GLIMPSES OF THE PAST

April-may from The Recorder 10 Years Ago

Ernie Rodriguez, a senior at Granite Hills High School and three-year varsity football starter, was selected to compete in the 20th annual Down Under Bowl.

Adele Sanchez planned to march up the west steps of the State Capitol to take part in the 19th annual Victims’ March. Her mother Mary Sanchez was shot and killed by two men who robbed the family store in Strathmore.

The 2008 Victims’ Memorial Quilt will be unveiled today during a memorial service honoring murder, homicide and drunken driving victims.

25 Years Ago

A veteran Porterville attorney, Burke Burford, whose resignation was found to be a secretarial forgery has been reinstated.

An electrical short in the center of the basement was listed as the tentative cause of a $2 million fire that destroyed and orange packing house in Terra Bella.

The water table in the Porterville area has generally risen an average of 17 over the last year, proof that a strong winter has helped recharge groundwater depleted by six years of drought.

50 Years Ago

Educational television will come to Porterville in September. Trustees voted to subscribe to the programming of E TV station KQED in San Francisco.

A Springville area rancher, Dale Gill, is in Sierra View District Hospital suffering from injuries received when his horse fell with him during a cattle roundup.

The Porterville High Panther Band was chosen to appear in the “First Chair of America” yearbook.

Steve Tyrrell was voted student body president of Porterville Union High School.