Porterville Recorder (Newspaper) - May 14, 2007, Porterville, California THE PORTERVILLE JORDAN RIGHI PAGE EDITOR 784-5000 Ext 1044 3A MAY 14,2007 VALLEY STATE SANTA MARIA No winners in digging competition Four teams and some strange machines competed for a dollars from but all walked away Regolith Excavation Challenge invited teams to build machines for digging mock moon or in a competition held in a sandbox on But all the teams fell well short of the winning requirement of 330 pounds of regolith deposited in a container in 30 and no one claimed the An excavator built by Technology Ranch of Pismo Beach did the collecting just over 65 kilograms in half an All the other machines broke down while The other three teams were from Missouri and Rancho Palos The prize rolls over to next year's which will be worth LOS ANGELES Fugitive on FBI Top 10 list arrested Canadian authorities on Saturday arrested a Long Beach man who was on the Most list for alleged sex crimes against the FBI Richard Steve 61, was arrested in Montreal at an address provided by a tipsier who recognized the from the Web said Laura Eimiller of the FBI in Los He'd been on the run for about six she Long Beach authorities claim Goldberg engaged in sexual acts with girls under the age of 10 in 2001. He also produced images of the sex which were later found on his according to the Goldberg was being held by Canadian authorities for violating Canadian immigration laws and was scheduled to be in court on Eimiller Recorder staff reports LOTTERY A single player won the grand prize from the latest Mega Millions lotto Lottery officials said the winning ticket from Friday night's drawing - worth million - was sold at Freeman Market in near Los Angeles International It's the fifth winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Super Lotto Saturday - No ticket matched all six numbers drawn for the California game Saturday which had a jackpot of The numbers drawn 7-9-24-38-42; 16. The grand prize now goes to an estimated million for Wednesday night's officials Fantasy 5: Saturday - 3, 10.14,20, 38. Sunday 3: Saturday Evening - 3,1,2. Saturday Midday - 5, 5,2. Sunday Sunday Evening - 9,9, 9. Midday - 8, 0, 1. Daily Saturday 1st Place - 1 st 12, Lucky 2nd 02, Lucky 3rd 05, California Here is the race 1:41.42. Sunday 1st 03, Hot 2nd 08, Gorgeous 3rd 12, Lucky Here is the race 1:47.50. RECORDER PHOTO BY CHIEKO HARA Umpire Cameron Hamilton sweeps a base between the innings Saturday at the City of Porterville and City of Tulare Softball challenge at the Sports Complex in Tulare shows no charity to Porterville in softball By ALEX SCHULTZ THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER Thankfully for the residents of their city officials govern better than they play those who witnessed the Creme of the Crop Softball Challenge at the Porterville Sports Complex are now well aware that Tulare officials hold a definite edge over Porterville officials in slowpitch Right after the National Anthem was sung by Vanessa a Monache High School the game was all but over for the hometown team as Tulare drubbed Porterville 28-6. But the game was not about the final According to Porterville Chief of Police Chuck it was about something much to get out and be part of the community was what it was all McMillan get each department together to develop a relationship was in order to see that Porterville doesn't get pummeled each McMillan is aware that he and his team might need to hit the batting cages a good number of times in order to stay with apparently not McMillan headed to Tulare next year and we realize we have some work to The game consisted of a whole array of city officials - the principal of Tulare Union High the Porterville fire chief and many Craig Mayor of was glad to trade suit and tie for gym shorts and a this will You make it fun and it's good to exercise a little Vejvoda probably took the game a little more seriously than at least by the product that was on the We had some really good players on our team and we so many things going on within our region that affect all of We all share the same air We all pull all of our water out of the same water We need to get shoulder to shoulder on solving these I think things like this help us see that and build that The mayor pinch hit in the top of the sixth and popped out to center was a lot of Vejvoda this is all about is camaraderie and building relationships between our It's a good Chief of Police in his only popped up to the left fielder who dropped it. McMillan cruised into second on the play and eventually made his way around the bags to score Porterville's only run in the first was We loved McMillan though Tulare's west of us a little one of my best friends works for the police department over It was good to see these guys and make a day of The contest had all of the aspects a major game would consist of - fans cheering for their respective an announcer calling off the names of each batter and players laying out for In the Tulare Community Band made the trip to perform songs in between was great to see how many people came out and supported McMillan The word has gotten out about city official games according to Wendy a Porterville human resources it won't just be Porterville versus Tulare for long. cities have expressed interest so we're going to turn this into a Miller was We had a really good turnout and we're looking forward to our next challenge One can only assume that Porterville will be itching to take the field with Tulare again because Tulare now holds the Creme of the Crop Veterans honored dining the performance Continued from Page 1A Michael Sweeney piece titled the Seven The group played a total of five songs before sending the program into a short During the brief Porter called all of the seniors to the front of the stage to receive a certificate for their time spent with the was very tense at the beginning of the said Sarah a senior at Granite Hills who has been in the band all four just this is it. It's When the last senior was Porter began making his way He didn't take two steps before Elijah Betancourt and Janae Baranek - two of the honored seniors - caught him to pay their tributes in front of the Betancourt and Baranek spoke on behalf of the whole group and presented their conductor with a plaque depicting the 2006-2007 marching band in full was a very pleasant I had no idea so it was very Porter means a lot to me because even though I'm I'll be able to take this picture with me and I'll be able to remember all of my Following the band performed five more the first being The next three were written by Scott Joplin as well and the finale was a piece from No. 1," composed by Johannes At the moment that song was the Concert Choir and the Porterville Combined High School Orchestra made their ways onto the The three groups blended all of their talents to perform Forces - The Pride of Current or former military personnel in the audience were asked to stand when their department theme was being The grand finale of the night was Star Spangled which had all in attendance on their think they did It was said Elizabeth mother of Natalie last patriotic songs with the combined orchestra and the choir were It was very It was very nice for them to be able to do that to honor all of our is a sentimental evening because this is the last concert that he will be doing with Guerrero said of very fortunate that he was here for a couple of years here at Granite Lopez was also pleased with the overall performance and appreciative of what Porter has done as thought it went really Lopez think did an excellent job in his two years I'm sad to see him go but he did an excellent It was an emotional night for all in a man who came to Porterville with one mission - to teach music - leading the band one last going to miss Guerrero obviously we're going to wish him the Kellerhals Fruit Stand NOW OPEN 381W. 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