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It’s Homecoming week at Coronado High School (CHS)! The dance, attended by 820 of our students, was Saturday, Oct. 12 at Paradise Point Resort.

This week we continue the festivities with spirit themed dress days each day at the high school. On Friday, Oct. 18, CHS will have a pep rally on campus for CHS students and staff, followed by a parade down Orange Avenue, our king and queen elections, the football game and halftime show. Voting for Homecoming King and Queen is done online, opening at the end of the pep rally and will close at 6 p.m.

Float building for our classes will continue at various homes on island. The Homecoming parade, open to the community, will travel northbound on Orange Avenue from Adella to Seventh Street, beginning at 3:30 p.m., with rolling closure as the parade passes.The best location for viewing the parade is on the northbound sidewalks and the median of Orange Avenue. The parade will be escorted by our Coronado Police Department and will begin with Coronado Unified School District (CUSD) administrators and school board followed by city leadership, CHS NJROTC, Coronado Fire Department’s Little Mac truck, the Islander football team and coaches and the CHS band.

by Luan Troxel

Coronado was treated to a series of activities last week all related to a new exhibit at the Coronado Historical Association about the wives of Vietnam era prisoners of war. As many locals know, the founder and leader of the group that evolved after their husbands were shot down over the expanding war in Vietnam was Sybil Stockdale. Stockdale, who lived in Coronado with her young family, was the wife of U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, James Stockdale, who was a prisoner of war for over seven years.

The book, “League of Wives,” by Heath Hardage Lee, was released this year and built on years of work that Lee put in curating the exhibition entitled, “The League of Wives: Vietnam’s POW/MIA Allies and Advocates,” for the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, which is now showing at the Coronado Historical Association (CHA) through March as part of a larger national tour.

Lee spent several days in Coronado, attending the exhibit opening at the CHA, engaging in a book talk at the Coronado High School auditorium and holding smaller gatherings with some of the wives featured in her book and local military families on base. I also had the pleasure of having lunch with her, where we spoke about the details of the book.

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Nado Natterings by David Axelson

The Islander Football Team rebounded nicely Friday night at home after a loss to Serra last week. Coronado dominated the Clairemont Chieftains 52-7. Included in the one-sided Central League victory were several notable plays, including a 97-yard touchdown jaunt by Tyler Buckley around left end. Buckley outran the entire Chieftain secondary, who collectively never laid a finger on the senior Co-Captain. Buckley also scored on a 10-yard touchdown run for the first score in the game and for the evening, gained 118 yards on just four rushing attempts.

For a game as one-sided as this one became, it was close early. The score at the end of the first quarter was 8-0, courtesy of Buckley and a two-point conversion run by running back Devin Schulte. The Islanders scored twice in the second quarter, with the first tally coming on a six-yard touchdown run by Ash Bibbes, followed three minutes later by 28-yard scoring run by Schulte.

After the initial two-point conversion, the game quickly became the Nadia Quijano Show, as the senior placekicker was called upon to convert the first of six consecutive extra point attempts, without a miss. Quijano, who not surprisingly is a member of the Islander Girls Soccer Team, blasted all six kicks through the uprights, with the Chieftains applying defensive pressure on several of the attempts. Over two decades of covering Islander Football games, I have probably seen a dozen male placekickers who didn’t have the ability Quijano has.

by Hattie Foote

My husband and I recently had our very first parent’s night at our daughter’s kindergarten class, and to be completely honest we had no idea what to expect. We sat at the miniature tables, on the miniature chairs and listened to our daughter’s teacher (superhero, saint, etc.) tell us about what to expect for the upcoming year. After not receiving a school supply list, all of the parents asked her what we needed to buy.

“Nothing, the PTO provides all of our materials” she said.

In fact, the PTO financially supports field trips, library books, teacher appreciation, running club, to name a few. From that moment we knew we would be supporting the PTO for the rest of our lives, kids or no kids in school. I almost felt guilty for not knowing the importance of this organization, but better late than never to get involved!

The Coronado Eagle & Journal’s e-blast, the Eagle Weekender, randomly selects a weekly winner on their subscribers list to receive 2 free tickets to the Coronado Village Theater. This has been a huge success due to the support and donation of tickets from the Coronado Village Theater.