Vol. 51, No.15
Serving the San Gabriel Valley Since 1966
April 10, 2013
Special Section
Local Events
Dean's List
Sports
Student's Corner
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Mother's Day is Coming!Send Mom a Special Message!! Jerry Jambazian El Monte Community Track Receives Award & Field Meet a Huge Success by Jo Anne Disney
Local Temple City resident and business owner, Jerry Jambazian, was recently honored at a dinner held in Diamond Bar. The California Park & Recreation Society District 13 presented him with a Community Service Award in “recognition of outstanding service to the field of parks & recreation.” If some of you have been wondering why Jerry hasn’t written as much for the Mid Valley News lately, it is because he is recuperating from a fall he
took on December 10th. He was a judge for the “Holiday Lights Contest,” and the group was meeting at Live Oak Park. It seems after they returned and were getting out of the van, Jerry lost his footing and landed on his left hip. It was fractured and required surgery. Jerry is mending nicely and back to working half days. He attends physical therapy twice a week and is getting around with a walker, and expects to graduate to a cane soon. Jerry is in good spirits and hopes to be writing for the paper beginning May 1st. Track and Field athletes from thirty different states, over 700 high schools, and from places as far away as New Zealand spent last Friday and Saturday at the 46th Annual Arcadia Invitational. Womens Side.... Local success came with the South Pasadena girls1,600-meter open relay team. Claire Kieffer-Wright, Anika Renken, Rebecca Liston and Laura Anuakpado set an open meet record with a time of 3:53.12. Anuakpado would also finish seventh overall in the women’s 200 Meters. Keiffer-Wright won the Women’s High Jump. In the Womens 100 Meter Dash Baldwin Park’s Savanna Butler finished eightth
The El Monte Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department, and the El Monte Union High School District hosted a Community Track and Field Meet on Wednesday April 3, 2013. The meet was held at Mountain View High School for boys and girls 9-14 years of age that reside in El Monte Union High School District and featured competitions in the 50 meter, 100 meter and 200 meter dash and the long jump, softball throw and high jump. Approximately 350 registered to participate in this special event that brought out the El
Monte community. A special thanks to event sponsors and donors who without their generous support this event would not have been possible. Many community organizations and supporters volunteered their time to oversee this wonderful community wide track and field meet.
Arcadia Invitational Puts Local Track on Map
in her section. Monrovia’s Chassity Fellows finished third in the same event in her section. In the 200 Meter Dash Arcadia’s Kyra White finished sixth in section one. South Pas’ Anuakpado placed in the second section, and her teammate Kamil Rodil-Willis finished sixth in the third. In the 800 Meter Invitational Monrovia’s Amanda Mansoorbekht finished eigtth overall. In the Womens 100 Meter Hurdles Monrovia sophomore Sydney Mosely won her section. “I’m having the time of my life,” she said between events. “I love it!” Mosely also was part of a group that won the 1600
Monrovia sprinter Sydney Mosely. photo by Joe Torosian
Sprint Medley Seeded, with Fellows, Mansoorbekht, and Jasmine Thomas. The Arcadia relay team
by Joe Torosian
featuring Jasmine Paulus, Rachel Wiggins, Kyra White and Michel Souisa finished fourth in their heat of the 4X100 realy. On the Invitational side the M-Town quartet of Mosely, Fellows, Madison Herrera, and Jasmine Thomas finished seventh. This same group finished third in the 4X200 Relay Seeded. In the 4X800 Relay Seeded Arcadia’s Laura Guidolin, Isabell Annino, Kendall Swanson, Glindyll Mancia finished fourth. On the boys side... Arcadia’s Vincent Bai landed in seventh in his heat of the 200 Meter Dash. Maranatha’s Kyle Brown won his heat in the 400 Arcadia Invitational continued to pg 11