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It’s ONME Local Central Valley 6-29-21: UC Merced receives $20 million; Hubbard to run against Nunes; Olympian Evans remembered

Lee Evans was honored at 2021 Juneteenth; Anita Evans, Council Member for District 4 representing the city of Madera, CA, opened the Junteenth Day celebration at Courthouse Park in front of the Madera County Courthouse Museum with a moment of silence.As of May 29, 2021, MacKenzie Scott, who is 51 years-old, has a net worth of US$57.0 billion, making her the third-wealthiest woman in the world, and the 21st-wealthiest individual overall. When she legally separated from the Amazon chief executive in 2019, she was given a four percent stake in Amazon, worth around $38bn at the time. She and current husband gave $20 million to UC Merced to help them in their fight for social justice.Lourin and three other Democratic candidates are running in the general election for U.S. House California District 22 on November 8, 2022 against Devin Nunes.

ONME Local: City council to raise Pride flag; money needed for sidewalks; Merced playhouse to open

In the beginning of this episode of ONME Local: Fresno, producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb reviews Merced County news: UC Merced's 13th Recipient of Spendlove Prize; Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza. Also, Playhouse Merced will be back with its 2021-22 “The Story is Us” season of live, on stage productions starting this September. Its previous live season was unfortunately interrupted by the pandemic. The play, The Mountaintop, by African-American playwright, Katori Hall, will debut this season. The play is a fictional depiction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night before he was assassinated in 1968, and is set entirely in the Lorraine Motel, where he was staying. Then Dudley Najieb reviews Fresno City Council and Mayor Jerry Dyer's once-escalated-now-resolved agreement regarding the raising of the Pride flag at City Hall located in downtown Fresno; an over 30-year request from the LGBQT&Other community was finally approved. A ceremony to recognize the raising of the Pride flag at City Hall was to continue forward this week. Also in Fresno news, City of Fresno councilman, Miguel Arias holds press conference to reveal the 109 year-old promise broken by the City of Fresno to service its residents with the creation of gutters, sidewalks, as well as the fixing of streets and pavements; there are schools and neighborhoods deemed unsafe for children walking home alone because there are no sidewalks. He also pointed out the deep neglect of trimming shrubbery and tree in neighborhoods or in front of local small businesses.

ONME Local Fresno: Mayor Dyer reveals the 2021-22 budget; Arias calls for ordinance change with blight property owners

City of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer explains the 2021-22 budget which includes more funds to the police and fire departments; crimes and local fires are up considerably. Meanwhile, District 3 Councilman Miguel Arias reviews a proposal to change the ordinance for blight property ordinances, changing their incentives if they do not take care of eye sores.

ONME Local Fresno - Freedom School teaches children more than just farming

Freedom School New Light for New Life Church of God in West Fresno, is a year-round vegetable farm managed by a core group of 37 children and their adult mentors. It is for West Fresno youth, offering cultural, educational, and job skills programs to at-risk students in grades K-12. The church’s associate pastor, Rev. Floyd D. Harris, Jr., founded Freedom School in 2015 basing it off the Freedom Schools of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Harris' also has an urban farm in his front yard to educate the neighborhood children in the area.

ONME Local Profiles: Javan Childs, Sr. is the new principal at Edison Computech Middle School

Watch in-depth interview of new principal, Javan Childs, Sr. who will leading middle school, Edison Computech come this fall. Childs was formerly the vice-principal III at McLane High School.

ONME Local- CV: Newsom reveals drought plan; youth program to give jobs; Fresno eviction crisis looming

In this episode of, It's ONME Local - Central Valley, podcast show host Julia Dudley Najieb reviews Merced County press briefing with Governor Gavin Newsom, who has declared a state of emergency for several counties already experiencing drought conditions. He also announce a $5.1 billion plan to tackle the chronic drought issue by dealing with infrastructure changes for the long term.Meanwhile, a pilot youth-jobs program beginning in Southwest Fresno plans to expand its footprint across the entire city after an evaluation evaluation of the current project. Students are able to work after school, as they get paid to help beautify their community, starting with painting address numbers on the curb.Finally, City of Fresno Council Vice-President District 7 Nelson Esparza, District 4 Tyler Maxwell and District 3 Miguel Arias are weary of the pending June 30th eviction moratorium lift which will result in a tsunami of evictions throughout the city. Currently, 80 percent of Fresno County's evictions comes from the city of Fresno, according to councilman Arias.

’It’s ONME Local - Central Valley’ recaps on both Big City Mayors’ and COVID-19 vaccine briefings

In this episode of, It's ONME Local - Central Valley, podcast show host Julia Dudley Najieb reviews last Thursday's Big City Mayors' media briefing, a coalition of California's largest 13 cities' mayors; The Big City Mayors met with State Leadership, and at their urging, both the Assembly and Senate have included $4 billion a year in funding for housing and homelessness over multiple years in their budget priorities, released earlier this week. She features videos excerpts of three San Joaquin Valley mayors: Bakersfield, CA, Mayor Karen Goh; Stockton, CA, Mayor Kevin Lincoln; and Fresno, CA, Mayor Jerry Dyer.Then Dudley Najieb reviews COVID-19 vaccine media briefing with California surgeon general, Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris; she also reviews the African-Americans and a few words from Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris.About the The Big City Mayors CoalitionMembers of the The Big City Mayors include mayors from Los Angeles, San Diego, San José, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Riverside, Santa Ana, and Stockton.

ONME Local Profile: City of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer: ’One Fresno’ is going to take some work

In this episode of ONME Local Profiles, producer host, Julia Dudley Najieb, interviews City of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer after his first 100 days in office. Dyer talks about the programs happening throughout the City to "Beautify Fresno," one neighborhood at a time. Mayor Dyer also talks about the journey we will all have to take to become "one Fresno."

ONME Local Fresno: Producer host reviews yesterday’s press conference regarding Chauvin verdict

The African-American Clergy Caucus of Fresno set up an emergency meeting with Fresno leaders from throughout the county to address the potential negative outcomes of the Chauvin verdict concerning the murder of George Floyd last spring in Minnesota.

ONME Local CV: Solar farm will uplift disadvantaged community; Kern County using green tech in ag

In this episode of It's ONME Local - Central Valley, producer host Julia Dudley Najieb features local governments who are implementing green technologies to benefit disadvantage communities, e-bikes and the agriculture industry.