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January 17, 2014
Around Town Former mentor visits Moresi
Concord honors Colin Tittel for US Marines Eagle Scout project Life Scout Colin Tittel of Troop 444 led volunteers in assembling 250 care packages in November to be sent to the
United States Marines as his Eagle Scout project. This was the culmination of a year-long effort by the De La Salle High
COLIN TITTEL STAGES THE 250 CARE PACKAGES he organized to send to the Marines for his Eagle Scout project.
School junior to provide some comfort and a small taste of home to the Marines serving in a remote part of Afghanistan. Colin was always interested in the military and wanted to do something for his Eagle Project that would benefit members of the Armed Forces. Through a letter campaign, he raised almost $5,500 in donations. He and volunteers collected another $2,500 and four truckloads of goods such as food and pocket warmers. After assembling the packages, Colin met with Clayton Postmaster Judy Corbett to schedule a mail truck to pick up the boxes. Colin was honored for his efforts at the Concord City Council meeting on Dec. 3. Colin will have his Eagle Scout board of review in late January or early February.
ED MORESI VISITS WITH HIS high school home economics teacher, Phyllis “The Judge” McAfee, now retired.
So, one wonders, was Ed Moresi born running good restaurants, or did he have to learn just like everyone else? The answer was clear when, over the holidays, Moresi was paid a visit at Ed’s Mudville Grill by his mentor, former Clayton Valley High School home economics instructor, 89-year-old Phyllis
McAfee. Known as “Judge,” a nickname she was given in college, McAfee had “always wanted to return and say hello to Ed,” according to her caregiver, Clayton resident Pricilla Mercado. The reunion “was a really cool moment,” Mercado said. “Ed gave her a big hug, and they held
hands and reminisced,” she said. McAfee founded and taught an all-boys cooking class at CVHS, and something she taught there must have rubbed off on Ed, who graduated in 1975 and now owns the popular Mudville and Moresi’s Chophouse. “Judge taught me things about cooking and running my business I still use today,” says Moresi, who says he was “thrilled” by the unexpected visit. “You learned things in Judge’s kitchen that you didn’t learn in your Grandma’s,” he says. “Like there’s no such thing as a ‘smidge’ or a ‘pinch,’” Moresi says. “Judge was like her name implied.” McAfee was also vice principal at Mount Diablo Elementary in Clayton, but now lives in Lafayette.
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Carter Newton achieves highest Scouting rank On Jan. 19, Clayton’s safety enhancement Carter Newton will stand project on the campus before fellow scouts, leadof Berean Christian ers, family friends and local High School, his alma dignitaries at the Eagle mater. Scout Court of Honor to Eagle Scout is the receive the highest rank highest rank achievable possible in the Boy Scouts in the Boy Scouts and of America. Along with is only awarded after CARTER his medal and badge, Claythe scout completes a NEWTON ton’s mayor Hank Stratford major community servwill present Carter with a procla- ice project. Carter’s project mation naming Jan. 19, 2014 involved adding handrails and a Carter Newton Day in Clayton. chain link barrier to a walkway to Carter, a member of BSA separate it from cars entering the Troop 484, earned his rank last parking lot from the street. To August when he completed a achieve his Eagle Scout ranking,
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Carter planned, guided and managed the project with the help of a dozen or more fellow scouts, parents and skilled volunteers who completed the improvements in two days. “It was a very personal and profitable learning process,” notes Carter. Especially managing and directing adults who are experts in their fields, and experienced managers themselves.” Carter is the son of Tamara and Phil Newton and a June 2013 graduate of Berean Christian School. He is currently attending Diablo Valley College.
FOR HIS EAGLE SCOUT COMMUNITY PROJECT, CARTER NEWTON designed and managed the construction of a protected walkway at Berean High School.
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