No Truck & Tractor Pull at this years Fruit & Nut Festival
You may have heard that this years 2008 Fruit & Nut Festival in May will not include a Truck & Tractor Pull. This is correct and for a number of reasons. The Hughson High School football field where the Pull is always held is undergoing some improvements that will make it more difficult to put the event on while these improvements continue to be made. The second reason the pull has been eliminated is due to the cost of hiring a company to come in and actually put the pull on. The cost is rather high and the funds must be paid out whether the pull is a success or not. After everything is paid for, the actual money made is normally less than a thousand dollars. It takes a lot of work to get the field ready before the pull, during the pull, and then the return of the field to the way it was prior to the pull. With everything consider, the 2008 Fruit & Nut Festival committee has decided to run without a Truck & Tractor Pull.
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Hughson Fire and the City of Hughson
Thinking back to the proposed fire tax that the Hughson Fire Protection District (HFPD) tried to get the citizens of Hughson to pass last year sure does make you think it might have been a good thing if everyone would have voted yes. The Modesto Bee had a front page article about the City of Hughson’s report that they paid for to look into all aspects of the Fire Department. In the Bee’s article they quoted the report stating:
“The Hughson Fire Protection District is underfinanced, understaffed, undertrained and … not able to provide an adequate level of service to the city of Hughson at this time”
If the findings are truly correct, the Fire District is falling down in many major areas when it comes to protecting the citizens of the HFPD. It does sound like the district is disputing the report in many areas though. At Monday nights City Council meeting, the city council counted ballots and then formally voted to form a City of Hughson Fire Assessment District. Asked what the fees would be, the city council stated that they only created the assessment district and the fees will be determined at a later date.
The council was then asked if the fire Department/District would be receiving the assessment fee and the answer was no. So it is not clear what exactly the city is planning for the assessment district money that it produces. Maybe the city has an idea to create a new Fire Department for the city, who knows. In the mean time, the new report just released has opened a big can of worms. If you have any comments or a story you would like to share regarding the HFPD and/or the City of Hughson, please do so.
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