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edit 1 12100 http://www.recordnet.com/daily/news/opinions/editorials/edit 1 121 OO.html <br /> was evident Saturday when Stockton Delta Rotary, several churches and the city's Parks and <br /> Recreation Department joined together to install $25,000 in new playground equipment at Eden <br /> Square Park. <br /> It started with $3,000 donated as seed money at the Easter morning sunrise service at <br /> Weber Point Events Center. <br /> The Rotarians then went to work and raised $5,000; they also supplied the muscle to install the <br /> handicap-accessible playground gear. <br /> Parks and Rec supplied the balance of the funds. <br /> The result: an older Stockton park with a new lease on life, and some happy inner-city <br /> neighborhood kids. <br /> The resurgent <br /> Franklin High School football team has received a lot of justifiable publicity this fall. But the <br /> spotlight needs to shine on Franklin's classrooms as well. <br /> That's where senior Matthew Shoeffler has been paying attention. <br /> So much so that earlier this month he became the first Franklin student in three years to be <br /> a "commended" student in the National Merit Scholarship Program. <br /> Of 1.2 million students nationwide who take the preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship <br /> Qualifying Test each year, only 50,000 are <br /> similarly singled out. <br /> Shoeffler, who has a 3.56 grade point average and is a member of the school's academic <br /> decathlon team, was notified of his distinction last week. <br /> 2 of2 11/21/2000 8:43 PM <br />