Director of Development Jane Woods takes a moment to enjoy a view of the holiday lights from the street. To view the lights, visit LeRoy Haynes Center at 233 W. Baseline Road, La Verne.
The kids at LeRoy Haynes Center in La Verne enjoyed cookies and cocoa and had a chance to sit on Santa’s knee last week as some 35,000 lights and nearly two miles of extension cords were turned on to celebrate the holiday season. This year’s lighting project, designed by Doug Henton, LeRoy Haynes’ facilities manager, […]
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I swear there’s one guy who gets more air time than either President Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney, and he is actor Bill Cobbs. The ubiquitous actor, who appears in the current ABC sitcom “Going On” with Matthew Perry, has been in Star Trek Enterprise, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, The […]
After gorging yourself on candy and Halloween parties, it time to give a little something back. And there’s no better opportunity than this Friday, Nov. 2, when the Damien High School Spartans host Charter Oak at Dick Larson Stadium. Sponsored by the Damien High School Community Service Outreach Club, volunteers will be accepting toys at […]
For all you E-readers out there, Life Lessons of a Harvard Reject by Peter Bennett (published October 2012) is now available on the Amazon Kindle, the world’s best-selling E-reader. “Although I prefer real books and dog-eared pages,” Bennett said, “I understand that about half of all books are now read on electronic devices. In an […]
Our elected officials in Sacramento have failed to develop a state budget that protects the students of California. The Governor’s budget includes both spending cuts and will put in place appalling “trigger cuts” for education. Proposition 30, “The Protect Schools and Public Safety Act of 2012”, is the only initiative on the November ballot that […]
Normally green-and-white clad Bonita High School is changing its colors. This month, the Bonita Spirit is selling pink poms for $3 each and donating all the proceeds from its sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation in honor of the squad’s own Irene Montague who passed at the beginning of the school year. Bonita […]
All of us receive a lot of advice each day, either from loved ones, critics, teachers, frenemies, Dr. Oz or Oprah. Some of it might even be good. Before the start of the Bonita-Rowland football game, Pete on the Street asked a handful of Bonita fans what was the best advice they ever received. Their […]
New La Verne Heights principal Patrick McKee lives in a fishbowl, and that’s exactly the way he likes it. His office boasts large vertical windows through which students can keep an eye on their new school chief. They often wave or flash him a wide toothy grin, and he cheerfully smiles back. His career has […]
At the University of La Verne, the aim is to produce not only well-educated individuals but also well-rounded ones. Students are required to put in a certain amount of time doing community service, and here is another example of that. A group of incoming freshmen and their leader, junior Ziggy Azarcon, spent last Saturday, two […]
There was so much applause at Bonita high school on Tuesday night that you would have thought the school had just won another CIF championship or league title. But the applause was for the official opening of the new $7.7 million Bonita gym (retrofitting and modernization of the old gym continues), which drew a […]
