El Chicano March 26 2015

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e e k l y W EL CHICANo Features, Lifestyle & News You Can Use!

Vol 52, NO. 15

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CSUSB photography professor Thomas McGovern speaks to students during the reception of his exhibit, “Hard Boys + Bad Girls”, which tells the story of young people that live their fantasies of greatness through professional wrestling at the Gresham Art Gallery on March 24.

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al State San Bernardino photography professor Tom McGovern was riding his bike down E Street on a day

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back in 2001, when suddenly he heard loud thumping noises emanating from inside a small store. “It happened by accident,” McGovern recalls. “I saw this store front that said, ‘School of Hard Knocks Professional Wrestling

Training. I said to myself, ‘It has to be closed, I mean who does that?’” As he took a peek inside the store, McGovern would realize the noisWrestling cont. on next page

San Manuel honors local nonprofits with Yawa’ Awards

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State Teacher of Year Applications

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AN BERNARDINO – The San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools is accepting applications for nominees for the California Teachers of the Year program for 2016. County Schools’ Human Resources is coordinating the selection process for this year’s program, on behalf of the California Department of Education. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 7, 2015. San Bernardino County will coordinate the selection of one teacher for every 5,000 teachers in the county. Winners of the county competition will be forwarded to be considered for the state contest. The same application materials are used for both the county and statewide Teachers of the Year programs. Materials, including program information, eligibility criteria and the application, are available through the California Department of Education’s website at the following link: www.cde.ca.gov/ta/sr/ct . For more information, contact Nancy Johnson of County Schools’ Human Resources at 909.386.9570.

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Left to right: Pat Gordon, Indian Youth of America; Erin Phillips, Children’s Fund; Cheryl Marshall, Crafton Hills College; and Father Michael Barry, Mary Mercy’s Center. They were all recipients of San Manuel Band of Mission Indian’s Yawa’ Awards. Orange Show on Tuesday March Fund, and Crafton Hills College By Anthony Victoria 24, four non-profit organizations were the recipients of the Yawa’ were rewarded for their philan- award, which to the Yuhaviatam t the seventh annual thropic work in local communities. (People of the Pines) of the San Forging Hope awards cer- Mary’s Mercy Center, Indian emony at the National Youth of America, the Children’s Yawa’ on next page

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an Bernardino Generation Now’ is organizing its weekly park clean-up at Seccombe Lake Park on Saturday April 4. It will consist of picking up trash, sweeping, repairing what we can, and interacting with the community. Bring rakes, brooms, shovels, gloves and whatever else you may need. Meet up place will be by the softball fields at 3:00 p.m. For more information, contact Jorge Heredia at (909) 277-4394.


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