6 SIGNAL TRIBUNE COMMUNITY JULY 12, 2013 Long Beach City College Rancho inviting public to squish, names new athletics director
Long Beach City College Vice President of Student Support Services Dr. Gregory Peterson has announced the hiring of Joe Cascio as the college’s new athletic director. “I am pleased to announce that after a very competitive hiring process we have selected Joe Cascio as our new athletic director,” said Peterson. “President (Eloy) Oakley, Executive Vice President Lou Anne Bynum, and I were all very impressed by the leadership Joe has provided and the energy and experience he will bring to Long Beach City College.” Cascio will begin his new position at LBCC on Monday, July 15. “I was extremely excited when I first got the call,” Cascio said. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. There was no doubt in my mind that I had to go for it, and I couldn’t be happier to join a college with such an impressive athletic tradition.” Cascio comes to Long Beach after serving as project manager at Santa Monica College’s (SMC) athletic department since 2010. While at SMC, Cascio oversaw and directed a 17-team athletic program. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica and most recently served as associate head coach of the SMC men’s basketball team from 2007-2010. Cascio brings more than 20 years of coaching experience ranging from high school, the Amateur Athletic Union and college to LBCC. “I am pleased to welcome Joe Cascio to the LBCC athletic department, ” said Connie Sears, dean of Student Affairs, Kinesiology and Athletics. “Joe brings a great deal of experience and knowledge with him to the position. I look forward to working with Joe as we prepare for the upcoming school year and athletic seasons.” Cascio says he is well aware of the
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long athletic tradition at LBCC and looks to add to the college’s 89 state championships, which are currently the most in California community-college history. “I want to honor and respect the rich tradition at LBCC,” he said. “I want to build on that tradition. Eightynine state championships is only the beginning. It’s time to add more championships in multiple sports.” Cascio earned his masters of arts in physical education administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2008 and received his bachelor’s of arts in kinesiology from Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2007. He was also a student in the California community college system and earned an associate of arts degree in physical education from SMC in 2005. Cascio, his wife Yolanda, and their three children currently reside in Redondo Beach. His oldest daughter Jessica will be a junior at Long Beach State this fall while daughter Marissa and son Jackson both attend Redondo Union High School. Cascio replaces Randy Totorp, who served as interim athletic director at LBCC for the past two years. Totorp filled the position that was vacated by Larry Reisbig after he retired in 2011.
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Top pro sculptors to join 81st sand-sculpture contest in LB
Rotaract Long Beach has opened team registration for the 81st Annual Great Sand Sculpture Contest– a free, two-day community festival featuring amateur and professional sand sculpting, arts and crafts, live music and charity fundraising. This year’s event will take place Saturday, Aug. 10 and Sunday, Aug. 11 at Granada Beach, with all proceeds raised at the event benefitting the Long Beach Library Foundation. The theme of this year’s event is “Sculpting Literacy in Your Community.”
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Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site will host its annual Mud Mania event on Sunday, Aug. 11 from 12:30pm to 4:30pm. Admission will be $6 for adults and $4 for children ages 4 to 12; children 3 years and younger will be admitted free of charge. During Mud Mania: A Celebration of Adobe, guests will make real adobe bricks, plaster a wall with mud, construct a mini-adobe home, compete in mud relay races, and more as they learn about local adobe soil and its many uses throughout history. Adobe is one of the oldest and most common building materials known to man. Traditionally sun-dried, adobe Courtesy Rancho Los Cerritos blocks are made of sand, Mud Mania: A Celebration of Adobe will offer various activities, including clay, water and straw and were free play in the adobe pit. used to construct the home at Rancho Los Cerritos, which ities, including cuneiform no showers. was built 168 years ago. At writing on clay tablets, Mud The Rancho is located at Mud Mania, guests young and Mania trivia, and paper crafts. 4600 Virginia Rd., northwest old can squish and stomp mud Also, The Witcher Brothers of the intersection of Long in the adobe pit, where they will be performing lively blue- Beach Boulevard and San will learn all about building grass music throughout the Antonio Drive. Today Rancho homes with adobe bricks. Dig- event, and light refreshments Los Cerritos is one of the few ging through the adobe soil in will be available for purchase. remaining two-story adobes in the archaeology lab, they can For Mud Mania, attendees Southern California and is uncover lost treasures from should park in the overflow lot normally open Wednesdaybygone years: fragments of across from the Rancho Sunday between 1pm to 5pm kitchen pottery, metal cutlery entrance or on the street; car- for free tours; however, the and even bone from the cattle pooling is recommended. The house will be closed on and sheep that once grazed on Rancho requests that there be August 19 because of the the 27,000-acre Rancho. Par- no more than six children per muddiness of the event. Mud ticipants will also have an adult. Shoes are required, Mania is supported by Friends opportunity to see and touch except in the mud pit, and of Rancho Los Cerritos and different insects that live in guests are encouraged to wear Rancho Los Cerritos Historic the soil, make a clay pot, and old clothes and bring a towel Site, Long Beach Parks, play mud-related games. plus a change of attire for the Recreation & Marine. For For those who prefer to ride home. “De-mudding” sta- more information call (562) stay neat and tidy, Mud Mania tions will also be available for 570-1755 or visit ranoffers plenty of “clean” activ- limited clean-up, but there are choloscerritos.org .
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More than 10,000 people attended the contest last year, raising more than $4,000 in prior years for Miller Children’s Hospital of Long Beach and LINC Housing, according to Rotaract Long Beach. Registration for teams, event sponsors and vendors is now open. New to this year’s contest will be several top professional sculptors from around the nation. Cash prizes will be awarded for the best professional sculptors. Proceeds from the Great Sand Sculpture Contest will benefit the Long Beach Library Foundation ( LBPLF), a nonprofit charitable organization raising donations to support the programs, collections, services and programs of Long Beach Public Library. Rotaract Long Beach is asking all event participants and attendees to contribute either a monetary donation or one used or
new book to support the LBPLF in its mission to provide support to enhance the Long Beach Public Library and encourage literacy and education for all members of the community. Rotaract is seeking sponsors, which can include “day of” sponsorships or vending, in-kind donations and more. A number of sponsorship levels are available to help offset the costs of the event, which is staffed entirely by volunteers, and to generate donations for Library Foundation. Registration is free for the community, and there is a nominal fee for corporate sand-sculpting teams. To register as a team, sponsor or vendor, sign up at lbsandcastle.com or contact Rotaract Long Beach at gssc@rotaractlb.org . Source: Rotaract LB
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Kitten season has flooded our shelter with baby cats, and in Stormy’s situation, flood is in a literal sense. The 3-month-old little fellow was trapped in a drain. He was thin when we got him, but he has a healthy appetite and is very loving. Meet Stormy on the shelter side of Companion Animal Village at 7700 East Spring St., (562) 570PETS. Ask for ID# A498597. Sponsored by:
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Proceeds from the Great Sand Sculpture Contest will benefit the Long Beach Library Foundation ( LBPLF), a nonprofit charitable organization raising donations to support the programs, collections, services and programs of Long Beach Public Library.