This year's Alumni Dinner promises to be both exciting and rewarding. The association will be awarding $69,000 in scholarships to graduating Fillmore High seniors.

And celebrating their class reunions at this year's dinner will be the classes of '53, '58, '73, '78, '83, '88, and those youngsters from the class of 1998! Each of these classes will be in for a big surprise. The Alumni Board of Directors have a special set up for each reunion class at this year's dinner.

The caterer for this year’s dinner is the ever popular and award winning DJ's California Caterers from Ventura. They have created another outstanding menu for our alumni and of course they will have their homemade peach and apple cobbler for dessert brought back by popular demand. (You know who you are.)

We invite all alumni to come celebrate our Alma Mater and our community of Fillmore as we meet the 2018 Alumni Scholars. Remember, last year's dinner/dance was sold out the week of the event, so hurry and pay for your reservations now, especially if you are celebrating a class reunion this year. There will be plenty of music and dancing for the classes celebrating their reunions and a lot of catching up with past high school friends. Make your reservations now at www.fillmorehighalumni.com (click on the Events link at the top of the website) or you can walk into Patterson Hardware Store, (open 7 days a week) and pay for your reservations there.

We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday June 9th; and to the class of 2018, welcome to your alumni family!

On Saturday, May 19th, Diamond Realty hosted their 3rd Annual Chalk Art Fundraiser event for the Fillmore High School Art Program. This year’s event was bigger than ever. The chalk art made the sidewalks of Fillmore look beautiful and $150 dollars was raised for Fillmore High’s Art Program.

Virgina Newman was this year's judge. The winners were: 1st Place - Norberto Armenta, 2nd Place - Yudith Serafin, 3rd Place - Lizette Serafin, Owners Choice Award - Viviana McKinley, Participants - Janessa Hurtado & Marissa Dorantes.
Principal Pablo Leaños said, “Thank you to Diamond Realty for your generous donations to our students."

Diamond Realty Co-Owner Theresa Robledo said, “The artists really brought their creativity & talent this year! Thank you to all the Chalk Artists who participated and helped raise money for Fillmore High School’s Art Program. See you all next year!”

About Diamond Realty
Diamond Realty is a full service real estate agency servicing Ventura and North Los Angeles Counties. Diamond Realty prides itself on establishing long term relationships based on mutual respect and trust with our clients, customers and agents. Diamond Realty is located at 460 Santa Clara Street in Fillmore. (805) 524-2121. https://www.diamondrealtyteam.com/

The Fillmore Unified School District submitted applications in October 2017 for the Career Technology Facilities Project Grant, a competitive state grant, in both the Agriscience/Agricultural Mechanics and Transportation (i.e. automotive) pathways. The completed applications had to meet a minimum score and would be compared to applications received statewide. The applications submitted by Fillmore USD were for new construction and could result in a 50/50 matching grant of up to $3 million in state resources for each pathway. The District received confirmation this spring that the Transportation pathway application met the requirements for consideration for funding and would proceed forward; however, the District would need to reapply for the Agriscience/Agricultural Mechanics pathway.

The State Allocation Board (SAB) convened this afternoon, and the Fillmore Unified Transportation pathway is one of the 73 applications approved for a reservation of funds. Fillmore Unified is the only Ventura County school district with an application approved by the SAB. District Superintendent Dr. Adrian Palazuelos shared, “the SAB action this afternoon cemented the direction established by our Fillmore Unified Governing Board to construct a new career technical education facility on the Fillmore High School campus. Thanks to our generous community, we have Measure V, the $35 million school bond passed in November 2016. Funds from Measure V will be used for the 50/50 matching grant of $3 million from the state of California. Fillmore Unified has the ability to realize the dream of creating the facility that our students deserve. Staff is currently working to ensure that a new application for Agriscience/Agricultural Mechanics is submitted during the next application window in fall 2018.”

Fillmore Unified is working with the professional architectural firm WestGroup Designs on the new Fillmore High School career technical education facility. District staff (including teachers and administrators), students, parents, industry experts, and advisory groups have provided necessary input on the design of the new facility. District staff and WestGroup Designs are working diligently to ensure that construction of the new facility begins in the next 12 months.

September 2nd 1953 the day before the last scheduled game, it was announced that the future Fillmore Little League home field (present field) on the High School campus was ready. Mr. Donavan Main, High School Superintendent, said “that if all goes as planned with the lighting system the last Little League games of the first season could be played on the new field under the lights.” Everything went as planned and the final games were played on the new lighted field.

Results of the Thursday 9/3/53 games. First game ever played on Fillmore Little League’s official field was the Yankees 12 vs. Stars 11. First game played under the lights on Fillmore Little League’s official field, Bat Boys 14 - Midgets 8. Kenny “Speed” Stewart and Bob Hustis handled the umpiring duties for these two historic games, with Speed behind the plate and Bob calling the field

In summary
A total of 87, 8 to 12 year old boys from the local area ended up participating and getting their first real taste of organized baseball. Each game was well attended by the families of the participants, others in community that just support our youth and those that just enjoy watching a good baseball game.

The consensus was that the participation of the youth combined with the community’s enthusiasm and support far exceeded all expectations, and that next summer cannot get here fast enough.