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La Mirada Girls Softball Association 10u Gold All-Stars Having a Season to Remember By Jason Pantages The La Mirada Girls Softball Association 10u Gold All-Star team has had quite a season thus far. The team of nine and ten year olds began the season by winning the Mirada Madness tournament over the Memorial Day Weekend and followed that up by winning both the Peninsula Cool Breeze tournament in San Diego and the Chino Hills Summer Classic tournament. This past weekend the girls added to their titles by winning the LA/South Bay District championship tournament in Long Beach, which qualified them for the state tournament in Lancaster July 5th through 7th. The team enters the state championship tournament with an impressive 23-2 record and is currently riding a fifteen game winning streak.
La Mirada’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) welcomed its newest members on June 22 following
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[l-r]) Top Row: Manager Jason Pantages, Head Coach VinnieDiPillo, Coach David Rosales. Back Row: Emma Viayra, Savannah Adams, Kayla Carrillo, Kennedi Houshmandzadeh. Middle Row: Maylene Juarez, Josie DiPillo, Jaelyn Pantages, Alexia Rosales, Astrid Arevalo, Sarah Veloz, Lilly Orozco. Front: Emma Frazier.
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LA MIRADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO FIVE LOCAL STUDENTS
Pictured are (from left to right): Top Row: Community Foundation Member Hal Malkin, Community Member Jeanette Jenkins, and Community Foundation President Dr. Richard Bee Bottom Row: Alexis Zaragoza, Melanie Chan, Hannah Genberg, and Priscilla Lee.
Five graduating seniors were presented $1,000 scholarship checks by the La Mirada Community Foundation at the City Council meeting on Tuesday. The students were selected for the scholarships based on their outstanding community service and volunteer work. The La Mirada City Council also recognized the students for their community service by presenting them with Certificates of Recognition. Melanie Chan, Hannah Genberg, Brian Hanst and Priscilla Lee received the Bob Jenkins Scholarship named after a longtime community volunteer who served as President of the La Mirada Community Foundation and chairman of the “4 La Mirada Kids” Community Carnival for several years. This scholarship is awarded to students who have provided significant community service, maintained at least a 2.5 GPA, live in La Mirada, and have applied to an accredited college or trade
Young Veteran Dreams Big, Has a ‘WYSH’ for Troubled Soldiers By Justin Cooley and Randy Economy The numbers are staggering; twentytwo soldiers take their own lives every day here in the United States. As technology changes, so does the way we send our troops onto the battlefield, but that doesn’t change the fact that war is war and that lives are still be lost in staggering numbers. The grit and perseverance soldiers show is a human feat in itself, but to see soldiers come home despondent, broken and scared just shows how much the battlefield can have on a life. Andrew O’Brien, the founder of the WYSH program (Welcome Your Soldier Home) is just one of the tens of thousands of veterans afflicted by the severity of war. Raised in poverty, O’Brien grew up in a broken family and dropped
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New Metro Bus Schedules June 23 More frequent mid-day service on the Metro Orange Line is one of the changes Metro is making in its bus service to improve e;ciency and e=ectiveness starting June 23. For complete details on the service changes, visit metro.net. Revised timetables will be available online or on buses starting in June.
Metro’s Sustainability E=orts Honored Metro is the first and only recipient of the American Public Transportation Association’s Sustainability Commitment Platinum Recognition. Cited were Metro’s e=orts in reducing energy and water use, as well as reducing harmful air pollutant emissions in its facilities and buses.
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LA MIRADA PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED Winners of the 2013 La Mirada Photo Contest were recognized by the City Council at the meeting on Tuesday. The City received 86 photo entries from 52 participants. Six winning photographs were selected from these submissions with three photographers chosen from each age group. Entries were judged by a professional photographer and two city employees. The winning photographs will be displayed in City publications and at the La Mirada Resource Center. The first place winners in each age category received a season pass to Buccaneer Bay, two tickets to the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts and a
2013 La Mirada Photo Contest Winners Victoria Pflanzer, 1st, 18 and over Annie Medina, Honoree, 18 and over Jeanne Aguinaldo, Honoree, 18 and over Jessica Albright, 1st, 17 and under Abby Hendricks, Honoree, 17 and under Claire Wolfe, Honoree,17 and under
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The Catch jumped out of the water flopping over the Academy Barons 12-0 for their first win of league play. Starting pitcher Sam Sadler was granted the win after throwing five scoreless innings with five strikeouts, and only giving up three hits on the day. The boys were able to post two runs on the board in the first inning off of Tyler Harris’s line drive to the right side. The Catch kept the sticks going into the second inning with Nick Linne pounding a three run bomb over the leftcenter fence for his first home run of the
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summer. The Catch would slow down through a few innings of play until Conor Smith decided the eight run lead wasn’t enough and hooked a ball over the right center fence to put the Catch over 9-0. The Catch would finish out the game with three runs in the bottom of the eighth. The boys did not let the past series hinder their play today as they produced 12 runs on 13 hits. They improved their defense this game as they only committed one error on the day.
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[l-r] Student Cameron Nowel, Head Coach Brittany and Logan Clark. Logan and Cameron received awards for “recurring students” from Polo Buddies. By Brian Hews more personalized instruction Students must be water safe and able to follow verbal directions. If your son or daughter is interested in water polo, you might want to take The program started with four kids a look at the Polo Buddies program at in February, but it has grown to two Splash! Polo Buddies is an entry level classes with fifteen kids enrolled. Students are rewarded for sticking with the water polo class for boys and girls ages program, and consistently working hard 7 - 15. The instructors teach eggbeater (treading water), swimming technique, to improve. But the main goal of the basic ball handling, and passing skills. program is to have fun. The program welcomes students You can see the program on their with moderate to high functioning website at http://www.shaquatics.net/ autism, ADHD, or kids who may need Shaquatics/Polo_Buddies.html.
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