W e e k l y COLTON COURIER
Vol 147 , NO. 04
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Januar y 1 0, 2019
H ar va r d U n ive r s i t y g r a d u a t e an d C o l t o n n a t ive inspires Inland Empire to wor ld of sci ence By Manny B. Sandoval
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r. Adriana Briscoe is not only a Colton native… she is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard universities and currently, she is an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at University of California, Irvine.
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Briscoe, who was born in Hawaii, graduated from Colton High School in 1988, at the time she was one of approximately 20 students who went on to college. “I was inspired to get a higher education by my mother and great-grandfather who were both teachers. My father was a librarian and my grandmother always admired education; my grandmother actually went back to school and received a bachelor’s degree in her 60’s and became a teacher for one year,” said Briscoe.
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Dr. Adriana Briscoe, center holding plaque, is an ecology and evolutionary biology professor at University of California, Irvine.
After high school, Briscoe graduated from Stanford University with bachelor’s degrees in biologBriscoe, cont. on next page
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Mike Hadden replaced Mark Owens as the city’s Chief of Police on Dec. 8, 2018.
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n December 8, 2018, Mike Hadden was appointed Chief of Police for the City of Colton, replacing retiring Chief Mark Owens. Chief Hadden began his service with the Colton Police Department in 1989 as a patrol officer. In 1991, he was assigned to the Traffic Unit and in 1992 to motorcycles. Also in 1992, Hadden joined the Department’s SWAT Team where he served for ten years. In 1997, Hadden transferred back to Patrol where, along with patrol duties, he performed as a Forensics Officer and Field Training Officer. In 2001, Hadden was promoted to Sergeant. He served various assignments supervising the Motorcycle Unit, patrol shifts, and the Gang Unit. Hadden’s last assignment as a Sergeant was as the Department’s Internal Affairs Investigator. In 2013, Hadden was promoted to Lieutenant. Hadden, cont. on pg. 2