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• Visitors get hands-on tours of 17th-century sailing ship

• Regional Roundup

• Heard it through the grapevine

• Public Meetings

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 7th, 2009

• Lodi High graduate was at Fort Hood

• Lining up for flu shots in Lodi

• Tour packs buses as birdwatchers admire Sandhill cranes

• City of Lodi staff looking into possibility of limiting number of taco trucks

• Daytime thieves targeting Lodi homes

• Lodi High School rally featured on 'Good Day Sacramento'

• Out of control

• Homicide suspect Anthony Hubbard arraigned

• Regional Roundup

• New Lodi Memorial rule to combat spread of H1N1: Visitors must be older than 16

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

November 4th, 2009

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

November 3rd, 2009

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• Clarification

November 2nd, 2009

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

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Heard it through the grapevine

This Heimlich was not fashionably late, it was fashionably right on time

LIFE-SAVING FASHION: A Lodi woman had the good fortune of being seated next to just the right people when she needed help.

As reported in the Lodi Memorial Hospital newsletter:

When they sat down to dinner at the recent VIPink Fashion Show at Wine and Roses, little did they expect they'd shortly be saving a life. But as dinner progressed, LMH OB Director Lesley Muscha looked over to one of her table companions and noticed an 88-year-old breast-cancer survivor's face had turned gray, and her lips were blue.

Lesley then jumped up and yelled at OB supervisor Kathy Wold, "She's choking!" As Lesley ran and prepared to administer the Heimlich Maneuver to the woman, who was sinking in her chair, Lesley yelled, "Cough! Cough!" Lesley scared the woman so much that the woman coughed up the chicken, which was lodged in her throat.

Kathy then dug out the chicken so it wouldn't relodge. When the 88-year old asked Lesley what she could ever do to repay her for saving her life, Lesley told the woman that she wanted to see her modeling in the fashion show next year, instead of eating in the audience.

BALLOT CONFUSION: A hazard to election season is that not everyone has the same candidates and measures on their ballot. That's because it varies by where you live.

For example, a Woodbridge woman called the News-Sentinel recently askings why Measure V, a measure to repeal a groundwater tax, wasn't on her ballot.

A reporter explained to her that Measure V is for people who live in the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District. As a Woodbridge resident, she doesn't live in that district, so Measure V isn't on her ballot. The reporter said the water district covers Lodi — roughly east of Ham Lane and rural areas east of Highway 99.

She said she wished she lived in the North San Joaquin district so she could vote on the groundwater charge.

"I also wish I lived in Lodi because I want to vote on Wal-Mart, because it affects me. But we won't move."

Wal-Mart is another issue that won't be on the Woodbridge ballot, or anyone's ballot. The Lodi City Council is expected to rule on the matter during a meeting later this month.

LIQUIDITY AND FREDDIE MAC: Forget what you've been reading about the problems banks, real estate and Wall Street have encountered of late. That is, if you read Freddie Mac's Web site. Here are some excerpts from Freddie Mac's mission statement, which appears to be just slightly out of date:

"Freddie Mac's mission is to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the housing market. Everything we do comes back to making America's mortgage markets liquid and stable and increasing opportunities for homeownership and affordable rental housing across the nation."

About Freddie Mac's stability: "Freddie Mac's retained portfolio plays an important role in making sure there's a stable supply of money for lenders to make the home loans new homebuyers need and an available supply of workforce housing in our communities.

And about its affordability: "Freddie Mac's vision is that families must be able both to afford to purchase a home and to keep that home."

Well, if Congress bails out Freddie Mac.

And when it comes to liquidity: "Freddie Mac makes sure there's a stable supply of money for lenders to make the loans new homebuyers need. This gives everyone better access to home financing, raising the roof on homeownership opportunity in America."

Not anymore.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 9:44 a.m. Monday, Nov. 3 to correct that the Lodi Wal-Mart Supercenter will not be on the ballot.