COLTON COURIER Weekly
May 07, 2026
Vol 154, NO. 24
Colton and Grand Terrace Students Unite Arts, Welding Skills for New Public Sculpture Debut
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PHOTO CJUSD A Colton High School Welding Pathway student and teacher stand beside the new Grand Terrace steel sculpture, which students helped fabricate for public display.
PHOTO CJUSD Students from Grand Terrace and Colton high schools take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new public art installation highlighting Grand Terrace landmarks, history and community identity.
By IECN Staff
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The sculpture, which has been years in the making, was created by the combined efforts of students and teachers from the two schools. Commissioned by Arevon Energy for the Condor Battery Storage Facility in Grand Terrace, it hangs on a block wall outside the facility, on Taylor Street just north of Main Street. It satisfies
steel sculpture celebrating the Grand Terrace community and created through a collaboration between the Grand Terrace High School A.R.T.S Pathway and the Colton High School Welding Pathway made its public debut on May 1 in an Unveiling Celebration bringing together CJUSD and
a city requirement for public art to accompany new city projects. GTHS students designed the sculpture to represent their city, with design elements depicting things such as wild burros, honey bees, the railroad and Cal Skate. “Our students, tasked with designing a CJUSD, cont. next pg.
Inland Empire May Day March Draws 1,000, Spotlights Labor Rights, Immigration, Environmental Justice Redlands’ Texonia Park to Receive $1 Million for Inclusive Playground, Safety Upgrades Pg. 4
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PHOTO MANNY SANDOVAL Members of SEIU Local 721 march through downtown San Bernardino on May 1, carrying signs calling for public sector jobs and quality working conditions during the May Day demonstration.
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early 1,000 people marched through downtown San Bernardino on May 1, bringing labor, immigrant rights and environmental justice groups together for a May Day demonstration that shut down a major city intersection and amplified calls for work-
PHOTO MANNY SANDOVAL A marcher holds a sign reading “Trump: Hands Off Our Unions!” as a crowd of participants rallies behind them during the May Day protest.
er protections, community investment and an end to immigration raids.
Justice, began at 1:30 p.m. at Feldheym Public Library.
The march, organized by the People’s Collective for Environmental Justice with support from the Warehouse Workers Resource Center, Inland Empire Labor Institute, Inland Empire Labor Council and Inland Coalition for Immigrant
Participants moved through downtown San Bernardino, stopping at City Hall and the San Bernardino Immigration Field Office before gathering at E Street and Rialto Avenue, where demonstrators haltMay Day, cont. next pg.