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		<title>An Avalon resident’s personal account of 9/11</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 18:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: Before we had the privilege of caller her our co-worker, Kristy Throndson worked in New York City. She was on her way to the City on Sept. 11, 2001. We asked her for her account of the event. “I worked in mid-town so my workplace wasn’t very close to Ground Zero which was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Avalon children return to school</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2021 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dean of Students Emma Peguero, greets students on the first day back to school in over a year. Carmella Pedrosa with her daughter Bella Mia Reyas Pedroza learn how to use a QR Code Reader to submit their required Daily Health Screening.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Junior Lifeguards</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 21:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The city of Avalon picked up the Junior Lifeguard program this year as the County of Los Angeles dropped all of their Junior Lifeguard programs for the summer. The Avalon program has 24 kids (program full) with a combination of returning JG’s to first-timers. Masks and social distancing are required on the beach and masks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Red Cross radio drill successful</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Drill addressed three different emergency scenarios as a result of a large earthquake Local ham radio operators and the American Red Cross teamed up Saturday for the National Red Cross Emergency Radio Drill. The drill revolved around a hypothetical earthquake and how local hams would stay in touch with the Red Cross on the mainland [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Red Cross holding classes, earthquake drill for &#8216;Great Shakeout&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The American Red Cross will be offering classes in disaster shelter operations next week as part of the “Great Shakeout” state-wide earthquake drill. The classes, conducted in cooperation with the Avalon Lions Club, will include a disaster shelter simulation. First, a Shelter Fundamentals class will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Local man helps earthquake victims</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Catalina Island was represented during disaster relief operations for the 7.1 magnitude earthquake which hit the Ridgecrest, Calif., area on July 5, by Avalon resident Jim Watson. Watson, a Red Cross volunteer and member of the Avalon Lions Club, spent three days volunteering for the Red Cross at the Kerr McGee Community Center, which has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Seminar for Avalon parents raises behavior and safety issues</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After much anticipation, Michael Anderson, LBUSD, student intervention coordinator, travelled to Avalon Wednesday evening to present his seminar “Parent Success Training” to concerned island couples. Authorities say many in the Avalon community have recently expressed concern about a rising trend of behavioral problems at the school which include bullying, and other issues that have become [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Sound the Alarm’ success</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2018 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Volunteers with the Avalon Lions Club teamed up with a mainland contingent of American Red Cross volunteers on Saturday for the “Sound the Alarm” home fire campaign. Started in 2014 by the Red Cross, the event involves teams of trained volunteers installing smoke alarms in homes across the nation. During the day-long event, teams of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tuna Club Clubhouse celebrates centennial</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Saturday evening, members of Avalon’s Tuna Club gathered with friends to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the completion of their Clubhouse.  The Club, established in 1898 by Naturalist and Author, Charles Frederick Holder, is considered the birthplace of big-game sport fishing. On Saturday evening, members of Avalon’s Tuna Club gathered with friends to celebrate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paxton&#8217;s vision for a healthy community, CHOICES.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kristy Throndson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; In 2001 Paxton Offield (or Packy as he was more commonly known) saw that there was a problem among Avalon&#8217;s youth concerning the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol.&#160; He reached out to the Hazeldon Foundation for Addiction Treatment in Minnesota whose representatives came to Avalon and conducted a needs assessment.&#160; The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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