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Headway July 1990 Number 7 Volume 18 July 1990 1989 Operator of the Year Charles Warde rrABLE The Headway .. 0FCONTENTS is published by the Southern California Rapid Transit Dis- trict for the employees, retirees, and its friends every month. Headway is guided by a policy approved by the General Manager and published in the Human Resources Warde Selected Operator of the Year 4 Policy Manual. A copy is available on request. AB 1784 To Bring New Direction 6 Views and opinions contained herein do not necessarily Service Changes Made to Integrate Bus and Rail 6 reflect official District policy. The Headway welcomes contributions from RTD William Rhine Passes Away 6 employees and retirees--letters to the editor, story ideas, Commendations 8 opinions, employee and staff activities, and other submis- sions. Deadline is the first day of the mOnth for inclusion Shifting Gears 13 in the following month. Submissions should be typed Schedule Changes 14 double-space and signed by the author or on disk using the Wordstar 4 program. Opinion pieces and letters to the In Memoriam 15 editor should not be more than 500 words and should be Transit Police Employees of the Year 16 submitted on disk whenever possible. The editor reserves Division 10 Black Tie Affair 18 the right to select, edit, and position all copy. Stories may be reprinted with acknowledgment of Meet Your Benefits Section Staff 19 source. A Match Made in Blue Line Heaven 23 Editorial Office: Administration Building, 425 S. Main St., Personnel Department, Second Floor, (213) 972- A Jarring Experience 23 7165. CMF's Engine Production Line 24 Printing Services Staff: Photo Lithographie Opera- Ridesharing Can Be a Mickey Mouse Affair 25 tors--Rob Hartert and Ferrol Yeakle; Pressmen II--Pat Bates, Eliud Castellanos, Oscar Arzadon, Roberto Arriv- Letters to the Editor 26 illaga; and Bindery Operators II--Manny Alvarez, Walt Annual Downtown City Walk 26 Billingsley, and Luis Melendez. Editor: Mary E. Reyna Mini-Cholesterol Fairs Go to Divisions 27 Business Manager: Stacy Tran Ninja Turtles Help Introduce the Blue Line 28 Contributing Editors: Sue Harvey, Axel Heller, Carolyn Kinkead, Paul Lonquich, M.D., and Luanna Urie. Safe Equipment Can Save Lives 29 Member: International Association of Business Com- A Day in the Life of Division 12 30 municators and California Association of Public Informa- Cinco de Mayo at the Divisions 42 tion Officers. The Headway is printed on recycled paper. Wanted: Serious Runners 44 Births 44 Recent Retirees 45 Come Meet Your Fellow Retirees 46 R'appy Now It's Your Turn at Bat. 46 The Children Are Fine and Doing Well 47 Four '- of Restaurant Review 47 )1 Heat Was Too Hot for the Bulls 48 To Your Health 49 Recreation News 50 Neither the Headway nor the RTD endorses the products or verifies the accuracy of the claims made in the advertising, which has appeared, appears, and will appear on the pages of the Headway. The adver- tising is simply a revenue-generating measure. Further, JULY 1990 HEADWAY 2 We Sell INSURANCE Disability INCOME PAYS - ACCIDENT OR SICKNESS $1,000.00 A Month 2-Year Age 35 Guaranteed Renewable to Age 65 $30.25 A Month 2-A Standard Issue LIFE Life Insurance $250,000.00 A.R.T. Non-Smoker Conventional Standard Issue s $31.45 A Month(M) $29.75 A Month(F) AND Medicare Supplement How to max your pension benefits Rollovers Don Jacobs & Associates P.O. Box 6860 Torrance, CA 90504 (213) 768-8174 • (213) 768-8175 • FAX (213) 324-5587 JULY 1990 H E A DWAY 3 Warde Each Operator of the month was presented with a plaque by Assistant General Manager Leahy and General Manager Pegg. President Swanson congratulated the drivers and expressed the hope that, perhaps, next year would bring a female candidate. Ms. Bailey and President Swanson finally ended the suspense by announcing the 1989 winner. Warde was selected from a field of 12 operators, each named operator of the month during 1989. Warde was Division 16 Operator Charles Warde was presented a handsome trophy and certificate of presented with a trophy, excellence by RTD Board President Gordana Swanson after being selected 1989 Operator of a framed certificate, a the Year. check for $1,000, and (contributed by the Mar- keting Department) a round Charles Warde, behind the the previous year as well role models. We are aware trip for two, airfare and wheel of an RTD bus for 17 as to Roadeo winners. Ms. of the tough, urban hotel included, to Acapulco. years, was selected as the Bailey invited the attend- environment you have to Division 16 Manager RTD's Operator of the Year ing RTD Board members, work in and the good Evelyn Frizielle presented for 1989, it was announced President Gordana Swan- customer relations you Warde with his Operator May 8 at a luncheon held at son, Vice-President Marvin work hard at making. of the Year patches. the New Otani Hotel in Holen, and Director Charles Thank you for all your hard All finalists were given Little Tokyo. Storing, along with depart- work, it makes my job gift certificates to employee Each finalist was ment directors and execu- easier." activities events and driven by bus from Head- tive staff, to meet the best quarters along with invited in her department. continued on page 4 . guests from each depart- Assistant General ment. The honorees were Manager for Operations Art distinguished from guests Leahy noted that among by the carnation bouton- the group of operators nieres given them by the selected for 1989, collec- Transportation Depart- tively they had only 4 ment. All the honorees missouts and 8 chargeable and finalists were driven to accidents. Based on these the luncheon by Division figures and other indica- 1 Operators Virginia Adams tors the operators were and Amadeo Montoya. the top one-third of one Director of Transporta- percent of the RTD driver tion Leilia Bailey acted as population. mistress of ceremonies by General Manager Alan welcoming the guests and Pegg remarked, "It's a introducing them to each pleasure to be in a roomful Following the announcement, Charles Warde was Operator of the month for of winners. You are our congratulated by his division manager, Evelyn Frizielle. JULY 1990 HEADWAY 4 Selected 1989 Operator of the Year plaques. Ms. Bailey concluded by recognizing the wives of all the operators and thanking them for the support they give their husbands from which the District benefits. This year's luncheon, an enormous success, was coordinated by Transportation Department Administrative Analyst Emile Martin. The honored guest, Charles Warde, a 62-year old grandfather, in 11 years has never been absent from the job, and in 13 years, he has never been late for work. He also received numerous letters of commendations from passengers and his man- At the conclusion of the luncheon, the RTD's elite force was presented to the audience. ager. Front row, from left to right: RTD Board Vice-President Marvin Holen, Division 1 Among his colleagues, Operator Manuel Guzman, Division 7 Operator Orlando Medrano, RTD Board President Warde is known as the man Gordana Swanson, Division 16 Operator of the Year Charles Warde, General Manager who cares for all his Alan Pegg, Division 10 Operator David M. Caudillo, Division 12 Operator Emiliano passengers, especially the Chavez, Division 16 Operator Jimmy Rayford, and RTD Board Director Charles Storing. disabled. One wheelchair- Back row, from left to right: Division 7 Operator Charles Bledsoe, Division 8 Operator bound patron remembers Marcial Nieto, Division 12 Operator Albert Johnson, Division 6 Operator Raymond C. Warde fondly as "the man Sellers, and Division 5 Operator Hilton Hackley. who displayed so much sensitivity and concern" when he had trouble making connections in buff, Warde generally and his wife, Sheila, are the Riverside. works the extra board. parents of four grown A bowling and fishing Married for 32 years, he children. Operator of the Year Charles Warde received more accolades from his general manager and director of transportation. From left to right: RTD Board President Gordana Swanson, Charles Warde, General Manager Alan Charles Warde was given a Pegg, and Director of certificate by the 1988 Transportation Leilia Operator of the Year, Bailey. Rogelio Chacon. JULY 1990 H EA DWAY 5 1784 Brings New Direction First Changes To Integrate and Structure in LA County Bus and Rail Made in June Transportation Changes to bus service de- "We decided to wait signed to make it easier until September to imple- Governor Deukmejian out the details of reorgani- for bus passengers to use ment the major changes to signed AB 1784 (sponsored zation, employees can be the new Blue Line light rail allow light rail riders ample by Assemblyman Richard sure of this: their jobs, service which opened this time to get accustomed to Katz) into law on May 16, their benefits, and our labor month took effect June 24. the rail service and its 1990. The bill took effect contracts will remain safe The first route and schedule," said General immediately. The new and untouched," said schedule changes affected Manager Alan Pegg. law is intended to provide General Manager Alan mostly cross-town, or east- All changes are the direction and struc- Pegg. The general man- west, bus service, requir- scheduled to be in place in ture for transportation in ager will issue reports ing minor route and June, 1991, when all 22 Los Angeles County for the periodically to inform schedule changes where Blue Line stations are new century. The law's employees of progress bus routes meet the Blue slated to be in operation provisions are as follows: achieved on the reorganiza- Line.
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