School resource officer plan for the Westminster schools

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Typically, a school resource officer’s role consists of law enforcement, informal mentoring of students and in-person teaching.

Estimated costs of such a program are calculated at $136,618 plus overtime for a part-time

SRO and $231,583 plus overtime for a full-time officer. Superintendent Gunn Marie Hansen recommends the full-time option.

The WSD is a K-8 system serving most of Westminster and parts of adjacent communities. The board meets at 7 p.m. at the district office, 14121 Cedarwood St., Westminster.

Continued from page 1 with the classified and certificated employees of the month.

From Jordan Intermediate, Bradley Robinson, a technology specialist was honored for classified employee honors. On hand to celebrate and be in the photos with him was the school’s jaguar mascot, or a person inside a jaguar costume at least.

The certificated winner was Jennifer Liu Hansen, a teacher at Peters K-3 Elementary School.

Among student artists, the superintendents’ award went to Danya Reyna of Evans Elementary. Other winners included:

• Enrique Rosas of McGarvin Intermediate (President of the School Board Award)

• Isabella Flores of Rancho Alamitos High (Mayor’s Award)

• Seth Nguyen of Patton Elementary (PreK-6 Best in Show)

• Franchesca Santa Maria of Irvine Intermediate (7-8 Best in

Show)

• Jessica Dearing of Santiago High (9-12 Best in Show).

The GGUSD serves most of Garden Grove and portions of adjacent communities.

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The bell was loud, sharp and long.

Two men were shot – one of them fatally – in an incident in Stanton on Saturday afternoon.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department – which provides police services for Stanton – deputies were dispatched to the 10000 block of Fern Avenue (southeast of Beach Boulevard and Ball Road) at 3:12 p.m. in response to a report of a shooting.

Arriving deputies found two men who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Life-saving measures were performed on both men.

Jim Tortolano

It was the “duck and cover” alarm that was used in my elementary school in Garden Grove – and doubtless many other Orange County schools –to either have us practice or get ready for a real nuclear attack. There was none of the same fooling around, or grateful grins that accompanied a routinebreaking fire drill. This, in 1962 or 1963 could very well have been the real thing.

In our jeans and jumpers we scrambled under our desks, hands clasped over the back of our necks, hoping for that – for the Nth time – it was all just an abundance of caution and that the world was not about to end. With all the school shootings, some people have compared those days to the current atmosphere with the repetitive news stories of lone wolf students (or former students) nursing grievances real or imagined, trying to seem big in a place where all they’ve earned is mediocrity.

Sixty years or so ago, the threat was very different and in some ways worse. During, for example, the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, the TV new programs and local newspapers were filled with stories about the very real possibility of a catastrophic attack from an evil enemy that could almost only end with the death of you and everyone you knew.

At the height of that inflection point, supermarkets were stripped of goods as the inevitable hoarding took hold.

Construction companies did a

SUNNY SEKI, popular children’s book author, acted out the role of The Toymaker from his book, “The Tale of The Lucky Cat” on stage Saturday at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival in Central Park in Huntington Beach. The festival started on Friday and concluded on Sunday. The event, paid tribute to the friendship between the United States and Japan, featured food, music, Japanese clothing and goods, and more(Orange County Tribune photo).

They were taken to a local hospital where one of the men died from his injuries. The second man was taken into surgery. His condition is unknown.

A search of the crime scene was made for potential suspects, but no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information that could be helpful in the investigation is asked to call sheriff’s dispatch at (714) 647-7000.

A suspect has been arrested in the shooting of a woman early on Sunday morning in Santa Ana.

According to the SAPD, police received a report at 1:05 a.m. of a shooting inside the Proof Bar & Lounge, 215 N. Broadway Ave. Arriving officers found a woman suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to her upper torso. They rendered medical aid until Orange County Fire Authority personnel arrived and transported her to a local hospital where she is listed in stable condition.

Witnesses to the incident provided police with a description of a suspect. Officers found a man matching that description in the area of 5th Street and Sycamore Avenue and detained him. A firearm was recovered and detectives interviewed the man – identified as Armando Alvarez, 22, of Santa Ana – and arrested him. He was booked into Orange County Jail for attempted murder.

The circumstances and motive in this incident are being investigated. SAPD detectives want to speak to any witnesses who could shed additional light on the incident.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call SAPD homicide detectives at (714) 245-8390.

UPDATE: Two teenage boys have been arrested in connection with the death of Carleatis Richards, 31, in Anaheim early Monday morning.

An early morning shooting at a fast food restaurant in Anaheim on Monday took the life of a man.

According to the Anaheim Police Department, the incident took place around 2 a.m.

at a Jack-in-the Box restaurant at Brookhurst Street and Ball Road.

The man was found by officers in the parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his wounds.

Police detained two people seen leaving the area and their possible involvement in the incident is under investigation.