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☀️ Good morning! Danielle here, filling in for Rob. Today is Tuesday, September 24. If you’re one to embrace micro-seasons – and I am – then last week’s Fake Fall has made this week’s Second Summer all too unsurprising. The National Weather Service in Hanford is expecting highs to be in the upper 90s for the rest of the week.
💃🏽 When I first moved back to Fresno, Spokeasy quickly became one of my favorite haunts. (Before I became a soccer mom, that is.) So I was heartbroken, along with so many others, to hear about the fire that shut down the beloved Tower District bar, along with Labyrinth Art Collective, last week. But good news – lots of local businesses are hosting fundraisers to support the Van Ness Villagers. Check out the benefit concert at Sour Milk this Saturday, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., or the Moto x Ampersand Beer Float collab this Sunday at Ampersand’s Echo location from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
🏛️ Congratulations to Fresno Unified’s Design Science Middle College High School for earning the Blue Ribbon School designation from the U.S. Department of Education. Just 33 schools were chosen in California for the prestigious honor, awarded to schools who close achievement and opportunity gaps and set high academic standards.
How the 2×2 sect silenced Central Valley sexual abuse survivors and their fight for justice across the globe
A global initiative, with roots in the Central Valley, aims to secure justice for hundreds of sexual assault survivors whose abuse was ignored for decades by a nameless religious sect known as The Truth or 2x2S.
Retired Fresno Superior Court Judge indicted on sexual assault charges
Adolfo Corona, a retired Fresno County Superior Court Judge, was indicted on sexual assault charges by a grand jury on Sep. 23.
