January 31, 2013
Ramona Sentinel
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Sentinel photo/Maureen Robertson
Among Arriba Teen Center Board members are, from left, Vice President Jason Carney, President Kim Lasley, Director Jake Doomey, and Secretary Nancy Roy. The teen center, open three days a week, is at 1710 Montecito Road.
Skateboard business owners join Arriba Teen Center Board Jason Carney and Jake Doomey, owners of Slappy’s Skateboard Garage at 944 A St., have joined Arriba Teen Center Board, Carney as vice president and Doomey as a director. “We would like to see this place grow,” Doomey said at the board’s Jan. 24 meeting in the teen center at 1710 Montecito Road. As board members, they can be more involved in center activities, he said, adding that he and Carney, a professional skateboarder, have “a lot of ideas.” One of them combines their passion for skateboarding with local interest in establishing a skateboard park in Ramona. They’ve been working on the possibility of a skateboard park in town for the past two years, they said.
Also during the meeting, Kim Lasley was re-elected Arriba board president, Nancy Roy will continue as board secretary, and Sharon Greene will continue as treasurer. Joe Baima, an adult volunteer at the center, is in charge of public relations. Also on the board are directors Liz Schaude, Dawn Perfect, Katie Baima, Barbara Wallace, and Milly Utech. The teen center is open on a drop-in basis to all middle school and high school students from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The center would be open more days and hours if it had more adult volunteers. For more information about the center or about volunteering, call the center at 760-788-6443 or Lasley at 760-7881438.
Student brings camel for show and tell Warner Unified School District teacher Mindy Wong was slightly stunned when her third-grade student, Harrison Staker-Littrel, asked if he could bring his 800-pound camel, Ava, to school for show and tell. Wong sensed a learning opportunity for the entire school and gave her consent. Two days later, Ava was the guest of honor at Warner Spring’s kindergarten through 12th-grade campus of 202 students. Ava lives on the Staker-Littrel ranch in Chihuahua Valley near Warner Springs. Her visit to school was a short detour from a trip to Los Angeles where she had a paying gig as a supporting cast member in a Christmas nativity scene. Harrison’s dad, Jeff Littrel, transported Ava to school and delivered a detailed presentation about camels. Students learned that camels can drink salt water, have three stomachs, and “one-hump” camels—dromedary camels—no longer exist in the wild.
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Jeff Littrel shows Ava the camel and gives a presentation on camels to students in the Warner Unified School District. Ava lives on the Staker-Littrel ranch in Chihuahua Valley.
“This has to be the most impressive show and tell I’ve seen in the 11 years I’ve been teaching,” said Wong, who teaches third and fourth grades. Warner Unified has received awards for its agricultural education program.
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