The Man About Town - Manteca

This week on the Manteca Podcast, a 3rd generation HVAC specialist, and to hear the story told back to me, my guest was in the local Manteca area family heating and air business.

By the time he was old enough to make decisions in life, he was leaving this town Manteca to get away from the family business and heating and air, it was all he knew from a young age.

So, this Manteca patriot decided at the time, which was around the 9/11...

Brought To You By Souza's Heating and Air - Manteca. @souza360.com for Mark Souza. There is a parcel of land on the corner of Louise and Union road in Manteca. That piece of ground is Manteca’s only cemetery and most of the pioneers and settlers of Manteca, it's military heroes from Manteca, all if not most, were, and have been laid to rest, there, on that parcel known as the East Union Cemetery.

It has been run for a century here ...

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This week I jumped on an airplane to go see my son and grandkids and his family who live just outside of Austin Texas.. The podcast was weighing heavy on my mind as I made a promise to do 52 weeks without a hitch putting on a show weekly without fail. With just a few shows left, and some changes in the roster of interviews sort of shifting around it's been a little. Tough t...

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This week on the Man About Town Podcast - My guest and the entire family with a dad who wasn’t around and a mom who made ends meet by moving into most of the low-income neighborhoods in South Stockton.  Mom ended up bringing her family to Manteca a little impoverished area of town north of the town's P.G+E Station.  I think of Mini-Park and all the families that lived on...

The Willis family got their start in Stockton California where dad Jerry Dean Willis the first was a bar operator.

His young sons were trained in the fine art of lawn care. Detailing cars and others by himself.

Years later friends would talk of the skills those young men learned so many years ago. I say that in jest.. My guest played under all of the great football coaches at MHS and he then went on to play college ball. And then a...

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Right next door, south, to the Manteca Post Office there is a small shop still in day-to-day operations and about to be transferred to a new set of owners. They will be continuing a new family set of traditions which is great news. Redi-Mark is a family-run business that has been going since the mid-’70s at a variety of small buildings downtown....

Brought To You By The Trusted Sons- America's Handyman Company 209-269-2727   Mike Mallory, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties (SHFB) located in Manteca, will tell you “it takes an army to accomplish their mission”, and it does.  Fighting Hunger-Feeding Hope!  It is a daily challenge accomplished by a committed and dedicated group of stakeholders led by Mike.  He will tel...

Brought to you by the Trusted Sons - America's Handyman Company 209 269 2727 - When Dino Cunial started his career as an educator for Manteca schools, it was a one-horse town.  Manteca High School, where he taught orientation and world history to freshmen, was the only high school in the town of roughly 7,000 people – the same population as the Northern California town of Susanville where he grew up and graduated from Lassen H...

This week's guest, for four decades came into your home primarily on a piece of paper.  His entry to your mind was in ink and black and white.  Ron did this by reporting the local sports scene and keeping his hometown of Manteca in the minds of people who were part of the Modesto Bee circulation. He went to school at MHS for a year and wore the green, but was then transitioned to the new high school in town back in the la...

From his high school days as president of the Hanford High Future Farmers of America, through his college years at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, to presently serving his second term on the Manteca City Council, most of Steve DeBrum’s life has been spent serving his community.

After arriving in Manteca in 1984, Steve immediately became involved in his church, the Manteca Sunrise Kiwanis Club and several...

Brought to you by the TRUSTED SONS @ 209 269 2727.  This week I chat with a man that started his career in Manteca.  After schooling at Delta and CSU Turlock or Stan state as it's known, he landed in Manteca. This fan of Bill Walton and all sports rather "rotated like seasons" to a young son of a Delta College football coach and his Stockton friends in the Colonial Heights area of the Port City. No one thought he’d stay w...

This week on the Man About Town Podcast brought to you by the Trusted Sons Handyman Company call em at 209 269 2727.. 30+ years at one school.. Leaving Manteca High School better than it was when he started. This teacher schooled in Oakdale during his youth years. Then onto play football for and lift weights at UC Davis. He did all this while establishing his degree, to put him in the identical footsteps of his father Leroy. Who al...

Art Perry was born in 1944 to George and Violet Perry. He has always lived in Manteca, where his passion for agriculture began at a very young age. He attended Manteca High School and graduated in 1962. During high school, he was very involved in the Future Farmers of America. He attended California Polytechnic State University from 1962 to 1966, where he majored in Dairy Science.

He was Agriculture Council President, Vic...

This week on the man about town podcast the story starts in South Stockton with a young Latino boy who idolized his father a musician as in households where there is music being introduced you start picking up things here and there and in that home on hunter st. where you could hear any kind of noise from a gunshot to siren to who else knows in the ’60s.. But it is there that one of Manteca’s most beloved music teachers was imitati...