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Business Forecast: Valley is in an economic recession
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The most concerning economic indicator to watch, according to the San Joaquin Valley Business Forecast is the 30-year fixed interest rate, which began to display the steepest increase ever seen in the series.
Rising rates are having a disproportionate effect on the San Joaquin Valley economy, according to the newest Valley Business Forecast report produced by Gökçe Soydemir, the Foster Farms endowed professor of business economics at Stanislaus State.
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Remembering a ‘fierce defender of freedom’
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During a Memorial Day ceremony held on Monday at Turlock Memorial Park, Marsha Gonsalves, with the support of her husband Larry, shares memories of their son, Sgt. 1st Class Chad Gonsalves, who died on Feb. 13, 2006, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee north of Deh Rawod in central Afghanistan (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).
Every Memorial Day, locals put on their red, white and blue attire, maybe don a red poppy in remembrance of the fallen, and make their way to Turlock Memorial Park cemetery.
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