Good Citizens from area schools are recognized for the 2020-2021 school year. Those senior students selected from their high school are: Yancy Lea Franklin, Campo High School; Mollie Marie Kelley, Eads High School; Jonathan Ian Rink, Granada High School; Sage Ann Higbee, Lamar High School; Kieley Lynn Stegman, Pritchett High School; Payton Rae Arbuthnot, Springfield High School; D’Neil Doyle, Walsh High School and Cadence Kain Zordel, Wiley High School.
The Fort William Bent Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) recognizes area good citizens each year for their good citizenship displayed throughout their school years. Forty-seven DAR Chapters will honor close to 200 or more Good Citizens throughout Colorado this year. This all began when our individual chapter chairmen presented our program to the high school counselors.
The Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District celebrated the completion of new state-of-the-art athletic and aquatic facilities at Granada High School this month after nearly two years of construction.
Kay Brown, a Livermore resident since 1968, passed away Nov. 24, 2020, surrounded by her family.
She was predeceased by her son, Aaron Brown, who died in 2012 at the age of 39. She is survived by her husband, Charlie Brown; daughter, Lara Brown Donaldson, and 12-year-old grandson, Chase Donaldson.
Kay was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. In high school, she met her future husband, Charlie. After dating for five years, they were married on May 29, 1967. Kay was a registered nurse in Texas and California.
Her love for nursing was in the operating room. In Houston, Texas, she worked for a renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Cooley. Upon moving to Livermore, she worked in surgery at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermore for 15 years, then in Manteca for two years before going to work for the Fremont Surgery Center for 17 years, where she retired in 2002.
Pleasanton city officials urge residents to wear face masks in public after a week of halted reopenings and an increase of COVID-19 cases locally and countywide. A Bay Area attorney representing several sexual abuse victims demands the removal of a youth swim coach from USA Swimming, Steve Morsilli, longtime coach for the Pleasanton Seahawks, for allegedly failing to report claims of abuse by other coaches. Morsilli denies the accusations. Daniel Moirao is appointed interim superintendent of Dublin Unified School District in the wake of Dave Marken s abrupt resignation. Community Association for Preschool Education (CAPE) joins forces with preschool provider Kidango to expand child care services for low-income families in Pleasanton, Dublin and Livermore, with a grant from Child, Family, and Community Services.
Livermore resident David Rush is fulfilling a long-held dream as a fighting-robot developer and competitor on the popular television series âBattleBots,â where sparks fly and robots die.
A blend of science and entertainment, the program features weaponized remote-controlled robots that square off in an arena surrounded by bulletproof glass with the goal of disabling their opponents. Aggression and the infliction of maximum damage are encouraged, and ingenuity is rewarded.
With Rush at the controls for Team Malice, its 250-pound horizontal drum spinner robot left the competition â a machine from Florida called Axe Backwards â completely immobilized and literally in flames in just over a minute. The debut match for Team Malice was featured on the Discovery programâs season premiere last week. Nearly a million people tuned in according to ratings published by ShowBuzzDaily.