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– ‘Little School That Does More Than Try’ BY SUSAN MOTANDER
Isabella Munoz listens intently during an after-school science lab.
– Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
City Prepares Field for Monrovia Youth Baseball
“Students in public schools are there because they have to be,” observed Mike Winterrowd, the president of the I.C. School Board. “Our students are here because they want to be.” A conversation with a few of the older students from Immaculate Conception School quickly reveals this to be true. It was clear they appreciate its many aspects. These students, from the seventh and eighth grader (all of them 13 and 14 year-olds) spoke enthusiastically about the programs at the small school. The students did not think the size of the school was a negative. Isabella Munoz and Isabella Avitia both spoke enthusiastically SEE PAGE 10
Old Town Report
BY SUSAN MOTANDER City staff is busy preparing the Barney Glenn Field at Recreation Park, getting it ready for Opening Day of the Monrovia Youth Baseball League. Opening Day festivities are set for Saturday, Feb. 12. The improvements scheduled for the field include laser leveling, installing new dirt and clay on the field itself. Landscaping improvements are also being made along
The parochial school at Immaculate Conception Church is celebrating National Catholic Schools Week. This is an especially celebratory week for the school as it is beginning its 95th year of existence, so it seemed an appropriate time to visit the small school in Monrovia. The school has gone through many changes over the years including a brief period of coordination with the school at Annunciation Church. Now, back to a stand-alone school at the local Church, the school is going still going strong which may seem a strange comment about a school with only 84 students; but a few minutes of conversation with some of the students and meeting the faculty validates that observation.
BY PAM FITZPATRICK
with repairs to the lighting at the field. The Opening Day festivities will begin with a Pancake Breakfast at the Monrovia Historical Museum in Library Park. The Opening Day Ceremony will be on the field at 10:30 a.m. Please RSVP to Jack Taylor (jtaylor@tcusd.net) or Jon Brusseau (jbrus-seau.mybl@gmail.com) by Feb. 21.
If I’ve learned anything in my life, it’s this: if you want to be heard, you have to be vocal, and persistently so. It’s useless to sit back and feel left out, angry, disenfranchised or even worse – disengaged. You have to communicate.
But even the most vocal among us need direction; we need a way to connect -- we need to know who to ask for that direction. When lost, we used to pull into a gas station and hope for the best – now we use naviSEE PAGE 11
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