W e e k l y COLTON COURIER Features, Lifestyle & News You Can Use!
Vol 143, NO. 26
THISWEEK Gloria’s Corner
Relay for Life succeeds in providing hope for survivors
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Memorial Day Tribute: In Remembrance of All Who Served A9
CSUSB Arts Festival
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Salvador Gomez-Maldonado, 4, of san Bernardino with his father (decline to state). By Anthony Victoria
oung Salvador GomezMaldonado, 4, of San Bernardino ran around Colton High School’s football sta-
dium with full energy--hardly worrying about the harsh realities and consequences of a life-threatening disease At such a young age he has already experienced chemotherapy
in order to quell Leukemia. His mother Cynthia recounted the tough times their family experienced seeing Salvador receive
District recognizes dedicated CSUSB students Relay cont. on next page
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Courtesy Photo Cooley elementary school and Woodrow Wilson elementary school counselor Nina Torres (center) speaking about CsusB’s sociology Club’s commitment to the community during the CJusD board meeting on May 6.
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olton Joint Unified School District (CJUSD) officials awarded and recognized State San Bernardino’s
Sociology Club with the Employee Recognition and Education Partner Award for continuing to assist and mentor its students. The award is given to faculty,
staff, or community partners that have shown exemplary commitment to helping students of the CJUSD. CJUSD cont. on next page
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Click It or Ticket Campaign Starts May 18th
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nce again, The Colton Police Department is reminding motorists to Click It or Ticket. As part of the national seat belt enforcement campaign, law enforcement agencies around the country will be stepping up enforcement May 1831, including one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of the 21,132 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2013 were unrestrained. At night from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number soared to 59 percent of those killed. That’s why one focus of the Click It or Ticket campaign is enforcement. nighttime Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a noexcuses approach to seat belt law enforcement, writing citations day and night. In California, the minimum penalty for a seat belt violation is $161. Officers will be conducting nighttime’ seat belt enforcement operations during the two week Click It Or Ticket mobilization to help lower California’s traffic deaths. In addition to these special patrols, officers on routine patrol will also be looking for unrestrained drivers and passengers to stop and cite. California statistics reveal that 500 unrestrained vehicle occupants died in 2013. Almost twice as many males were killed in crashes as compared to females, with lower belt use rates too. Of the males killed in crashes in 2013, more than half (54%) were unrestrained. For females killed in crashes, 41 percent were not buckled up. “If you ask the family members of those unrestrained people who were killed in crashes, they’ll tell you—they wish their loved ones had buckled up,” added Corporal Mendez. “The bottom line is that seat belts save lives. If these enforcement crackdowns get people’s attention and get them to buckle up, then we’ve done our job.” For more information on the Click It or Ticket mobilization, please visit www.nhtsa.gov/ciot.