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Coding Cadets recognized by Cypress

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Aakarsh Aithal, Dongjoon Lee, and Dennis Park of the “Coding Cadets” were recently given a 2016 Youth Volunteer Service Award by the City of Cypress’ Parks and Recreation Commission.

The Coding Cadets, which the trio started in the summer of 2015, is a program that educates local teens in webpage programming, teaching computer languages such as HTML and JavaScript to empower future web designers.
The trio approached staff at the Cypress Library to offer coding courses over a period of 10 weeks, with the library providing the laptops and space.

Griffins top vocabulary competition list

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The 2015-16 Vocabulary Bowl ended April 30 and the results are in:  Over 580,000 students from over 23,000 schools competed to master a total of over 14 million words.  
Students of Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos, California, mastered 146,205 words, the most of any California school competing in the Vocabulary Bowl. The students’ hard work also propelled them to seventh place in the overall competition.

Development process begins for property next door to City Hall

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Katella Property Company, which is owned by Lincoln Property Company, filed with Los Alamitos to prepare documentation to clear 3131 Katella Ave. of California Environmental Quality Act standards.
Katella Property entered into an agreement with Los Alamitos for engineering, planning, counsel and evironmental consulting for the development of the property.
The property was formerly occupied by SuperMedia before they sold the 9.4 acres.

City extends contract with IT service

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For a fifth year in a row Scientia, Los Al’s IT service provider, had its contract extended.
The City’s budgets allots $72,000 under its contract with Scientia, for remote monitoring two hours a month and an on-site technician that puts in 60 hours a month, according to a Los Al City Staff report.

Council election Nov. 8

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Two seats on Los Al’s City Council will be up for grabs on the November 8 ballot for the County of Orange.
Los Al’s City Council approved consolidating the election with the county on May 16.

Remedies for those with Income Tax debt

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Many taxpayers face hardship every day.  One of them may be an inability to pay income taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 

This often results from a self-employed taxpayer who does not make the required estimated tax payments or from a W-2 employee who does not have enough income taxes withheld from their paychecks.  Potential negative consequences when income taxes are due to the IRS and the taxpayer is unable to pay the obligation include a tax lien or levy. 

Students should ‘race to the finish’

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As a kid growing up in Indiana, my family looked to Memorial Day weekend as the start of summer. Our family, immediate and extended, traveled 45 minutes from Fort Wayne to Crooked Lake in Columbia City, IN, where two sets of grandparents owned small lakefront cottages.

Local student given UCLA honor

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Cayman Rojas, a senior at Los Alamitos High School, will be attending UCLA this fall as a National Alumni Scholar. The Alumni Scholarship at UCLA is one of UCLA’s oldest, and most prestigious and competitive merit scholarship.

UCLA received a record 119,000 applications this year making it the most applied to for a four-year university in the nation. Approximately 3,700 students were selected to apply for the scholarship based upon their academic excellence and powerful leadership.

Music enriching lives at the Youth Center

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Talentedly tinkling the piano and strumming guitars were kids at the Youth Center’s Elementary School Keyboard and Guitar Concert on May 19 at the Youth Center in Los Alamitos where about 100 parents and family members proudly gathered.

Barbershop celebrates one year anniversary

La Palma Mayor Gerard Goedhart helped local barbershop NY2OC celebrate their one year anniversary in May.

Catholic Woman of the Year

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Grace Francis was St. Irenaeus Parish’s nominee for the Catholic Woman of the Year Award at the 40th Annual Catholic Woman of the Year Benefit Luncheon held at the Hilton Orange County- Costa Mesa on Thursday, May 12.

Francis was one of 23 women that Catholic Charities Auxiliary honored and recognized for their volunteer work in their parishes in the Diocese of Orange.

Coffee with a Cop

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The Los Alamitos Police Department, in partnership with Starbucks, will host the second of several community outreach events known as “Coffee with a Cop” at the Starbucks located at 3575 Katella Ave on June 8 from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Officers and staff from a variety of assignments will be on hand to meet and mingle with members of the community as well as answer any questions they may have.

This program, along with the Area Command Program, is an effort to reach out and enhance the  department’s relationship with the community.

Senator Janet Nguyen recognizes local High School students

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More than 120 women and men gathered at Old Ranch Country Club on Saturday, May 21 as the Rossmoor-Los Alamitos Republican Women Federated club awarded scholarships to two local high school students at its High Tea and Fashion Show to Benefit Scholarships.

The afternoon event included an opportunity drawing with more than 100 items and a silent auction.

With a harpist Sarah Hsiao filling the ballroom with soft string music, women in stunning hats visited vendors offering a variety of unique items.

Soccer club prevails in Memorial Day Classic tourney

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Pacific Soccer Club (PSC) Los Alamitos Girls 2003 “Adrenaline” competed in the Irvine Memorial Classic Soccer Tournament over the Memorial Day weekend, finishing all matches both undefeated and in shut outs, with zero goals against to take the championship title.

It came down to a close final: Adrenaline’s strong defense stopped Cerritos United from scoring, putting the match into free kicks.
PSC kickers made their first three shots, finding the corner of the net out of the reach of the Cerritos keeper.

Los Al High School XC runners give back

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Current LAHS Cross Country Athletes have created a Youth Distance Running Program known as Griffin Runners.
Griffin Runners is for middle school age kids who enjoy running and want to learn and train with the LAHS XC athletes and coaches.
It is a summer program created by the athletes in order to give back to the sport that has given them so much.
Two of the students that are heading it up are Delaney Falsken (Sophomore) and Klaus Quinonez (Freshman).

Five Los Al track athletes headed to CIF Championships

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On June 3-4 five Los Al Track & Field athletes will compete in the CIF-State Championships at Buchanan HS in Clovis.

– Kallie Given (high jump)
– Thomas Heib (800m)
– Alison Parsons (long jump)
– Faimalie Sale (shot put)
– Ashley Willingham (400m).

At the CIF-SS Masters state qualifying meet held on May 27, seniors Thomas Heib and Ashley Willingham ran season best times, and both are aiming to lower their school records at their second consecutive CIF-State Championships this week.

Slow start dooms Cypress as HW holds on for 5-3 win

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A three-run home run in the first inning and a key single in the seventh proved to be enough for Harvard Westlake to edge out the Cypress High baseball team, 5-3, in a CIF-SS quarterfinal game on Friday at Cypress High.

Starter James Acuna struggled early, eventually giving up a three-run home run that gave the Wolverines a 3-0 cushion.

Acuna settled in and did not allow another hit until the seventh inning, a drag bunt single, before leaving the game.

Late explosion by rival defeats Cypress

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Cypress High’s softball team trailed Orange Lutheran just 4-2 after five innings, but after the Lancers scored eight runs in the final two innings, the Centurions were eliminated from the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs with a 12-2 loss at Cypress High on May 24.

Paige Hallam, Jessica Martinez and Christine Loverde each had two hits to lead the Centurions offense. Caitlyn Koenig had a hit and an RBI for the Centurions. Loverde had a triple in the fifth inning and scored when the throw to third was off line.

Holcomb helps Denhart hold off Vista Murrieta

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Vista Murrieta loaded the bases in the top of the seventh inning with three singles. But the two hardest hit balls were run down in centerfield by Jenna Holcomb who gloved the final shot with a diving snag to secure a 4-1 win for the Los Alamitos High softball team on Thursday at Los Alamitos High.

Projects on display for STEAM

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The second annual District-Wide STEAM Showcase was a big success.

More than 500 students, parents, STEAM professionals and community members participated in the second annual Los Alamitos Unified district-wide STEAM Showcase, which was provided by LAEF (Los Alamitos Education Foundation) on May 21.

Students of all ages created amazing projects that incorporated science, technology, engineering, the arts and math.