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27-year-old Ventura resident Mario Adan Arjon was sentenced to seven years and eight months in state prison following a fatal DUI crash last June.
The Ventura County District Attorney's Office announced the sentencing Friday of a 27-year-old Ventura man convicted of killing a recent high school graduate during a DUI crash last June.
Mario Adan Arjon, 27, of Ventura, was sentenced to seven years and eight months in state prison for one count of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.15 percent or higher and causing injury to multiple victims while driving under the influence of alcohol.
On June 15, Arjon was driving in the early morning at a high rate of speed in the area of Rio Mesa High School in El Rio. While driving along Central Avenue, Arjon rear-ended a car that had slowed to a stop at the intersection with Vineyard Avenue.
The car was being driven by Fernando Buenrostro, 18, of Oxnard, a graduating senior from Rio Mesa High School who had just returned from graduation night at Disneyland. The impact from the collision caused Buenrostro's car to hit a third car stopped in front of it and rotate into the intersection, authorities said.
Buenrostro, two passengers in his vehicle and the driver of the third vehicle were all injured from the crash. Buenrostro was transported to Ventura County Medical Center for treatment but succumbed to his injuries three days later.
An investigation into the crash by the California Highway Patrol later revealed that Arjon's blood alcohol content was 0.15 percent at the scene of the incident, nearly double the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Regarding John Young’s April 18 column, the people of Colorado are way ahead of the politicians in Washington, DC. The days when our federal government can get away with deliberately confusing the drug war’s tremendous collateral damage with a comparatively harmless plant are coming to an end. If the goal of marijuana prohibition is to subsidize violent drug cartels, prohibition is a grand success. The drug war distorts supply and demand dynamics so that big money grows on little trees. If the goal of prohibition is to deter use, marijuana prohibition is a catastrophic failure. The United States has double the rate of marijuana use as the Netherlands, where marijuana is legal. The criminalization of Americans who prefer marijuana to martinis has no basis in science. The war on marijuana consumers is a failed cultural inquisition, not an evidence-based public health campaign. This country can no longer afford to subsidize the prejudices of culture warriors. Not just in Colorado but throughout the nation, it’s time to stop the pointless arrests and instead tax legal marijuana.
What could be better than keeping an undefeated season intact with a win over an always-competitive Jonathan Alder team?
How about doing so in come-from-behind fashion and breaking a school record in the process?
For the Buckeye Valley boys bowling team, that’s exactly how Monday’s thrilling 2,134-2,042 triumph over Alder played out.
Leo Wells, Tony Ruark, Spencer Milligan, Nick Cooper and Jacob Man were the five baker bowlers who pushed their team over the top.
In regulation, Man led the way with games of 179 and 198 for a combined 377 series. Jimmy Davis finished with games of 217 and 138 for a combined 355 while Cooper finished with a 325 series and Leo Wells and Milligan posted games of 155 and 144, respectively.
The Baron girls were also in action, falling 1,917-1,745.
Morgan Stuart paced BV with games of 159 and 183. Other contributors included Carly Kelley (360 series), Sydney Lenart (229 series), Tara McClure (258 series) and Fiona Tseng (263 series).
TORONTO — After holding off the United States for most of the first half of the 2015 Pan American Games, the host Canadians slipped behind their archrivals in the gold medal standings for the first time.
Canada started slow on Day 8 of the Games before rebounding to win 12 medals, including three gold.
But the powerful Americans surged ahead Saturday with 10 gold medals and 21 overall.
The U.S. now has 50 gold, 41 silver and 44 bronze medals to lead both the gold and overall table.
Canada is second in both categories with 48 gold, 41 silver and 33 bronze. The hosts, which have already eclipsed their gold and overall totals from the 2011 Pan Am Games, are still well on their way to their goal of finishing in the top two overall. Brazil is well back in third with 28 gold and 86 overall medals.
Canada was led on Day 8 by gold medals from the men’s softball team, cyclist Hugo Barrette and veteran swimmer Ryan Cochrane.
The softball team capped a slow afternoon for Canada with a 2-1 win over Venezuela for their eighth straight Pan Am gold.
Brad Ezekiel provided the heroics with a game-winning two-run home run to left-centre in the sixth inning.
Pitcher Sean Cleary settled down after some early control issues and kept Venezuelan hitters off-balance until the seventh. He gave up a run then but held on.
“We wanted to bring a swagger back to Canada and I think we’ve done that,” Canada coach John Stuart said, adding it was particularly satisfying to win gold on home soil.
“It’s history. It’s never been done before. That’s something these guys can be very proud of,” he said.
After Canada completed the final out, Venezuelan players weren’t happy about how the Canadians were celebrating and tempers briefly flared.
Later, Barrette continued Canada’s dominance in track cycling, winning gold in the men’s sprint.
The native of Cap-aux-Meules, Que., swept Trinidad and Tobago’s Njisane Phillip 2-0 in the best-of-three final. Barrette clinched the victory with a perfectly executed slip move underneath to pass Phillip and take a lead he’d never relinquish.
Canada has five gold medals so far on the track at the velodrome in Milton, Ont.
Canada closed out the swimming competition with four medals Saturday, including a gold for Victoria native Cochrane in the men’s 1,500-metre freestyle.
Cochrane set a new Pan Am record by winning in a time of 15 minutes 6.40 seconds.
It’s the second gold of the Games for Cochrane, who won the men’s 400 freestyle on Friday.
The women’s 4×100 medley relay team took silver, while Sydney Pickrem earned a bronze medal in the women’s 200 individual medley. The men’s 4×100 relay added another bronze.
Canada finished with eight gold, 10 silver and nine bronze in swimming competition, holding its own against powerful teams from the U.S. and Brazil.
Canadian freestyle wrestlers added three medals on Saturday.
Arjun Gill of Quesnel, B.C., took silver in the men’s 97 kilogram, Korey Jarvis of Eliot Lake, Alta., earned the silver in the men’s 125 kg and Toronto’s Tamerlan Tagziev took bronze in the men’s 86 kg.
Canada finished wrestling competition with eight medals — three gold, three silver and two bronze.
Earlier, Lee Parkhill of Oakville, Ont., won bronze in the men’s laser sailing, finishing the race with 12 points.
Vancouver rhythmic gymnast Patricia Bezzoubenko won a bronze medal in the individual all-around competition, holding on to third place despite dropping the ribbon early in her final routine at the Toronto Coliseum.
Bezzoubenko won five gold medals at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Winnipeg’s Jay Lyon won bronze in the men’s individual archery competition, defeating American Zach Garrett 6-0 in the third-place match.
There will be more medals on the way for Canada, as the men’s baseball team advanced to the final with a 7-1 win over Puerto Rico.
Elsewhere, Canada beat Cuba 71-68 in women’s basketball to set up a semifinal meeting with Brazil.
Canada’s women’s beach volleyball team advanced to the semifinals with a 2-0 rout of Costa Rica, while the women’s volleyball team won a 3-1 preliminary-round match against Cuba.
WEST BURBANK – South Korean university freshman Hwi Ryeong Kim was still recovering from her long-distance flight but insisted she didn't feel tired because being in Burbank was too exciting.
The 21-year-old was one of 10 Korean students enjoying the city this week as part of an exchange program with Burbank's sister city of Incheon.
It was only the second time a delegation from Incheon Metropolitan City had visited Burbank, and the students, who arrived on Monday, were staying with host families during their 12-day trip.
First on the packed itinerary was a tour of Burbank on Tuesday, which included lunch at Porto's Bakery, followed by a visit to City Hall to meet Mayor Anja Reinke and the other council members.
Future plans included trips to Warner Bros., the San Fernando Mission and celebrating the Fourth of July with their host families.
Monica Ramirez, 19, of Burbank, said she has been involved with the Burbank Sister City Committee since she attended John Burroughs High School.
"I went to Incheon two summers ago," she said. "My U.S. history teacher at Burroughs recommended it. My host family was really nice. I had doughnuts for breakfast, but they gave me Korean food too, like a Korean pizza with squid on it! I liked it."
Ramirez wanted to accompany the delegation on their Burbank tour, even though she wasn't hosting a student. She was due to visit one of Burbank's other sister cities, Ota, Japan, next week.
Hwi Ryeong Kim, an English major at college, said she hoped 12 days in Burbank would improve her language skills.
"This is my first time in America. I feel at home because the people are nice," she said. "It's a really fantastic place. It's different because in Korea there are many apartments, but in America there are lots of houses."
The Burbank Sister City Committee plans to send local students to visit Incheon next summer, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the relationship between the two cities.
Tank: Can Saskatoon afford to pass on $1B solar-powered community?
It's not like Saskatoon has never bent the rules for a developer before. This time, though, it's at least ostensibly about more than money.
A proposal to build a unique, solar-powered neighbourhood in southeast Saskatoon encountered an unusual amount of resistance from Saskatoon city hall administration last week.
It’s rare for both the director of planning development and the city manager to appear before a city council committee to argue against a proposed development, especially one worth an estimated $1 billion in investment.
Arbutus Properties of Vancouver wants to build a sustainable community called Solair on a triangle of land next to the Rosewood neighbourhood, but located mostly in the Rural Municipality of Corman Park.
City council members have expressed enthusiasm for the concept. For Arbutus, which made substantial 2016 campaign contributions to three city councillors (Bev Dubois, Darren Hill and Zach Jeffries), Solair is an all-or-nothing proposal.
Arbutus wants to build a community that is not only sustainable, but affordable. Homes are supposed to start at about $350,000, the same as in neighbouring Rosewood. Solair is already featured on the Arbutus website.
In order to achieve that low price, Arbutus says it needs to build an entire neighbourhood for 7,000 people. Arbutus picked the land because it owns property in Rosewood, where it is developing The Meadows community and a commercial development that includes Costco.
Arbutus president Jeff Drexel said he wanted to ensure Saskatoon support before he talked to Corman Park.
Unsurprisingly, Corman Park Reeve Judy Harwood said in August she thinks Arbutus should have come to Corman Park first.
Among the other problems posed by the Arbutus proposal is that it requires a rethink of the city’s plan for development on the eastern edge.
The city already has an established strategy to manage the city’s growth. Solair would disrupt that plan.
Drexel admits he wants to jump the queue and thinks the necessity to become more sustainable justifies disrupting the city’s regular way of planning and development.
Coun. Ann Iwanchuk pushed for city council to start discussing the proposal, envisioning future regret should Saskatoon pass on the opportunity. Coun. Troy Davies expressed concern about how failing to remove obstacles could hurt Saskatoon’s reputation as a place to attract investment.
The question that must be reverberating through city hall is this: Does Saskatoon want to watch Arbutus take its billion dollars and build Solair somewhere else?
Imagine this being built in Moose Jaw or (shudder) Regina.
It’s not like Saskatoon has never bent the rules for a developer before. This time, though, it’s at least ostensibly about more than money.
A sustainable community speaks to a nobler purpose of addressing climate change, an issue the current council has spent considerable time discussing.
Solair might not fit in the city’s development scheme, but it fits with council’s larger goals, not to mention society’s.
In 2001, Dundee Development Corp. (now known as Dream Development) wanted to develop a neighbourhood around The Willows golf course, then in Corman Park.
City hall backed annexing the land to accommodate the proposed $180-million upscale housing development, but the RM of Corman Park opposed it. Compensation for Corman Park became the central issue.
Saskatoon applied to the Saskatchewan Municipal Board to settle the issue, but ultimately struck a deal with Corman Park.
The city paid a steep price for The Willows land — $1 million, the equivalent of 22.5 times the annual property tax the RM collected for the land. That was more than double the city’s usual compensation for land.
Anderson acknowledges The Willows represents a glaring exception to the city’s planning practices, but says she thinks Solair would be too disruptive.
She advises against repeating the break in accepted practice.
Observers might see it more like this: city hall was willing to break the rules to pave the way for golf course homes for rich people, but unwilling to do the same so that middle-income people can live sustainably.
Saskatoon has always sported a reputation for good planning and its commitment to the environment and innovation is now being tested.
The annual Lakeside Winter Celebration will take place February 9 and 10 at the Port of Rochester Terminal Building and Ontario Beach Park.
The polar plunge, fireworks and family activities will be among the festivities at the 35th annual Lakeside Winter Celebration on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 9 and 10 at the Port of Rochester Terminal Building and the adjacent Ontario Beach Park.
• Outdoor children's games and inflatables.
• Snow sculpture contest, focusing on the theme famous buildings.
• Lake Ontario Wine and Craft Beer Festival, noon to 5 p.m.
• Chilly Chili Challenge, noon to 4 p.m.
• Sip and Shop, noon to 5 p.m. in Jetty at the Port in the Port of Rochester Terminal Building.
• Winter hike, history of Ontario Beach Park, Port of Rochester Terminal Building, 1 p.m.
• Entertainment by the Neil Van Dorn Band, noon to 5:30 p.m.
• Fireworks display, 5:45 p.m.
More than 1,000 enthusiastic participants, some in creative costumes, are expected to run into the icy waters of Lake Ontario at the annual polar plunge at noon Feb. 10 at Ontario Beach Park. The event benefits the Special Olympics.
Because of limited parking at the port, plunge participants and spectators are urged to take advantage of free off-site parking and shuttle service. Shuttles from the Greece Arcadia High School parking lot, 120 Island Cottage Road, will provide transportation from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On-site registration for the Polar Plunge will take place from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday morning in front of the Robach Community Center. For more information, or to pre-register for the event, visit polarplunge.net, or call (585) 586-7400, ext. 109.
Abellany Mendez, of Rutherford High School, is the NorthJersey.com Male Athlete of the Week.
Accomplishment: Mendez returned the opening kickoff 81 yards for a touchdown and finished with 161 rushing yards with four more touchdowns as a running back in the 41-14 victory over New Milford, sending the Bulldogs to the NJIC title game. Defensively as a defensive back, he intercepted a pass and had one pass breakup. He also had a 40-yard punt return.
"He's just a special athlete. He's the kind of athlete that comes around Rutherford High School once every couple of years. He's a game-changer for us. He has the ability to score any time he touches the ball. He's a very gifted and competitive athlete."
Also nominated: Austin McQuade of West Milford and Nardi Lita of Park Ridge for soccer; Michael Renta of Becton, Angel Jimenez of Bergenfield, Andrew Dippolito of NV/Old Tappan, Patrick Kaczor of Wallington, Andrew Miller of Bogota, Cooper Mandel of Ramsey, Kyle Monangai of Don Bosco Prep, and Jaaron Hayek of Wayne Hills for football; and Dillon Jensen of Pascack Hills and Luis Peralta of Passaic for cross-country.