LAUSD and LHS furlough and holiday gives a week vacation for Thanksgiving.

This is the last day of school for LAUSD generally and Lincoln High specifically. Lincoln is on an "Early Start School" schedule and will end the fall semester next month but there's added the extra full week of holiday from the students' viewpoint beginning with the close of school today.

The furlough days, or as the LHS website calendar has it, "furough," will be observed on next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday as part of the budget arrangement to save LAUSD some money. The Thanksgiving holiday that customarily includes the following Friday will provide all the District with a full week of "vacation." Next classes at Lincoln will resume in 10 days.

This means lost pay for employees but on the positive side, it givea a head start to anyone taking the opportunity for getting travel done a little early for this holiday.

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Closing out this week is that football playoff game that LHS has tonight, as mentioned in the posting yesterday. Good luck, Tigers and Woody, you and your staff have done a remarkable job with the program.

Lincoln Varsity Football in Playoffs- Friday v. Palisades High

It looks like the LHS Varsity team will be able to practice their game-winning style on Friday at Palisades High at 7 p.m. Attendance is encouraged, but just where this location is exactly will be your job to find out.

I can't tell you any more on this since details don't come easily from the official LHS site, so you might try calling the LHS office to verify time and place to be certain:

(323)441-4600 and
Fax: (323)223-1291

Alumni Association Meeting on Saturday

LHS Alumni Association meeting time again this Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at the Cafe In The Heights across the street from the campus on N. Broadway.

Here's the announcement email from Frank Beltran for this meeting via Mike Ibarra's email forwarding:

MONTHLY ASSOCATION MEETING NOTICE
DATE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2010
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Café In The Heights (Across from Lincoln HS)
3510 North Broadway

YOUR ATTENDANCE IS IMPORTANT FOR THE CONTINUED
SUCCESS OF THE LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

PLEASE SUPPORT THE LHS ALUMNI - MAIL IN YOUR $20.00 ANNUAL DUES (Fiscal Year, July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011)
MAIL: LHSAA, PO BOX 31257, Los Angeles, CA 90031
OR BRING TO THIS MEETING
(Please ignore if you already paid your yearly dues)

Log onto the high school website for Alumni news and updates:
http://lincolnhs.org/apps/news/?id=4

PARTIAL -AGENDA ITEMS:
Come and meet active alumni participants.
Committee Reports
Final October Alumni Dance
Final Concession Stand Earnings Report
Discussion of Proposed 2011 Calendar/Budget

Looking forward to seeing you this Saturday.

PS –Read attachment, the Lincoln Football team ends season 9-1 and goes to playoffs.

Support your alma mater by attending the game at Palisades High this Friday at 7:00 pm. You will run into many alumni at the game..

Frank Beltran, Retired Principal
Vice President -Membership, LHSAA
f.beltran@gte.net
f.beltran@mac.com

Last LHS Football Game of the regular season on Friday- v. Wilson

Lincoln ends the regular season for 2010 on Friday, November 12, 2010 at home, JV at 4pm, Varsity at 7pm. Up until last week v. Marshall, the Tigers' varsity team was undefeated and Lincoln will be looking for a win to make that the only loss of the season.

For those not familiar with the relationship between Wilson High and Lincoln Hig, Wilson has long been the principal rival for as long as I can remember. Wilson is the closest LAUSD high school to Lincoln other than Bravo Magnet School that has no team, but with so many transfers and blurring of district lines, I think there's not as much intensity of loyalty to each of these schools as there was back in the 60's. And back in the 60's, Wilson was on Eastern Avenue, now occupied by El Sereno Middle School as the new high school on the hill was completed.

You can check with any assorted groups and people from that time and with more contemporary sources and compare times based on your own experience to see is this is an accurate assessment of school spirit. In any even, this should be a good game to end the regular season.

Remember to support the LHS Alumni Association by buying food at the concession stand at the Visitor's side of the field, reasonably priced and good quality, too.

Veterans Day 2010

Today is Veterans Day, a holiday that honors United States military veterans. The national holiday was originally called Armistice Day to recognized the end hostilities in World War I that was effective at 11 a.m. on November 11th, 1918.

An act of congress in April 1954 changed the name of this holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day that year, and it recognizes all veterans now.

Parade today: 5th Annual Northeast L.A. Veterans Day Parade

PARADE

Today's scheduled parade- the "5th Annual Northeast L.A. Veterans Day Parade"- will begin at 1 p.m. and it looks like the weather will be good but you can never be sure lately. The route begins at York Blvd. and Eagle Rock Blvd. and continue north on Eagle Rock Blvd. up to Merton, a block before Colorado.
OTHER EVENTS

Before that, there will be a solemn ceremony at 11 am at the Eagle Rock City Hall at Colorado and Maywood. A USO Stage Show will begin after the parade at 2:30 p.m. at the parades's end at Caspar and Merton.

PARTICIPATION of local NE area high schools:

LINCOLN HIGH- At last check, there's no information on whether Lincoln HS will have any showing of the band, cheeerleaders, drill team or ROTC or any other LHS organization.

EAGLE ROCK HIGH-
Eagle Rock High has been notably absent in the past parades. According to ERHS Principal Salvado Velasco, there are no plans for participation in this parade as he referenced this topic arising at a faculty meeting. The activities are managed by a director and the scheduling apparently had some date conflict.

ERHS's representation in this, the only parade held entirely in Eagle Rock each year, is pretty strange but that's what was explained to me last week by Principal Velasco.

FRANKLIN HIGH-
So it looks like it will be Franklin High School from Highland Park as the only expected Northeast L.A. High School represented here, now having put in some fine appearances over the history of the parade.

There will still be a lot of other participants from local schools that will be present but you would expect the high schools to take opportunities to show what their performance groups can do in a public event like these. So far, there's no certainty on LHS' entry in the Lincoln Heights Christmas Parade next month. I was told that there is not entry fee like some parades have and there should be no issues on transporting students so maybe they are just taking their time to act.

LATE FOLLOW UP: It turns out that Franklin High sent their ROTC Color Guard as the schools only FHS entry in the parade. LHS and ERHS were non-participants as earlier mentioned. There may be some explanations for this but I still think a school needs to take every opportunity possible to get in some performance time to give the students maximum exposure since many will be graduating in June.

I think this shortchanges them in not allowing friends and family to see them do what they are practicing for in the first place. Just my opinion and I don't have the other side of the story for Lincoln or Franklin. There could be many other reasons that make sense but I find this to be dissappointing.