Foothills Sentry Page 8 MARCH 2025 Family. Friends. Community. We’re all in this together. State Farm, Bloomington, IL 1801073 Ron Esparza, Agent Insurance Lic#: 0C79663 827 S. Tustin Ave Orange, CA 92866 Bus: 714-505-3400 ron@ronesparza.com Young Women of the month named The Tustin Area Woman’s Club named Fatima Rivadeneyra of Tustin High School and Gabriela Afable of Foothill High the Young Women of the Month for February. Fatima Rivadeneyra loves sports and is on the soccer and track and field teams at Tustin High. She is a FC Barcelona fan. She has been involved in the AVID program during her high school years and is currently serving as a peer mental health ambassador. Rivadeneyra is the vice president of her school’s National Honor Society chapter. She aspires to become a nurse so that she can continue helping others in the community. Gabriela Afable is a scholar, writer and artist with a passion for storytelling, design and global engagement. She is an International Baccalaureate Diploma candidate and a National Merit semifinalist. She pursued study abroad in Spain and attended the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard College as a Fellow. She is the Editor-In-Chief of Knight Life, Foothill’s newspaper, and Knightwriter, the school’s literary and arts magazine. Beyond academics, Afable competes in soccer, track and cross country. She is fluent in Spanish and is in the process of earning the Seal of Biliteracy. She plans to major in English and pursue a career in the publishing industry. Also honored in February were Cynthia Yimdjo of Beckman High and Melanie Villalobos of Legacy High. The Orange Grove Freemason Lodge #293 installed its officers for 2025. They are, back row from left: Karl Sandhoff, tiler; Shawn McCuen, marshal; Jim Berry, secretary; Dennis Rootes, treasurer; David Shaffer, organist; Paul Overton, junior steward; and David Soliven, chaplain; middle row, from left: Leon Lowe, assistant secretary; Jerry Torres, senior steward; Keith Jones, junior warden; Don Ancheta, senior warden; James McCallion, senior deacon; Scott Holland, junior deacon; and in front, Cesar Bustos, worshipful master. Freemasonry is the world’s first and largest fraternal organization. It is guided by the belief that everyone has a responsibility to make the world a better place. For 300 years, Freemasonry has enhanced and strengthened the character of individual men by providing opportunities for fellowship, charity, and the search for truth – within ourselves and the larger world. Orange Grove Lodge was chartered in 1888, and has been located at the historic traffic circle since 1922. See OGL293.org for further information. The Rancho Arroyo Ladies (the OC Polo Club’s winter home in the desert) shined in the Susan Stovall Women's Challenge, and were crowned champions for a second consecutive year. The ladies were cheered on by a large contingent of the OC Polo family who ventured out to Indio to show their support. Also at Rancho Arroyo, the club’s interscholastic team and some of its youngest players geared up for the Margery Magill Memorial Tournament. These young ladies played their hearts out and grew as players, competing against top talent nationwide. Tustin Museum to feature the powerhouse female rancher in Orange County: Nellie Gail Moulton By Guy Ball Author and Historian Scott Barnes will share his story of Nellie Gail Moulton, family matriarch of South County’s Moulton Ranch, during a special Night at the Museum meeting on Friday, March 28 at the Tustin Area Museum. Nellie Gail was born in Irving, Kansas in 1878. Seven months later, she was plucked from her mother’s arms by a cyclone. This harrowing event and the miracle of her survival is just the beginning of her amazing life story. Her family crossed Kansas in a covered wagon and lived in a sod house. In the wake of losing her mother and sister to illness, Nellie supported her family while her father tackled one occupation after another, always just one step ahead of disaster. She moved to California in 1903. Here she found a great love with rancher Lewis Moulton, and eventually started a family of her own once they married—her two daughters growing into great cattle women. Once Lewis died in 1938, Nellie did not just inherit their prospering Moulton Ranch, she operated it. Scott Barnes is Nellie’s greatgrandson and has written a book about the family matriarch. His presentation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 345 El Camino Real in Downtown Tustin. Tickets are $20 per person, $15 each for members. For more information and tickets visit TustinHistory.com or call the museum, (714) 731-5701. Fatima Rivadeneyra Gabriela Afable Nellie Gail Moulton
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