Nearly 90 graduates from the school's class of 2021 on Thursday celebrated accomplishments achieved during a school year that will not soon be forgotten.
Avid angler loved to share fish tales while playing poker
Fay âWillyâ Williams Jr of Buena Vista, Colorado passed away peacefully May 17, at Centre Ave Rehab/Hospice in Fort Collins.
Fay was born Sept. 25, 1938 in Rigby, Idaho, to Margaret and Calvin Fay Williams Sr. and baptized into the Catholic faith. He held on to that faith his entire life.
His father passed away when he was less than 2 months old and Fay was then raised by his stepfather Dewitt âDewyâ Fox. Dewy moved the family to Monte Vista in Fayâs early years.
He graduated from Monte Vista High School in 1958 and went on to work for John Deere as a tractor mechanic, developing a good relationship with many farmers in the local area.
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Some Eastlake High School seniors stepped foot on campus last weekend for the first time since the pandemic began more than a year ago to go to prom.
Girls in long, sparkling gowns and high heels and boys in suits all wearing masks got their temperature taken at the school gate, then walked down a red carpet under a tunnel of strung-up lights to a balloon arch to take their pictures.
Students danced to bumping music from a DJ in their outdoor amphitheater underneath flashing colored lights.
Christian Ramirez and Isabella Salcido pose for a photo with their iPhone at their senior prom held entirely outside at Eastlake High-School in Chula Vista on May 8, 2021.
The Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group this week awarded its annual 10th annual Dreammakers and Risktakers Awards to 20 local students.
According to the organization, the awards recognize âstudent innovators from the Tri-Valley region whose ideas hold the promise to change the world. It showcases the talent and bravery of the next generation and gives the opportunity for civic leaders to recognize them.â
âDuring a year in lockdown our youngest innovators broke-out with empathy, equity and boundless spirit.,â said Lynn Naylor, CEO of the business-led organization. âOur community is inspired by student leaders all across the Tri-Valley who even in tough times lead with grit, technical competence, and the heartfelt desire to make the world a better place.â
“Are the Olympics still happening?”
That’s the question Joey Wagman of Danville a right-handed pitcher for Team Israel says he’s been getting ever since the pandemic postponed the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan.
On March 30 last year, the International Olympic Committee and other stakeholders announced that the competition would be delayed to this summer, but many have continued to wonder: Are the Games of the 32nd Olympiad still happening?
Indeed they are, notwithstanding the strangeness of the 2020 Olympics being held in 2021. The opening ceremony is set for July 23 in Tokyo.
Wagman, who’ll turn 30 two days after that, is one of two Bay Area pitchers on the Israeli baseball squad, which was (surprisingly) the first team to qualify for these Olympics. The other is right-hander DJ Sharabi, 29, of Burlingame.