The Black Shamrocks of Los Al AYSO Region 159 finished as undefeated Champions of the Boys U-10 Area E Spring Soccer REC League, with a 3-0 win over the sparky Spartans of West Grove, Saturday at Chapman Sports Park.
The Shamrocks had luck in bunches, opening the season with two one-goal wins. Following that, the team then needing two come from behind ties to complete the Spring soccer season without a loss.
The Shamrocks rolled four shut-outs, and the defense allowed the fewest goals in the league.
Undefeated season for local soccer team
Pony squad takes first
The LAYB Pony Cardinals won first place in the regular season with a record of 15-3 earning the trophies shown and also won the league playoff in a hard-fought defensive game against the Dodgers, which earned them the championship rings the boys are sporting. Pictured here from left to right, front row: Jake Romo and Brock Villegas. Second row: Owen Kendrick, Matthew Teufel, Billy Wei, Shain Allen, Zachary Riggins, Spencer Kendrick, and Jack Lopez. Back row: Coach Brad Van Meeteren, Manager Dave Robinson, and Coach Scott Allen. Missing from the photo: Trevor Van Meeteren.
Savanna loses CIF-SS final
Savanna High’s softball team had played in two consecutive CIF-SS finals, but the end has been bitter as they lost for the second consecutive year to Paraclete of Lancaster.
Paraclete broke open a tied game in the top of the seventh inning to capture the title with an 8-4 win on Saturday at Bill Barber Park in Irvine.
Spring into Summer this year with the Youth Center
Supported by businesses and the community, the Youth Center is seeking to keep kids in constant motion this summer with their Summer Day Camp, Teen Camp, Summer Music Program, and Leadership Academy.
The Summer Day Camp offers kids ages 5 to 12 years old an action-packed and affordable way to spend their time in both on-site activities at Rossmoor Park and at optionaloff-site field trips.
Local Rotary club donates $500 to Los Al High Interact Club
The Rotary Club of Los Alamitos/ Seal Beach presented a check for $500 to support the Los Alamitos High School Interact Club’s “Water for South Sudan” project at its recent meeting.
The money came from donations collected at the Rossmoor Community Festival, which was then matched by members of the club.
More information on the water project can be found at http://www.waterforsouthsudan.org/.
See Elvis at the St. Irenaeus Fiesta
The public is invited to come to St. Irenaeus 52nd Fiesta Olympiad at 5201 Evergreen Avenue in Cypress on Friday, June 24 from 6 to 11 p.m., on Saturday, June 25 from noon to 11 p.m. and on Sunday, June 26 from noon to 9:30 p.m.
Roaring 20’s Senior Prom is a huge hit
“Roaring 20’s Senior Prom” held in May, was successful and so much fun for all those in attendance With approximately 100 tickets sold, rave reviews from participants are still pouring in, thanking hardworking city staff and members of the Los Alamitos Volunteer Program for transforming the Los Alamitos Community Center into a fabulous 20’s themed party. Senior Club member Nancy Giusti says, “Great job – it was the best one yet. Even the food was great.”
Los Alamitos launches new senior program
Something new is cooking at the Los Alamitos Senior Lunch & Bread Program and you’re invited to check it out.
Every Tuesday morning, come to the Community Center at 10911 Oak Street for a free exercise class at 9:30 called Balance and Fitness offered by the North Orange County Community College District, and then stay for a delicious lunch and friendly conversation.
Lunch activities begin at 10:30am and include birthday & anniversary celebrations, live entertainment, arts & crafts, card games and trivia games.
Sunburst Academy hangs with LA Lakers trainers
The Sunburst Youth Challenge Academy hosted trainers and coaches of the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation and Barton Brothers Fitness for an afternoon of basketball and training recently.
Cadets participated in a variety of exercises, which replicated the very same fitness drills that pro-athletes utilize in their daily routine such as speed and agility training, plyometrics, hurdles and more.
Lead by the Lakers’ Youth Foundation Coordinator Daryl Roper, cadets participated in additional shootout challenges for Lakers prizes.
Los Al nurse receives special recognition
Los Alamitos Medical Center (LAMC) celebrated National Nurses Week with an elegant breakfast, snack treats from the physicians, an afternoon clinical presentation to show off the hard work of the nursing staff, and a presentation of a DAISY Award to one most-deserving nurse.
Local set to teach English in Malaysia
Los Al’s Marry Trotter was one of 13 Villanova University students recently selected to receive a 2016-2017 Fulbright U.S. Student Grants as a part of The Fulbright Program, which is a prestigious international education exchange program sponsored by the United States government.
The grants allows Fulbright recipients to serve as international cultural ambassadors by performing research or teaching English in foreign countries.
Los Al High drama students pick up acting awards
Several members of the Los Alamitos High School Drama program attended the John Raitt Awards for Youth (JRAY) ceremony last weekend where they were nominated for several awards as one school out of 20-plus schools that participated in the program.
The following students were nominated for awards: Macy Boren for Best Female Cameo in a Musical, Shelby Marsh for Featured Actress in a Musical, Micaela Erickson for Supporting Actress in a Musical, and Hasti Bakian for Leading Actress in a Musical.
Several students were collectively nominated for Best Sets in a Musical.
Coding Cadets recognized by Cypress
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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.