On Thursday, May 20, the Boys & Girls Club of Fresno County, Stone Soup of Fresno, The kNOw Youth Media and a handful of other youth-based organizations hosted the We Wanna Know: Youth Candidate Forum at the Zimmerman Boys & Girls Club in Fresno. The forum brought together some of the candidates running in this year’s election to become supervisors of districts 3, 5 and 7 and the young people living in those areas. The candidates for City Council Candidates who appeared at the forum were: Oliver Baines, Rogenia Cox, Ignacio Garibay, Doug Vagim and Tate Hill for District 3; Louise Bauer Davoli, Daren Miller, Patricia Pinedo and Sal Quintero for District 5; and Clint Olivier and Marcelino Valdez for District 7.
The forum fostered communication between the youth and their potential future local government officials in hopes of tackling some of the major issues affecting young people in Fresno.
Youth Quiz Supervisor Candidates in Fresno
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