Illegal immigrant attending Cerritos

May 13th, 2009

As an undocumented illegal immigrant, Gomez has both suffered and learned to overcome many obstacles that have been presented in his life.

He has admitted to the crimes, such as identity theft, he felt compelled to commit in order to try to survive and prosper in this “beautiful and great land of opportunities” he calls the United States.

“I’ve done so many things that I wish I could say I regret doing, but in all honesty I don’t think I could or should regret something that has helped my family prosper and survive,” he said.

He is currently attending Cerritos College under a different name and working under someone else’s social security number.

Prior to attending Cerritos College, he also attended ELAC and Cypress College, also under a different name, but was forced to leave because he was not able to present official proof, such as a birth certificate, in order to continue receiving financial aid.

Read more at Talon Marks http://www.talonmarks.com/illegal-immigrant-attending-cerritos-1.1749708

Cerritos College Softball Headed to State Tournament

May 10th, 2009

NORWALK – On a day when the Cerritos College softball team was challenged, albeit briefly, the Falcons’ bats more than made up for any shortcomings with six home runs in a 12-4 victory in six innings over visiting Saddleback in Sunday’s Super Regional game at Nancy Kelly Field.

The win, coupled with a 10-2 victory Friday, gives the Falcons (39-9-1), seeded No. 2 in Southern California, the series, 2-0, while Cerritos also advances to its third consecutive state tournament beginning this Friday in Salinas. Read more at http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_12340729

The softball team of Cerritos College won its last two games against Saddleback City College Saturday and Sunday, setting the stage for the Falcons to defend its state title.

The Falcons were due to face a pitcher that is very difficult to hit off of, but with the hitting talent that Cerritos has shown throughout this season, the players and staff were confident of advancing to next round of the playoffs.

Assistant coach Bud Murray said, “We faced a tough pitcher who had beat us in our last two meetings, but after saddleback saw our hitting in a San Diego tournament, they were intimidated.”

The Falcons walked away with two mercy-rule wins this weekend.

12 hits led to 10 runs ending in a 10-2 win on Saturday and on Sunday, 14 hits led to a 12-4 win. Read more at http://www.talonmarks.com/softball-defends-state-title-1.1749565.

Enroll Schedule

April 3rd, 2009

Cerritos College Enroll Schedule

1st 6-Week Session: May 26 – July 2
1st 8-Week Session: May 26-July 17
2nd 6-Week Session: July 6-August 14
2nd 8-Week Session: June 22-August 14

Neighbor Vandalism

April 3rd, 2009

It started years ago during the time when my little brother lived with me in Norwalk. Our neighbor street was peaceful or so I thought. Before my family moved in into Norwalk, we use to live in Los Angeles in a mid-scale neighborhood and everyone respected the neighbor’s property, privacy, noise level, and were very friendly towards one another.

But things were lot different here in Norwalk. I noticed that there were lot of cars parked on the residential streets instead of the usual two to three vehicles per households normally found at other cities. The neighbors especially in my street some had like five to seven vehicles in one household. You read it right, five to seven vehicles. As day goes by, I realized that there were numerous people entering and leaving the house on a daily basis so either they had an enormous household in one house or the rooms were being rented out to renters.

On one evening, there were two vehicles parked in front of my house street curve so my brother parked his vehicle across the street. He told me that two neighbors were out on their front yard drinking beer and chatting together. Then the homeowner where my brother parked his car at said not to park his car there. Brother replied that there was no other available parking space. The following morning, a beer cardboard was placed on the car’s windshield with a big X marked on it. He didn’t visually check his car if there was any intentionally vandalism on his car.

Couple weeks forward, my mother had to park her car to on the same curb, and right when she was leaving the vehicle and heading towards the house, that homeowner came out with a broom and started sweeping next to my mother’s car. Outrageous! That man obviously had bad intentions and not a friendly neighbor. My mother relocated the car elsewhere.

At another time, I parked my car in front of xx house only to find that the homeowner turned on his little sprinkler unit right next to my car. I immediately headed out to my car and the water shooting out of the sprinkler was hitting the rotary of my right rear wheel. What bad intentions and wrongful doing of these Norwalk residents! I reparked my car elsewhere.

I was very frustrated with these two neighbors. April 3, 2009, my car was again parked in front of the xy house as there were no visible parking spaces near my house. I was hesitant at first last night whether I should park there or not and this was a brand new car too. The first time I did when I approached my vehicle was visually inspect the car and I was mad at this point. There was a yellow tac pin pinned down on my front right wheel! Yes it is a small tac pin but how dare he insert that in my vehicle. This is property vandalism! At this point, I am pretty angry and I don’t have any proof of this case or previous cases to file a small court suit against the xx homeowner.

Census Office Officially Opens

January 9th, 2009

The US Government Census Bureau opens its office in the City of Norwalk! The office opened on January 7th and is located at 12501 E. Imperials Highway, Suite 500.

The Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data. The Bureau of the Census is part of the United States Department of Commerce. The agency director is a political appointee selected by the current President.