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December 3, 2004
| Setting an example with conviction |
Col. R. Hipwell awarded Purple Heart in Afghanistan
By Justin Petersen
Staff Writer
Colonel Robert Hipwell is slated to return home for the holidays, bearing perhaps the two greatest gifts—his life and a Purple Heart.
Having served the last three years leap-frogging from San Jose to Georgia to the Middle East into Kuwait, stationed in Iraq for one year and Afghanistan for another, Hipwell returns home Dec. 15, battered but not beaten.
The 56-year-old soldier—who serves in the Armed Forces Reserves—just completed his orders in Afghanistan and awaits another assignment, presumably stateside. He also returns with the prestigious Purple Heart after sustaining a facial wound in action this Read
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| Important ESUHSD budget meetings: Dec. 6 - 7 By Bea Baechle
Editor
Where’s the beef? The first East Side Union High School District Budget Task Force meeting laid the foundation for future meetings, covering the formation of the task force, its process, and timeline of the task force’s meetings in the coming months—with no discussion of the actual budget numbers.
The first interim report of the ESUSHD Budget Task Force was distributed at the end of the lengthy 2.5-hour meeting held at Evergreen Valley High School on Nov. 29 in preparation for the next meetings to be held Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7. Read
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