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A volunteer for the ages
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Marshall Lazar cuts and bags pastries for the United Samaritans Foundations Daily Bread Lunch program. Lazar has been a faithful volunteer for over five years. - photo by PAUL ROUPE/The Journal
For the past five and a half years, 91- year-old Marshall Lazar has been volunteering at the United Samaritans Foundation in Turlock. Monday through Friday, he pulls up in his clean white Monte Carlo, ambles up the street and into the kitchen. It’s a few minutes before 10 a.m., and for the next two hours, he’ll plant himself behind one of the rectangular steel tables and slice loaves of pound cakes and muffins—cinnamon, chocolate cran, butter pound and pumpkin streusel—into symmetrical pieces.
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The pool is open…finally
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Turlock City Councilmember Rebecka Monez, who grew up swimming in the Columbia Park pool, was a vocal proponent for the facility’s $9.1 million renovation (JOE CORTEZ/The Journal).
Councilmember Rebecka Monez and former city manager Reagan Wilson, both of whom grew up swimming in the Columbia Park pool on the city’s Westside, delivered the ceremonial “first plunge” on Saturday at the grand re-opening ceremony.
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