El Capitan teacher Michelle Machado and her women’s tackle football teammates from the then undefeated Sacramento Sirens headed to Texas for the IWFL Championship Game. The Western Conference Champions met the Boston Militia on Saturday, July 24.

The Sirens beat the Dallas Diamonds 45-43 to win the Western Conference and a chance to play for the IWFL title. They previously won the title game in 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Prior to the Western Conference game’s start, Machado received a surprise when her daughter, Alex Smith, and friend Shelby Thompson (also of Delhi) sang the National Anthem.

Delhi residents who went out to support Machado and the Sirens in the Western Conference game said it was very exciting. Machado made a couple of big plays in the close game.

Of all the career highlights Machado considered, what stood out most to her was having her mom and dad, Delhi’s Frank and Karen Machado, at the conference championship against Dallas. A highlight of the season was beating Dallas in that game.

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For Jose Guizar, Jr., a childhood dream has come true. As a small boy Guizar played with fire trucks and admired the firehouse. While attending Schendel Elementary he had the opportunity to go on a field trip to the fire station in Delhi. Little did he know that he would become one of those men that he admired as a child.
During his senior year, Joe, as his friends and family call him, could only volunteer at the fire station because of his age, but once he turned 18, he enrolled in the fire training program to become a Paid Call Firefighter. Last month, Joe completed the training and graduated the program before graduating high school. On Friday, he will celebrate his high school graduation along with his classmates at Delhi High School.
Joe began his education at Schendel Elementary School where he had what he and his mother, Leticia Guizar, describe as wonderful teachers. Those teachers motivated him to strive for excellence. He believes that the elementary schools set the foundation for a strong education.

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California State University, Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani announced CIA Director Leon Panetta will join Dr. Marc Lamont Hill in addressing the University’s 50th anniversary graduating class at the June 4, 2010, commencement ceremony.

“Mr. Panetta is a man of depth and integrity, upon whom our nation depends to provide information critical to national security. We look forward to hearing the insight he will share with this year’s graduating class as they take this momentous step in their lives,” President Shirvani said.

In addition to heading the Central Intelligence Agency, Mr. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997. He has been a lawyer, professor of Public Policy at Santa Clara University and served 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He is also the founder and director of the Panetta Institute, which provides students with study opportunities in government, politics and public policy.

Mr. Panetta graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Political Science from Santa Clara University, and went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the Santa Clara University School of Law. He received the Army Commendation Medal before discharging as a First Lieutenant in 1966. He has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Northeastern University.

For more information about the Panetta Institute, go to http://www.panettainstitute.org/

Mr. Panetta will join Dr. Marc Lamont Hill in addressing the graduating class of 2010 on June 4. Hill will also speak at the June 5 commencement.

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Many of the thoughts expressed in this editorial are things that Darrel and I have always talked about and considered, but within the past couple of weeks, they have just really been front-and-center for us.

The most recent discussions and frustrations we’ve shared with each other started after the most recent school board meeting.

When I first arrived at the meeting, so many people packed into the room that it was difficult getting through the door and I had difficulty hearing the board president. I felt forced to the back and experienced some less than cordial behavior by more than one person including at least one teacher. Luckily, I and the other person who had attended the meeting with the intent of speaking during public comments, were eventually given the opportunity to do so.

Students and parents attended the meeting to express concerns for the English Language Learners and their rights as students. They did this as part of an attempt to advocate a Student Intervention Committee. The committee itself was not clearly explained or defined during the board meeting and there came a point where control of the meeting clearly shifted. Board member Jesus Rodriguez asked Board President Stella Estrada to read from the district’s vision statement. As Estrada turned back in her notes to do so, a parent approached the lectern, took control of the microphone and suddenly it was apparently time for public input on the topic at hand.

Time limits were not strictly enforced. (Public comments are to be limited to three minutes per person with no more than 20 minutes allocated per topic. At least that is the case for the Public Participation portion of the meeting.) According to the standard information that appears on every board agenda, “The Board President shall not permit any disturbance or willful interruption of board meetings.”

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The Delhi Adult School has added a few classes to its line-up for the Spring 2009 Term. New offerings include English as a Second Language  (ESL) for Punjabi speakers, two high school level English classes to meet graduation requirements and a higher level ESL class during the daytime.

The adult school now offers two daytime ESL classes: Level I/II and Level III/IV which allows for having the daytime adult school students work at their level of understanding. These classes meet from 9 a.m. to Noon.

The high school English classes are III and IV (the equivalent to junior and senior English). The classes meet beginning at 3:30 p.m. and are open to adult students as well as to current high school students needing to make-up credits for graduation. The classes are free for high school students and there is a $35 fee for adults.

Night classes include all levels of ESL, computers, GED and Citizenship.

Registration is open now and classes begin Monday, February 2. An evening registration will take place tonight, Wednesday, January 28 beginning at 6 p.m. at Shattuck Educational Park on Vincent Road in Delhi. For more information, please call 656-2012.

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