LA VERNE, California, January 21, 2018 — Trevor was born to wear a hard hat. He’s was at his best, fearlessly swinging off the sides of high rises, 20 or 50 stories high, installing rebar. He’s a union ironworker. He helped build the Wilshire Grand downtown and scads of other skyscrapers that now touch the […]
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LA VERNE, California, December 12, 2017 — While many teams this season may outsize Bonita, few will likely be able to out-hustle or outlast the Bearcats. And that script pretty much played out on Monday night at Ketterling Court in La Verne as Bonita finished strong to defeat a tough Australian team, 75-59. Australia’s […]
LA VERNE, California, November 10, 2017 — The early college pre-season news hasn’t been good. Three UCLA basketball players have been detained in China on the suspicion of shoplifting sunglasses from a Louis Vuitton store. Their plight could upend UCLA’s season before it even starts. You would think all players would know the […]
Brittany Massro. Now there’s a soccer blast from the past. In her freshman year at Bonita High School, (2001-02), she helped lead her team to a CIF ladies soccer championship from her goalie position. She was a varsity starter all four years. After graduating, and red-shirting her freshman year because of a broken left ankle, […]
LA VERNE, California, October 3, 2017 — When a gunman opened fire on the crowd that had come to watch Jason Aldean perform at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, several people with La Verne or Bonita High School connections were there in what has now become the […]
LA VERNE, Calif., June 4, 2017 — In today’s YouTube world, the most coveted title on Bonita High School campus may no longer be high school quarterback, prom queen, or class valedictorian, but rather, staff member on “The Pawse,” a fast-paced, comedic, student-run video concluding its second memorable season. Comprising the staff for the […]
There’s a new education sheriff in town, and his name is Derek Bub, principal of Bonita High School. Actually, he took over in the fall of 2015 from the retiring Bob Ketterling who masterfully guided Bonita for 17 years as principal. In handing over his duties and responsibilities to Bub, Ketterling’s advice was succinct: “Here […]
What does recent history tell us? Damien’s football field was named after its great coach Dick Larson. Similarly, the Spartan’s ball yard was named after longtime athletic director Tom Carroll. You can find both stories on LaVerneOnline. Meanwhile, Bonita’s football field has long donned the name of Glenn Davis, the high school’s multi-sport star who […]
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 […]
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 […]