Browse past news stories for Pacifica High School in Oxnard, CA.

• In uniform: November 25, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on November 24, 2009 at 11:32:00 pm
  Army 1st Lt. Scott Wyly graduated from the U.S. Army Aviation Center’s flight school at Fort Rucker, Ala. Wyly rejoined 5-159th Aviation Regiment in Clearwater, Fla., as a platoon leader.In October his Blackhawk helicopter squadron was deployed to Camp Udari, Kuwait .Wyly is a 2001 graduate of Newbury Park High School.Army Reserve Pvt. Eduardo Montano has graduated from basic combat training at ...
• Yamamoto's goal propels Rio Mesa to win (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 30, 2009 at 07:34:17 am
  Joey Yamamoto’s second goal of the game proved to be the game-winner as Rio Mesa High came from behind to nip Pacifica 10-8 in a Pacific View contest at the Oxnard Aquatic Center on Thursday. The victory clinched a second straight league title for the Spartans. Rio Mesa (19-4, 8-0) used a balanced attack to remain undefeated in Pacific View League play. Yamamoto, Lucas Villas, Nick Tomasello ...
• At-risk kids attend 2-day workshop (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 25, 2009 at 05:06:22 am
  The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme on Saturday hosted a group of teens who have had serious delinquency problems for a two-day intensive workshop designed by Awakening Young Minds for at-risk kids. “AYM is specifically designed to address the behaviors of teens,” said Thousand Oaks resident Jani McGuire, AYM founder and facilitator. “The many issues they are faced with ...
• Cason Point: Walkers vote for a change with their feet (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 21, 2009 at 07:41:50 pm
  These days almost everyone I talk to wants change. Sometimes they are seeking the loose change from between the couch cushions to buy that noontime value meal. Often, though, they want to tap their heels together three times and return to 2006 — that Oz where jobs were plentiful and homes had equity. Oh, those were the days, my friend, but 2006 has come to an end. If you want to see what ...
• PREP TUESDAY (Los Angeles Daily News)
  posted on October 20, 2009 at 07:18:00 am
  GETTING TO KNOW ... TAYLOR SCIOSCIA Louisville, girls' volleyball, Sr. Born: Dec. 12, 1991, in Claremont.
• Group offers solace for those whose siblings died (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 18, 2009 at 07:07:56 am
  Sitting on the patio at a Ventura coffee shop, Paula Steele looks across the road to where her brother died on April 20, 2005. “This is only the third time I’ve been back here,” said the 32-year-old Ventura resident. Her brother, Tim Garrety, was driving east on Telegraph Road near Victoria Avenue when another car, turning west on Telegraph from a side street, hit his. He left behind a wife ...
• In uniform: October 14, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on October 13, 2009 at 01:38:25 am
  Air Force Airman Evan J. Love has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Love is a 2006 graduate of Simi Valley High School. He is the son of Eric and Robin Love of Simi Valley. John A. Ryan has graduated from the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps Leader’s Training Course at Fort Knox, Ky. The four-week course is a leadership internship for ...
• In uniform: September 30, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on September 29, 2009 at 06:38:10 pm
  Army Reserve Pfc. Tiodulo Ortiz has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Ortiz is a 2001 graduate of Nordhoff High School and received an associate degree in 2003 from Ventura College. He is the son of Salvador and Teresa Ortiz of Ojai. Army Reserve Pvt. Miguel Villa has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Sill, Lawton, Okla. Villa is a 2008 graduate of ...
• Brave Betties (Ventura County Reporter)
  posted on September 23, 2009 at 07:56:27 pm
  Brave Betties
• Youth football roundup: September 15, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on September 15, 2009 at 07:16:36 am
  Highlights: Simi Valley — Simi Valley’s Nolan Shaffer scored the only touchdown of the game on a quarterback sneak from the 1-yard line. The Vikings recorded a safety. Brandon Portaro spent most of the game pressuring the Camarillo quarterback.
• Schools have cut many jobs, programs (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 30, 2009 at 07:16:29 am
  More than 440 teacher jobs lost. Larger class sizes in three-quarters of the school districts. An entire week of school eliminated in one community. The Ventura County Star sent questionnaires this month to all 21 local school districts, asking about jobs eliminated, class-size increases, days cut and programs trimmed because of California’s budget woes. Only one district, Santa Paula Elementary ...
• Hueneme High athletic director shot dead (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 03:54:32 pm
  Dave Laut, Hueneme High School’s athletic director and a former Olympic shot putter, was shot to death outside his Oxnard home about midnight Thursday when he reportedly went to investigate noises in his backyard, police said.
• Oxnard school district discusses priority for projects (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 28, 2009 at 07:09:32 am
  The Oxnard Union High School school met during a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss ling-term projects for facilities improvements. The board made no decisions, but discussed the possibility of a new high school in Oxnard.
• Chance meeting leads to Africa for Camarillo teacher (Ventura County Star)
  posted on August 11, 2009 at 05:21:30 am
  When Jenn Maygren returns this fall to her world history and geography instructor duties at Pacifica High School in Oxnard, she will have a more personal understanding of the world about which she teaches.
• Woman mourned at vigil (Ventura County Star)
  posted on July 11, 2009 at 07:08:47 am
  Danielle Camacho, left, Andres Ortega and Liliy Andrade attend a candlelight vigil Friday for Melissa Rodriguez, a 19-year-old woman who was shot to death in her car in Oxnard on July 3. Melissa Rodriguez’s smiling face stared silently from photographs that hung from a tree in Oxnard Friday evening. Her voice is forever muted. Just a week earlier, paramedics found the 19-year-old dead in her car ...
• Candlelight vigil set for shooting victim (Ventura County Star)
  posted on July 10, 2009 at 07:17:43 am
  A candlelight vigil is scheduled today to remember Melissa Rodriguez, a 19-year-old woman shot to death July 3 in Oxnard.
• Police offer few new details on weekend shooting deaths (Ventura County Star)
  posted on July 7, 2009 at 03:53:52 am
  Authorities continued Monday to investigate weekend shootings that killed a 19-year-old Oxnard woman and a 46-year-old Ventura woman.
• Victim in Oxnard car crash had been shot to death (Ventura County Star)
  posted on July 5, 2009 at 05:38:52 am
  Oxnard police arrived at the scene of a car accident late Friday night and found a woman dead, and her car smashed against a tree.
• High school district to offer new academies (Camarillo Acorn)
  posted on June 26, 2009 at 02:19:36 am
  The Oxnard Union High School District will offer Hueneme and Pacifica high school students two new academies this fall. Both programs are open to Camarillo students. Trustees agreed earlier this month to establish a culinary arts academy at Pacifica High and an information technology academy at Hueneme High.
• Pacifica High awards 2 posthumous degrees (Ventura County Star)
  posted on June 13, 2009 at 07:38:56 am
  The joy of graduation at Pacifica High School was muted by remembrances of two classmates who died this year. Jeremy Jonathan Rodriguez and Hector Jose Anguiano were both awarded diplomas posthumously during the Friday night ceremony at Triton Stadium in Oxnard.
• Calendar: Theater and stage events (Ventura County Star)
  posted on June 12, 2009 at 07:11:16 am
  COMEDY SHOW FUNDRAISER: Felipe Esparza will headline this comedy show featuring Juan Garcia and Shaun Latham. Proceeds will benefit the Relay for Life team Honoring Our Fallen Angels. 8 p.m. June 19, Casa Del Mexicano, 218 S. 11th St., Santa Paula. $25. 216-0616 or 218-5649.
• Chocolate rules during cooking contest at Pacifica High (Ventura County Star)
  posted on June 2, 2009 at 07:11:11 am
  When Pacifica High School English teacher Christina Maggio showed up Monday to compete in the eighth annual “Iron Chef”-style cooking contest on the Oxnard campus, she found the so-called secret ingredient waiting for her on a plate.
• Oxnard sting targets railroad crossing violators (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 28, 2009 at 07:10:47 am
  From the cab of the locomotive, authorities spotted a white van stopped on the tracks. Oxnard police Officer Andrew Pinkstaff radioed fellow officers, and a patrol car pulled over the van as it drove away.
• La Colonia teen writes book on youthful angst, geared toward young readers (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 07:12:33 am
  Somewhere in a teacher’s compliment, the black comedy teen film “Welcome to the Dollhouse” and home movies filmed in La Colonia lies the imaginative world Jesus Meza III conjured for his book, “A Walk Through Eternity,” at the age of 19.
• Calendar items for Ventura County: May 25, 2009 (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 25, 2009 at 07:09:52 am
  What: Carson & Barnes Circus. Features trapeze and high-wire artists, motorcycle acrobat teams, elephants, ponies and dogs. A portion of ticket price goes to Kiwanis club of Oxnard. Tickets $16 to $24.
• High school mariachi bands to play in Oxnard (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 24, 2009 at 07:10:31 am
  Ten high school bands will take part Wednesday in the eighth annual Mariachi Festival organized by the Oxnard Union High School District.
• Teen arrested in hit-and-run at Oxnard school parking lot (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 22, 2009 at 09:23:52 am
  Oxnard police arrested a 16-year-old boy Wednesday afternoon in connection with a hit-and-run crash at Pacifica High School earlier in the day.
• Oxnard police seek driver of pickup that sped away after hitting vehicle (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 20, 2009 at 09:56:56 pm
  Oxnard police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck who hit an unoccupied vehicle in the Pacifica High School parking lot and then sped away.
• Pacifica High senior dies of natural causes (Ventura County Star)
  posted on May 8, 2009 at 07:09:52 am
  A Pacifica High School senior, who was found unresponsive near an Oxnard school this week, apparently died of natural causes, authorities said.
• a dream performance (Camarillo Acorn)
  posted on April 2, 2009 at 11:12:09 pm
  CineMagic co-director JaneKildee said that in this year's California-themed show "there's something everybody can relate to.