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☀️ Good morning! It’s Tuesday, Sept. 17. This is Rob. Expect a high of around 78 today as clouds begin crowding the Central Valley skies ahead of possible rain storms Wednesday and Thursday. The National Weather Service calls for a 50% chance of rain during the middle of the week before warmer temperatures return over the weekend.
🌮 Fresno’s first ever ‘Why Not Wednesday’ kicks off on … well, Wednesday from 5 to 9 p.m. downtown. The event comes after a controversial decision to split Fresno’s popular ArtHop event in August. The first post-food-truck ArtHop launched earlier this month and saw relatively tiny crowds. The Fresno Business Journal reported that the new Wednesday event has space for more than 150 street food vendors.
🏛️A new report from the CDC’s workplace safety division concluded the 2023 death of a poultry plant worker was preventable, saying workers lacked the necessary training and equipment to properly handle the chemical safety issues at the plan. KVPR reported that 66-year-old Jesus Salazar Castillo on May 6, 2023, passed out due to toxic fumes and fell into an “offal wastewater pit” where he drowned. A Fresno Bee investigation earlier this year reported at least four deaths at the same Sanger facility in the last eight years.
Clovis faces lawsuit threat over Latino representation in City Council elections. Will the city change?
A California attorney has threatened legal action against the City of Clovis, accusing Fresno County’s second-largest city of violating the California Voting Rights Act.
