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Give your friends pumpkin to talk about! Celebrate October by visiting some of the best pumpkin wonderlands Fresno County has to offer. Create perfect, priceless, pumpkin-y memories at these local pumpkin patches!

Location: 18266 E Kings Canyon Rd, Sanger, CA 93657

Contact: (559) 400-3211

Discover one of the newest pumpkin patches in town! Sunflower Farm Stand, located just off Highway 180 and South Reed Ave, was recently known for its stunning sunflower fields open during the summer. Now, they're embracing the autumn spirit by unveiling a charming pumpkin patch.

To kick off the fall season, they're hosting their Fall Festival on Friday, September 29th. This exciting event will feature a sunflower maze, delightful horse-drawn wagon rides, a thrilling hay slide, pumpkin bowling, cornhole, and a variety of other enjoyable activities. Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to purchase their fresh produce, delectable jams, honey, and home decor.

These festivities will be available every Saturday and Sunday, running from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, until the end of October.

Location:284 South Temperance Ave. Fresno, CA 93727

Sunshine's Farm, a cherished family-owned farm, is renowned for its delightful U-pick strawberry events in the summer. However, the excitement doesn't end there; Sunshine's Farm is now embracing the beauty of autumn! Experience the charm of their welcoming pumpkin patch and wander through their stunning sunflower fields, which bloom during the same season. To kick off the fall season, Sunshine's Farm invites you to their free annual Hello Fall Festival on September 30th. Join them at their farm for scrumptious food, refreshing drinks, family-friendly activities, and an abundance of other exciting entertainment!

Location: 225 W Bullard Clovis, CA 93612

Harvesting the perfect pumpkins for you and your family and friends! Wild Patch Pumpkins in Clovis has a varied selection of small, big, white, yellow, orange, and gourdgeous pumpkins for any occasion! Whether for carving Jack-o-lanterns or for your porch or for making delicious pumpkin pies, these pumpkins are carefully nurtured and gathered for everyone to enjoy. Also the ideal place to appreciate your pumpkin picking pet companions by taking a picture along with their perfectly sized pumpkins! Visit Wild Patch Pumpkins from October 1st through Halloween to get your very own pumpkin!

Location: 5365 Mendocino Ave. Clovis, CA 93619

Visit this cute little boutique cut flower farm, Sweet Thistle Farms, along with Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery where they will be having different pumpkin varieties anyone can pick from, hay rides, photo opportunities, tractor rides, food trucks, barn vendor shopping, and scrumptious cheese sampling. Kids will also get the fun opportunity to meet some of Rocky Oaks friendly goats and farm animals. And on your way out take a quick picture at Sweet Thistle Farms’ cool pumpkin wall and wagon that give off all the fall feels.

Location: 14265 E. Goodfellow Ave., Sanger, CA 93657

Contact: 559-356-3962

Wanting a less scary experience for the kids at Hobb’s Grove? Take a stroll through Billy Bob Hobb’s Pumpkin Grove! They are open for weekday group tours for schools and families. Kids will have a fun-filled educational experience and also get a school size pumpkin (included in their ticket purchase) to take home afterwards!

Families also have the opportunity to participate in the various activities they offer like hayrides, mini corn maze, and a mystical fairy village. Don’t miss out in all this fun, reserve your spot soon!

Location: 2629 S. Clovis Ave., Fresno, CA 93725

Contact: 559-237-2294

Simonian Farms does not only grow over 180 varieties of fruits and vegetables but it has a beautiful pumpkin patch each year that is filled with beautifully picked pumpkins. Kids can also experience the haunted caboose that will sure give them a fun spooky scare! There will also be a free photo op spot for everyone to take some fall-themed pictures with the whole gang!

Location: Hillcrest 6943 S. Reed Ave. Reedley, CA

Contact: 559-638-2762

This is an all-ages event, tailored to suit your little ones needs without the scares and ghouls included! This is a patch you can enjoy a train ride, hayride, and of course gourds of all shapes and sizes! Take your littles ones for pure family fun with pumpkins galore at Hillcrest Pumpkin Patch.

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This November, the Clovis Unified board has four open seats. Click the arrow below to read the profiles of the candidates running for school board positions.

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The longest-serving member on the Clovis Unified school board, ophthalmologist Dr. Steven Fogg, says he’s running for a third term to maintain stability on the board.

Fogg, who runs an eye care practice with more than 100 employees, was first elected to the Clovis board in 2016, when board trustees were elected “at-large.”

Fogg said he joined the board because he felt indebted to the district’s teachers, who helped his struggling son learn how to read. Fogg says he tries to give back to the school district by mentoring students who are interested in becoming physicians.

“Coaches brought my son in, made him feel important and kept him in school. He is now a car salesman,” Fogg said. “As a father, sometimes you can’t do anything, so I’m so indebted to the teachers and coaches of Clovis Unified, I could never pay that back.”

An incumbent of Clovis Unified’s Area 5, Fogg is running unopposed. The Fresno Bee sat down with Fogg to talk about his priorities for the next term. Answers are edited for length and clarity.

Why are you running for re-election?

Our board now is relatively young. I’m the most senior member of the board and it’s only been eight years since I was elected. It’s my obligation and duty to help train new board members how we work in Clovis Unified. We don’t fight about things, we discuss them as adults. We are unified in student achievement.

When boards aren’t unified, the administration is not unified and the schools aren’t unified. We have one vision: student achievement, student welfare and student well-being. We have cared for staff and teachers and administration, and it comes from and for that one reason.

Clovis Unified is changing from an “at-large” to a “trustee-region” voting system. How could it change the board?

That’s probably the worst thing that happened since I’ve been on board. In the past, I would visit schools from all over the district. They’re all mine. There’s no school that wasn’t important to me because the whole district was mine. They all elected me and I was responsible for everybody. Superintendent Bob Nelson at Fresno Unified mentioned in one of the articles that the district started having more conflict once they went to areas. “I’m only worried about my little section, you’re worried about your section.” Now, it becomes divided and conflict increases, it’s not about the whole district anymore.

Having individual elected areas does not help student achievement. There’s no data that when Fresno Unified did that, student achievement increased and cooperation between board members increased.It was just the opposite.

We delayed it for as long as we could until we were forced to do it. I think it’s the worst thing that’s happened to our district and we made our decision that we’re not going to let this divide us. I want to stay here until I feel that the vision I was given is passed on. I want to make sure whoever comes on has that vision.

So one of my goals is, as the senior member of the board, to show the other members, “This is how we run Clovis Unified.” When people start to become selfish and divided, I gotta remind them, “No, that’s not what Clovis Unified is.” We don’t say, “What’s mine and what do I get out of it,” it’s what I can give to the region.

What are the biggest challenges facing Clovis Unified?

The biggest challenge we have is our success. The builders want to make Clovis Unified a destination school district. We demand a lot from our staff, teachers and students. We expect a lot. Because of that we are growing very rapidly.

We got a new school we’re trying to build. We ran out of money because of inflation. Now we have to go ask for more money. I hate asking for more money, but what choice do we have? We need a school for our kids. We’re not going to stop people from moving in, but it is a real challenge of how we balance it. The builders are building faster than we can provide seats for students. We want smaller classrooms, but they keep putting more kids in our district.

Clovis Unified leans conservative in a progressive state. How does that impact the district?

Yes, the state brings down mandates that may not be in agreement with all of our parents. They moved to Clovis because they like the values we have, but the state is imposing state values rather than local values. When a state doesn’t allow a local school district to be locally run, it’s frustrating. Nevertheless, we try to obey the laws given to us, but we may do it differently than other districts because that is what people want in Clovis. We want to meet those expectations. When a kid goes to school, he knows there’s going to be a certain level of conduct.

What do you think about teachers unionizing?

I’m very much a data person. I have not seen any school district unionize and increase their student achievement. If that would improve the overall education for our students, we should do that, but I don’t see that in the data.

There are a lot of efforts for unionization because teachers don’t feel like they’re being heard or their needs are being met. I give everyone my cell phone number, I make myself very available to any teacher, not just a representative of a group, but anyone in the district who wants to talk to me so you can have direct access to a board member who makes decisions.

Over the years, I’m always the one who’s looked at the salaries and the benefits, and we do the very best we can with the budgets. It’s so much more efficient when you can talk to people directly without going through another organization. When you go through another organization, it becomes more confrontational. It becomes less like a family, because these people are my neighbors, they’re my patients. I do surgery on a lot of people who work at Clovis Unified. I would never ignore them. I hope they will never need a separate organization to be representative as long as I’m on the board.

This story was originally published September 30, 2024, 5:30 AM.

The Fresno Bee

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Leqi Zhong is the education reporter for The Bee. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a Master’s degree in journalism. Before moving to the Central Valley, she covered tech, business, and internet safety and regulations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Leqi grew up in China and is native in Cantonese and Mandarin.