Local Students Shine During Optimist Oratorical Contest

  Pomona, CA – Once again the Pomona Breakfast Optimist Club, in conjunction with Pomona Unified School District, rallied students from throughout the Pomona Valley  to participated in the Pomona Breakfast Optimist Club’s Oratorical Contest, based on a theme of “Cyber Communication: Progress or Problem?” as part of the Optimist  International Oratorical Contest for 2010. [...]

Young Scholars

We want to congratulate  Victory Lopez, Kendell Graves and Dwight Pennington who competed at the It’s All About Me Youth Symposium and Oratorical Contest at the Rita D. Walters Learning Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 13th.  Ms. Lopez and Mr. Graves won 1st and 2nd prize respectively. We are extremely proud of our [...]

Women’s HerStory Month Remembers Trailblazer and Civic Leader Paula Smith

Upland, CA — Paula V. Smith, a former top-level government administrator and a one-time member of the St. Louis School Board, recently died of breast cancer at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care in St. Louis, Missouri; she was 76 years old. Coming from very humble beginnings, Ms. Smith dropped out of school at the age of 16, [...]

4.4-Quake Rattles Southern California

Los Angeles, CA — Students had a rude awakening as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake hit one mile east, northeast from Pico Rivera and three miles south, southwest of the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area Tuesday along the Whittier Fault Line.The quake shook the earth at 4:04am and lasted a mere three seconds. No injuries have been [...]

An Alarming Decline of Minorities and Women in STEM Fields

The number of women and minorities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has decreased at an alarming rate over the past years. STEM executive respondents in the September 2008 Bayer Facts of Science Education Survey XII say there is a significant shortage of STEM talent, especially of women and minorities. Of [...]

California Student Protests Spread After Noose Incident

Los Angeles, CA – A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance. “What kind of campus promotes an environment that allows people to think it’s [...]

Community Assistance Program Seminars in March

The Mayor and City Council invite the public to explore the no-cost or low-cost seminars available through the Community Assistance Program (CAP) in the month of March. Seminars take place at the Cypress Center, located at 8380 Cypress Avenue, Fontana, Ca. 92335. Please register for seminars prior to attending. The following seminars are available in [...]

Heman G. Stark Facility Closes to Juvenile Offenders

Sacramento, CA – The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation today officially closed the doors of the Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility, ending 50 years of treating juvenile offenders and beginning the institution’s transition to exclusively house adult inmates.    Closure of the facility in Chino, which had been the state’s largest for juvenile [...]

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