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   Porterville Recorder (Newspaper) - May 16, 2007, Porterville, California                                99TH YEAR - NO. 282 COMING ACCENT The the thing Actors and actresses are gearing up for the new play coming to the Barn SOUND Are you happy with the selection of candidates running for president of the United To make your opinion known to all Recorder visit our Web site at and complete our Weekly Online The results from this week's poll will be posted in the May 22 edition of The SPORTS Porterville readies Valley finals The Panther boys tennis team earns its way to the Valley finals after defeating a tough Dinuba See PAGE 1B CORRECTIONS You don't like mistakes and neither do It is the policy of The Recorder to correct substantive errors in a timely To that Due to a reporting Ali age was incorrectly listed in a Page 1A report in Tuesday's He is 48. Due to an editing was misspelled in a Page 1A tease to a report on the Globe Page in Monday's was also misspelled in a headline on the Globe Page To report a substantive contact Editor Glen Faison at 784-5000, Ext. 1040, or TODAY'S OBITUARIES Martha Ann Passmore Tommy G. Corona Sue Irene Owens Earl Royer WEATHER INSIDE FORECAST High 90, Low 55. High 90, Low 56. High 88, Low 56. 8A OPINION DRAWING BY ALYSSA AVALOS LANDMARK CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 4A COMICS & | 0 THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER | TO CALL 784-5000 Hog Heaven if RECORDER PHOTO BY JOHN TIPTON Hogs and their handlers took to the show rings Tuesday as the livestock competition got under way at the 2007 Porterville The fair opens Wednesday and runs through Sunday at the Porterville Fair hosts Hog Show First-time participants enter By ESTHER AVILA With the theme of it to the - the 59th annual Porterville Fair officially opens Wednesday for a five-day And though thousands of people will come through the gates - whether to venture toward the Please see PAGE 3A RECORDER PHOTO BY JOHN TIPTON Pigs and their handlers make their way around a show in a 4-H showmanship RELATED MATERIAL For an editorial on the Porterville see Page 4A. 50 CENTS Marijuana case prompts debate over bail defense attorney offer views on By AARON BURGIN THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER A bail amount is usually reserved for the harshest of criminals and the most flagrant of Garrick Wayne Turner is his attorney The prosecutor in the case 28, is at the center of a medical marijuana debate that pits the government - which alleges that Turner is a major trafficker of the drug - against Turner - whose attorney counters that his client is exercising his legal right to produce marijuana for medicinal the son of an owner of a successful local insurance is Garrick Wayne Turner facing charges that he intended to grow and cultivate Police initially arrested Turner March 6, but released Tulare County Sheriff's Department deputies remanded him into custody May 8 after Porterville police served search warrant at his home in the 200 block of North Conley If Turner faces a maximum five eight month prison Please see PAGE 9A Council backs park project Murry Park to grow - but not By SARAH ELIZABETH VILLICANA Modernization and expansion of Murry Park was approved Tuesday by the Porterville City Council - at least in concept - after the public had its say on the Now what's missing is money to bring the plans to Parks and Leisure Director Jim Perrine presented the Murry Park Master Plan which defines areas of the park that could be rehabilitated or constructed in phases over a 15-year time The design concept for the approved by the council in April 2005, includes expanding what is now a 20-acre park to a spacious 35-acre Residents won't see the park transform The timeline for full implementation of the project is 10 years after the completion of the Softball Field Complex Please see PAGE 2A Fight ends with 1 3 arrested Police suspect rival gang activity in By AARON BURGIN Tensions between rival gang members exploded Monday night at a local pizzeria as witnesses reported bottles flying and one gunshot in a huge police said One whose name was not suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and police arrested three people after the which occurred in the parking lot of Pizza Hut on West Henderson Avenue west of Main Street Please see PAGE 5A Keller wins 2007 NIE Teacher of the Year Award students greet the By AARON BURGIN THE PORTERVILLE RECORDER Bruce Keller said a newspaper puts everything taught in a classroom into This has been his mantra for 20 when he started using newspapers in class because the school at which he taught had no This is the way he has taught students at La Sierra High School the past four would I teach any other Keller said Tuesday always hear students say when they are in does this apply to A newspaper is about what is happening right Keller's teaching style resulted in him being named the 2007 Newspapers in Education Teacher of the an honor he said he did not Recorder Editor Glen Faison and NIE Coordinator Sheila Seaman presented Keller with the award Tuesday morning at a school assembly attended by a throng of cheering RECORDER PHOTO BY JOHN TIPTON La Sierra High School social studies and journalism teacher Bruce Keller receives applause from his after being named The NIE Teacher of the About 150 teachers in the southeast Tulare County area participate in the NIE which exposes some 5,000 youngsters to newspapers each School administrators were asked to nominate teachers for the Seaman and a group of Recorder managers whittled down a list of candidates to six ultimately deciding on Keller as the am really surprised and a Keller La Sierra is the latest stop for Keller in his 40-year education career that has taken him all across the including stints in see PAGE 9A  

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