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On the south end stands the Wonderful Community Center, where residents are urged to attend thrice-weekly Zumba and core-training sessions, healthy cooking classes, and weekend cultural outings featuring the likes of Americas Premier Latino Dance Company. Inside sits a young man named Pablo. use no threatening or hateful language. He and the Resnicks had fought an ugly legal battle that tore their Cutie brand in two. For half my life, I never stopped to wonder: How much was magic? My health, knock on wood, is good. A pair of those eyebrows belonged to former farmer and three-term Kings County Supervisor Tony Oliveira, who served from 1999 through 2010 and didn't find out about the upcoming project until Jan. 11. She seems a little nervous waiting in the wings. The curtains were made of a fabric woven in Venice and substantial enough that they might finish off a person who happened to be looking out the window in the throes of an earthquake. Now its the seven-week nut harvest that brings out the inhalers. But he is also a farmer in the Central Valley through the family's other business, Sandridge Partners, and thus a reluctant participant in the national debate currently swirling around the 2008 Farm Bill. Of all the wonders of Wonderful, this is the one I find most mystifying. Hes not only able to irrigate his nut trees with an imported flow of groundwater40,000 acre-feet in some years. He says his bosses have been instructing him to cut the water each irrigation. LOIS HENRY: Accusations continue in ag titans' water feud The GPS tells me to take Interstate 5, the fastest route through the belly of the state, but Im partial to Highway 99, the old road that brought the Okies and Mexicans to the fields and deposited a twang on my Armenian tongue. My dust cloud tells him Im getting close. Down a rutted road, 100 trailers with foundations dressed in plywood back up against an orchard. They greet me with smiles and handshakes.