Ripon City officials honored Tony Mistlin last week. During the regular City Council meeting, they presented him with a framed tribute featuring several photos of projects the 86-year-old owner of Modesto's Mistlin Honda has completed for the betterment of the residents of Ripon.
He was the prime benefactor in developing the Mistlin Sports Park, which includes baseball and soccer fields, a gazebo with an interactive fountain, and softball facilities currently under construction.
Mistlin also designed and donated the so-called dinosaur fountain and a small adjacent park on Main Street, east of Highway 99. And he is planning another small park at the Second Street entrance to the city.
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Joanne Joseph, who studied agribusiness for export at Modesto Junior College, is back in her native Haiti working in a financial program that develops profiles of small businesses and social projects, posts them on their Web site and then links them with investors and donors worldwide. Her family lost its home in the January 2010 Haiti earthquake.
She is now helping businesses increase their productive capacity, launch new business ventures and create jobs for others and obtain interest-free loans. She meets with prospective clients across Haiti, evaluates their business plans, and determines if their goals and needs correspond with the program's mission. In addition, she prepares comprehensive client profiles and prepares financial analysis for final program approval.
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Los Banos High grad Alyssa Melo is the 2011-12 Dairy Princess representing District 6/3 of the California Milk Advisory Board. She was crowned last weekend in Turlock, where 2010-11 princess Natalie Sanders ended her year's reign.
District 6/3 includes Alameda, Mariposa, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties. As Dairy Princess, she will play an important role on the board's Communications Services team in meeting community relations objectives.
Taylor Pires, also of Los Banos, was named runner up and will serve as alternate.
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Several local Farmers Insurance agents joined the company's Topper Club as top sales producers.
They are: Gary Merin, Gary Lash, Juan Cisneros, Mark Buckley, Cindy Hernandez, David Wright and Audrey Peguero from various Modesto offices; Dean Uecker of Ripon and Deborah Curtis of Turlock.
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Specialist Ivan Pimentel of Modesto is one of roughly 50 soldiers from the 206,000-strong Army Reserve selected to compete in the 2011 Best Warrior competition at Fort McCoy, Wis. The soldiers are spending the week on a variety of challenges to fight to determine the best warrior.
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Turlock Christian High School graduate Corey A. Souza, an Army ROTC cadet involved in language and cultural immersion training, is among the cadets deploying to partner nations to learn the local cultures and languages. He will spend three weeks involved in assisting with current Army missions that range from helping build community projects to teaching English to local children.
Souza is a student at California State University, Fresno.
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