Browse past news stories for Oak Park High School in Oak Park, CA.

• Family Begins Saying Goodbye To Fallen Marine (KSHB-TV Kansas City)
  posted on November 29, 2009 at 04:03:32 pm
  A 20-year old Kansas City Marine is being remembered as his family and friends are preparing to saying their final goodbyes.
• Businessman honors tops students (The Danville Commercial-News)
  posted on November 29, 2009 at 05:28:38 am
  Good grades and good character have paid off for five young people with ties to Vermilion County.
• Mo. Marine's Remains Arrive Home (KSHB-TV Kansas City)
  posted on November 25, 2009 at 11:36:25 pm
  The remains of a Missouri Marine killed in the line of duty while serving in Afghanistan are back on U.S. soil.
• Corps was second family to Marine killed Sunday in Afghanistan (The Kansas City Star)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 05:08:46 am
  Lance Cpl. Nicholas Hand always knew the joy and duty of being a brother. He grew up in Kansas City, North, the second-oldest of 10 siblings. Hand died Sunday in Afghanistan , and his mother comforted herself Monday knowing that her son felt the same loyalty to his brothers and sisters in the Marines as to his siblings.
• KC Marine Killed In Combat In Afghanistan (KMBC-TV Kansas City)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 01:49:51 am
  A 20-year-old Marine from Kansas City has been killed in Afghanistan.
• Kansas City Marine Killed in Combat (KSHB-TV Kansas City)
  posted on November 23, 2009 at 11:06:03 pm
  A 20-year-old Kansas City Marine was killed overseas while in combat.
• Black journalists honor The Call (The Kansas City Star)
  posted on November 22, 2009 at 04:01:40 am
  The staff of The Call of Kansas City received the 2009 Media Public Service Award on Saturday from the Kansas City Association of Black Journalists. In its 18th annual awards to recognize journalists who have excelled in covering diverse communities and issues in the area, the association chose The Call for its souvenir edition on the election of President Barack Obama .
• Experience lets candidate do more with less (Traverse City Record-Eagle)
  posted on October 24, 2009 at 05:12:59 am
  Early in his career, Gary Appel taught elementary science and helped start an outdoor garden classroom. He used those efforts to link gardening to science lessons in a book he co-wrote on the topic. Now that public education faces deep budget cuts, Appel thinks school districts have to be on the cutting edge to do the most with limited dollars. And he believes he has the experience to do it.
• Supervisors send a signal to Oak Park (The Acorn)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 04:27:04 am
  By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com The Ventura County Board of Supervisors, meeting Oct. 13 in Oak Park for the first time ever, approved the installation of a fourway stop sign in front of Medea Creek Middle School to slow traffic and improve public safety. read more
• Meeting is a first for the community (The Acorn)
  posted on October 22, 2009 at 04:26:44 am
  By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com For the first time in its more than 100-year history, the Ventura County Board of Supervisors conducted one of its meetings in Oak Park. read more
• Oak Park High girl speaking out about diabetes (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 19, 2009 at 07:06:32 am
  Michelle Smolarski has a mission — to give hope to children with Type 1 diabetes that a cure will be found in their lifetime. Diagnosed at age 4, the Oak Park High School sophomore is one of two Youth Ambassadors for the Los Angeles chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the largest funder and advocate of Type 1 diabetes research. “Your world flips upside-down when you ...
• Football racks up first win of year (Desert Trail)
  posted on October 14, 2009 at 06:57:48 am
  OAK PARK — The Twentynine Palms High School varsity Wildcat football team took the long journey to Oak Park High School in Ventura County and came home the team’s first victory of the season 6-0, in a hard-fought contest Friday night, Oct. 2, Head Coach Ernest Martinez reported.
• Event calendar: October 12, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 12, 2009 at 05:07:30 am
  MONDAY SIMI VALLEY What: Toastmaster Simi Risers meeting. Speaker will be Cheryl Wronski, governor of marketing for Central California and southern Nevada. Contact: 577-8348 or e-mail Michael Wronski at mwwronski@gmail.com. Where: Sunrise of Simi Valley, 190 Tierra Rejada Road at Village Parkway. When: 7 a.m. What: The Simi Valley City Council will discuss the ...
• Board of Supervisors' road tour to visit Oak Park (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 10:37:16 pm
  Oak Park will get its first chance at hosting the Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday night, when the supervisors bring their weekly meeting to Oak Park High School. It’s the latest in a series of meetings over the past two years that the board has held away from its typical location at the County Government Center in Ventura. Oak Park is more than 30 miles east of the county seat ...
• Take a walk on the winded side (Columbia Daily Tribune)
  posted on October 11, 2009 at 12:38:48 pm
  Kyle Whittaker lay on the floor at the west end of Mizzou Arena, commiserating with the guy next to him as he tried to catch his breath.
• NKC Hands Out Netbooks To Students (KMBC-TV Kansas City)
  posted on October 7, 2009 at 04:49:08 pm
  High school students in the North Kansas City School District are getting brand new netbook computers between now and the end of November.
• Local women win community awards (Laurel Leader-Call)
  posted on October 4, 2009 at 06:55:14 pm
  Two Jones County women were recently honored with statewide awards from the Mississippi Federation of Democratic Women.
• Oak Park Alumni scholarships awarded (Laurel Leader-Call)
  posted on October 3, 2009 at 08:09:44 pm
  The National Oak Park Alumni Association (NOPHSAA) is helping to continue the group’s educational legacy with the donation of several scholarships. Marva Posey, chairperson of the NOPHSAA’s scholarship fund committee, said the group gave four scholarships this year.
• What's Up Next area sports calendar (The Examiner)
  posted on September 30, 2009 at 05:46:59 am
  What's Up Next area sports calendar for Sept. 30-Oct. 3
• Oak Park high school gets football stadium lights (Chicago Tribune)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 12:49:30 am
  Friday night football comes to high school -- and so does a large, but polite, crowd It was a Friday.
• Barbecue benefits Oak Park High football (The Acorn)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 03:16:10 pm
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• Practice SAT (The Acorn)
  posted on September 10, 2009 at 03:01:32 pm
  Revolution Prep will offer two mock exams as fundraisers for the Oak Park High School PFC from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the school. The mock SAT is Sat., Sept. 12, and the mock ACT is Oct. 3. Parents may attend an information session about standardized testing and have their questions answered at 12:15 p.m. Sept. 12 in room G9. To sign up, call (877) REV-PREP (738-7737).
• US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa (Newsday)
  posted on September 7, 2009 at 10:20:47 pm
  Army Sgt. 1st Class Ronald W. Sawyer In his younger years, Ronald W. Sawyer was the Dan Aykroyd of his family, or maybe the John Belushi . "Ron was a prankster and a joker," said his mother, Judy Thompson. "He and his brother used to impersonate the Blues Brothers in talent shows." Sawyer, 38, of Trenton , Mo., was killed Aug. 25 in southern Afghanistan when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb. He ...
• US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
  posted on September 7, 2009 at 10:14:05 pm
  In his younger years, Ronald W. Sawyer was the Dan Aykroyd of his family, or maybe the John Belushi. "Ron was a prankster and a joker," said his mother, Judy Thompson. "He and his brother used to impersonate the Blues Brothers in talent shows."
• Kathy Griffin's life in the Oak Park High drama club (Chicago Sun-Times)
  posted on September 6, 2009 at 11:14:25 am
  Sun-Times exclusive: Kathy Griffin is now a top draw on the stand-up comedy circuit and the Emmy-winning star of a hit reality show, "My Life on the D-List." But in the '70s, she says, she was an "ugly ... freckled" teenager in the Chicago suburbs, dreaming of being ... if not Mary Tyler Moore, then maybe Rhoda. In this exclusive and somewhat racy excerpt from her new memoir, Official Book Club ...
• Chiefs Charity Game Raises $460,000 for CCVI (Kansas City Chiefs)
  posted on September 1, 2009 at 05:08:29 pm
  Over the years, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chiefs Children's Fund have worked in unison to make life better for children in our community. One of the ways this is accomplished is via the Chiefs Charity Game. Celebrating its 26th anniversary in
• Pfc. Brian M. Wolverton mourned, buried (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 30, 2009 at 07:16:09 am
  Army Pfc. Brian M. Wolverton was a young man with a courageous heart, a high school athlete who went on to become an inspiring coach and a dedicated solider who took on challenges.
• Private 1st Class Brian M. Wolverton remains returned to family (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 12:22:33 am
  A jet carrying the remains of Army Private 1st Class Brian M. Wolverton of Oak Park taxied slowly on the tarmac at the Van Nuys Airport on Thursday morning. The 21-year-old soldier’s family — his mother, Miriam, father, Christopher, brother Michael, 17, and grandmother Silvia Yin — stood in a row with Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Brentlinger, a casualty assistance officer, at their side ...
• Fans chat with scouting director Seid (Milwaukee Brewers)
  posted on August 26, 2009 at 11:53:23 pm
  Fans chat with scouting director Seid
• Oak Park resident killed in Afghanistan (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 24, 2009 at 06:52:33 pm
  Brian M. Wolverton, 21, had been assigned to a light infantry division of the U.S. Army. He died Thursday in the Kunar province of wounds suffered during indirect fire.