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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Yolo County’s Mobile Food Bank in Dunningan


Yolo County’s Mobile Food Bank in Dunningan


By Ray Etta Johnson, NPT Reporter
601847-9501-00: IFS: June 15, 2011, 12:00PM
©2011 SDC/Dunningan News-Press Telegram




   


DUNNINGAN, CA (IFS) – Yolo County’s Mobile food bank rolled into Dunningan this morning to a very small line of residents in the waiting wings of the registration and distribution center.  According to some locals that frequent the food bank tells NPT that these lines have been getting smaller at each food bank distribution scheduled dates for Dunningan.

This may not be such of a measurement, chances are this also reflexes on the amount of goods and services for each individual in Northern Yolo County is maintaining with reduced assistance from the food banks.

The food bank general rules are as follows: One “Box” per family per address.  You must register with the distribution center and please bring several large boxes.  This Yolo County Mobile Distribution unit comes to Dunningan twice a month with the next delivery on/or about July 1st.   

The Yolo County Distribution Point Directors runs a very tight ship.  Everything is done by the book.  No exceptions.  In the hot sun, the very cold of winter, these brave persons with the right tools, delivering on a strict schedule with total respect and kindness and a real love for what they do.

An operation this size only means heavy duty equipment.  Large insolated Diesel trucks, with electric pallet jacks that move and reposition large items weighing hundreds of pounds.  These units assist these fine and eager employees and volunteers that move these goods to these locations for the consumer to reach for and place in his or her basket.

BRT Institute of America’s studies of the general condition of the people at these distributions were not dressed as this writer.  Generally, this writer dress like a retired bum for which this writer is and than some.  However, my fellow neighbors are dressed very nice and their vehicles are not old and in disrepair as mine.
Their mood is somewhat somber and un-rushed. 

The children with the young mothers have rosy cheeks and full of energy.  Very happy they are. You see it in their eyes and you feel it radiating around you.  General observation places approximately 60% of my neighbors have some kind of cellular device.  Approximately three percent of them have a “Bluetooth” device in the ears all the time.

 Our seniors, for whom I am one, find the same conditions.  The seniors are very happy and not complaining about one thing.  This time, I expect too here an earful about what the President is during or what congressman is flashing his private parts around the planet, something. . . 

No?

Nothing?

Not here at this time. I don’t hear, the words, “thank you so much.  This is the first meal I have had in a week or month.  Ah, but maybe the hot sun so early in the morning. 

Their eyes and faces show no abuse in their faces, no blood shout eyes.  No tattered clothes, only mine.  These neighbors are well dressed and cared for.  Dare I say Happy?  No signs of starvation or real poverty among my fellow citizens. 

The qualities of the food goods distributed are of the highest brands and the quantity is ample.

The rice foods are coming from ArkansasRice Valley to the Dunningan area.  Majority of the rice grown here is being shipped to Japan in mass quantities from the Northern Yolo/ Colusa Counties’ area.  Japan’s domestic “royal” rice crops that were locally produced near the atomic reactors did post as much as $40(US) per pound in the retail stores in the pass.  The “next” most used rice comes from Yolo County with approximately 39.5% going to Japan daily.  With our exports, the average Nipponese citizen there is now paying around $2.50(US) per pound at the retailers.  Great deal for their pockets. 

With my fellow travelers, we still find our county a very speculator place to live, and indeed, it really is fields of golden grains, trees of nuts, berries, grapes, onions, apples, almond and orange trees everywhere.




Thursday, June 16, 2011

NPTV leads off for the Dunningan News-Press Telegram


FBI in Major Drug Bust in Dunningan










Major Drug Bust in Dunningan

By Dunningan News-Press Telegram


DUNNINGAN (IFS) – The little community of Dunningan was shaken up this morning on or around 6:29 am, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation  and its’ contingent of approximately 60 officers with several  heavily armored attack vehicles and personnel, like something out of a storm troopers movie, with flash-bang grenades rushed  the pink painted stucco home located at 3396 Road 88A.

With a coordinated effort by the FBI, Homeland Security, DEA and Yolo County Sheriff’s Department, the raid on the house was over in under one minute.  CSI investigators and California Bureau of Investigations agents continued combing the residence’s and its grounds compiling evidence.

FBI Special Agent Russell Custer from the Sacramento bureau led the charge on what appears to be an elaborate marijuana growing operation according to the Yolo County Sheriff’s office.  This raid was one of many coordinated efforts by the Department of Justice to clean up the Mexico to USA drug connections.


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Ray Etta Johnson signs with Dunningan News-Press Telegram


Ray Etta Johnson signs with
Dunningan News-Press Telegram


by Maxwell Belton, IFS

DUNNINGAN, CA - (IFS)  Known to her friends as just 'Etta", this lively senior is a real farmer at heart.  As a mother of 5, with two being ministers and a host of grandchildren, Etta is truly best.  Being a resident of the Northern Yolo County community Etta's ideas about what to grow in your garden and what to can for the shelf.

With a very large family, Etta using plans meals for a minimum of twevle persons aday, with the grand childrens, friends and neighbors who keeps her home as a swinging door of mother's cooking and lots of love.

Etta will be on the beat in our community of Dunningan, CA where they sale more gas per day, then anything else in town. 

However, that's not true, Dunningan has alot to offer when you get out into the "countryside" of Dunningan with great fishing pools of water from the Yolo Bypass.

Lots of Strawberries, with a bumper crops of almonds, pears, peaches, mulberries, plums, figs, persimmons and other wonder fruits of the Dunningan family farms.