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The Downey Legend

The School Newspaper of Downey High School

The Downey Legend

The School Newspaper of Downey High School

The Downey Legend

After her arrival back to America, during Thanksgiving break, following a ten-day mission trip, junior, Victoria Lopez, reminisced about her pilgrimage to Romania, and is eager to return. “I’m actually going back after graduation for three months,” Lopez said, “because I feel like I fell in love with the country. The gypsy family we stayed with were so loving and I felt like I was family.”

A Trip Across the World

Dianna Jimenez, Staff Writer December 9, 2015

Junior, Victoria Lopez, shares her thoughts and feelings about the mission trip she took to Romania, the first European country she has ever stepped foot in, accompanied by her fellow church members...

Smooth rhymes fill the halls of DHS during sixth period as Mr. Olariu enlightens his students with jazz, during an advanced jazz lesson, in room L-102, to prepare for the fall jazz concert on October 31. Teaching at DHS since 2001, Mr. Olariu was taught to play a variety of music when he first attended college, at the age of twenty-one, and started his career playing a trumpet at a local bar in Russia.

Striving for the gold

Rodas Hailu, Co-Editor-in-Chief October 25, 2012

After escaping communism in his home country of Romania in 1989, band instructor Mr. Cory Olariu has since led a free life enriched with his passion for music.   As a child, Olariu had been...

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