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FROM CADET TO DOCTOR
Manteca High grad shares experiences
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Manteca High School graduate Thomas Edwards visits the JROTC class during his leave from his medical internship at the naval hospital in San Diego. - photo by ROSE ALBANO RISSO
Thomas Edwards always knew he wanted to serve his country. So right after graduation from Manteca High School in 1997, he enlisted in the Army.Little did he know at the time that he would end up being a medical doctor in the Navy.But that is where the Manteca native is today. He is now a medical intern at the Balboa Medical Center in San Diego, his next stop following his graduation from DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tennessee last May.
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Endless police car crashes, dump opening & more: Working for the ‘weekly squeak’ as a 15 year-old
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Unusual police vehicle crashes — such as the one shown above 25 years ago when a Manteca Police unit ended up driving off a rural dirt road south of Woodward Avenue into a drainage ditch right after the vehicle the officer was pursuing did — were a routine occurrence for a while in Lincoln in Placer County.
Fifty-four years ago in February, I became the sports editor of the “weekly squeak”, the name that almost everyone in Lincoln called the News Messenger that has been publishing every Thursday since 1891.
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