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KIDS DAY
MORE THAN A FUNDRAISER Students share their ‘miracles’ at Valley Children’s 8 Holly, 199
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heering people in bright orange aprons occupied corners of Shaw Avenue Tuesday as commuters stopped to purchase the annual Kids Day special issue of The Fresno Bee. Thirty years since its premiere, Kids Day, organized by Valley Children’s Hospital, The Bee and ABC30, has brought together nearly 7,000 volunteers across the Central Valley to raise millions of dollars to cover the costs of “uncompensated care.” The effects of the fundraiser have touched thousands of patients and their families, including some Fresno State students. Giving back Holly Wilson was 8 months old when she received care at Valley Children’s. After her adoption from Busan, South Korea, she came to the U.S. “riddled with illnesses,” including soft cleft palate, pneumonia and gastrointestinal problems. “When my parents told me the story of everything I endured at such a young age, it made me realize how fortunate I was to have been given the opportunity to live my life in the U.S. with a loving family and have the best team of doctors working on me to get me healthy,” she said. Wilson received treatment and surgeries during multiple hospital stays over the course of three months. Though she says she doesn’t remember much from that time, her story has inspired her to take part in Kids Day as a volunteer to
give back to the hospital and to study medicine. “I love doing it as it is a way that I can give back to those who did so much for me,” Wilson said. “But also it is because of the impact that these doctors have had on my life that I have chosen that I would like to go into the field of medicine in hopes that one day I, too, can impact someone’s life in that manner.” A sense of comfort Media, communications and journalism department alumnus and former Collegian staff writer Johnny Martin was rushed to Valley Children’s on his 16th birthday in 2009. After multiple visits to the doctor for severe headaches, Martin was rushed from Clovis Community Medical Center for a blockage in the third ventricle of his brain. The blockage covered the hole where spinal fluids flow between the brain and the spine. He received surgical care to relieve the pressure, and was referred to a leading oncologist at University of California, San Francisco to treat the blockage with chemotherapy. “This was a very overwhelming time in my life but being at Valley Children’s helped ease that a little bit,” he said. “They just had an atmosphere that was not like a normal hospital, even through all the seriousness you just felt a sense of comfortability that made that time much easier.”
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CRIME
Four arrested at University Inn By Christian Mattos @ChrisssyMattos
Four people were arrested at University Inn across Fresno State on Tuesday after police found a concealed firearm and possible narcotic sales activity. Fresno police Sgt. James Rossetti, of
the department’s Multi-Agency Gang Enforcement Consortium (MAGEC) tactical team, said the arrests came as a result of increased patrol of the area after two men were arrested last week in connection to an officer involved shooting last Tuesday at the University Inn. “Based on that, we have done extra patrols, and on today’s date, we made contact with people loitering inside of a vehicle,”
Rossetti said. Police arrived at the scene at about 1:40 p.m. and arrested Johnathan Noisey, who is believed to be in a gang, for possession of a concealed firearm, Rossetti said. Alleged Bulldog gang members Robert Thomas and Ashley Goodwin were also arrested for violation of probation. Jennifer Foster was arrested for using a handicap placard that belonged to a dead
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person as well as for a possible narcotic sale discovered upon searching the vehicle. Rossetti said the arrests are not connected to last week’s shootings nor do they appear to involve anyone from Fresno State – “other than [the suspect] wearing a Bulldog tattoo,” Rossetti said. Bineet Kaur also contributed to this article.
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