Judith Buethe Communications is pleased to announce that Miranda Winters has joined the staff as an Associate/Project Manager.

Stockton City Manager Bob Deis, announced his impending retirement, to be effective November 1, 2013, after three years of steering Stockton through what may prove to be the most difficult period of its 163 year history.

Some cities, like Sacramento or San Diego, create more festive and welcoming atmosphere by brightening up streets with LED lights installed on trees or structures. To light up our downtown, DSA's Board of Directors set aside funds for purchase and installation of lights on Weber Avenue.  22 trees between El Dorado and Sutter Streets are currently decorated with long lasting LED strings.

BloodSource and the Stockton Ports are now on deck for the Second Annual Stockton Ports Blood & Marrow Drive to be held June 25, 2013 from 12 noon – 5:00 p.m.

Theresa Caputo(pronounced Cap-you-toe), the star of TLC’s Long Island Medium, performed in front of two capacity audiences on Saturday, June 8th at the historic Bob Hope Theatre.  Her two sold out shows capped a three show in two day stretch for SMG Stockton, following the Latin Comedy Jam on Friday.

The Tokay Radio Control Modelers, a local RC aeromodeling club, is pleased to announce an exciting remote control airplane aerobatics event to be held at our flying field in Walnut Grove.

The Stockton Thunder, a two time recipient of the ECHL “Award of Excellence,” has announced that President Dan Chapman will be leaving the organization at the end of this month and has accepted the position of Associate Athletic Director at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.

Fifty million people in the U.S. * 1 in 4 children * don’t know where their next meal is coming from. “A Place at the Table” directors, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, examine the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity. Ultimately, this film shows us how hunger poses serious economic, social and cultural implications for our nation, and that it could be solved once and for all if the American public decides * as they have in the past * that making healthy food available and affordable is in the best interest of us all.

County Parks is planting each week through the summer season, the last date will be Friday, Sept. 27.

Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library announces the launch of their new Axis 360 digital media library, now available to all cardholders through the SSJCPL website (www.ssjcpl.org). Axis 360 provides a state-of-the-art system for circulating eBooks. Axis 360 is also a fully accessible platform that works with the Blio eReading application to open the world of eBooks to all library cardholders, including those who are visually impaired.