This group of retirees from Downey Unified School District celebrated the first day of school by meeting for breakfast in Long Beach. The cumulative total of years of service is 351! Thanks DUSD for the memories and best wishes to the teachers and students for a great new year!
Here is our adopted dog Stella, 2, and our oldest daughter Shelby Shoenberg, 5. We found Stella at the local shelter in Long Beach. She is such a good dog and loves to cuddle with our daughter Shelby. They are the Best of Friends.Submitted by Shannon Shoenberg
Susan Pierce of Seal Beach traveled to Nairobi, Kenya, Africa to help Jukumu Letu Daycare Center, providing food and a safe place for children to stay while caregivers work.With the help of local businessman Mike Sheldrake, owner of Polly's Gourmet Coffee on 2nd Street, who generously donated 100 percent of proceeds from 50 pounds of Kenyan coffee to Jukumu Letu Center, Susan was able to buy a 5000 liter water tank and have it installed with rainwater collection pipes.
With the help of other friends and neighbors, she brought donations of drugs and first aid supplies. Tables and chairs were purchased for the children's classrooms, new carpets for the kids and stools for the caregivers so they won't have to sit on the floor. A dental program was started for these children of the slums, who had never had a toothbrush before. She took 100 pounds of yarn to the knitting group and started a t-shirt stenciling group. Susan worked in the office and helped set up a master daily schedule for each classroom. She attended a Rotary Club meeting to get more Kenyans involved. These are just a few of the many things Susan was able to accomplish on this trip, with thanks to Mike Sheldrake and Polly's Gourmet Coffee for donating the largest and most needed item of all.
On July 12, Bob and Toni Bowers hosted a reunion of Millikan (and a few others) grads who live in the Southern Oregon area. Knelling front row: Betty Taylor (Hassenplug) 69'. Sitting from left to right; Jim Gmur 68', Brian Berger 66', Gregg Lease 68'. Standing from left to right; Kathy Mustard (Penn) 71', Jim Krenwinkel 68' Mark Elliott 70', Maureen Krenwinkel 69', Cindy Harrington 69', Bob Bowers 65', Kathy Dalton (Krenwinkel) 71', Toni Bowers 65'. Standing Back Row from left to right: Randy Green 69', Bob North 63', Roger Hassenflug 68', Mike Harrington 68', Tom Mustard 71', Mike Dalton 71'.Submitted by Jim Gmur
I took my son Aidan Dahlk to the Area Code game at Blair Field and he got a autographed baseball and a picture taken with the greatest hockey player! Wayne "The Great One" Gretzky. Wayne' son played that day.
My cool wife and kids:My awesome wife Heather and celebrated seven years of marriage on August 31. She is an awesome mom to our two children, Owen, 3 and Carter, 7 months. This is a photo of us cheering on Germany against Spain at the Old World Restaurant in Huntington Beach during the World Cup Semi-final. Heather has the patience of a saint with our two boys and me. We have been together as a couple over 12 years now, and every single day that passes, I love her more. Heather, Owen, and Carter are truly the three most important reasons why my eyes open every morning.
Submitted by Steve Skille
My wife, Sue, and I were in Oberammergau, Germany, for the Passion Play, on July 1 when we spotted this surprising display of tank tops for sale from Long Beach. I had to take this picture of Sue with the shirts. The shop proprietor could not tell us when she obtained them, but thought they might have arrived after the 1984 Summer Olympics.Submitted by Michael Liff M.D.,
Huntington Beach, who has a medical practice in Long Beach.
Huntington Beach, who has a medical practice in Long Beach.
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