Archive By Author - Jason Campbell
New Haven 8th graders: Next stop East Union High School
Hunter Leonard knew that his tie was straight. Even when teacher Kathy Correia came around and helped the 8th grade boys at New Haven make themselves as presentable as possible for the promotional ceremony's processional, she commented at how perfectly straight it was. "It's the perfect Windsor knot," she said, moving on down the line. Because when you're getting ready to cap off your elementary school career, it's important that these things are recognized. Leonard ...
Some levity before start of solemn ceremonies for Widmer 8th graders
LATHROP – Chase Hayes summed up his excitement in a single motion. Letting his tassels fly. With the seriousness of the 8th grade promotion ceremony just minutes away, Hayes – a student at Joseph Widmer Elementary School in Lathrop – let loose with one small gesture before having to make the stoic walk into the school's gymnasium. He grabbed the end of his honor cord – which he earned through making the honor roll throughout ...
City swimming program requires big pool of money
LATHROP – The City of Lathrop isn't necessarily swimming in a pool full of money.
French Camp graduate Alvin Vang: Perfect attendance, perfect grades
Alvin Vang's black gown was heavier than most. It wasn't that the fabric was thicker or that he had anything special sewn into his that would set him apart from his French Camp Elementary School classmates as they prepared for their eighth grade promotion ceremony Tuesday night. But with a year of perfect grades and perfect attendance, Vang racked up 25 individual pins that he wore on the breast of his gown that made it ...
Joshua Cowell 8th graders complete elementary career; high school next
Tuesday afternoon was bittersweet for Britney Szeto. As the Joshua Cowell Student Council Activities Commissioner, the memories that she's made during her formative years have been plentiful – the friendships and the fun and the milestones will all be things that she'll carry with her for the rest of her days and be things that she'll miss when she moves on to Manteca High next year. But with her elementary school career ending in minutes, ...
KIDS IN A BOX
If Emmanuel Torres ended up on the street tomorrow, he wouldn't fare so well. For starters, the 15-year-old vice president of the Manteca Boys and Girls Club's Keystone Club - a leadership academy for teenagers -- struggled with piecing together a makeshift shelter that only needed tape and staples to finish. Even with a handful of helpers, Torres couldn't manage get the thick cardboard walls to stick to the wooden frame that had shielded him ...
Working to keep heritage of Tachi Yokuts alive
By JASON CAMPBELL The Bulletin Mark Alire bragged. He boasted. He teased. He taunted. And he did it all while holding the "bones" – small, carved and painted with white and black lines – in his hand as he and the dozen or so people that had gathered beneath a canopy of oak trees in Ripon's Caswell Park chanted along to a ceremonial Yokut song. It wasn't that Alire was trying to be antagonistic. He ...
‘THANK YOU CALLA’
Manuel Cardenas didn't think that he was ever going to graduate high school. It wasn't in the cards, he thought. After slacking off through middle school and watching his high school grades slip from the brief reprieve that he gave himself during his first semester at Sierra High, Cardenas just knew that he was bound to disappoint his mother and drastically narrow his prospects for the future. But then he took the advice of administrator ...
Congress shall make no law . . .
LATHROP – And I wondered why people don't trust the government. I made sure that both of my feet were firmly planted on Roth Road before my Nikon digital SLR shutter started snapping photos of the Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin sign for a story that was set to run the following day. As long as I wasn't parked on, or standing on, government property, there was no way that overzealous base security personnel could ...
Lathrop may sell water allotment to Tracy for $5M
LATHROP - It's been a few years since the City of Lathrop financed its way into an additional allotment from the South San Joaquin Irrigation District's surface water treatment plant.
Lathrop senior receives $60K a year Gates scholarship
It takes work to apply for college scholarships. But nothing could have prepared Nicholas Vaughn for the undertaking he would commit to when he decided to apply for the Gates Millennium Scholarship -- awarded annually to the best and the brightest around the globe that make it through the rigorous selection process. Well, maybe the work that he did at Lathrop High School - where he's currently holding down a grade point average in excess ...
A SCHOOL TO BET ON
Efren Juarez had a good thing going with his business that hosted poster tournaments for non-profit organizations.
Lathrop Police conducting bicycle rodeo on Saturday
LATHROP – Bicycle safety is no laughing matter. Two months ago an 8-year-old girl rode her bicycle from between two parker cars right out into the path of a Lathrop Police Services cruiser. She wasn't wearing a helmet, and was struck by the deputy – who didn't have time to stop or swerve. And even though she ended up going home with only scrapes or bruises, the entire scenario served as a reminder of why ...
Was Fourth Amendment compromised in Boston?
By JASON CAMPBELL The Bulletin The blast near the finish line of the Boston Marathon prompted one of the biggest manhunts in American history and drastically altered the day-to-day routine for New England residents for the better part of a week. But did police and FBI agents go too far when they went door-to-door in the Boston suburb of Watertown searching for the second bombing suspect believed to be hiding in the area? It depends ...
Carnival Lathrop bankrolled with $7,000 in tax dollars is now underway
LATHROP – Steven Gascon doesn't mind the fact that the City of Lathrop shelled out $4,000 to rent the space in the Target parking lot for a weekend carnival.
Articles By Author - Jason Campbell
Lathrop moves to expand its sewer capacity
LATHROP - It isn't electricity that's important when you're building new homes.
Chief’s academy steers youth in right direction
Julian Castillo's experiences with law enforcement weren't always positive.
Union tiff over pensions means bus cutbacks
LATHROP - A transportation labor dispute that's not even supported by the rank-and-file members of the unions that started the fight could end up drastically impacting public transit operations in San Joaquin County.
Cat in can prank goes way of tin garbage cans
It was a simple prank.
Crafting letters to grandchildren to preserve past
By JASON CAMPBELL
No layoffs in Lathrop for 1st time in two years
LATHROP – For the first time in two years the City of Lathrop will pass a budget that doesn't call for employee layoffs.
He’s been a Ford man through & through for 41 years
Michael Shrope had a unique piece of wall art arrive in the mail earlier this week.
Non-profit benefactors of PG&E embrace rate hike
STOCKTON – Non-profits in and around San Joaquin County are appreciative of the money that San Francisco-based PG&E has given out to them over the years.
Lathrop may go solar to counter PG&E costs
LATHROP - Could hedging power costs end up saving taxpayers a bundle? It all depends upon where electricity costs do over the course of the next three decades. Last week the Lathrop City Council heard a proposal by a solar energy firm that could eventually lead to an overhaul of the way that the municipality pays for its electricity. They would shun the standard PG&E model and go instead with an extensive solar power system ...
American Graffiti: Movie resonates Modesto cruise
MODESTO – Miguel, I am your father.
100 plus degree heat means air quality suffers
A lot of factors impact air quality.
Roof work extra hot for air conditioning repair guys
It's not the dark roofs that bother Ed Kramer.
Back in the day you sweated & used fans
When Shorty Wolf was growing up on a dairy farm on the outskirts of Manteca, his family didn't have any power, let alone air conditioning.
Bicyclist goes 35 mph down sidewalk while towing a trailer
Seeing a bicyclist towing a trailer in Manteca isn't exactly something that's out of the ordinary.
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