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ongratulations. You made it. It’s been nearly nine months since Placentia last saw any gridiron action, but this month that all changes. The Placentia News-Times recognizes the city’s insatiable thirst for high school football and has amped up coverage. Want to see a preview, roster, schedule, photos and the projected stars of your team? We have them, a full page devoted to each of our high schools that you can tack up and refer to during the upcoming season. This week our coverage takes a look at Yorba Linda and El Dorado. While the teams qualified for the 20 1 2 playoffs, both suffered stinging first-round defeats. Can they take the next step this season? We’re ready to find out. Are you? PREVIEWS: PAGES 1 0-1 1
A close look at each team This week, the Placentia News-Times spotlights El Dorado High (Page 1 0) and Yorba Linda High (Page 1 1). Upcoming editions will provide more in-depth coverage: Aug. 22: Esperanza High, Valencia High Aug. 29: Kickoff special, with staff predictions
El Dorado High’s football squad has its first full-speed, full-pads practice this week at the school’s football field. ED CRISOSTOMO, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Updates to schools await students this fall BY LOUIS CASIANO JR. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District students might notice some much-needed improvements when they return to the school next month. The district is working on improvement projects at some of its schools, including upgrades to Bradford Stadium and modernization of the former community college classrooms for Yorba Linda High School. This summer’s construction is an extension of larger upgrades started after the passing of the Measure A bond in 2008. The cost for the summer construction is $8.7 million,
which is paid for through Measure A and the state. Valencia High School, the district’s oldest campus, will get the most attention from construction crews. “Part of the Measure A Bond campaign was to really look at some of the needs at Valencia High School,” said Rick Guaderrama, the district’s director of maintenance and facilities. “There was a lot of master planning that was involved with the site, the staff and the community.” The school also is getting new science and orchestra buildings and replacing damaged concrete. Bradford Stadium will soon get ticket booth and
restroom upgrades, asphalt replacement and improvements to its concession building. “We’ve done so much work there (Valencia), we’ve really transformed that campus,” Guaderrama said. At Yorba Linda High, classrooms from a former North Orange County Community College District campus will get upgrades to accommodate students. Fencing at Yorba Linda Middle School and Bryant Ranch Elementary School is being installed, and Travis Ranch Middle School will get new heating and air conditioning systems. A 638-seat performing arts center at the El Dorado High School campus will open in the fall. The center will serve as a concert hall S E E S C H O O L S ● PA G E 2
Reaction swift to fruit fly discovery BY LOUIS CASIANO JR. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Authorities are getting the jump on fruit flies this summer after one was discovered in a fly trap last month near La Jolla Street and the 57. Employees with the California Department of Food and Agriculture discovered an Oriental fruit fly on July 17 while checking fly traps in the area. Once a fly is found, protocol calls for the agency to increase the number of traps to 25 per square mile over a five-mile radius. The traps are checked for an additional 8 square miles beyond the coverage area. They are checked every two weeks. “Usually that day or the
FILE PHOTO: JEBB HARRIS, THE REGISTER
Traps lure fruit flies with an attractant mixed with pesticide that causes the females to go unmated.
next day, we’ve got staff out there setting additional traps,” agency spokesman Jay Van Rein said. The flies are known to attack more than 230 crops, including fruits and vegeta-
bles by laying eggs under the skin, allowing maggots to feed on the pulp, making it inedible. At bait stations, a male S E E F LY ● PA G E 2