District 5 Supervisor Leticia Perez organized the event, which provided job opportunities and emergency resources for the recently furloughed Bitwise Industries employees of Kern County.
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Farmers sold buckets of cherries while local food vendors offered a cherry twist on their typical fare from cherry limeade with a cherry-chili rim dip to fresh raspberry jam spread over home-baked rustic sourdough at the first Cherry Festival Farmers Market in downtown Tulare.
The latest event organized by a local nonprofit that hopes to bring business to downtown Tulare, the festival celebrated the annual cherry harvest, a tasty but lesser-known Tulare County crop.
Exeter cherry farmer Mark Morris of Morris Family Farm compared the Cherry Festival to the weekly Visalia Farmers Market, but he said the Tulare crowd was more appreciative and energetic.
FRESNO, Calif. You may not think of California s Central Valley as the place for up-and-coming talent in the technology industry, but one company is looking to change that.
Bitwise Industries, based in Fresno, is breaking down the idea of what the tech workforce looks like and making sure training and jobs are accessible to everyone, no matter their background.
Irma Olguin Jr. and Jake Soberal co-founded the workforce development company.
Olguin says her family came to Central Valley to work in agriculture, My immigrant family moved here to follow the crops-a family of field laborers. And, in my own way, I found my way to the technology industry. I ended up in a job that just profoundly changed my life and existence and the opportunity that I saw in front of me.