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Galifornian EDUCATIONLOCALSTATE TUESDAY, July 16.20023C 1 WE REMEMBER In loving memory: Our son and brother Ray "Beatle" Sanchez Feb. 6,1963, to July 16, 1998 Our hearts still ache and tears still flow. Why God chose you no j. Aixmmmm'vmmmmww'' 't J) PROVIDED PHOTOS Fun on the playground is just part of Greenfield Elementary School's video presentation. one win ever know.

No farewell words were spoken; we didn't even get to say goodbye. Before I knew it, you were gone and only God knew why. But if memories could build a stairway and tears were hard as stone, I would walk up Ray 'Beatle' Sanchez VIDEO Greenfield project debuts Wednesday From Page 1C to heaven and bring you back home. Rest in peace, Love you, Dad, Mom, Pete, Linda, Jesse and Joe To attend "A Day in the Life" and "Nuestra Ascendencia," along with excerpts from teacher Tod Spedding's next project on Chupicuaro, Mexico, will be shown at 7 p.m. tonight at the Greenfield Public Library and Wednesday at the Monterey Public Library.

Information: us realized," Spedding said. "'Nuestra' is in some ways a big, heavy piece that reminds our parents how rich their ancestry is." The film explores the cultural origins of Mexican immigrants in the Greenfield area, including the significance of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the struggle for Mexican independence from Spain and the belief in native medicine. "I have students who, when they get ill, go to a community nurse who grows plants in the back of their yard," Spedding said. "That's completely unknown to most of the county." He is leaving July 27 for three weeks in Chupicuaro.a small village in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. While there, he will field and in Monterey.

The aim is to make it accessible to the county." The film won first place in the video yearbook category at the 2001-02 California Student Media and Multimedia Festival. The video yearbook will be shown with a 20-minute film, "Nuestra Ascendencia," or "Our Ancestry." The film resulted from a six-week class project in which Spedding's students were asked to research their family roots as far back as possible. What students brought were a collection of photographs and accompanying stories that told of an astonishingly complex history, he said. "It became bigger than any of work on a third film that examines why a group of Mexicans from that area emigrated to the United States in the 1940s and settled in Greenfield. Spedding estimated that about 40 percent of Greenfield's immigrants either came from Chupicuaro or are descendants of settlers from there.

York School presents honors and scholarships York School presented honors and scholarships to students recently at its annual awards assembly. National Merit Scholarships: Devin Kehl, Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford, Stephen Crisan, Irene Bonner, Catherine Trammed, Eugene King, Andrew Bauer, Ashleigh Haruda. York School departmental awards: Mathematics, Devin Kehul; science, Devin Kehl, Tammy Denning, Gabe Klapman; computer science, Peter Lee; music, Maren Christensen, Colin Deeb, Maggie Finnegan; theater, Colin Deeb; fine arts, Jules Louie; English, Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford; foreign language, Tammy Denning, William Swanson, Peter Lee, Derek Spitz; classical language, Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford; history, Ashleigh Haruda, Irene Bonner; Bible, Joshua Kroll; athletics, Sophie Taylor, Saskia Nauenberg, Taylor Mat-sumoto. Corporate awards: Prudential (Spirit of the Community) and Granite Construction (Golden Rule), Maren Christensen; Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (Medical Staff Scholarship), Celeste Holz, Devin Kehl; Bank of America Awards, Maren Christensen, Michaela Lozano, Irene Bonner, Nick Rossum, Lauren Palminteri, Margaret Karabetyan, Eoghan McGreevy-Stafford, Devin Kehl, Kim-Anh Pham, Joe Heston, Dennis Perepelrtsa, Larry Suh, Will Swanson. College and university awards: Smith College Book Award, Lily Jacobson; Harvard Book Award, Rachel Dart; Colgate University Book Award, Maria Henning; Grinnell College Book Award, Jennifer Rosenbaum; University of Rochester Humanities Award, Lily Jacobson.

Notre Dame student receives full scholarship Melissa Younkin of Monterey, a Notre Dame High School student, has been chosen by Smittcamp Family Honors College at California State University, Fresno, to receive a full scholarship for the 2002-03 academic year. Younkin received the President's Honor Scholarship. Scholarship recipients also receive special honors classes and participate in a weekly colloquium, among other privileges. CALENDAR TODAY SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD, special meeting, 5:15 p.m., district board room, 431 W. Alisal Salinas.

Middle school bond election. TODAY MONTEREY PENINSULA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD, special closed session, 5:30 p.m., district office board room, 700 Pacific Monterey. THU. 718 ALISAL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD, 6 p.m., district board room, 1205 E. Market Salinas.

753-5700. THU. 718 NORTH MONTEREY COUNTY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD, special meeting, 7 p.m., 8142 Moss Landing road, Moss Landing. 730 SALINAS UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD, special meeting, 5:15 p.m., district board room, 431 W. Alisal Salinas.

Middle school bond election. Education Digest Compiled from staff reports NEWS IN BRIEF Head Start receives grant of $1 million Monterey County's Head Start program received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. More than 1,100 children are served by the program, which provides low-income children between 3 and 5 years old with health and educational services. E-Rate provides money for Washington's lines Washington Union Elementary School will receive $1,582 for telephone lines in the latest round of Education Rate grants.

E-Rate grants help school districts purchase discounted Internet access, set up telephone lines and upgrade electrical wiring to accommodate computers. PEOPLE Institute of International Studies promotes six Monterey Institute of International Studies President Chet Haskell announced the promotion of six faculty members from assistant professor to associate professor: John Balcom, acting program head of Chinese; Michael Gillen, the director of translation; Yun-Hyang Lee, the Korean program head; David Sawyer, the German program head; and Lynette Shi also of the Chinese program. Harvey Arbelaez was promoted from associate professor to full professor. Panhellenic awards scholarships awarded Monterey Bay Area National Alumnae Panhellenic has awarded two $1,000 scholarships to Carrie Coffee of Salinas and Janie Oliver of Aptos. Coffee, a Santa Catalina High School graduate, will attend the University of Washington.

Oliver, a Beach High School graduate, will attend the University of the Pacific. Local people honored for work with slough Sarah Connors, a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, received the Elkhorn Slough Research Award from the Elkhorn Slough Foundation during its annual meeting on June 22. Diana Rothman of Gateway School in Santa Cruz received the Elkhorn Slough Education Award at the meeting. Palma student receives Service Book award Kevin J. Woodard, son of Keith and Terri Woodard of Salinas, is the recipient of the 2002 Saint Michael's College Scholarship and Service Book Award.

Woodard is a student at Palma High School. Sides paint vastly different pictures of Yosemite killer TAX Mora to give report on city revenue loss From Page 1C parable communities, Mora said. He said a tax phase-out would lower that amount to $375 per capita. The money is what the city spends per person per don't have that much revenue to begin with," Mora said. "There is no choice but to reduce the programs and services." He said he will also respond to points raised by repeal supporters.

Also at today's meeting, the council is scheduled to hear a staff report on proposals from both sides in talks between the city and the firefighters union. Assistant City Manager Jorge Rifa and Assistant City Attorney Vera Todorov will summarize a total of 24 proposals, which a neutral arbitrator will ultimately decide on. Negotiations went to an arbitrator when the firefighters' union declared an impasse over such remaining issues as wages, benefits and terms of employment.The council, acting as the Salinas Redevelopment Agency, will also consider a negotiation agreement with Berkley Inc. for the company's hotelcondominium project on agency-owned property adjacent to the National Steinbeck Center. Cary Stayner has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity.

Trial of former hotel handyman begins in San Jose By Brian Melley The Associated Press SAN JOSE Jurors who will decide whether Yosemite killer Cary Stayner lives or dies were warned Monday they will learn what it's like to be Stayner and could forever be haunted by what they hear. The defense and the prosecution told jurors in opening statements that the motel handyman killed three Yosemite tourists. And both sides gave different reasons why. Prosecutor George Williamson described Stayner as a calculating killer bent on overpowering women to sate his sexual fantasies. Defense lawyer Marcia Morrissey, who is pressing an insanity defense, said Stayner's troubles lie in the roots of a twisted family tree and that his mind was clouded by demons that led him to kill.

They said the crime was tragic and disturbing. "This evidence is going to be horrific," Williamson told the panel dering Carole Sund, 42, and her daughter Juli 15, both of Eureka, and of Silvina Pelosso, 16, of Cordoba, Argentina If convicted, he faces the death penalty. He is already serving life without parole in federal prison after pleading guilty to murdering Yosemite park nature guide Joie Armstrong. Williamson said the charges in this case were straightforward three counts of murder and a count of kidnapping, plus six additional allegations that could trigger the death penalty. Morrissey, however, said the case was complex and that Stayner was saddled with many challenges: a deformed head; an obsessive-compulsive hair pulling disorder; and an uncle who he said molested him.

The parents of Carole Sund said that the defense is grasping at anything, but they have no sympathy for Stayner. Carole Carrington said if Stayner is convicted of murdering her daughter and granddaughter there will likely be more photos during the penalty phase of the trial. "We're going to get an awful lot of those pictures," Carrington said. "How nice he was to children and dogs and all those sorts of things." In proving their cases, prosecutors plan to use Stayner's own words, videotaped by FBI agents in a lengthy confession. The defense plans to call experts who have analyzed his brain, who can offer insights into his family's history with mental illness and describe his troubled childhood.

Morrissey displayed a poster-sized photo of Stayner as an innocent first-grader, with a gap-toothed smile and jagged bangs. She promised to show how he grew up into the man who killed four women over six months in 1999. Stayner, wearing an off-white shirt and khakis, had his back turned to the gallery. He occasionally put his head in his hands and appeared to be wiping away tears. Morrissey said he cried throughout the opening statements.

Stayner, 40, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to mur Sharpton seeks clemency for man who shot beating video The Rev. Al Sharpton spoke before a rally Monday in Inglewood. Coby Chavis, because the car they were in had expired vehicle tags. Inglewood officers had arrived to provide support to the deputies as Chavis was being questioned in the suburban city on the edge of Los Angeles. Morse, who has been suspended with pay, said in a police report describing the incident that Jackson was arrested after he struggled with officers, scratched Morse above his ear and grabbed the officer's testicles after being handcuffed.

Morse was in "extreme pain" and punched Jackson to make him let go, according to the report. I IPJ. 4 Donovan Jackson to his feet and slamming the 16 -year-old's face into a car. Morse, who has a streak of blood next to his ear, then strikes Jackson on the face with a closed fist. Crooks was staying in a motel across the street from a gas station where sheriff's deputies had stopped Jackson and his father, CARS TRUCKS VANS BOATS RVs REAL ESTATE LOTS Running or Not Free Pick Up Part-time DJ jailed in Placer County on three outstanding warrants By Paul Wilborn The Associated Press LOS ANGELES The Rev.

Al Sharpton is calling on Gov. Gray Davis to grant clemency to the man who videotaped a white Inglewood police officer slamming a black teenager's head against a car during a traffic stop. Mitchell Crooks, who was picked up on outstanding warrants for drunk driving, hit-and-run driving and petty theft after the videotape was broadcast, performed a "national service," Sharpton told a rally outside Inglewood City Hall on Sunday. On Monday, Davis declined to say whether he would support the New York civil rights activist's demand. "There is a very well-known procedure for filing such requests, the governor said.

"If it comes to my desk I will give it We Do DMWSmog Tax Deduction 'FAIR MARKET VALUE PER IRS' PLAN Hundreds at plan hearing From Page 1C marched. "There are community needs that aren't being responded to," said Paul Johnston, head of the Citizenship Project, a farm worker advocacy organization. Johnston was joined by members of Salinas-area carpenters, Teamsters and United Farm Workers unions. Eli Boozer of the Spence Road Land Coalition said the county needs to leave Spence Road near Chualar as heavy-industrial zoning. "To go backward on the zoning would be a big deal," said Boozer, owner of A-l Self Service Auto Wreckers.

Joel Bernstein, a Salinas wine-maker, said he wanted more clarification from the general plan. He would like to build a cottage winery on his land in rural Salinas, but said he has received conflicting information from the county on whether such a proposal is allowed under the general plan. "Instead of something to be announced later, it would be nice to know what's being planned very specifically," Bernstein said. Store shooting leaves two dead The Associated Press OAKLAND A meat department worker shot and killed his former supervisor at a Safeway store Monday morning before killing himself, police said. The shooting happened at about 9:20 a.m.

in a back room at the grocery chain's store on Grand Avenue, in a busy shopping district near Lake Merritt, according to a police spokesman Jorge Baroza, 30, of Sacramento shot and killed his former supervisor Geraldine Burgin. It was unclear what motivated the shooting and investigators were interviewing several YWCA 888 299-8159 consideration and take appropriate action." Crooks, 28, was jailed in Placer County, in Northern California last week and is scheduled to appear before a judge there today. The part-time disc jockey was convicted in 1999 but failed to show up for a seven-month jail term, authorities said. A fund for Crooks' legal defense was announced last week by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, who said $3,000 had already been raised.

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