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Thursday, February 10 - February 16, 2011
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BY TERRY MILLER
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Volume XIX, No. VI
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Huge Fiscal Arcadia High School Teenager Helps get Fresh Crisis Could Fruit to Hundreds of People in Los Angeles Impact County Every Week Arcadia USD -Layoffs Loom
Arcadia Unified School District is in the process of studying the layoff process involving the possibility of reducing a potential 60 classified employees. We’re talking about possibly “laying off positions, not people” Superintendent Dr. Joel Shawn told Arcadia Weekly Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Shawn said that his budget has been reduced by $3.1 Million and could be closer to $5 Million next year. “We’re in a huge fiscal crisis” Shawn said. The state has handed school districts a 40%-60% education cut. “The state problems need to be solved NOW!” The superintendent told Beacon Media that simply put the state is not funding local schools and local districts have to be much more creative with their fundraising. He said he felt Governor Brown’s proposed budget proposal is sound. Despite reports to the contrary, Arcadia Educational Foundation is NOT seeking a voter approved parcel tax to offset the deficit. “That is not even on the table…” Lisa Lucas, Vice President of Arcadia Educational Foundation said in a telephone interview Wednesday afternoon with Beacon Media. Lucas also said that while some schools are seeing declining enrollment, approximately 50 percent of districts are seeing growth. Lucas said their annual fundraising appeal this year is a letter that went out to Arcadia residents but unfortunately there was a Post Office snafu and not all letters were received. If you’d like to donate to AEF please see their website: www.aef. ausd.net The following is a copy
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Prostestors’ Arraignment Postponed Until Feb18
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fficial arraignment of the people arrested for climbing into one hundred yearold trees in an attempt to prevent the county of Los Angeles from destroying those trees in Arcadia last month was postponed.
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Schiff Deplores Egyptian Goverment’s Use of Force, Attacks on Free Press
producing. There was no way they could consume all the trees’ bounty each season so what better thing to do than donate to a food bank. Admittedly Zach does use a computer, but mostly for to create a data base of information for this vast project he has undertaken. “It all started one summer when the Guava tree in our backyard was overloaded with fruit.” Zach told the Arcadia Weekly on Saturday. “ We ate a lot, we gave away a lot, and yet we still had a tree full of the fruit.” The inspiration came to the Selbys that harvesting surplus fruit from not only their own trees but those of their neighbors might be a enormous help to those less fortunate through the nearby
Rep. Schiff, released the following statement following the eruption of violence in Egypt this week, as security forces have used batons, water-cannons, rubber bullets and tear-gas cannons against its own citizens who were peacefully demonstrating. Egyptian security services have also attacked international journalists, including a CNN reporter and camera crew, a German television newsman and a BBC reporter. Other journalists have been beaten and arrested, including some whose whereabouts are unknown. “I deplore the use of force to silence the peaceful protests of a broadrange of ordinary Egyptians and urge the Egyptian government to exercise maximum restraint. As the Egyptian people call for economic justice, an end to corruption and for freedom of speech and expression, President Mubarak and his government have an opportunity to lead Egypt
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Zach Selby, top, started the organization Fruit for all Kids last April. Zach along with hus mother Judith and volunteers and friends like Casey Thompson, below, spend their weekends picking fruit for local food banks - Photos by Terry Miller BY TERRY MILLER
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ews Flash: Not every teenager is preoccupied with texting, computers, video games and Facebook. In fact, we recently met a rather unique Junior at Arcadia High School who spends a good deal of his spare time outdoors in the fresh air helping his fellow man. Zach Selby, 17, gets into some physically exacting work, picking fresh fruit from trees, boxing that fruit and delivering the copious yield to places such as the Foothill Unity Center and Los Angeles Mission. – all with a little help from his friends and family. Selby, and his brother Jackson, who is a freshman at Arcadia High, decided they needed to do something with the excess fruit their own trees were