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THE SALINAS FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 THECALIFORNIAN.COM PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK Daily 50 centsVolume 157 No. 44 Home delivery pricing inside Subscribe 877-424-4917 Weather High Low Sunny. Forecast, 8A U.S. worries that strike on Syria could escalate long-running civil war. 4A Classroom gun incident Seaside High teacher who shot firearm into ceiling, injuring boy, resigns.

5A Ruben Villa IV returns home for the of his career SPORTS, 9A Prosecutors on Thursday retraced the steps of two people in Redding where they allegedly hid the bodies of two children inside a storage unit in 2015. Gonzalo Curiel, 20, and Tami Hunts- man, 42, visited Redding just after beaten three children so badly two of them died at their Salinas apart- ment, said Steve Somers, deputy dis- trict attorney with the Monterey County District in the third day of trial. After the children, Shaun Tara, 6, and Delylah Tara, 3, in care had died, she and Curiel hid their bodies in a blue plastic container, Somers said. Shaun and sister, in court as Jane Doe, 9, was severely in- jured when found in a car by Plumas County deputies in December 2015. After Thanksgiving on Nov.

25, 2015, Huntsman asked her wife, Ai- Child murder, torture case turns to Redding Gonzalo Curiel appears in court on charges he and Tami Huntsman tortured three kids, two of whom died. JOE SALINAS CALIFORNIAN Joe Szydlowski Salinas Californian USA TODAY NETWORK See TRIAL, Page 2A SAN FRANCISCO California com- munity college students will be guar- anteed admission into the University of California if they meet certain course requirements. The University of California and the California Community Colleges agreed Wednesday that students who do well in courses that UC faculty helped de- velop will be admitted to a UC campus, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The agreement will apply to stu- dents who begin community college in fall 2019. The courses will lead to an associate degree for transfer into UC.

Applicants may not get into their choice, but will be admitted into one of the nine undergraduate UC campuses. Collaborating with the community colleges not only make it easier for students to transfer to the university, it will help ensure that they excel once they UC President Janet Napolitano said in a statement. UC enrolled 20,000 transfer stu- dents this year the most in its histo- ry. Most of them came from communi- ty colleges. California Community College Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley said that transfer students at UC do as well as or better academically than those who begin as freshmen.

pleased that President Napol- itano and I and our two Faculty Sen- UC opens guaranteed admission to some Students need to meet requirements to qualify ASSOCIATED PRESS See ADMISSION, Page 6A note: Salinas celebrates 150 years on Founders Day, April 14. This story is part of a series produced by The Salinas Californian and featured in the week leading up to the celebration. Isaac Julian Harvey, the mayor of Salinas, was a pioneer, a business- man, a judge and much more. Harvey (1816-1899) was born in the Blue River Valley near New Castle, Indi- ana. His journey to Salinas included many stops along the way.

As the story goes, Harvey was plow- ing the 200 acres his father had given him and his new wife Sarah Mellett Har- vey when he decided one day of plowing behind his horse Barney was enough. The advice of Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri came to mind. So Harvey hired a boy to the plowing and began making plans to pack up and move west. By the time the Harvey family reached Salinas in 1868, Harvey was ready to put down perma- nent roots.

He was 48 and had the expe- rience to begin founding a new town. mayor helped pave the way for city Tom Leyde Special to Salinas Californian USA TODAY NETWORK The First House in Salinas is much larger than it appears at look. JOE SALINAS CALIFORNIAN Isaac Julian Harvey was the mayor of Salinas. FIRST MAYOR'S HOUSE See MAYOR, Page 2A note: Salinas celebrates 150 years on Founders Day, April 14. This story is part of a series produced by The Salinas Californian and featured in the week leading up to the celebration.

Steeped in a rich history, the Alisal district began as its own entity housing migrants from the Dust Bowl and now itself in a transitional pe- riod, overcoming challenges to regain former pros- perity. The Alisal started out as an unincorporated part of Monterey County and was named after a grove of sycamore trees that were native to this region, said Alisal resident Luis Juarez, artistic director at Bak- tun12. The Alisal district was annexed into Salinas proper on June 11, 1963 following a vote by Alisal res- District now looks to the future The labor strike in 1974 is pictured. The movements of the 1970s shaped the population of the Alisal today. MONTEREY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Migration, annexation shaped history Cristian Ponce Salinas Californian USA TODAY NETWORK See ALISAL, Page 3A.