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The last of three men convicted in the notorious Chowchilla bus kidnapping has been granted parole. 70-year old Frederick Woods will be released by the state parole board, despite a request from Governor Newsom to reconsider.
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Maria Martinez dreamt of owning her own restaurant when she was a kid living in Mexico.
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We leave last week’s Western Stampede behind but return to the town of Chowchilla to find out more about its history from its Dust Bowl migrants to present day immigrants, including the only Yemeni-American family living in Chowchilla. We also meet the 84-year-old grandson of one of the town’s earliest white settlers. His grandparents sold 150 horses and left the cold weather of North Dakota to start a dairy farm in Chowchilla. Their 1910 house still stands. Like many towns back then, Chowchilla had racist housing covenants that kept certain groups of people out. But just a couple of miles from town was a place where Black people could actually buy property. At one point, the Black settlement of Fairmead had the largest single dairy in the state. We find out more about Fairmead’s past and what it can teach us today.
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Through an innovative program at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, inmates co-design and maintain their own gardens.
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The town of Chowchilla has an annual cattle drive that goes straight through the center of town to mark the beginning of the Chowchilla Western Stampede, an event that includes team roping and barrel racing. This episode explores the history of the stampede and introduces listeners to an 87-year-old rodeo star who has competed in the stampede since the early 1960s. She also tells us about her life as a stunt woman in Hollywood where she doubled for movie stars like Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton. And a horse trainer reflects on his 50-year career.
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If there’s one thing Leland Decker will teach you, it’s this. People who love to be around horses, they really love to be around horses. There’s no gray…
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On this week’s Valley Edition: An effort to change how Native American students, and their histories, are understood in California’s schools.Plus, the…
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Aminah Elster is the policy coordinator at the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and a formerly incarcerated person. She says the women inside the…
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What Do Kids Think About Social Media, Stress And Homework? 'Welcome To Middle School' - The PodcastIn our studio today, a group of students from Wilson Middle School in Chowchilla and one of their teachers, Jordan Mattox. Together, they’ve created a…
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On this week’s Valley Edition: The Trump Administration has come one step closer to allowing fracking on some federal lands in the Valley. We’ll dive into…