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Electrician recovering from explosion Amanda Mayberry Staff Writer
and play their home games had a major effect on the recruitment of players. This was a challenge for Hines and his staff. “We were put in a bad situation, but we did not dwell or whine. We made the best out of it,” Hines said. Hines and his staff faced the challenge of recruiting players without a baseball facility while opposing coaches used that as a recruiting tool.
On-campus electrician Jeff Daclan, recovering from a small explosion in the H8 building, was discharged from Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center on Monday. The explosion caused a power outage in H8 and G8 buildings, evacuated classrooms and left one man injured on April 10. The G8 building reopened for students and teachers Monday. Electricity was restored to the G8 building last week on April 16, but classes return to the building on Monday. The H8 building was reopened Tuesday. The school closed the two buildings after Daclan shorted out the electricity, setting himself on fire in H8 during a class. Daclan went to the H8 building to fix some broken ovens in one of the chemistry classrooms. While attempting to fix the ovens, he experienced an arc-flash, which is a small explosion that set him on fire. The main breaker which Daclan was attempting to fix was located in a small electrical closet in H8.
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Home sweet home Huskies set foot on renovated baseball field
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Carlos Alvarez Staff Writer After 32 consecutive road games this season, the baseball team finally played at home on the newly renovated Husky Park, defeating Los Angeles Harbor College 6-4 last Saturday. Head Coach James Hines said,”The baseball field is not fully completed but is in good playing condition. The field is now labeled as significantly completed. We are glad to have a field to call home.
“It’s hard to play a home game our field from a gardener,” Hines when most of the crowd is cheering said. for your opponent.” Hines and Athletic Director “What was to be Al Cone a one-year project approached “It’s hard to play a turned to five years former ELAC of construction, President home game when with many missed Ernest Moreno, most of the crowd deadlines and who confirmed is cheering for your that the field miscommunication w i t h was going to opponent” administration. be used for James Hines “There was a parking space. Head Coach need for parking, With the but we found out we were losing increase of students and the
construction of two parking structures, the necessity for parking space became a priority for administration. “People from the facilities department and other administration did not communicate with us,” Hines said. Hines said he knew of the situation the school faced, he was surprised because he was not notified about it. The lack of a baseball field and facility along with the uncertainty of where the team would practice
South Gate Center plans to relocate pending environmental report JC Casarez Staff Writer
A growing number of students at East Los Angeles College’s South Gate campus has cause ELAC faculty to consider more options to accommodate more classes. The current plan is to transition the campus from its current location on Firestone Boulevard to the property located across the street that occupies the area between Alameda Street and Santa Fe Avenue. The latest development has been the completion of the environmental impact testing which is required to assure there are no hazards before any construction can begin. For years, the South Gate Campus has been pushed to the limits of its capacity. The next step in the process is for the environmental impact report, which includes the results of the testing. That report will be available in May and will be presented at the August meeting
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for the Los Angeles Community College District. With the latest designs and environmental results complete, the decision must be made by the LACCD board of trustees. The initial designs of the architectural firm of Terry A. Hayes Associates Inc. first included a layout of 134,000 square feet which has since been reduced to about 100,000 square feet. Other changes that have taken place since the initial plans is that the district has now been working with the City of South Gate to address the issues of lighting and street construction that would be required for safety. This could include future plans to widen Firestone Boulevard to facilitate traffic. At the forefront of all this process is Al Rios, who is the Dean of the South Gate campus. “Well, they wanted close to $20 million worth of improvements for the streets, expanding, the lights because of the flow of traffic and we said we thought the amount was in excess of what we were prepared
Milestone deadline
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Attributing potential — The former offices of THE HON Company located at 2413
Firestone Boulevard, serve as the potential site of South Gate Educational center pending a decision at the August Los Angeles Community College District meeting.
to give them,” Rios said. According to Rios, ELAC was prepared to give the city of South Gate $6 million for expenses, but the city wanted more. He went on to say that this could be the result of the city which has worked with the Los Angeles Unified School
The deadline for submissions to East Los Angeles College’s literary magazine the Milestone is next Wednesday. Bring three copies of the piece of work to the English Department at K7-107 to be considered for the publication.
District in the construction of recent schools in South Gate, getting used to asking for a certain figure. “They’ve had to build a lot of schools around here and they (South Gate) didn’t get everything they wanted. The residents are now
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High school student are participating in college events to help prepare the transition to college on Friday at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
complaining about traffic and now they’re trying to take it out on us,” Rios said. These type of actions are what prompted the district to get involved since they have the experience in dealing with city governments when needed. “The
district has spearheaded this and they have more experience,” Rios said. After speaking with some city council members, Rios feels confident that the city will give the district a reasonable figure to work with and fully support the college’s plans to move forward in the project for expansion. Results pending, this would create more open classes to all students who attend the South Gate campus. Under the current setting, the South Gate campus offers 17 classrooms and would increase to 32 classrooms with the future move. On April 12, the city of South Gate was given the master plan drawings to review. The next step of the process is in the hands of the district if they agree to the plans and find no issues in the environmental impact report which will be under review at the August meeting. “If the board says okay go ahead and construct this, then we move along and get the bids out for a construction company,” Rios said.
ELAC choir presents free night of music
East Los Angeles College Choir, St. Bede the Venerable choir and St. Bede Chamber Orchestra will perform Antonio Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Magnificat” for free May 11 at the S2 Recital Hall at ELAC’s Performing Arts Complex.