Dairy Dynasty

Crystal Creamery is celebrating its 120th anniversary and is California’s oldest dairy with expertise and leadership in caring for our community, environment and cows while embracing the spirit of everything the California Central Valley has to offer.

In 1901, George Knox founded the Crystal Cream & Butter company in the back of a small grocery store in Sacramento where he and his wife churned butter. Twenty years later, in 1921, Crystal was purchased by Carl Hansen, a Danish immigrant. The Hansen family would grow the business over the next 86 years, to become the largest independent dairy processor in California known for its quality milk, cottage cheese, sour cream, and ice cream. In 2007, Crystal Creamery would remain a family-owned business when Foster Dairy Farms, founded in 1941 by Max and Verda Foster, purchased the brand and business from the Hansen’s. The Foster family merged the businesses together to become Crystal Creamery, the largest privately owned dairy in California, producing products under the Crystal Creamery, McColl’s and Humboldt Creamery brands and headquartered in Modesto.

“Leading a family-owned company means taking care of our people. Together we are dedicated to producing the most trustworthy products in the industry,” said Dennis Roberts, Crystal Creamery’s President and CEO.

He added, “At Crystal Creamery, producing the best dairy products is only part of our company’s promise. We also recognize that we are more than just a dairy company — we are a part of each community we serve.” The company has been supporting local community causes and programs through large sponsorships and in small ways like donating product for local events including delivering milk to area food banks and emergency operations centers for distribution during the pandemic. One of the company’s most recognized community sponsorships is its partnership with the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) which supports high school athletics in the Sac-Joaquin, Central and North Coast Sections. Included in this sponsorship is the production of special commemorative milk cartons featuring Section champions for fall, winter, and spring sports. The milk cartons are a fun way of recognizing the hard work and dedication of the student athletes, their coaches, and their families.

The success of Crystal Creamery always starts with the freshest dairy from local and familyowned farms.

As we begin working towards the next 120 years, Crystal Creamery remains committed to making the highest quality dairy products accessible to our Californians while continuing to support the communities where we work and live.

Doctors Medical Center is proud to announce that Susan Ybarra, RN, NCCU Shift Manager, and Ricky Villavicencio, RN, Clinical Operations Coordinator, have been honored by Tenet Healthcare as part of its annual recognition program. Susan and Ricky have been named “Tenet Heroes” for their incredible contributions in 2020.

The Tenet Heroes program celebrates individuals who make a meaningful impact within their respective communities that goes above and beyond their daily job responsibilities. Nominated by fellow colleagues, Tenet Heroes exemplify the company’s core values and key tenets of its Community Built on Care.

Susan was recognized as a Tenet Hero because of her amazing efforts introducing Honor Walks at Doctors Medical Center to honor organ donors and provide closure for their loved ones and their care teams. Ricky was designated as the hospital’s ECMO program lead and after ten months of planning, training and preparation, Doctors Medical Center launched its life-saving ECMO program.

“Susan and Ricky have both inspired us through their actions to make a positive and meaningful difference in our community,” said Warren Kirk, CEO of Doctors Medical Center. “We are grateful for Susan and Ricky’s efforts, selfless nature and commitment to compassionate care particularly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are proud to work alongside both of them.”

Each year, a smaller group of nominees are inducted into the Tenet Heroes’ Hall of Fame, the company’s most prestigious honor for employees. In addition to being recognized as a Tenet Hero, Susan was also selected as a Hall of Fame winner. This year, a total of 24 individuals across the country were named to the Hall of Fame.

About Doctors Medical Center

Doctors Medical Center of Modesto is the largest full-care hospital between Stockton and Fresno, and from the Sierras to the San Francisco Bay Area, with a 394-bed general acute care and a 67-bed inpatient psychiatric capacity. DMC is known for providing comprehensive inpatient, outpatient and emergency care. Doctors Medical Center offers a wide range of services including cardiology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, surgical weight loss, emergency and trauma services, minimallyinvasive and robotic surgery, women and children’s services, medical/surgical, behavioral health, oncology and critical/ intensive care. To learn more about Doctors Medical Center, please visit www.dmc-modesto.com.

About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) is a diversified healthcare services company headquartered in Dallas with 110,000 employees. Through an expansive care network that includes United Surgical Partners International, we operate 65 hospitals and approximately 550 other healthcare facilities, including surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care and imaging centers and other care sites and clinics. We also operate Conifer Health Solutions, which provides revenue cycle management and value-based care services to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, employers and other clients. Across the Tenet enterprise, we are united by our mission to deliver quality, compassionate care in the communities we serve. For more information, please visit www.tenethealth.com.

Fifty-six students demonstrating community involvement and academic performance will each receive a scholarship toward their higher education through Hilmar Cheese Company’s annual scholarship program. This is Hilmar Cheese Company’s 19th year awarding scholarships.

The scholarship program has three categories: children of employees of Hilmar Cheese Company, children of the dairy farm families who ship milk to Hilmar Cheese Company, and students with an agricultural major living in the counties where the company is located.

Fifteen children of Hilmar Cheese Company employees will receive a scholarship. Nine graduating high school seniors and six college students were awarded $1,000 include Alissa Paniagua (Delhi High School), Elisabeth Garner (Atwater High School), Haileigh Faria (John H. Pitman High School), Isabelle Buenrostro (Central Valley High School), Sydney Vallier (John H. Pitman High School), Jesse Davis (Dalhart High School), Dalia Martinez (Stratford High School), Alejandra Long (Dalhart High School), Bethany Berngen (Dalhart High School), Abigail Starr (Merced Community College), Jill Reyna-Canales (Fresno Pacific University), Maxwell Lee (Merced College), Eli Roos (University of California Merced), Gracie Alves (Solano Community College), and Louis Alcala (West Texas A&M).

Bernadette Silveira (Merced Junior College). Merced and Stanislaus counties California agricultural majors M’Lyssa Frago (Livingston High Students Benefit From Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc. ScholarshipsSchool), Gabriella Lucas (Atwater High School), Emma Menefee (Los Banos High School), Kindall Fifty-six Grisham (Golden Valley High School), Alayna Azevedo (Escalon High School), Cody Batchelor students demonstrating community involvement and (Buhach Colony High School), Anthony Agueda scholarship toward their higher education through Hilmar Cheese Company’s annual scholarship program. T (Hughson High School), Alyssa Zipser (Waterford High School), Caitlin Elizabeth Van Gorkum (Ripon his is Hilmar Cheese Company’s 19th year awarding scholarship Christian High School), Elizabeth Gomez-Vega (Turlock High School), Melanie Wolf (Fred C. Beyer High School), Tabitha Xavier (California State The scholarship program has three categories: children of employees of Hilmar Cheese Company, University, Fresno), Katelyn Struiksma (Oklahoma State University), and Sidney Miller (California children of the dairy farm families who ship milk to Hilmar Cheese Company, and students with an State University, Fresno) were each awarded $500. agricultural major living in the counties where the company is located. This third category is for students no Dallam and Hartley counties Texas agricultural majors Emma Lathem (Dalhart High School), t affiliated with the company; but dedicated to the agricultural industry and living in Merced and Gannon Swecker (Dalhart High School), Jessica Stanislaus counties in California, and Dallam and Hartley counties in Texas. Beth Nolt (Dalhart High School), Claudia Taylor (Dalhart High School), and Jordan Smulders (Frank previous recipients of a producer or employee scholarshi Phillips College) are awarded $500.and eleven were awarded. Employee children who were awarded Renewal Fifteen Scholarships of $500 were Ellena Urrutia (University of California, Riverside), Ethan children of Hilmar Cheese Company employees will receive a scholarship. school seniors Machado (California State University, Stanislaus), Victoria Marcelino (University of California, Davis), and six college students were awarded $1, The seven children of the dairy farm families who Makayla Fontes (Merced College), and Julia Travis School), Elisabeth Garner (Atwater High School), Haileigh Faria (John H. Pitman High School), Isabelle ship their milk to Hilmar Cheese Company in California to each receive a $1,000 scholarship are (University of California, Berkeley). Buenrostro (Central Valley High School), Sydney Vallier (John H. Pitman High School), Jesse Davis Lilianna Garcia (Whitmore Charter High School), Anthony Diniz (Hilmar High School), Shianne Omlin Six children of the dairy families who ship milk to Hilmar Cheese Company were also awarded Renewal (Dalhart High School), Dalia Martinez (Stratford High School), Alejandra Lo (Modesto High School), Colton Hoekstra (Ripon Scholarships of $500. Congratulations to Tanner Bethany Berngen (Dalhart High School), Abigail Starr (Merced Community College), Jill Reyna Christian High School), Avery Oliveira (Hilmar High School), Brielle Prock (Denair High School), and Hoekstra (Oklahoma State University), Carter Azevedo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Catherine Canales (Fresno Pacific University), Maxwell Lee (Merced College), Eli Roos (University o 10 MODESTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE I MODCHAMBER.ORGMerced), Gracie Alves (Solano Community College),

Machado (Loyola Marymount University), Alison Bylsma (Azusa Pacific University), Grace Nightengale (Arizona State University), and Jenna Nightengale (University of California, Davis).

The Hilmar Cheese Company scholarship program reflects the company’s ongoing support of higher education and its commitment to employees, dairy farm families, and the California and Texas agricultural industries.

Qualifying students are encouraged to apply November 1 through February 1, 2022.

For more information about Hilmar Cheese Company’s scholarship program, visit the About Us section of www.hilmarcheese.com.

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