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...Crockett ’02 opened the season with the Visalia Oaks—the high-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies—with a very solid start, allowing one earned run on four hits over five innings...
...Daniel Raymond McClintock is a 25-year-old pro basketball player out of Golden West High in Visalia, California, and the University of Northern Arizona, a former Denver Nugget who lasted only six games in the NBA. He has been hired this season by the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) to do nothing less than replace the irreplaceable Yao Ming at center. That makes McClintock the man in the middle of the biggest sports story in the most populated place on earth...
...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...