A few years ago Alofaifo Faleono was like a lot of Long Beach youngsters struggling to make their way through elementary school. He was bashful, with low self-esteem and not a lot of confidence. He was going around in a circle, …
When I was going to eighth grade in the Chicago suburb of Lombard, I didn’t have a cell phone. Heck, we barely had television back in the 1950s. The word “texting” had not been invented. And so it was with a …
This was not your ordinary graduation where all you got was a handshake and a smile. These students, graduating from Long Beach middle schools, took home with them a brand new laptop, a printer, flash drive and a backpack. When …
Lindsey Academy (6-8) 5075 Daisy Ave., Long Beach, CA 90805 * 562/423-6451 « www.lbschools.net/lindsey Education Equals Opportunity, Too! E=02™ Lindsey Academy is proud to partner with Education Equals Opportunity Too (E=02™), a nonprofit organization that provides a myriad of services …
A few years ago, Alofaifo Faleono was a bashful sixth-grader with low self-esteem, not a lot of confidence and a bleak future. You couldn’t tell that last week when Faleono went to the podium and gave an inspirational talk to youths …
LONG BEACH >> Unique Marinero has never been employed before, let alone taken part in a job interview. But the 13-year-old’s fate changed Wednesday when she became one of six Washington Middle School students to win an internship at CDR Financial Services, which …
