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Alpine School Board Election: Three Incumbents Asking for Your Vote? – By Jon Cotter
Submitted By Jon Cotter Its School Board election time again. I could not believe my eyes when driving on Tavern road. Three incumbents have the nerve to ask for your re election votes. What??? Lets review the job they have done in the past 10 years. In fairness, some have been on board for less time but results are results. The teacher’s strike. Yes we had an ineffective Superintendent but lets not forget that the Superintendent serves at the pleasure of the board. They were on board with all the stupidity that took place until they realized that they…
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Letter to the EDITOR: To All the Alpiners That Want an Alpine High School, “DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED”!
By George Barnett To all you Alpiners that want an Alpine high school, “Do not be discouraged”! 26 of your friends and neighbors and children traveled to Sacramento last week (read story here) to present our case before the State Board of Education (SBE), The SBE had much sympathy and support for Alpine having its own high school. It also harshly admonished Grossmont, and told Grossmont it had to repair a breech of trust Grossmont caused with Alpine. Much more important, the State Board of Education suggested two clear and viable alternate routes to an Alpine high school; both of which…
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Thought for the Week: “Become a Deliberate Creator” By Rev. Gay Beauregard
Thought for the Week (01/22/17 – Become a Deliberate Creator) By Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living Mike Dooley says: “Thoughts become things, choose good ones.” That’s a very powerful and true statement. The thought we are choosing at any moment brings the “things” into our lives. And the more often we think a thought, the more power it has to create a corresponding vibrational match into our experience. “Think about what you want and not about what you don’t want” sounds easy enough – but as the saying goes – it’s easier said than done. Jesus…
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Alpine Community Center Delivers Slap in Face to Wounded Warriors and Other Handicapped – By Lou Russo
Alpine Community Center Delivers Slap in Face to Wounded Warriors and other Handicapped! The Alpine Community Center (ACC) today hosted a chili cook off and car show, but if you were a Wounded Warrior or other Handicapped, you could stay at home. The reason home was the best place for you was that the ACC blocked EVERY single Handicapped Parking spot and placed black plastic trash bags over the signs. Let me repeat that, the ACC did not provide a single parking spot for handicapped at either the car show or chili cook off. After a half hour of multiple…
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