Costa Mesa HS Athletes Earn All-Sports
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THURSDAY, JUNE10, 2021 /// Now including Coastline Pilot and Huntington Beach Independent /// dailypilot.com Outreach event for homeless slated Police and task force members will meet the public at various H.B. locations Sunday. BY SARA CARDINE In the six months since Hunt- ington Beach opened the doors of anewly built navigation center — which provides temporary hous- ing and services for individuals ex- periencing homelessness — hun- dreds of people have taken shelter from the streets. While the center can serve up to 174 people, its current population is around 85, city officials report. But for every person residing on site, there are many more who continue to live in unsafe scenar- ios or have not yet been helped by existing services and programs. Photos by Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer “Every individual is different — there’s not one cause of homeless- CHLOE FAIRCHILD, left, looks at the All-Sports Cup trophy during the lunch at Costa Mesa High School on Monday. ness,” said Huntington Beach Po- lice Sgt. Roman Altenbach, super- visor of a citywide task force Costa Mesa HS formed in 2016 to provide a re- sponsive and proactive approach to addressing homelessness. “It really runs the gamut,” he athletes earn continued, listing addiction and mental health issues as only two of many contributing factors. “Some people are down on their All-Sports Cup luck. Other individuals want zero help. Getting to know these people is really what helps down the line.” Costa Mesa High School enjoyed the All-Sports Population counts conducted in 2019 identified 290 unhoused indi- banquet after beating crosstown rival Estancia. viduals in Huntington Beach. Since the pandemic, complaints BY ANDREW TURNER 100-80 this season. about the impact of transient Perhaps just as satisfying, the populations on parks and other Arivalry only begins to feel All-Sports banquet returned to areas have been on the rise, but like one if both schools take campus. Since the 2009-10 JOHN URSINI of Newport Rib Co. helps Yessica Najera with a bib that doesn’t necessarily mean the turns at winning. school year, Costa Mesa United during the All-Sports Cup lunch at Costa Mesa High School on Monday. homeless population itself has That is not to say that Costa and Newport Rib Co. have come grown, said Lt. Dave Dereszynski, Mesa High School or its together to provide lunch to the who manages the Homeless Task crosstown rival Estancia feel varsity athletes of the winning “The first five years, I don’t even think Force. much like sharing, especially school. “With everybody out of school when it comes to the All-Sports Out of the gate, the Eagles in- [Costa] Mesa even really kind of and at home or not working, we Cup and the prize that comes dulged their appetites for an ex- definitely saw an increase in com- with it. tended period, winning the All- understood it because they didn’t win plaints and calls for service,” he Costa Mesa retained bragging Sports trophy and bringing the it.” said. rights and the All-Sports Cup in banquet to their school for the Case manager Hayley Yantorn winning the outright rivalry be- — John Ursini tween the schools by a count of See Cup , page A3 Newport Rib Co.’s owner and a 1982 graduate of Estancia See Homeless, page A4 2021 COMMENCEMENT Los Amigos hosts in-person ceremony BY ANDREW TURNER Los Amigos High School seniors participated in an in-person com- mencement ceremony on Tuesday at Michael A. Monsoor Memorial Sta- dium on the campus of Garden Grove High School. Avirtual graduation was held for the school in 2020 following campus shutdowns due to the coronavirus Don Leach | Staff Photographer pandemic. There were 370 seniors who walked ARJUN VIJ, 18, a senior at Corona del Mar High, holds a in the ceremony, Thorsten Hegberg, copy of his self-published book “In Bad Water,” in front of an assistant principal at Los Amigos his Newport Beach home. Vij hopes the book will inspire said. and educate people about the global water crisis. Kenny Dao and Sebastian Lozano were the co-valedictorians for the Lo- bos this school year. Also honored at CdM student shows the graduation were Michelle Monares and Edgar Cachu, who re- Courtesy Jennifer Ngo Photography | Garden Grove Unified School District how kids can help ceived the Siempre con Dignidad GARDEN GROVE Unified School District Supt. Gabriela Mafi poses for a photo with students from her mentorship program, who have plans for a bright future. See Amigos, page A4 end a global crisis BY SARA CARDINE and was struck when he learned of the hardship Newport-Mesa graduates ride to the future Arjun Vij was a fresh- many villagers had en- man at Corona del Mar dured in their daily pro- High when he took a curement of drinking wa- BY LILLY NGUYEN activity that received light school trip that enlight- ter. Women and children admonishments from po- ened him about the glob- often walked several With clear skies and a lice officers monitoring the al water crisis — and now miles, carrying heavy sunny day, there was just scene. Windows were he’s written a book to in- metal cans on their backs no raining on the car pa- painted with the names of spire other young people or shoulders that, when rade of Newport-Mesa’s high schools and the grad- to action. filled, weighed up to 44 graduating seniors. uating seniors riding Vij accompanied stu- pounds. Car horns honked and aboard. Banners fluttered, dents enrolled in the And the water they pop songs blared over the balloons waved. school’s Academy of found, often in stagnant speakers of cars lined up Compared to this time Global Studies, a program ponds, puddles and bumper to bumper. Teen- last year on the same street, designed to expose par- brown-hued streams, was agers screamed and sang the corner of Irvine Avenue ticipants to geopolitical just as likely to threaten along, laughing every so and 15th Street teemed and cultural issues across their lives as sustain it. often when one of them got with life as ceremonies take nations, as they traveled “They told me how bad alyric wrong. place for graduating sen- in February 2019 to the the standard of living was Some stood, their heads iors of the Newport-Mesa African nation of Eswa- with dirty water and how peeking out of sunroofs Unified School District. tini, formerly Swaziland. rates of cholera and ty- Scott Smeltzer | Staff Photographer and their arms out- Many of the events will The Newport Beach phoid fever were sky stretched toward the sky, take place throughout STUDENTS DRIVE by Costa Mesa High School during a teen visited a village in high,” Vij, now 18, recalled while others sat up on the senior graduation parade for the Newport-Mesa Unified the district of Hhohho backs of convertibles — an See Graduates , page A2 School District on Wednesday. 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