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Aug 3, 2020

Howard Dungan - Obituary - Legacy.com

The Mother of Governors," former teacher and counselor with the San Diego Unified School District, passed away July 12, 2020, in Alvarado Hospital of complications of a pancreatic mass and congestive heart failure.Howard was born in Newark, Nebraska August 2, 1920, raised on the family homestead farm there, rode a pony to a one-room schoolhouse, did homework by kerosene lamp, drew water from an outdoor hand pump, and graduated from high school in Kearney, Nebraska where he lettered in sports and set pins in a bowling alley at night. He completed a semester of college in Kearney, picked apples in Colorado, was a carpenter's helper, worked with poultry, tried out fora farm club of the St. Louis Cardinals, and went hungry sometimes as it was the Great Depression. He later learned banking at an uncle's bank in Ilwako, Washington, and helped his parents move off the Nebraska farm in a packed car with little more than the change in their pockets and had to leave his beloved dog, Fritz, behind in the care of a tenant. By 1940 he joined his parents and other relatives in San Diego and did clerical work for Cadahy Packing Company.It was during a day trip to Tijuana when he and his high school sweetheart and future wife, Anita, learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After consid...

Apr 20, 2018

Pacific Grove gets a pub, Eddison & Melrose does flower arrangements.

Resies: 393-1042.Some shakeups coming to the downtown dining scenes in Monterey and PG. In Monterey,Aabha Indian Grill is teasing a new location on Alvarado where My Attic was previously situated. And MidiCi still has plans to bring Neapolitan pizza to Alvarado St. this summer. In Pacific Grove, longtime favorites Favaloro’s Big Night Bistro, Mauricio’s, and 17th Street Grille may have shuttered, but like the city’s iconic monarchs, these dormant cocoons will soon metamorphose into Wild Fish, Poppy Hall, and Monarch Pub & Restaurant, respectively, this spring.Join Eddison & Melrose for tea – and a creative flower arranging class on Tuesday, April 17 from 6:30-7:30pm. Carmel Valley Floral Farm’s Sally Voss lead a floral demonstration paired with tea and warm scones from Eddison & Melrose chef-owner Anne Murray. $25. Flowers available for purchase. 601-4851.CASA of Monterey County hosts “Cucina Classico” at Joyce Vineyards Saturday, April 14, 6-9:30pm. Enjoy wood-fired pizza, craft beer, Joyce wines, olive oil tastings, live entertainment and a silent auction. Proceeds support foster children served by CASA of Monterey County. $100. Tickets at casaofmonterey.org/events.Feast on the foraged flavors of spring at Quail Lodge on Saturday, April 14. The night begins with foraging through Quail’s gardens with Executive Chef Brian Kearns at 4pm, followed by a reception at 5pm and dinner at 5:30pm. Kearns will offer a four-course dinner featuring a spring salad, stinging nettle cavatelli pasta, spring lamb loin and lemon posset for dessert. $105, $95 for members. 6... (Monterey County Weekly)

May 25, 2017

A mother's legacy blooms in Far NE Heights

These were flowers of historical significance, Beckley explains, rescued from the gardens of the Alvarado Hotel, a magnificent Spanish Mission-style landmark built as a gracious respite for train travelers in 1902, then lost recklessly to urban renewal in 1970.Beckley sent me a short essay she had written, a Mother’s Day tribute to her mom and the peonies that survived long after the Alvarado gardens were reduced to gravel.Her father, Archie Garcia, a city land agent, had rescued the peonies before the bulldozers came.“Call it serendipitous or call it accidental, coincidental or call it just plain lucky, but whoever was digging up the beautiful peonies that grew in the gardens of the hotel asked my father if he’d like to take them home,” she wrote. “My memory tells me that my father helped dig them up and took them home to a very grateful and talented gardener.”Home for the Garcias and their four children – Beckley was the youngest – was a tiny bungalow at 11th and the aptly named Rosemont NW, where nearly every day one could find Beckley’s mother in a broad-brimmed hat tending her flowers.Angelina Garcia, pictured here in her youth.“She was always in the yard digging,” Beckley recalls. “Here’s a funny story. She grew these beautiful Oriental poppies, deep orange with black centers. So pretty. But then somewhere she read some poppies are grown to make opium and she became terrified that she was going to be arrested, so she tore them up.”AdvertisementContinue readingShe stuck to peonies.The years passed. The flowers bloomed, then browned, then faded away. In late autumn, her mother cut back the peonies to nearly nothing. In late spring, they burst forth from the soil as beautiful and bounteous as before.“It’s like they bloomed for her,” she says.Beckley and her siblings grew, too, leaving the home at 11th and Rosemont to raise families of their own. Beckley and her husband had four children and are now the proud grandparents of 11.In 1993, her mother passed away, five years after her father’s death. Angelina Garcia was 89.The house at 11th and Rosemont was sold, the garden plow...

Apr 7, 2017

Cooper junior Flowers 17th at state powerlifting meet, Snyder duo medals

That left her behind only Victoria Ortega of Rio Hondo (875) and Alvarado's Isabella Weatherby (885) in her class.Other Big Country qualifiers include Big Spring's Serenity Garcia (14th in the 123 class, 695), Brownwood's Victoria Sanchez (12th in the 132 class, 715), Big Spring's Carlie Roberts (6th in the 181 class, 895) and Stephenville's Nadine Arredondo (8th in the 259 class, 930).Snyder placed eighth as a team with eight points, 13 behind first-place Beeville Jones and second-place Crystal City. Rio Hondo and Anna were third and fourth, respectively, with 15 points apiece. (ReporterNews.com)

Feb 9, 2017

'I cannot believe he is gone': Funeral planned for Brampton crash victim

A funeral will be held Jan. 23 for Victor Alvarado, the 22-year-old Brampton man killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday night. Flowers and teddy bears now adorn the Clark Boulevard traffic light pole Alvarado’s bright yellow Toyota Celica hit around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up by Chinita Alvarez, identifying herself as his cousin, to raise money for his parents to help pay for his funeral as friends and family mourn his death. “Nobody understands what this man meant to me,” she wrote. “To me he was a lil bit that I called lil Victor. He was so good to me and my son. I cannot believe he is gone. Pleaseeee be safe out there.” The funeral will be held at the Brampton Funeral Home, 10061 Chinguacousy Rd. Viewing is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the service starts at 1 p.m. Meanwhile, Peel Regional Police Major Collision Bureau investigators are continuing to look for witnesses to the crash. Anyone with information can call them at 905-453... (Brampton Guardian)

Jan 19, 2017

“I cannot believe he is gone” Funeral planned for Brampton crash victim

A funeral will be held Jan. 23 for Victor Alvarado, the 22-year-old Brampton man killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday night. Flowers and teddy bears now adorn the Clark Boulevard traffic light pole Alvarado's bright yellow Toyota Celica hit around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14. He was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up by Chinita Alvarez, identifying herself as his cousin, to raise money for his parents to help pay for his funeral as friends and family mourn his death. "Nobody understands what this man meant to me," she wrote. "To me he was a lil bit that I called lil Victor. He was so good to me and my son. I cannot believe he is gone. Pleaseeee be safe out there." The funeral will be held at the Brampton Funeral Home, 10061 Chinguacousy Rd. Viewing is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the service starts at 1 p.m. Meanwhile, Peel Regional Police Major Collision Bureau investigators are continuing to look for witnesses to the crash. Anyone with information can call them at 905-453-2121... (Hamilton Spectator)