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Vol. 18, No. 19
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Dozier-Libbey honors top students by Aly Brown
May 11, 2018
Boating On The Delta
Staff Writer
As the weather warms and students everywhere anticipate summer, area schools also celebrate their highest ranking scholars. At Dozier-Libbey Medical High School in Antioch, Cinddy Wu Deng and Natalie Tong share valedictorian honors, while Chinyere Stephanie Umozurike is this year’s salutatorian. “These three students are at the top of their class. Their work ethic is phenomenal, and they have been exemplary students,” said Dozier-Libbey Principal Scott Bergerhouse. “I am so very proud of their accomplishments in and out of school. All three students are also Kaiser Permanente interns and very involved with school clubs. Dozier-Libbey Medical High School is very proud of these students.” Since her sophomore year,
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Cinddy has been on the Antioch High varsity golf team, where she took on a leadership role within the team and placed an emphasis on a ‘less me, more we’ philosophy. “I strongly believe that a true team player should be just as excited for their teammates’ big plays as if they had made the
play themselves,” she said. She also served as treasurer for her student government, president for HOSA-Future Health Professionals and the yearbook photographer. She noted her favorite class to be physiology, which furthered her interest in the medical field. As a student who had to
UMOZURIKE learn English and adapt to a new culture in America, Cinddy said she wasn’t always the best student. But the discovery of a book changed her viewpoint of academics. “Although I am extremely thankful and grateful for the see Students page 30A
Residents oppose Sand Creek initiative by Kyle Szymanski Staff Writer
A group of Antioch residents plan to qualify a counter initiative governing the future of part of the Sand Creek Focus Area to counteract one filed earlier this year. Both measures take aim at future plans for a portion of the 2,712-acre area bounded by Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve to the west, city limits to the south and the City of Brentwood to the east – a place where city officials have considered building 4,000 homes. In March, a band of Antioch residents and community groups launched efforts to qualify the Let Antioch Voters Decide initiative for the November ballot, mandating that a
“ (The counter West Sand Creek initiative)
is a big question mark at this point. They have a limited time to do that. We are really just focused on our own signature-gathering and explaining things to the public …
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Seth Adams, Save Mount Diablo conservation director 1,800-acre stretch between Deer Valley Road and Black Diamond Mines be zoned for rural residential, agricultural and open-space uses with a minimum parcel size of 80 acres. It would also require a vote for more intensive development and force voter approval of all changes to the city’s urban limit line. Now another group of
Antioch residents plans to qualify a separate measure, the West Sand Creek initiative, that would preserve about 1,244 acres at the western and southern boundaries of the Sand Creek Focus Area west of Deer Valley Road by designating it for open space, agriculture and rural uses, while also approving a 550-acre, 1,180unit scaled-down housing proj-
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ect west of Deer Valley Road and east of Empire Mine Road. The West Sand Creek initiative would also ban hillside and ridgeline development in the 1,244-acre area and pave the way for the developer to fund public safety, transportation and infrastructure improvements. Each new home in the proposed development would also contribute funds to high school sports and performing-arts facilities, and the measure would require voter approval of urban limit line changes. If both the Let Antioch Voters Decide initiative and the West Sand Creek initiative qualify for the ballot, the one receiving the higher number of votes would take effect. see Sand Creek page 30A
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Meet The Principal
Meet Almond Grove Principal Christina Edwards in this week’s issue. Page 7A
Cheer Team Champions
Freedom’s competitive sport cheer team takes league, NCS titles. Page 21A Calendar.............................31A Classifieds..........................24A Cop Logs.............................29A Entertainment..................10A Food.....................................11A Health & Beauty...............19A Opinion...............................20A Pets......................................12A Sports..................................21A
Realtor Awards
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Weichert, Realtors recently announced their 2017 Office Award Winners.