Dog River Librarys Arts and Crafts Festival on Nov 4th 2017
When Ricky Flahive was a child in Chula Vista, he didn't imagine himself ever graduating from high school.
He had missed near of unproblematic school, except for 2nd grade (where he learned to read), third grade and the terminal iii months of sixth form.
As a teen, he called a motel in a gang-infested neighborhood home for seven years. Information technology was robbed. The 7/11 store next door was held up twice — once as he was walking by.
Then why was Flahive chosen to share the UC San Diego commencement phase with the Nobel Prize-winning Dalai Lama on June 17?
He personifies Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso'south keynote address: "The Value of Education, Ethics and Compassion for the Well-Existence of Self and Others."
"I didn't encounter myself ever going to two years of City College, let alone to UCSD, much less graduating from UCSD," says Flahive (pronounced Flay-hive), now 23. Simply he did, thanks, in function, to his grandparents, who offered to let him sleep on their floor in Chula Vista. And to Urban center College'due south First Year Experience program which mandates student and career counseling, tutorial sessions and peer mentoring.
His first response to joining the Dalai Lama in front of an audience of 25,000? "I'grand speechless," says Flahive, as well as "terrified," "blown away" and "humbled." But he assures me he will have a speech for the 10 a.m. anniversary, and he bought 1 of the Dalai Lama's books to read before meeting His Holiness.
Although he missed the social interaction of grade school, hung out with the wrong crowd and confesses he nonetheless can't write cursive, Flahive quickly made upwards for lost classroom fourth dimension. He earned a four.0 boilerplate in his third semester at Urban center College and became a student leader and peer mentor.
At UC San Diego, Flahive majored in political science and sociology, minored in theater, was an Associated Students senator, president of the All Campus Transfer Clan, an orientation leader and mentor for first-generation college students.
In fact, Flahive has 2 commencement speeches to give considering he too was selected to speak to Muir College graduates.
His success has City College administrators rejoicing. Terminal year, another alumnus, Alberto "Beto" Vasquez, was at the UCSD starting time mic. A begetter of four, Vasquez had gone back to school at age 29 to provide a better future for his family unit. He joined the keynoter Muhammad Yunus, as well a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
"That'southward two SDCC students in row to be student speakers at UCSD. Pretty cool," says Heidi Bunkowske, City Higher information officer.
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Pearl jam: This weekend's Oysterfest is a music festival with oysters, not an oyster festival with music. Simply a side attraction was to be Television evidence host, Chef Gordon Ramsay, vying with Patrick McMurray to interruption the Toronto homo's Guinness globe tape of shucking 38 oysters in i infinitesimal.
Until it wasn't.
On May 20, Oysterfest organizers were notified that Ramsay's appearance, scheduled last Feb, was hundred-to-one due to a conflicting consequence.
When the counterfoil was confirmed, Oysterfest posters, fliers and radio spots were quickly rewritten or re-recorded to remove references to Ramsay.
"These things happen … calendars alter. Gordon Ramsay is a pop, busy man," said Oysterfest organizer and promoter Mike Beltran, lamenting that they had no written contract.
Every bit it turns out, Oysterfest is planning to have the last discussion. The shucking duel was to have been featured on the celebrity chef's food testify, "The F Word." So Beltran, also a festival emcee, plans to lead the 3,000 or so attendees in an abbreviated F Word chant directed at the chef.
"There's no ill will," insists Beltran, who hopes the gesture volition elicit a laugh from Ramsay and perhaps a show cameo for Oysterfest, afterward all.
Working canis familiaris: Local celebrity therapy dog, Ricochet, is driven to perform. And at present she'll exist driven in manner.
Last Sunday, every bit the pup was giving a "Waves of Empowerment" therapeutic surf session, in which kids with special needs are paired with veterans suffering from PTSD for a 24-hour interval of surfing, San Diego Honda Dealers presented Ricochet with a 2017 Honda SUV.
Judy Fridono took custody of the keys and spoke on her pooch's behalf, saying the gift will allow Ricochet's work to both proceed and expand. She noted that her 2001 SUV had racked up 240,000 miles, more often than not for pet programme sessions.
Jenifer Ball, of the Honda Dealers group, said Ricochet'south power to instantly make empathetic connections with people was simply astounding and in sync with the grouping's support for "sunny stories."
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