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New cherry packing facility now hiring
cherry farm
Meena Farms, which has grown to 800 acres of cherry trees, is opening a state-of-the-art cherry packing facility and is seeking 250 to 300 workers (Photo contributed).
Twenty-eight years ago when the Iyer family purchased a charry farm on the outskirts of Gustine, they did it with the vision that they could cultivate the 20-acres into a successful operation.
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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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