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<br /> When the ,xt school year
<br /> Sikh1c )pen Top,worshipers enter during a opens, Mon Allo will be a
<br /> ,' kinder arten-throu h-third-
<br /> new temple
<br /> 9 €. speech in the new Sikh temple g g
<br /> k;.I on Grant Line Road.Above, grade school, and Jefferson a
<br /> women sit in their area inside . fourth-through-eighth-grade
<br /> in Trac"y w the temple to listen tschool.
<br /> '.z o the
<br /> &, r = readings and prayers. "We don't have a problem with
<br /> it,"said Greg Cose,who will have
<br /> Ben van der Meer
<br /> Glenn Moore) a fourth-grader next year at
<br /> The Trac Press Tracy Press Jefferson. "The older kids aren't
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<br /> on the playground at the same
<br /> Some 2,000 brightly-
<br /> time,
<br /> dressed Sikhs gathered fora so that's not a problem."
<br /> Since Monticello opened in
<br /> dual celebration on Sunday
<br /> Y � � k� - 1992, teachers and staff have
<br /> the opening of Tracy's
<br /> I,
<br /> own "gurdwara," or temple,
<br /> .' done lots of shuffling, official
<br /> and the 300th anniversary of � '`� said, with more students thar.
<br /> the Khalsa, the Brotherhood .. ; classroom space in the rapidly
<br /> . " ' growing area in south Tracy.
<br /> of Sikhs
<br /> "With class-size reduction fo)
<br /> "Sikhism is more than just
<br /> said, "all the gurdwaras cele- book as part of a custom to started. Their truth and justice the younger grades, you have tc
<br /> religion for many of these „
<br /> people," said Sukhminder orate. keep flies and dust away. still applies now. have classes available, said Ec
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<br /> people,"
<br /> ahal, who attended To celebrate the 300th In another building,tradi- The Sikh faith was founded Quinn,principal at Jefferson anc
<br /> Sunday's ceremonies on West anniversary of the 300th 's tional Sikh food—including as an outgrowth of Hinduism the district's acting superinten-
<br /> Grant Line Road. "It's a social creation, eight priests from flat bread and a bean dish fla- by Guru Nanak, who was dent. "We wanted the twc
<br /> culture. It's everything for Tracy's new worship center vored with curry—was born in 1469 in Punjab. schools to have enrollmeni
<br /> them." began on Friday by reading offered to anyone who sat Sikhs believe in one God roughly equal to each other."
<br /> Sikhs are not new to San from the Guru Granth Sahib, down• and the unity of mankind. Moving the fourth grade tc
<br /> Joaquin County. They arrived the holy book of the Sikhs. People of all ages social- froReligious law prohibits them Jefferson will balance sforenrole ct
<br /> here from the Punjab region The reading continued until ized,just as they do,at any of holsc beverages dor eating alco- schoolat . 500 students far eacl
<br /> of India at the turn of the cen- noon on Sunday and was fol- Tracy's churches on Sundays. meat. g Enrollment projections shorn
<br /> .tury. In fact, the very first lowed by a service of devo- Sikh priest Bachan Singh When men are brought into up to 150 new students in the dis
<br /> Sikh temple in the United tions and hymns—the men said the opening of the temple
<br /> States was built in Stockton in and boys on one side of the in Tracy spreads the 500- . the faith they often adopt trio for next year
<br /> Y cY P Singh as a surname or middle At Jefferson, six new relocat
<br /> 1913. temple and women and girls year Sikh faith one step. name. Additionally, they leave able classrooms will house th(
<br /> Sikhs came from all over on the other. Everyone wore further. their hair uncut and wear a five fourth-grade classes. Quini j
<br /> the Bay Area and Central turbans or cloths to cover "We're continuing fertiliz- turban, use a special comb to said the sixth classroom wouh
<br /> Valley on Sunday to join the their heads. ing a seed that has been keep their hair neat, wear a probably be used for a fiftb-grad(
<br /> 300 to 400 Sikh families who Sikhs approached the altar planted before," he said bracelet called a kara, wear class.
<br /> live in Tracy. and left offerings at the Guru through a translator. "When long shorts and attach a short . Some parents have grouse(
<br /> "Whenever there is a new Granth Sahib, as a man the social light became
<br /> gurdwara opened," Chalal ._�_.--.Y-__---� See TEMPLE,page A8 about the move, Teixeira said
<br /> waved a large brush over the degraded, the Khalsa were
<br /> See MOVE,page Al
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<br /> Ben van der Meer to work with these students." of the competition.
<br /> j �• Lulubelle theThe Trac Press Nisla Fonseca, a Tracy High "You can have a great routine
<br /> Chihuahua wows Y foreign-language teacher, great props, great set,' Fonsec
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<br /> the crowd with her If you're following the big win- coached the 'winning lip-sync said. "But our principal has tr
<br /> k taco costume, Y g g gY P P „
<br /> ners from the annual High team. know the words for it to work.
<br /> which took School Principals Spanish Lip- "I thought we'd be in the top Tracy's team has mastered th,
<br /> �' second place for Sync Contest, you don't need to three, but this was a nice sur- art of a strong production, it
<br /> her owner Jeanie look far. prise," Fonseca said. "She did an addition to a strong performanc
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