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Liberty High School honors valedictorian, salutatorian
June 14, 2019
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by Aly Brown Correspondent
As graduates across East County turned tassels last week, Liberty High School honored its top students. Before heading off to summer and the college life that awaits them, Hailey Mori and Jonathan Knittel were named the Lions’ valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. The school’s valedictorian Hailey graduated with a cumulative GPA of 4.43 and was a member of National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation. In service to her community, she tutored middle and high school kids in math and science. “Being named valedictorian is very special to me because it feels like all my hard work is finally paying off,” she said. Hailey further expressed feeling proud of herself for earning the rank of valedictorian, taking the most AP classes and earning A’s in all of them. She acknowledged that while she was the one to complete the schoolwork that generated
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her top scores, she was grateful for teachers who helped her along the way. Hailey will attend the University of Southern California in the fall, majoring in human biology. Currently, she is on a pre-med track. With a cumulative GPA of 4.37, Jon was an active participant in Choir Club, Playmakers,
National Honor Society, Boy Scouts of America (BSA), National Youth Leadership, and California Scholarship Federation. He tackled over 300 hours of volunteer work, helping to build a little library in Discovery Bay in addition to work with see Liberty page 26A
Signatures gathered, ULL to go to voters by Kyle Szymanski Staff Writer
A group of local developers has cleared the first major hurdle in expanding Brentwood’s urban limit line (ULL) to accommodate a large residential development project that includes various other elements. Longtime Brentwood farmer and developer Ron Nunn, a development team member behind the proposed changes, confirmed this week that hired signature-gatherers have collected more than the required 3,500 verified autographs needed for the Brentwood City Council to put the question before voters. “We feel good about it,” said Bob Nunn, son of Ron Nunn and a fellow development team member. “We think it’s a good opportunity
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“The thing people have to understand is the council does not have a choice of not taking it to the voters. Some people are saying ‘don’t let this happen.’ Well, they don’t have a choice. The signatures have been verified, the voters have a right to speak.
” Brentwood City Manager Gus Vina
for the city.” Qualifying the ballot measure aimed at moving Brentwood’s ULL — the mark at which urban development must stop — is a first step in a proposed 815-acre, 2,400 residential-unit project situated north of Balfour Road, east of Deer Valley Road, and west of the Shadow
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Lakes and Brentwood Hills neighborhoods. The area in question is currently Ginochio family land used for cattle grazing and dryland farming for the last 150 years. Ron Nunn has a contract with the Ginochio family to develop the property. The Brentwood City Council will convene on June 25 to decide
whether to put the ULL expansion question before voters this November, or in November 2020, or to slightly delay the decision by requesting a special report be compiled to further explore the proposal, including its fiscal impact, consistency with the city’s general and specific plans, and how it would affect infrastructure funding, ag lands, open space and traffic congestion. If the report is requested, the council’s decision on when to pose the question to voters would be delayed, with the report created within 30 days. The developers would be required to pay for the election and report costs if the council decides more information is needed, City Manager Gus Vina said. see ULL page 26A
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