Word: visalia
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...Based in Visalia, California, Nash-De Camp owns 1,000 acres of vineyards in Delano, California, as well as vineyards in Chile, and acts as grower, a packer, and a shipper of grapes under the Sunpower brand name. It handles almost 70 million pounds of grapes a year--two-thirds from California, and the remainder from Chile...
DIED. CHARLES DEDERICH, 83, power-mad founder of the drug-rehabilitation program Synanon; in Visalia, California. Synanon, which combined spartan communal living and aggressive group therapy, was widely acclaimed in the 1960s but eventually disbanded in the wake of increasingly bizarre behavior by Dederich, who proclaimed his organization a religion and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder by placing a rattlesnake in an opponent's mailbox...
These ads -- and others that have appeared in the collegiate press since the 1991-92 school year -- were placed by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, which is headed by Bradley R. Smith, 63, a Visalia, California, pamphleteer. Smith, who spends most of his waking hours in Holocaust denial, wants open debate, he says, because the possibility that the Holocaust was a hoax goes unreported. Much of the material on which Smith bases his claims comes from the pseudointellectual journal of the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust-denial group in Costa Mesa, California, and the writings...
...Committee which is based in Visalia, California, is partially funded by the American Nazi Party, according to the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League...
...just three years on the superior-court bench here in Visalia ((a town of 80,000 situated 181 miles north of Los Angeles)), you've got into a lot of trouble because of your so-called creative sentencing. You've made defendants quit smoking, attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or see a psychiatrist as conditions of probation. You ordered a thief to wear a T shirt proclaiming he was on probation. You told a man who beat his ex-wife to leave town. You sentenced a man who assaulted someone to donate his car to a shelter for battered women...