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Monday, JAnuary 18 - January 24, 2010 Volume 3, No. 03
Camellia Festival Preparations Underway
Royal Court members for the 66th Camellia Festival. Princesses: Jennifer Holster, Shaya Godycki and Hailey Marie Gibson will be escorted by Princes Jay Mariano Valenzuela, Max Bhatti and Brett Conger. Banner carries this year are Sophia Goodson, Natalie Leung, Jeffery Goin and Philip Chiechi. - Photo by Terry Miller
King and Queen to be announced February 5 The annual search for a King and Queen and their Royal Court to reign over the 66th
Annual Camellia Festival of Temple City began on Saturday, January 9, 2010, when first grade boys and girls
participated in the Royalty Play Day. The preliminary judging was held at the Community
Center at Live Oak Park under the direction of the Parks & Recreation Department of
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TCHS Students Sister City Association Plans Receive Awards at JPL Invention Challenge Adult Australia Trip A special information night will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. in the Community Room at City Hall (9701 Las Tunas Drive) to discuss the Temple City Sister City Associations plans for an adult exchange trip to the Hawkesbury Shire in New South Wales, Australia, in June. The Sister City prog ram is a dedicat ion of friendship, an understanding between peoples of different cultures and different attitudes, and an affirmation of one people’s goodwill toward another people. It also recognizes that we are all brothers and sisters in one human race. Individuals participating in this exchange program must join the Temple City Sister City Association (Individual Membership: $10, Family Membership: $15). If you are interested in traveling to Australia (at your cost) and be hosted by an Australian family, please call Nancy Terry at (626) 285-7995.
Three student teams recently competed in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Invention Challenge 2009. The “A Ton of Bricks” contest, challenged students throughout Southern California to build 4-foot long bridges out of paper products and glue with maximum efficiency to hold as many bricks as possible at the mid-point of the bridge. Under the direction of TCHS instructor Dave Dickie, students spent weeks designing, building, and testing their bridges. Students then traveled to Orange Coast College to compete in the JPL regional semi-final competition. TCHS teams successfully met the challenge with their bridges taking 3rd, 4th and 5th place out of 25 entries. Because of their high rankings, TCHS students were eligible to compete in the final competition! There were two categories, high school and JPL engineers, in the final event. TCHS students were successful again, placing 4th, 6th, and 12th in their category. The 4th place bridge impressively exceeded the
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Kelly Kovacic Selected as a Temple City Native Killed County Sheriff Endorses National Teacher of the Year Finalist When Her Home Collapsed Arcadia Council Candidate
in Haiti Quake
Recognized in November as a California Teacher of the Year, Kovacic is One of Four Finalists for National Award This week State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell congratulated Kelly Kovacic, recently selected as a 2010 California
Teacher of the Year, for her selection as one of four 2010 National Teacher of the Year finalists. Kovacic is the daugh-
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One of the first Americans reported killed by the earthquake in Haiti was apparently a Foreign Service officer when her building collapsed. Victoria J. DeLong, 57, died Tuesday, according to State Department reports. DeLong, a 27-year diplomat and native of Temple City, was a cultural affairs officer and had been stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Portau-Prince since February of last year. Family members on Friday released a brief statement on her death. “Victoria cared deeply for her family and friends. She was a wonderful sister, friend, and humanitarian; she
Victoria DeLong was a cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Port-auPrince, Haiti. (State Department)
was cheerful and full of life in all her endeavors and accomplishments,” they said The State Department praised DeLong in a notice sent to employees following her death.”In one of the most
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Last week local attorney Jason Lee announced that Los Angeles County’s Sheriff Lee Baca had decided to endorse his candidacy for a seat on the Arcadia City Council. Lee said that as the leader of the largest Sheriff’s department in the nation, serving
more than ten million people under his jurisdiction in the greater Los Angeles Area, Baca’s endorsement carried significant weight in regards to issues of public safety. Lee has said that he intends to increase police