Vol. 51, No.13
Serving the San Gabriel Valley Since 1966
March 27, 2013
Special Section
Local Events
Chamber
Sports
Student's Corner
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City of El Monte Hosts Delegation of Chinese Students
by Chelsea Dickerson
The El Monte community hosted a delegation of students from China last week in a partnership to raise awareness of other cultures. The 48 students, age 7-12, from the Harbin Zhongshanlu Primary School spent two weeks in El Monte learning about American language, customs and history and visiting Southern California museums and attractions. The students also attended classes at California State University, Dominguez Hills. “Hosting the delegation was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about how these Chinese students live, while sharing what is important in our culture,” said El Monte
City Councilman Bart Patel, who was instrumental in arranging accommodations for the students. “It is remarkable to see what the Chinese youth had in common with the children of El Monte.” A highlight of the trip was an assembly with El Monte’s Cherrylee School, where students read together, exchanged gifts, and performed dance and musical numbers. The Chinese students visited classrooms and the library to showcase the Cherrylee school curriculum. Councilman Patel hopes more delegations will chose to visit El Monte to learn more about our diverse culture.
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Staci Hazlett Receives Golden Apple Award Temple City
Temple City Unified School District administrators are proud to announce Staci Hazlett is this year’s Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Golden Apple Award recipient. Staci has been actively involved with the Temple City Schools and community since 2002. Staci’s PTA “volunteer career” has been very rewarding throughout the years. She has served on PTA’s at all levels of the Temple City Schools – Longden Elementary School, Oak Avenue Intermediate School, Temple City High School and Temple City Council PTA. During this time she has served as President, Parliamentarian, 1st Vice President, 6th Grade Play Date Chairper-
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son, Honorary Service Award Chairperson, Founders’ Day Chairperson, and on nominating committees for Temple City Council, Temple City High School PTSA, and Oak
Avenue PTA. Staci has also helped work other PTA events such as Family Fun Nights, Red Ribbon Week, and bake sales. In addition, she has spent numerous hours in-
volved with booster programs at TCHS for football, softball and wrestling and has served on the TCHS Grad Nite committee in 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Staci has been a very active parent in other organizations within Temple City. She was actively involved with Temple City Junior All American Football & Cheer where she served as Treasurer, Secretary, Snack Bar Coordinator, Cheer Coach and team Athletic Director and has served as “Team Mom” on many of her children’s sporting teams. Most recently, she was actively involved with the TCUSD Superintendent to support a $128.8 million school facility bond that would help renovate all seven Temple City Schools. Staci served as the Chairperson for the successful “Yes on S for Temple City
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South El Monte Meets Philly at Columbia University
By Romeo Guzmán, Co-Director, South El Monte Arts Posse
On March 8th and 9th Columbia University’s history department hosted the conference History in Action: Historical Thinking in Public Life. Professors at academic institutions, museum curator, public historians, and even the former chief of staff for Nancy Pelosi evaluated the future training of doctoral students and the role and responsibilities of historians. James T. Roane, doctoral candidate at Columbia, and Huewayne Watson, recent graduate of Columbia’s Institute for Research in African American Studies, contributed to this conversation by advocating
for the use of history and art to build community. In their panel and exhibit, History in Action: Black Arts Collective in the Land of Joaquin Murrieta, they spoke about their work in Philadelphia and South El Monte and displayed photographs taken by youth from these two cities. Last fall, as part of South El Monte Arts Posse’s Artists in Residence program, James T. Roane and Huewayne Watson spent two weeks living and making art in South El Monte. During their time here, they worked with students in the classrooms of Ms. Quezada, Ms. Perez, and Ms. Morales to think about the similarities between the history of African Americans on the east coast and that of Mexicans on the west coast. After providing students with a history of Africans on the east coast and
the Caribbean, they invited students to share stories they had learned from their parents, uncles, and neighbors. The students told James and Huewayne about Joaquin Murrieta, Hicks Camp, the
supposed hide out of Joaquin Murrieta. At the riverbed they played songs from the days of Legion Stadium, danced and took photographs. In honoring the history of both Legion Stadium and Joaquin Murrie-
gang Las Flores, Art Laboe, and Legion Stadium. Armed with an understanding of their distinct, but similar histories, they went to the riverbed, the
ta, the students, teachers, and artists constructed a bridge between African Americans on the east coast and Mexican Americans on the west coast.