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Rio Mesa High will lose its principal next month. Rene Rickard will leave the 2,300-student high school in June to oversee student testing and government-funded programs at the 27-school Ventura Unified School District. More ... The California Arts Council and the Ventura County Arts Council are holding a short story contest for all Ventura County high school juniors. Students are invited to write a short story based on an event or a time in their lives where their emotions were clear to them and they thought, "I need to remember this. More ... To say Yovani Lopez, 22, comes from a close-knit family would be an understatement. For many years, her father and eight older brothers and sisters worked at whatever jobs they could find to earn enough money to bring Yovani, then 4, her mother and her two younger siblings to the U.S. from Mexico. More ... On Saturday, Yovani Lopez will join more than 1,080 other California State University Channel Islands students who have earned undergraduate and graduate degrees and teaching credentials this year. The number of graduates is the largest to date for the five-year-old university, officials said. More ... THINKING OF OTHERS- Tiana Dafesh, 17, left, and Nikki Mercado, 16, both from Oak Park, stand with the dozens of prom dresses and shoes they collected and donated to the teenage girls living at Casa Pacifica in Camarillo. Casa Pacifica is a crisis care and residential treatment facility for abused and neglected kids. More ... |
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