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palomar defeats citrus
Owls fall to the Comets in season opener . PG. 13
SOLID GOLD The city of Azusa gets ready to celebrate the opening of two new Gold Line stations
Getting settled After several years of searching, the administration announces a new Vice President of Student Services BY ZHANSAYA SAPARKHANOVA STAFF WRITER
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BY JACLYN SPENCER STAFF WRITER
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fter years of petitioning and planning, Citrus College and Azusa Pacific University students, faculty and staff are another step closer to riding the Gold Line. The Metro Gold Line is a 19.7 mile rail line train running from Pasadena to Downtown Los Angeles. The Foothill Gold Line is a 11 mile extension connecting Pasadena to Azusa. The entire city of Azusa is invited to celebrate the dedication of the Azusa Downtown and the Azusa Pacific University/Citrus
College stations on Sept. 19 from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The dedication celebrates the construction completion of the Foothill Gold Line. The extension will provide six additional stations to the twenty-one stations currently existing on Metro Gold Line route. The event will be held at the Azusa Downtown station located on 780 N. Alamenda Ave. in Azusa. Parking is available at the Azusa City Hall, Azusa Library and Azusa Senior Center. In the visionary stages, between 2004 and 2007, Citrus College representatives attended SEE G O LD LIN E • PAGE 5
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The new Azusa Gold Line Station will be dedicated on Sept. 19 in additon to the APU/Citrus Station. The stations will be open to the public spring 2016.
all that jazz
The Hot Club of San Francisco prepare to swing things up at the Haugh Performing Arts Center in honor of Gumby Fest with “Cinema Vivant.” PG. 10
Martha McDonald, Ed.D., has been a role model to Citrus students for more than 10 years and is the epitome of the American Dream. McDonald has been selected to serve as official vice president of student services at Citrus College. “My strong and hard work is what brought me to this level,” McDonald said. “I have always taken advantage of every opportunity given to me.” Despite coming from a self-described, harsh and humbling background, McDonald managed to raise herself up by her own bootstraps to find success at Citrus. She was born in Mexicali, Mexico and attended first third Evan Solano Clarion through Dr. Martha McDonald grade in Guawas announced dalajara before as the new vice moving to the president of Student Services United States at Convocation on where as an Aug. 21 immigrant she faced difficulties overcoming language barriers. She grew up in Santa Ana and graduated from Santa Ana High school, where her mother taught her to follow her dreams. Her mother, McDonald’s biggest influence, worked day and night to help to support their family and encouraged McDonald that education is the key to breaking up the poverty cycle that her family lived in “She was a strong believer in education because she was not able to obtain an education,” McDonald said. McDonald was the first of her family to attend college and was accepted into California State University Fullerton. As a first generation college student, she encountered many obstacles like working a full time job and getting little financial support from her family in pursuing her bachelor’s degree, so she joined S E E M C D ON ALD • PAGE 5