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Lions handled at home
COSTA MESA — Students are still on break at Vanguard University, but the women's basketball team will be going to school in its remaining practices this week before Saturday's home clash against reigning NAIA champion Azusa Pacific Saturday night....Tags: Students, College Sports, Basketball, Teaching and Learning
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Absences high on first day back to school
NEWPORT BEACH — Cars lined up along Eastbuff Drive to drop off students at the Corona del Mar middle and high school campus Monday morning, despite the day being a federal holiday.
A planning oversight in the academic calendar, which was created...Tags: Family, Landforms, Mountains, Holidays, Students
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Top 10 sports stories
As is often the case in sports, the Newport-Mesa landscape in 2011 offered championship celebrations and near-misses by handfuls of local teams.
Similarly diverse among the top 10 sports stories of the year, as selected by the Daily Pilot sports staff,...Tags: California Interscholastic Federation, Matt Barkley, Soccer, Los Angeles Kings, Teaching and Learning
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DP 103 [Corrected]
1.) Jim Righeimer. Costa Mesa's mayor pro tem led an unapologetic charge to restructure the city with layoffs, pension reform and the creation of a proposed city charter, making him the target of organized labor and a hero of reform-minded conservatives...Tags: Unemployment, Religion and Belief, Dave Ellis, Crime, Law and Justice, Judaism
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Community Commentary: Test scores not the only decider
The ongoing SAT cheating scandal, where 20 former high school students from a wealthy Long Island community allegedly accepted money to impersonate current high school students for the purposes of taking the test for them, has cast a bright spotlight on...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Schools, Schools, Students, Colleges and Universities
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In the memory of one, it spread to many
SANTA ANA —The convoy made its way across the street and up the stairs with 12-year-old Bella Anderson bringing up the rear with four oversized Nordstrom shopping bags stuffed with presents.
At Apartment 103 — the number scribbled on the door...Tags: Religious Festivals, Family, Nordstrom, Holidays, Students
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Corona del Mar Today: Retiring music teacher honored at holiday assembly
Harbor View Elementary School's longtime music teacher, Linda Messenger, was honored with a standing ovation at the recent holiday program — her last school-wide musical assembly before she retires in June. "Harbor View has always been proud of our...Tags: Elementary Schools, Arts, Schools, Schools, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Mailbag: District can improve API scores in low-scoring schools
As a teacher at Jim Thorpe Fundamental School in Santa Ana, the top scoring Santa Ana Unified School District school with an API of 901, I have some suggestions for the Newport Mesa Unified School District. There are several components involved in...Tags: Human Interest, School Examinations, Students, School Examinations, Teachers
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Pirates remain perfect
COSTA MESA — For the third straight season, the Orange Coast College baseball team is off to a hot start. But the Pirates, who claimed a 6-3 nonconference home win Wednesday that made them 4-0, and a combined 25-5 in February the last three years,...Tags: Josh Evans, Piracy, Baseball, College Baseball, Students
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Community Commentary: Smith's generalizations about Newport-Mesa are wrong
It is surprising and disappointing to me that the Daily Pilot gives license to Steve Smith to write a weekly column continuously bashing the Newport-Mesa schools, its school board and the performance of its students. His misleading, defamatory and...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Mountains, Culture, Culture, Graduation
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Starting 'em early at St. Joachim
Kevin Finn has the groups all ready. "February 3" is written at the top of the page. The athletic director at Costa Mesa's St. Joachim School beams with a smile inside the teachers' lounge as he talks about the fledgling golf club, which attracts up to 80...Tags: Preschools, Schools, Schools, Students, Clubs and Associations
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Mesa Musings: Right professor brings biology to life for humanities student
I detested biology as a high school youth, so I wasn't thrilled to face it again in professor Lloyd Mason Smith's Orange Coast College Biology 100 class in 1968. Smith, however, turned my opinion on its ear. He took what this humanities student...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Photography, Arts, Science, Zoology
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