Valley Home residents need to be on the lookout for vandals who have invaded our community. A report was received last week after the VH News had been submitted that our Valley Home School campus had been heavily gang tagged with the tags on the multipurpose room, portable, main building and playground equipment. Anyone seeing any gang colors or gang activity should call 911. We are told that there is also a gang hotline that can be reached. Residents should make it an effort to attend the August 18th meeting of the Valley Home MAC. Sheriff Adam Christianson will be in attendance and will answer any questions you may have concerning gang problems. Valley Home MAC meetings are held in the Valley Home School library located on the old school campus. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Be there, do not miss this meeting.
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There have also been several reports from residents residing in the Pioneer Avenue and Pleasant Valley Road area of cars and trucks speeding on both roadways and ignoring the four way stop signs. The road is still in daily use by slow moving trucks pulling horse trailers visiting the former horse hospital, currently a breeding facility. Obviously, a tragedy could occur in that area whether it is with a vehicle pulling a horse carrier or now that school has opened up for the Fall semester, it could be our school bus ferrying our students to and from school. Please help put a stop to this vehicle speeding and failing to stop at stop signs. When this is seen, write down the date and time plus the type, year and color of the vehicle. Either report the event to the sheriff’s office or bring the information to the next MAC meeting. If we all work hard at this, we can stop it!
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Results of our Valley Home 4-H entries at the Stanislaus County Fair are slow to come in this year. We have received the Fair results for the Valley Home 4-H Swine group this week. In the Market Show Class, we have Savannah Rogers receiving two 5th place awards for her entries. Nikki Truhett received a 6th place award on her entry, Chad Truhett 6th place award, Samuel Fletcher’s entry a 4th place award. Heidi Schaefle’s entry took home a 5th place as did Jenny Schaefle’s entry and Garret Bryhni’s entry.
Jenny Schaefle was awarded an 8th place award in Novice Showmanship. The Swine Group was awarded 5th place in the Chapter/Club Group.
Let’s have a big hand for the members of the 4-H group who did a super job in the Clean Barn-Swine Division and were awarded a 1st Place and a $25 cash award.
Congratulations to all of the members of the group, Valley Home is very proud of you!
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Loads of Happy Anniversary wishes from all their Valley Home friends and neighbors to Dennis and Synthia Jones.
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Celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary this week are Jean and Jim Lutz. Have a wonderful day!
