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Courtesy Karla Bernal(LOS ANGELES) It's been a long time in the making 27 years to be exact but the girls' softball team at James A. Garfield Senior High School in East Los Angeles brought home a championship trophy and plaque for the first time since 1995 earlier this summer. If you were ....
Courtesy Karla Bernal(LOS ANGELES) It's been a long time in the making 27 years to be exact but the girls' softball team at James A. Garfield Senior High School in East Los Angeles brought home a championship trophy and plaque for the first time since 1995 earlier this summer. If you were following the team this past spring, you would probably have never guessed that the Lady Bulldogs would come out on top. The victory was unexpected and a long shot because after all, they were on a losing streak and had lost all of their preseason games. But Karla Bernal, the head softball coach and a physical education teacher at Garfield, never lost faith in her young players. "It did start pretty rocky and it was really discouraging for our players because we did play a tough preseason game. We were playing top schools and schools that compete at a high level and unfortunately, we didn't get any wins in our preseason and we went 0 and 7," the 26-year-old coach told AB ....
125 YEARS AGO December 7, 1895: The Elko Mineral Soap Co. shipped several hundred pounds of mineral soap to New York and Carson this week. The Trustees of the Elko public school have decided that children who have been exposed to contagious diseases shall not be allowed to attend school. Wednesday evening Mr. Al. Dorsey had an attack of heart failure and for about ten minutes it was thought he was dead. He finally recovered, and is himself again. His family and friends had quite a shock, however. 100 YEARS AGO December 12, 1920: Saturday evening a contract was signed by A.G. McBride, president of the Retail Merchants Association with the American City Bureau of San Francisco, for the organization of an Elko Chamber of Commerce. The progressive citizens of Elko have for some months been planning the formation of such an organization, and with this in view have prevailed on the First National bank to add a third story to their proposed new building, which will be ....