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Service Schedule
July 4th Picnic and Fireworks
Kosher Meat Available
Rabbi Neal Weinberg High Holiday Schedule
Garage Sale Donations Requested
Jewish Cookbook Available
Savemart Shares Card Reminder
June Birthday Wishes
How is Tisha B’Av Important to Jews Today?
Rabbi Bill Berk High Holidays Preparation Announcement
Please Get Well
Supporters
Vacation Suggestions
July Wedding Anniversary Announcement

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Emotions ran high at the Porterville City Council meeting Tuesday night.
Gay marriage supporters spoke out, chastising members for publicly supporting Proposition 8 earlier this year. This comes just one week after the Supreme Court upheld the proposition.
Nearly a dozen supporters of gay marriage were at the council meeting to ask members to apologize [...]

Porterville-Visalia makes the Top 10- Again!
Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly metropolitan-area data,
via 13 Cities Post Unemployment Above 15 Percent – Yahoo! Real Estate.
First, a little explanation of the chart in the link, then a comment or two.
Although the chart says “Visalia, CA” at 15.4, it actually means VISALIA-PORTERVILLE METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA (MSA).
I wondered, with [...]

Gay marriage bill signed into law in New Hampshire
This in today from what has historically been the staunchest Republican enclave in New England today:
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage Wednesday in a move that reflects the state’s changing demographics from reliably Republican and conservative to younger and more [...]

Porterville Recorder: Grassroots same-sex marriage effort takes flight
A grassroots campaign to overturn Proposition 8 kicked off Tuesday before the Porterville City Council.
A dozen speakers took turns addressing council members on topics ranging from the council’s resolution last year in support of the ballot measure, the potential psychological effects of banning same-sex marriage, and the real-life [...]

Last night Channel 30 sent reporter Gene Haagenson to Porterville to cover the pro-same sex marriage Civil Rights discussion that took place as the public spoke in unanimous voice before the only City Council in the State that took a stand in favor of Prop 8.
I introduced the speakers that were to come, and framed [...]

Earlier we reported that Porterville City Councilman Brian Ward, sponsor of the only city council resolution in the entire state to suport Prop 8 last fall, has quickly changed his hateful campaign web site amid publicly aired allegations of improprieties regarding campaign laws.
The allegations alleged that Ward was using the school where he works for [...]

Porterville City Councilmember Brian Ward has updated his hateful campaign web site, voteforbrianward.com in response to public comments at last night’s City Council meeting that some of the material there was unethical and illegal. The assertion was made that some material was either a midemeanor or felony at the prosecutor’s discretion, and that the charges [...]