This week\u2019s Citizens Academy met at the City of Madera Police Department to get an inside look at what it takes for Madera PD to make sure the city stays safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the presentation led by Chief Gino Chiaramonte and Commander Josiah Arnold, Citizens Academy class members learned about the ins and outs of the Madera Police Department. The presentation started with the department\u2019s mission, which is to be devoted to family and community through superior service and partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur one goal is to reduce crime, but it\u2019s how you reduce crime,\u201d Chiaramonte explained. \u201cIt\u2019s how you treat them while you\u2019re reducing crime. We want to treat them with dignity and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Madera Police Department is made up of 114 employees, including 76 police officers, 38 professional staff members, and three dogs. There are three divisions that the chief of police and each of the commanders oversee: Operations, Investigations and Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Operations Division consists of patrol officers, the traffic unit and school resource officers. The Investigations Division consists of investigations, detectives, the Special Investigation Unit and code enforcement. Lastly, the Administration Division handles dispatch, records, property, evidence and animal control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chief Chiaramonte explained that a lot of his job consists of community relations and the department\u2019s public-facing operations. He can be seen at City Council meetings, town halls, working alongside the school district and participating in other public duties. Meanwhile, the second-in-command oversees the internal daily operations of the police department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One notable topic Chief Chiaramonte discussed was how crime has drastically decreased in the community. Throughout the last three years, violent crime, consisting of homicide, robbery, rape, domestic violence and assault, went down 8.7 percent. Property crime, consisting of vehicle theft, burglary, larceny, petty theft and retail theft, went down 31.2 percent,. Lastly, overall crime went down 9 percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen we look at social media and how people communicate, our brains immediately go negative,\u201d Chiaramonte said. \u201cBut, our community is doing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A big contributor to the decrease in crime is the increase in police proactivity, more officers patrolling the community, the removal of firearms from the streets, special investigations targeting gang activity and community partnerships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chief Chiaramonte broke down statistics from 2025, noting that there were a total of 65,715 events throughout the year. This included 2,049 welfare checks, 1,680 burglar alarms, 1,686 stray animal calls, 3,111 requests for non-emergency assistance, 73 dog bites, 719 cases handled by detectives and 247 driving under the influence arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also mentioned that many calls are simply people asking officers to check on family members, missing people or intoxicated homeless who need to be checked on to make sure they are doing well. Of all burglar alarms, about 95 percent to 99 percent of calls are false alarms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have this slogan throughout our community that no call is too small,\u201d Chiaramonte said. \u201cWe try to handle and solve a lot of our communities problems, even though they may not be criminal in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the budget portion of the presentation, Chief Chiaramonte explained that the entire police department has a budget of $18.87 million, which is split between the General Fund and Measure K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the $18.87 million, $4.8 million goes toward operations, which covers cars, radios, guns, PG&E and other necessities to help the department running. The remaining $14.2 million covers personnel, with $7.4 million going toward staff salaries and $6.9 million covering benefits such as health care and retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When it comes to school resource officers, Madera Unified School District fully funds all three officers who are assigned to school sites. The Madera Housing Authority also funds an additional officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Madera Police Department patrols the city in four different areas, with four different patrol shifts running at any given time. The four areas consist of Beat 1, Southwest Madera; Beat 2, Northeast Madera; Beat 3, Northwest Madera; and Beat 4, Southwest Madera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers are assigned to the same beat for six-month periods to allow them to become familiar with the neighborhoods and communities they serve. Their schedules are split into four shifts weekday days, weekday nights, weekend days and weekend nights, with shifts lasting anywhere from 12 to 16 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2025, officers made 5,594 arrests, conducted 11,056 traffic stops and responded to 29,170 self-initiated calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The traffic division focuses on four areas school zones, speeding, impaired driving and right-of-way cases. In 2025, the division responded to 567 collisions, including four fatal collisions, issued 3,517 traffic citations and made 247 driving under the influence arrests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The City of Madera is unique in the sense that it operates its own dispatch center. The dispatch team consists of a supervisor and 11 dispatchers. At any given time, there are at least two dispatchers working each shift, with one taking calls and the other relaying information to officers so they can do their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madera\u2019s dispatch center handles all calls within the city\u2019s jurisdiction, covering police as well as medical and fire services. Medical calls are forwarded to American Ambulance, while fire calls go to Cal Fire. Dispatchers are also responsible for handling calls involving officers, code enforcement and animal control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur role is pretty important because there\u2019s a whole lot of trust that our officers have in us to ask important questions, collect important information and provide that information to them over the radio so that the responding units can go into a situation, a call for service, knowing, hey, this is essentially kind of what\u2019s going on,\u201d a Madera PD dispatcher explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Investigations Division handled 719 cases in 2025. The unit is staffed by one sergeant and six detectives, with each detective covering a primary focus, such as violent crime, sex crimes, crimes against children and the elderly, property crime and fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Special Investigation Unit is a multi-jurisdictional team that works with the Madera County Sheriff\u2019s Department, Chowchilla Police Department, Probation Department and District Attorney\u2019s Office. The team focuses on drug sales, illegal firearm sales, prostitution and other vice-related offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last topic covered in the presentation was animal control. In 2025, the department answered 4,211 calls for service. Of those calls, 1,683 were for stray animals, 851 for deceased animals, 417 for injured animals and 73 for dog bites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the Madera Police Department wants to respond to each call involving stray animals, the locations where officers take the animals are currently full. The Madera Animal Shelter is also at full capacity, limiting its ability to take in additional stray dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have the staffing and capability of catching every stray animal, but we don\u2019t have a location for them,\u201d Chief Chiaramonte explained. \u201cAll of our volunteers that take one and house these animals outside of the shelter are all done, they\u2019re hands up saying, \u2018we are full.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final Citizen\u2019s Academy will be held next week, and cover engineering and future projects to come to Madera.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week\u2019s Citizens Academy met at the City of Madera Police Department to get an inside look at what it takes for Madera PD to make sure the city stays safe. During the presentation led by Chief Gino Chiaramonte and Commander Josiah Arnold, Citizens Academy class members learned about the ins and outs of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":50430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19],"tags":[43,46],"class_list":["post-50448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-news","tag-law","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50449,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50448\/revisions\/50449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50446,"date":"2026-11-14T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50446"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:43:38","slug":"rec-department-to-host-youth-coed-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/rec-department-to-host-youth-coed-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Rec department to host youth coed league"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Madera Parks and Community Services Department will host a coed youth basketball league, beginning Jan. 9, 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will be three different leagues \u2014 1st and 2nd grade; 3rd and 4th grade; 5th and 6th grade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The season will be seven games long, and will be held on a week night and Saturday mornings. Practices will be held during the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Head and assistant coaches are needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fee to play is $75, and the deadline to register is November 22 at madera.gov\/register. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For information, call (559) 661-5495 or email parksinfo@madera.gov.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Madera Parks and Community Services Department will host a coed youth basketball league, beginning Jan. 9, 2027. There will be three different leagues \u2014 1st and 2nd grade; 3rd and 4th grade; 5th and 6th grade. The season will be seven games long, and will be held on a week night and Saturday mornings. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[29,46],"class_list":["post-50446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-community","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50447,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50446\/revisions\/50447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50444,"date":"2026-11-14T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50444"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:39:54","slug":"letters-thanksgiving-history-more-than-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-thanksgiving-history-more-than-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Thanksgiving history more than turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"
I love Thanksgiving because it brings families together. Yet, as someone who also loves history, I\u2019m troubled by how the holiday\u2019s familiar myth replaces a complicated past with a comforting national story. It recalls the newspaper editor\u2019s observation at the end of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: \u201cWhen the legend becomes fact, print the legend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The national Thanksgiving observances proclaimed by President George Washington in 1789 and President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 did not commemorate English Pilgrims and Native Wampanoag people awkwardly sharing a meal in 1621. Lincoln\u2019s National Day of Thanksgiving called for prayer for the nation\u2019s survival and for healing from the Civil War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The largely fabricated \u2014 though partly true \u2014 story of the 1621 gathering became a marketing tool in the late nineteenth century to mitigate the racist government attacks on Native American culture. The reassuring origin story of a shared meal obscured the Wampanoag experience, and the similar experiences of other tribes of distrust, broken promises, warfare, colonization, and devastating European diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But that uneasy 1621 shared meal strangely led into the events of March 5, 1770 \u2014 what Paul Revere and Samuel Adams would call the Boston Massacre. Crispus Attucks, a Boston whaler of African and Native ancestry, was the first American killed by British troops when they shot into a crowd of rowdy Boston colonists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attucks was of Wampanoag ancestry \u2014 the same Native nation that fed the English immigrants during the first \u201cThanksgiving\u201d story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
John Adams \u2014 future Founding Father and second president of the United States \u2014 successfully defended most of the British soldiers charged with the Boston Massacre shootings. Adams, a prominent Boston lawyer, disparaged the Boston crowd as \u201ca motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattos, Irish Teagues and outlandish Jack Tarrs.\u201d He singled out Attucks as someone who had \u201cundertaken to be the hero of the night\u201d and whose \u201cmad behavior,\u201d Adams argued, helped provoke the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alas, the courtroom was not the only place where John Adams faced a consequential dispute. In March 1776, his outspoken wife, Abigail, wrote and urged him to \u201cremember the ladies\u201d as he worked in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Hancock, and other Founding Fathers to declare independence from England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abigail objected to husbands exercising \u201cunlimited power\u201d and argued that women should not be subjected to laws in which they had \u201cno voice, or representation.\u201d John dismissed her argument. He wrote that he \u201ccould not but laugh\u201d at her proposed \u201cextraordinary code of laws\u201d and joked that men would never submit to the \u201cdespotism of the petticoat.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They apparently did not take their arguments to bed with them. Our sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was their son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each Thanksgiving, my family shares what we\u2019re thankful for. Personally, I\u2019m grateful for the American freedom to seek truth beyond cherished myths. I\u2019ll have a second helping of that, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Chuck Wieland,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Madera<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love Thanksgiving because it brings families together. Yet, as someone who also loves history, I\u2019m troubled by how the holiday\u2019s familiar myth replaces a complicated past with a comforting national story. It recalls the newspaper editor\u2019s observation at the end of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: \u201cWhen the legend becomes fact, print the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-50444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-opinion","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50445,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444\/revisions\/50445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50439,"date":"2026-11-14T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50439"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:36:54","slug":"opinion-the-five-ds-of-screen-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-the-five-ds-of-screen-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The five Ds of screen time"},"content":{"rendered":" Screens. Back in the day, if we said that kids were spending too much time in front of the screen, we meant the \u201cboob tube,\u201d the derisive sobriquet for television. Now \u201cscreens\u201d can mean the computer, cell phone, or \u2014 even after decades of reality TV and other trash \u2014 television. This past summer, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published an advisory from the office of the Surgeon General regarding the harm of too much screen use, especially among our children and teens.<\/p>\n\n According to the report, \u201cAs the Nation\u2019s Doctor, the Surgeon General provides Americans with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and reduce their risk of illness and injury.\u201d In the past, these advisories prompted us to quit smoking, reduce our calorie intake, and consume alcohol in moderation. The most recent advisory warns us that \u201cearly exposure to screens carries developmental and cognitive risks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Too much screen time for young children may lead to both educational and health problems. For teens, there are behavioral issues, especially related to the use of social media. The Surgeon General\u2019s data indicate that the harm created during adolescence may have \u201cimpacts that extend beyond childhood.\u201d And although studies have concentrated mostly on the young, too much early screen exposure can manifest dysfunctions at every stage of life. The advisory states that screen-time exposure can \u201cdisrupt sleep, which is fundamental to learning, mood, behavior, physical health, and overall development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Some of these concerns were expressed decades ago with regard to television, but it is the extent of harm that has increased exponentially over the years and as new technology has provided more means of exposure. Whereas for most people television was a stationary source of entertainment, today most of us carry a screen in our pockets. Modern screens are an ever-present source of distraction, and they are taking their toll on all of us.<\/p>\n\n The Surgeon General\u2019s report contains \u201cFive Ds\u201d for dealing with screen time: Discuss, Do, Delay, Divert, and Disconnect. These are strategies that caregivers can use to help limit the amount of time that children spend glued to a screen.<\/p>\n\n Discuss:<\/strong> Set household goals and then develop parental controls to enforce them. Decide on reasonable expectations that apply to all household members. Then hold discussions with youths about what they are watching, how they feel about what they are seeing, and what they are learning from the experience.<\/p>\n\n Do:<\/strong> Become models for the young people in the household. Make the expectations the kind that are \u201cdo as I do,\u201d not \u201cdo as I say.\u201d Try to spend time viewing screens together.<\/p>\n\n Delay:<\/strong> Don\u2019t just plant infants and toddlers in front the TV or any other screen while you have more important things to do. The Surgeon General\u2019s report advises, \u201cDelay screen time from the earliest age as long as possible and then establish and normalize age-appropriate limits on time and content\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Divert:<\/strong> It\u2019s easy for children to turn to a screen when they are bored. Try to provide alternatives, especially physical activity or reading age-appropriate books.<\/p>\n\n Disconnect:<\/strong> Create \u201cscreen-free times\u201d when everyone disconnects from electronic devices. Mealtime is a good example, when the family sits down together to talk about events of the day while consuming the meal.<\/p>\n\n Gregory Hahn, Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital, is seeing more neck and back pains among children than he has seen in his twenty years as a surgeon. He says, \u201cWe are constantly surrounded by technology and even infants are being exposed to digital media.\u201d The nature of the media and how we watch it is changing our posture, and that is having a deleterious effect on our general health.<\/p>\n\n \u201cWhen you walk around now, you notice that nobody\u2019s actually looking straight ahead and making eye contact.\u201d Hahn worries that everyone is \u201clooking down at their phone.\u201d Now people are developing the same neck problems that have plagued surgeons who must spend hours \u201clooking down\u201d while in the process of performing operations. He cautions, \u201c\u2026 I suspect that technology is likely creating the same problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Additionally, teens have a habit of \u201csitting on the bed or floor working on tablets or laptops for hours at a time.\u201d He says that this results in a \u201chunched posture with no support for the back\u201d and it may result the neck being flexed in an unnatural position. He believes that such habits are hard to break and may result in permanent damage.<\/p>\n\n Jennifer Katzenstein, Ph.D. is director of psychology and neuropsychology at Johns Hopkins. She says that excessive screen time \u201ccan definitely take a toll on children\u2019s mental health\u2026\u201d She cites staggering statistics, like \u201cbabies as young as four months old are being exposed to digital media,\u201d \u201c75 percent of teens have smartphones,\u201d and \u201cTeens send a median of 100 texts a day.\u201d She says that many teens experience withdrawal symptoms when they are prevented from using their social media.<\/p>\n\n She urges parents to set time limits on the use of digital media. Put screens away during homework, meal time, and at least one hour before bedtime. And find a \u201chappy medium\u201d for the use of screens. She\u2019s found that \u201ctoo much screen time and too little screen time leads to higher levels of depression.\u201d She also says that parents should know every app to which their children have access, exactly how it works, and whom they follow.<\/p>\n\n Finally, she believes that young people should only follow people whom they know. She warns, \u201cWhen we follow people we don\u2019t know, we start to think people look like this or live like this and we feel inferior in some way.\u201d The reality of the lives of celebrities, movie stars, musicians, and so forth are \u201cengineered\u201d for public consumption and are not typical of real life. \u201cFor parents,\u201d Katzenstein says, \u201cit\u2019s all about a higher level of monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n \u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n\n Jim Glynn es Profesor Em\u00e9rito de Sociolog\u00eda. Se le puede contactar en j_glynn@att.net.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Screens. Back in the day, if we said that kids were spending too much time in front of the screen, we meant the \u201cboob tube,\u201d the derisive sobriquet for television. Now \u201cscreens\u201d can mean the computer, cell phone, or \u2014 even after decades of reality TV and other trash \u2014 television. This past summer, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[32,40,51,52,54],"class_list":["post-50439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-culture","tag-health","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50443,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50439\/revisions\/50443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50437,"date":"2026-11-14T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50437"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:30:33","slug":"whats-bugging-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/whats-bugging-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s bugging you?"},"content":{"rendered":" Fall is finally here and life may look like it is slowing down in your garden, however lots of pests are busy preparing to wreak havoc. A watchful eye and a little work now will keep your fall garden healthy and even provide some help for next spring\u2019s plantings. The seven most notorious fall pests that are waiting to snack on your hard work include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Aphids are tiny green or black pesky suckers that multiply fast. One day your broccoli and mustard greens look flawless, and the next they\u2019re sticky, curled and covered in these pests. Catching them early and evicting them with a strong spray of water is key to controlling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Cabbage Loopers are light green caterpillars that eat irregular holes in leaves and blend in perfectly with the leaves of brassicas like kale and collards. Check the undersides of leaves often and handpick to control or spray with BT (bacillus thuringiensis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Slugs and snails hide under mulch, rocks and pots during the day, then slither out at night to feast on tender greens. Beer traps, crushed eggshells or early morning handpicking can control them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Cutworms are fat grayish caterpillars that hide in the soil during the day and sneak out at night to \u201ccut down\u201d tender plants. To stop them, try collars made of cardboard around seedlings or tilling the soil to disturb their hiding spots before planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Spider mites are tiny pests that suck nutrients out of plants and leave behind fine webbing and yellowing leaves. Neem oil can control them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Whiteflies thrive in the warm start of fall and feed on plant sap. Disturb your pea plants and if a tiny white cloud flutters up, you\u2019ve got whiteflies. Yellow sticky traps or insecticidal soap are your best bet to control them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Root maggots are tiny white larvae that attack the roots of vegetables like turnips, radishes and carrots. They prefer cool, moist soil, making fall their prime season to thrive. Floating row covers and crop rotation can be effective in controlling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check your plants regularly and act fast when you spot trouble so you can enjoy your garden well into the season without sharing it with every creepy crawler in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An excellent and comprehensive reference to identify and manage pests in gardens and landscapes can be found at: https\/\/ipm.ucanr.edu\/home-and-landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have further questions about the bugs in your garden, stop by the Three Sisters Garden, located behind Madera Community College, 30277 Ave. 12, Madera any Tuesday morning when Master Gardeners are there to answer your questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy Fall Gardening!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall is finally here and life may look like it is slowing down in your garden, however lots of pests are busy preparing to wreak havoc. A watchful eye and a little work now will keep your fall garden healthy and even provide some help for next spring\u2019s plantings. 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It may or may not ever come, but what if it does come, and you have no plans for it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m generally a saver and not a spender, but I do love being generous. I don\u2019t care that I\u2019m not wealthy, but I don\u2019t want someone else to have to pay for me to live. I think there are too many folks out there who don\u2019t care that someone else is picking up the tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all need to be responsible in our lives, because whatever we do can affect not only ourselves, but other people. As a child, I was a bit carefree. I learned later to be more responsible with both my spending and in my consideration of others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have to say that I have never been a worrier, or as my dad would say, a \u201chand-wringer.\u201d I\u2019m not the worst-case scenario type of person. In fact, I don\u2019t usually think about what could happen if\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, \u201cTherefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.\u201d (Matthew 6:34)<\/p>\n\n\n\n BINGO! I don\u2019t worry about tomorrow, but I do try to prepare for it. Well, most times I do, because I\u2019m also a big procrastinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each day has concerns, but I am thankful I can take my concerns to One who will listen. When I do have issues I cannot control, or that I do not know how to handle, I do what I call \u201cRelaxing in the Lord.\u201d It means I can take it to someone who will remove the burden from me, and will give me rest from the worry of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My faith has given me much rest over the years, and prayer gives me the release I need to prevent me from worry. I am thankful for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jeremiah 29, verses 11-13 gives us direction and comfort from worry. \u201cFor I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the Lord, \u201cPlans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is true that we have no promise of tomorrow, this side of heaven, but we can know that each day we are blessed beyond measure, and we can know God is with us. If we need to release a burden, he is listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n May God give you comfort and a peace that passes all understanding, and may he continue to bless you beyond measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enjoy your November, a time of great thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Que tengas un excelente fin de semana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Mi amor para todos,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nancy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Salmo 37:4<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve heard it said we should live every day to the fullest, for no one knows what tomorrow really brings. That said, we all need to plan for tomorrow. It may or may not ever come, but what if it does come, and you have no plans for it? I\u2019m generally a saver and not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-50435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50436,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50435\/revisions\/50436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50433,"date":"2026-11-14T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50433"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:28:01","slug":"decathletes-visit-for-lecture-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/decathletes-visit-for-lecture-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Decathletes visit for Lecture Day"},"content":{"rendered":" Nearly 500 Academic Decathletes from throughout California joined Madera County\u2019s high school competitors in Madera for the 20th annual Academic Decathlon Lecture Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Valley experts lectured on five subject areas pertaining to this year\u2019s Decathlon topic, \u201cJourneys of Transformation: An Exploration of Travel and Transportation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were pleased to welcome decathletes from across California to Madera County for a day of learning and connection,\u201d said Tricia Protzman, Madera County Superintendent of Schools. \u201cLecture Day gave students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of this year\u2019s topics, build connections with their teammates, and meet fellow decathletes from schools throughout the state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Decathletes attended four out of the five sessions throughout the day. Sessions included: Travel and Transportation in Art, presented by Susana Sosa, Fresno City College professor; Literature, Remains of the Day, presented by Tiffiny Remmer, from the Fresno County Library; Travel and Transportation in Music, presented by Dr. Harmony Murphy, Madera Community College professor; An Introduction to Human Geography and Migration, presented by Joe Casarez, Madera County Superintendent of Schools director; and Speech, presented by Mike Nelson, Madera Community College professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The lectures were held at Movies Madera. Each speaker lectured in a theater and students moved to the different theaters. Each expert lectured for at least two 50-minute sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Movies Madera owner Bob Gran donated the theater for the event. The event is sponsored by Madera County Schools Foundation and Madera County Superintendent of Schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are grateful to Mr. Gran, and the entire staff at Movies Madera, for making the theater available for Lecture Day and working so hard to ensure students had a positive experience,\u201d said Protzman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each session was geared toward the topics and areas of study for the 2027 Academic Decathlon. Decathletes will be tested in the areas of art, economics, language and literature, math, music, science, and social science. They will also write an essay, deliver a speech, and participate in an interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This year Madera County will have seven schools participate: Chowchilla Union High School, Glacier High School Charter, Liberty High School, Madera High School, Madera South High School, Matilda Torres High School, and for the first time, Sherman Thomas High School Charter. The competition will be held on Jan. 30, 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the Academic Decathlon and ways to get involved, contact Kristi Winter, events coordinator for Madera County Superintendent of Schools at (559) 662-3873.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly 500 Academic Decathletes from throughout California joined Madera County\u2019s high school competitors in Madera for the 20th annual Academic Decathlon Lecture Day. Valley experts lectured on five subject areas pertaining to this year\u2019s Decathlon topic, \u201cJourneys of Transformation: An Exploration of Travel and Transportation.\u201d \u201cWe were pleased to welcome decathletes from across California to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[46,50],"class_list":["post-50433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-organizations","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50434,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50433\/revisions\/50434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50431,"date":"2026-11-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50431"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T03:26:53","slug":"war-memories-from-the-city-of-madera-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/war-memories-from-the-city-of-madera-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"War memories from the \u2018City of Madera\u2019 pilot"},"content":{"rendered":" On April 6, 2004, I wrote about a couple of Navy pilots who flew combat missions over North Vietnam in an A4C Skyhawk that had been christened \u201cCity of Madera.\u201d Their names were Lt. Hugh Magee and Lt. Bill Rezek. The men were from Lemoore Naval Air Station\u2019s Attack Squadron 146, better known as the \u201cBlue Diamonds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Magee, who retired from the Navy as a Commander and is now in his late 70s. He doesn\u2019t know how it happened, but he accidentally logged onto an archive that carried my 2004 Pieces of the Past article, and when he saw the photograph that went with it, he said to himself, \u201cHey, that\u2019s us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CDR. Magee called the Tribune and got my email address and sent the following message:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHello Mr. Coate,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am retired Navy Commander Hugh Magee, formerly of VA-146 at NAS Lemoore. I recently came across an article on the Internet, that you originally wrote on April 06, 2004, regarding the Squadron Skyhawk \u2018Busy Bee 610\u2019 which we called \u2018City Of Madera.\u2019 I was one of the two pilots assigned to \u201cMadera\u201d as described in your article.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI remember that after we returned from the 1966 cruise, the Madera City Manager, Mr. Phil Brown & the City Council, honored our commanding officer, CDR Schaufelberger, Lt. Rezek and myself at a dinner at the Madera City Hall. We each described our operations (& adventures) in the \u201cflak-filled\u201d skies over North Vietnam.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSadly, Lt. Bill Rezek was stricken with a brain tumor and passed away some 20 years ago. CAPT. Schaufelberger remains in good health at age 87, in retirement in Hilton Head, SC, and I am retired in San Diego.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThanks for your fine article,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHugh \u2018Slugger\u2019 Magee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCDR F. Hugh Magee, USN (Ret.)\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In that 2004 article, we told how Lt. Hugh Magee, fellow pilot, Lt. Bill Rezek, and aircraft mechanic, Airman \u201cRog\u201d Rogers, were ordered to Southeast Asia in 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon after receiving their combat orders, Magee and Rezek found themselves flying their A4C Skyhawk on missions over North Vietnam from the carrier, USS Ranger. In between flights Rogers armed the craft and kept it air-worthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In December 1965, Mcgee and Rezek decided to rechristen their plane. They chose the name, \u201cCity of Madera.\u201d Madera\u2019s response was immediate. City Administrator Phillip J. Brown, speaking for the council, informed the crew that Madera was eager to form the link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout 1966, officials of Madera received periodic reports on the activities of the \u201cCity of Madera.\u201d A March 28 letter from squadron commander A.A. Schaufelberger, informed the council the plane had flown \u201can impressive number of missions, both in support of allied forces fighting the Viet Cong and against lines of communications and supply in North Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Schaufelberger assured the council its \u201centhusiastic response and interest\u2026 buoyed the spirits of all the Blue Diamonds. \u201cTo know that friends and neighbors at home are behind us is a tremendous boost to our morale,\u2019 continued Schaufelberger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In April 1966, Magee, Rezek, and Rogers decided that it was time to treat the folks in Madera to a photograph of their \u201clady.\u201d Like parents preparing a child for the camera, the threesome went to work on the City of Madera.\u201d As is often the case with children in a photographer\u2019s studio, the plane was not always cooperative. Magee wrote that it was difficult to \u201ckeep our \u2018Madera\u2019 on the deck\u2026\u201d He declared, \u201cShe is really a tiger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interruptions notwithstanding, the job was finally completed. The \u201cCity of Madera\u201d was washed, repainted, and made to sparkle. The picture was taken and within a few days the photograph was on its way to Madera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With every preflight inspection, Magee and Rezek were reminded of their Valley connection and the fact that folks back home, in a sense, rode with them on every mission. Then in May, everyone\u2019s worst fear was realized. The \u201cCity of Madera\u201d was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Although the damage was extensive, Magee limped back to the carrier on a wing and a prayer. The shrapnel had pierced the port intake duct and went out through the starboard intake. Fortunately the engine was not damaged, and within three weeks the \u201cMadera\u201d was taking to the skies once more. The \u201cCity of Madera\u201d was too tough to let a wound keep her out of action for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the end of the summer of 1966, the crew of the \u201cCity of Madera\u201d was told that new orders had been received. The airmen were going home. Memories of the San Joaquin Valley grew sweeter by the day in anticipation of the return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThough time and distance have kept us far removed, fond memories have been a constant reminder of how pleasant life can be in the Valley,\u201d wrote Rezek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The crew\u2019s elation over the impending homecoming, however, was tempered by the knowledge that they would soon bid the \u201cCity of Madera\u201d farewell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By September 1966, it was time to say goodbye. As Magee, Rezek, and Rogers prepared to return to the Valley, the \u201cCity of Madera\u201d was transferred to Atsugi Naval Air Base in Japan. For the crew, there was more than a twinge of regret at the parting with this collection of metal, nuts, and bolts, which had almost taken on a personality of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt goes without saying that we will miss her,\u201d Rezek wrote in summing things up. \u201cShe is an outstanding lady. Now she is headed for a well-deserved rest.\u201d Madera can be proud of its namesake and the history she wrote in the skies of North Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n That, however was not the end of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between May 1966 and his homecoming at the end of that summer, Mcgee had one more adventure in the skies over Vietnam that almost cost him his life, but that will have to wait until later. It is too good to try to squeeze in here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On April 6, 2004, I wrote about a couple of Navy pilots who flew combat missions over North Vietnam in an A4C Skyhawk that had been christened \u201cCity of Madera.\u201d Their names were Lt. 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The men were from Lemoore Naval Air Station\u2019s Attack Squadron 146, better known as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,17],"tags":[32,45],"class_list":["post-50431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-history","tag-culture","tag-military"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50432,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50431\/revisions\/50432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":50425,"date":"2026-11-11T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpengine.com\/?p=50425"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T00:04:26","slug":"obituario-de-jesus-j-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/obituary-jesus-jesse-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituario: Jes\u00fas \u201cJesse\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":" Jes\u00fas \u201cJesse\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez, de Madera, CA, naci\u00f3 el 6 de mayo de 1970, hijo de Geronimo Fern\u00e1ndez, Sr., y Nancy Fern\u00e1ndez en Healdsburg, CA. Jesse falleci\u00f3 el 27 de octubre de 2026, tras una breve pero muy valiente batalla contra una forma agresiva de c\u00e1ncer de es\u00f3fago. Decir que estamos conmocionados y con el coraz\u00f3n roto por su repentino fallecimiento es una exageraci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesse amaba todo tipo de m\u00fasica y los deportes de la zona de la bah\u00eda. Pod\u00eda tocar cualquier instrumento musical y simplemente empezaba a tocar. A veces ofrec\u00eda sus servicios de DJ, llevando su pasi\u00f3n por la m\u00fasica a otros. Jesse era una persona amable con un lado muy divertido. Se entend\u00eda bien con todos y disfrutaba de las reuniones familiares, asistiendo a partidos deportivos profesionales con familiares y amigos, pero tambi\u00e9n no dudaba en hacer un viaje en solitario para ver a sus equipos favoritos, los San Francisco Giants y los 49ers, en la zona de la bah\u00eda. Tambi\u00e9n disfrutaba de aventuras en solitario en grandes lugares de conciertos o en lugares privados. La condici\u00f3n f\u00edsica era importante para Jesse. Antes de su enfermedad, se pod\u00eda encontrar en el gimnasio o haciendo ejercicio en casa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesse era graduado de la Escuela Secundaria de Healdsburg, clase de 1988, en Healdsburg, California. Anteriormente trabaj\u00f3 para la compa\u00f1\u00eda de seguros State Farm y m\u00e1s recientemente en la Madera High School. Se hizo muy amigo de la gente en el trabajo y se entend\u00eda bien con todos. Estaba muy orgulloso de ser parte de la familia de los Coyote de la Madera High School. Jesse disfrutaba mucho de sus interacciones con sus compa\u00f1eros del departamento de mantenimiento, as\u00ed como de su colaboraci\u00f3n con el departamento deportivo para apoyar sus eventos deportivos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesse asumi\u00f3 la responsabilidad principal de cuidar a su madre. Llevar\u00eda a su madre a sus citas m\u00e9dicas por la ma\u00f1ana, antes de comenzar su jornada laboral por la tarde. Por ello, sus hermanos est\u00e1n extremadamente agradecidos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n El orgullo y la alegr\u00eda de Jesse eran su hija Alyssa. Era muy orgulloso y apoyaba su participaci\u00f3n deportiva durante toda su infancia y a\u00f1os de secundaria en baloncesto y atletismo. Era muy \u00e1gil en compartir con orgullo los logros de Alyssa con la familia y los amigos mientras ella crec\u00eda y se convert\u00eda en la hermosa mujer que es hoy en d\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesse queda a cargo de su madre Nancy Fernandez, su hija Alyssa Danielle Fernandez, de Madera, su hermana Victoria Williamson (David) de Mesa, Arizona, sus hermanos Geronimo Fernandez, Jr. (Ofelia), Angel Fernandez (Stacie) de Madera y numerosas sobrinas y sobrinos, t\u00edas, t\u00edos, primos y muchos amigos cercanos. Jesse ha sido precedido en la muerte por su padre, Geronimo Fernandez, Sr., quien falleci\u00f3 el 12 de octubre de 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n La \u00faltima acci\u00f3n de Jesse en su vida fue una profunda generosidad. Como donante de \u00f3rganos, transmiti\u00f3 el don de la visi\u00f3n a alguien que lo necesitaba, asegurando que su legado se definiera por ayudar a los dem\u00e1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Desear\u00edamos agradecer al Dr. Tehrani, a todos los m\u00e9dicos, enfermeras y personal del Centro M\u00e9dico St. Agnes y del Centro Regional M\u00e9dico Community por el cuidado brindado a Jesse durante su breve enfermedad. Estamos muy agradecidos por su amabilidad y compasi\u00f3n hacia \u00e9l.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tambi\u00e9n queremos agradecer a toda nuestra familia y amigos su preocupaci\u00f3n y apoyo durante este momento dif\u00edcil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Porque Dios tanto am\u00f3 al mundo que dio a su Hijo unig\u00e9nito, para que todo aquel que en \u00e9l cree no muera, sino que tenga vida eterna. \u2014 Juan 3:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vestimenta: De acuerdo con el esp\u00edritu libre de Jesse, la ropa debe consistir en colores distintos al negro total. Gracias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Servicios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visita: Jueves 19 de noviembre de 2026, de 2 a 6 p.m., Jay Chapel, 1121 Roberts Ave., Madera, CA 93637.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recitaci\u00f3n del Rosario: Jueves 19 de noviembre de 2026, de 6 a 7 p.m., Jay Chapel, 1121 Roberts Ave., Madera, CA 93637.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Misa de Entierro: Viernes 20 de noviembre de 2026, a las 13:30 horas, Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica San Joaqu\u00edn, 401 W. 5th St., Madera, CA 93637.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jesus “Jesse” Fernandez of Madera, CA, was born on May 6, 1970, to Geronimo Fernandez, Sr. and Nancy Fernandez in Healdsburg, CA. Jesse passed away on Oct. 27, 2026, after a brief but very courageous battle with an aggressive form of esophageal cancer. 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Fue una esposa, madre, abuela, bisabuela y bisabuela dedicada. Dorothy se retir\u00f3 de Oberti Olives despu\u00e9s de veinte y un (21) a\u00f1os de dedicaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dorothy fue precedida en el fallecimiento por sus padres, John Sparks Sr. y Maggie Sparks; su esposo, Cleveland Frazier; su hija, Denise Brown; su hija adoptiva, LaSonya Rucker; su nieta, Shamika Oliver; su bisnieta, Aubrey King; y su bisnieta bisnieta, A\u2019laylianna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tres (3) hermanos: James Wilson (J.W.) Sparks, Billy (Sunny) Sparks y John Sparks Jr. Cuatro (4) hermanas: Mary Swindell, Pauline Tates, Fayrene Tates y Tiney Sparks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dorothy queda a cargo de tres hijas: Debora Sparks, Delores Breazell y Darlene Murphy, todas de Madera, California; un hermano, James Sparks, de Carson, California; y una sobrina especial, Auzhaleea (Lakers) Coleman, de Madera, California. 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The five Ds<\/h3>\n\n
Physical problems<\/h3>\n\n
Psychological problems<\/h3>\n\n