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OAKDALE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) On December 15, 2020, Lynn Reeves Dickerson accepted her appointment to the Board of Directors of Oak Valley Bancorp (the Company ) (NASDAQ:OVLY) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Oak Valley Community Bank (the Bank ), effective January 5, 2021.
Since 2009, Dickerson has been the CEO of the Gallo Center for the Arts. Her decade-long tenure was marked with operational excellence and tremendous community support.
Prior to joining the Gallo Center, Dickerson had a successful 29-year career in the newspaper industry; serving as Publisher & President of The Modesto Bee from 2000-2006 and subsequently as Vice President of Operations for The McClatchy Company, the parent company of The Modesto Bee. As a corporate officer at McClatchy, she oversaw 11 of their 30 newspapers throughout the country.
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Jane Smiley loves horses. She got her first one in ninth grade and today, at 71, owns three of her own. Her first novel, Barn Blind (1980), is about horses. She s said her favorite of her own novels is Horse Heaven (2000). She s written five young-adult novels in a series called The Horses of Oak Valley Ranch and a horse-centric memoir, A Year at the Races (2005). Smiley, who rides five to six days a week, joked in a recent interview, I prefer horses to some humans.
The interesting thing about all this especially if you re a book reviewer who s never so much as ridden a horse is that her fixation on horses demonstrates the breadth of Smiley s skills, not her narrowness. Even when she s writing about equine characters, Smiley, who won a Pulitzer in 1992 for A Thousand Acres, crafts intimate domestic stories and big-picture social novels, addresses kids and grown-ups, and writes in a host of registers. Her latest novel, the sprightly Perestroika in Paris, may