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RIVALS BY BRIAN WHITEHEAD ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Gary Bowers and Jeff Bailey shared the same sideline for years. They’ll be on opposite sides of the field for the first time on Friday.
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ary Bowers attempts to compose himself before he answers. His eyes start to well, though. His voice quivers a bit as he begins. “I don’t mean to be emotional, but he saved my life.” Jeff Bailey is “he.” And long before Bowers was Esperanza High’s first-year football coach, he was an Esperanza High football player. “I don’t know,” he continues. “I was going through high school. I was a meathead. I was kind of a jokester. I didn’t really take things
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He can think he’s still my player, but he’s an equal now.” JEFF BAILEY YORBA LINDA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH, ON ESPERANZA COACH GARY BOWERS
S E E C O A C H E S ● PA G E 4
ISAAC ARJONILLA, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Esperanza High football coach Gary Bowers, left, played for (at Esperanza) and coached under (at El Dorado) Yorba Linda coach Jeff Bailey.
Disney surprises band with $30,000 Esperanza High will replace uniforms, which are 14 years old.
Teachers advised to fight back or direct students to run if necessary.
BY SARAH TULLY ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
As they practiced on the baseball field Tuesday, Esperanza High band members weren’t quite sure why a camera crew was setting up, a bunch of their parents were carrying pompoms and a Disney employee was holding balloons. They knew some type of award or donation was coming. But some were shocked when the cover was peeled off an oversized
Deputies change direction on training schools for shootings BY DANIEL LANGHORNE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
ANA VENEGAS, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Esperanza High band director Brad Davis, right, celebrates a $30,000 contribution from the Disney VoluntEARS Community Fund on Tuesday afternoon.
check to reveal the amount: $30,000. The money came from the Disney VoluntEARS Community Fund, which is from Disneyland Resort
employee donations, usually taken from paychecks. The fund is giving S E E B A N D ● PA G E 2
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has kicked off a new policy to train local teachers how to react to a shooter on campus. Called “Deny Access, Engage, Evade,” it is being implemented by deputies and the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District. It is considered by many law enforcement officials – includ-
ing Lt. Bob Wren, chief of police services for Yorba Linda – to be a significant change in how educators are taught to deal with campus shootings. Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, teachers and students have been universally instructed to shelter in place and lock the door. Now, teachers and administrators are told they have options: to deny access to a
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classroom, evade a shooter by running from campus or fighting back with improvised weapons. On Monday, Wren met with staff members of Rose Drive Elementary. “I couldn’t leave yesterday,” Wren said in an interview Tuesday. “They essentially asked me to walk through every classroom. There was more immediacy, and this was obviously at the front of their thought process.” Wren and Sgt. Chris S E E T R A I N I N G ● PA G E 2