Welcome back to the Addiction Dan!
There are quite a few folks in the general area, we have the D7 championships in Fresno about every other year. Matt and Jim Kimbro are probably nearest you, but you're not far from Bakersfield/Arvin which hosts quite a few pattern pilots and the Hollister field where Jon Carter (NSRCA President), Dale Olstinske (NSRCA Sequence Committee Chair) fly regularly along with a bunch more of us. A little farther north you have Chris Fitzsimmons in Tracey. There's a contest in Victorville weekend after next and then Oakdale two weeks after that, neither should be too far for you.
Peter+