gmail.com. Until next time, “Happy Trails to All!”
