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  Thumbs up to Joseph S. Slotnick of Northridge, whose gift of $1.5 million to Fresno State will help deaf children. Slotnick -- the fifth deaf graduate of Harvard University -- helped develop the TYY telecommunications device for the deaf and hard of hearing. Slotnick is a friend of Fresno State professor emeritus Paul Ogden, who established The Silent Garden program at Fresno State.

  Thumbs up to the Orosi Friends of the Library and the Tulare County Library Foundation. Their combined donation of $18,000 funded renovations at the Orosi-Cutler branch library. The library originally was built with a $3,000 Carnegie grant in 1917. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

  Thumbs up to youth chairs Carson King of Fowler High School and Ashley Abrahamson of Kingsburg High and adult director Pauline Smoke of Clovis for their year-long planning of last weekend's 4-H Leadership Conference of Regional Teens at Wonder Valley Resort. The conference was attended by 325 delegates from 12 counties

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  EDITORIAL: Thumbs up, thumbs down

  Thumbs up to Fresno County Assessor Paul Dictos. His valuations of farmland, as well as the resulting tax increases, were validated by a Fresno County grand jury report. The assessor's duty is to evaluate property fairly and accurately in timely fash

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  Thumbs down to Fresno County Supervisors Debbie Poochigian, Phil Larson and Judy Case for opposing the nomination of former colleague Susan Anderson to the First 5 Fresno Commission. Many county commissions, boards and committees have vacancies and a dearth of volunteers. The supervisors sent the wrong message about the value of public service by indicating they would vote against Anderson's appointment. Anderson is more than qualified, and her rejection smacks of political retribution.

  Thumbs up to the Central California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for its Snip N Chip program. Low-income residents from the central San Joaquin Valley can have their cats and dogs spayed/neutered and receive microchip identification for $35.

  Thumbs up to Fresno State men's basketball coach Rodney Terry for the team's upset victory over Mountain West Conference power University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Terry is rebuilding the program the right way: making players accountable for their performances on the

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  Thumbs up to the sweepstakes winners in the 60th annual Central California Science Fair regional: Madalyn Berry, sixth grade, Quail Lake Environmental School; Talie Cloud, seventh grade, Quail Lake Envrionmental School; Titus Patton, eighth grade, Washington Academic Middle School; and Hannah Washburn, senior division, Sanger High School. All attend Sanger Unified schools.

  Thumbs down to the state Legislature for its poor efforts to make public information accessible on the Internet. California lawmakers received a "D" from the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation. Today concludes "Sunshine Week," a national initiative dedicated to promoting open records and transparency in government.

  Thumbs up to farm manager Don Cameron and Terranova Ranch for participating in a program that will use Kings River floodwaters to recharge the San Joaquin Valley's aquifer. "Like the crops we grow, we must tend to and care for the water sources that are so critcal to our region and state," wrote Cameron in a commentary for The

• League of Women Voters holds workshops on initiatives, referendums

  League of Women Voters holds workshops on initiatives, referendums

  The League of Women Voters of Fresno is sponsoring two workshops about the initiative and referendum process, one next week and another in February.