After seven years of ambitious planning, the Clovis Veterans Memorial District will host the grand opening of the Community Heritage Center in Clovis starting at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in conjunction with the annual Veterans Day parade. The facility, purchased by the Memorial District, is at the corner of Veterans Parkway...
Clovis Veterans Leader Will Also Run Fresno TV Station
The current CEO of the Clovis Veterans Memorial District has been named as interim President and CEO for Valley Public Television (Ch. 18). Lorenzo Rios, who has led CVMD since 2015 , becomes the third CEO for ValleyPBS in the past five years. He fills the role last held by...
Clovis Veterans Leader Named to Head Valley's Public Television Station
The current CEO of the Clovis Veterans Memorial District has been named as interim President and CEO for Valley Public Television (Ch. 18). Lorenzo Rios, who has led CVMD since 2015 , becomes the third CEO for ValleyPBS in the past five years. He fills the role last held by...
Spend Friday Evening With Fresno Author Mark Arax
Mark Arax is on a roll. In April, the Fresno author and journalist received a James Beard Media Award for feature reporting for “A Kingdom from Dust.” The story was also a finalist in feature writing for the National Magazine Awards. The piece, which chronicled the agricultural empire of Stewart and Lynda...
Out of Many, We Are One: Youngsters Become US Citizens in Clovis
About 150 children who have become naturalized U.S. citizens received their proof of citizenship Friday, Feb. 15, in a ceremony at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District's Liberty Ballroom. Clovis City Councilman Vong Mouanoutoua gave the keynote address. He emigrated to the United States from Laos as a refugee in 1976....
Clovis Unified Funding Is Low, But It Excels Just the Same
For the second consecutive year, Clovis Unified recorded the highest English Language Arts score of any large school district in California. And the district again had the second-highest math scores of school districts in the state testing 20,000 or more students. That's saying a lot given that Clovis Unified receives...