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Father Junipero Serra

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EYE ON SJC, News

Cultural Heritage Commission Rejects Proposed Designs for New City Seal, Extends Deadline for Additional Submissions

By Collin Breaux | Twitter: @collin_breaux Suggestions on a new city seal design for San Juan Capistrano will continue to be accepted from the public…

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EYE ON SJC, News

San Juan Capistrano Council Continues to Discuss Changes to City Seal

Featured image: The current city seal for San Juan Capistrano features Saint Junipero Serra with a young Native American boy. Photo: Collin Breaux By Collin…

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SOAPBOX

Letter to the Editor: Not Pleased with the Proposed New City Seal

JEROME PIERCE JR., San Juan Capistrano My wife Irene and I have been proud residents of San Juan Capistrano for the past 22 years. We…

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Letter to the Editor: Include Juaneno/Acjachemen People in New City Seal

JERRY NIEBLAS, San Juan Capistrano I personally feel that it is definitely time for our San Juan Capistrano logo to be changed and “updated.” It…

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EYE ON SJC, News

San Juan Capistrano Council Looks to Update City Seal

By Collin Breaux | Twitter: @collin_breaux Featured photo: Courtesy of the City of San Juan Capistrano Father Junipero Serra is associated with San Juan Capistrano…

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EYE ON SJC, News

Serra High Changes Name Back to Capistrano Union High School

Staff report Serra High School is reverting to its original name of Capistrano Union High School, after the Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees…

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SOAPBOX

Opinion in the Time of COVID-19 and Civil Unrest: ‘Malice Toward None’

From the Inside by Dale Rosenfeldt I read Jan Siegel’s article “Malice Toward None” published in the July 10 issue of The Capistrano Dispatch with…

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Letter to the Editor: ‘Malice Toward None’ (Jan Siegel’s Column)

LAURIE ALLEN, San Juan Capistrano Jan Siegel’s thoughts about understanding and learning from history struck a chord with me. While impossible not to see the…

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Letter to the Editor: In Response to Siegel’s Editorial Column

BRONWYN SEWARD, San Juan Capistrano I am deeply confused and concerned that the editorial column entitled “Malice Toward None” by Jan Siegel was printed in…

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LIVING

Moments in Time: Malice Toward None

By Jan Siegel When Hitler came to power in Germany, a Lutheran minister said, “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak…

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Mission San Juan Capistrano: A Worthy Field Trip Destination to Learn About History, Inclusion, and Moving Forward

By Mechelle Lawrence-Adams, Executive Director of Mission San Juan Capistrano I am writing to invite everyone to come see in person how Mission San Juan…

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EYE ON SJC, News

Serra Statues Moved After Protesters Topple Statues Throughout State

A monument in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, honors Saint Junipero Serra as a “tireless apostle and missionary.” Photo: Fred Swegles Staff report Statues of Father Junipero…

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LIVING, SJC Living

250 Years Ago, Father Serra Started Something Big

 By Fred Swegles As milestones go, 2019 is a blockbuster—the 250th anniversary of the founding of San Diego in July 1769. Modern-day California begins then and…

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LIVING, SJC Living

Moments in Time: Did Fr. Serra Sail to Cuba?

An investigation into a statue and a claim that Junípero Serra once traveled to Havana By Jan Siegel Throughout the years I have often pointed…

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EYE ON SJC, News

The Making of Saint Junípero Serra

Pope Francis’ groundbreaking canonization of the Mission’s founding father is both celebrated and opposed by some in San Juan Capistrano By Allison Jarrell “Siempre adelante.”…

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