Dana Hills Lacrosse Game Tonight vs Mission Viejo!

 Coming off the huge win against San Juan Hills High School
Dana Hills High School Boys Lacrosse Meets Mission Viejo
tonight March 30th at 5:30 PM at the Dana Field
Come out to watch an exciting fast paced game
I will be at the stats table and will buy you a cup of hot chocolate
if you show up. The Dana field looks over the ocean, and we get
an evening breeze. J V game to follow at 7:30 PM

Jersey number four Logan Nash and number eleven Matt Schultz in action

Swallows Come Back to Capistrano March 19th

March 19th the Mission in San Juan Capistrano is celebrating St. Joseph’s Day and the date the Swallows are to return. It is an old fashioned family party. Come join the live music and bring your camera. You ask what does St. Joseph have to do with the swallows?


They are celebrating the feast day of St. Joseph, the husband of Mary. Joseph was a humble carpenter. St Joseph is the kind of man you might choose for a Dad. We know when he took Jesus to be circumcised at the temple to be purified he offered of two turtledoves or a pair of pigeons, allowed only for those who could not afford a lamb (Luke 2:24).

 An angel came to Joe in a dream and told him Mary was pregnant with God’s child, without question he married Mary. This was during a time when adultery was punishable by death. A real man.

Enough of my side line catechism, what is the connection? The old padres at the mission knew on the feast day of St. Joseph the birds return. Some say it is to honor the Saint. Others might tell you it is the bells that bring the the martins home. I just hope the increasing flocks of crows here don’t scare them away.


Enjoy looking for their mud nests under the 5 Freeway, and come out for the fun.

OCJAAF Season is Over LNLL already starts

Friday night we turned in our football gear at the La Paz field. Cowboy football season is over.

"This is the last time we will walk up this hill," my son paused as we carried the conflict jersey, pants and gladiator gear all clean to be stored for another team next year.

We could buy the helmet for fifty dollars, but son decided it was better to let someone else wear all his stickers for A's and share the good fortune. He wrote a tiny note inside in permanent ink.

"Never give up."

The image is just a little shaking, but I think that quality does it justice.

P.S. BASEBALL season already started. LNLL We are the Beavers. Our mascot doesn't sound too inspiring. 

Vounteer in Trouble NEED Your HELP

Volunteer in Trouble We need your help.




My son Carson’ football coach has been suspended from his volunteer position because he offered a running camp before our season began. My son is an honor student and great athlete. He signed up for Mission Viejo Cowboys Team because the Patriots did not have enough gentleman or enough volunteers to coach. He is outraged that our team and a good man are being punished for doing no wrong.



Our league is run by OCJAAF. Our coach been in place seven years, and had this same running camp somehow this year he was singled out as being in violation of a preseason rule.



The league states the rule is that no two boys from a team should be in any camp together. The rule is being applied in a arbitrarily crazy manner. My son plays several sports. Last year he enjoyed Junior Guards and there were more than four boys on his team last year who attended the cap- and that would have been a violation. If he went to any baseball camp (which he did in the past) it also would be a violation of the rule as many of the local boys who are in football happen to be active in other camps and sports.

With more than forty boys on a football team having a rule that never allows any two to attend an outside camp as some bad relationship is crazy.



Other teams in our OCJAAF league offer camps before season begins.



The intention of OCJAAF rule is to avoid having boys from a team injured under their name umbrella, to avoid having a team run football plays year round, and to create a level playing field. Many high school coaches offer camps for sports and training that is fee based out of season. Coaches do this to supplement their income and to keep the boys in shape. It would be Un-American to say a coach has no right to supplement his income. Our situation is different. Coach Kevin Pierce offered the running camp for free.



Our coach is a volunteer for middle school boys’ football he is also not paid for this huge job. The small group of boys who chose to join the running group was half from our football team and half from other sports.



Coach Kevin Pierce has been suspended for the year because of his kind and generous heart. What does this teach our young men?



The community meeting is Tuesday night. A crowd of hundreds are expected to attend in his support. Hopefully OCJAAF can see through the forest of politics and understand that is unfair to punish one man for doing something good.

It will be this Tuesday, August 3rd.

Location: City of Villa

Park Town Hall 17855 Santiago Blvd, Villa Park, CA 92861. Time: 8pm to 10pm

If you can not attend please send an email to : bobbarna@gmail.com the commisioner

School Districts Need to Centralize

Capistrano Teachers voted to strike. How this will play out, has yet to unfold.


Does the District have any plan to keep students learning?  
They plan to hire private security services ( at a huge cost) to corral high school
students into large groups and hope they will sit and read from their books.


Does the District have any realistic plans to cut their own bureaucracy?
Centralizing Districts is the only logical conclusion. Combined organizational structures, 
centralize procedures, sell and dispose of duplicate buildings and lead schools like a
business.