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Press Clipping: Whittier Daily News Doors open to La Pluma's
computer lab: La Pluma holds grand opening "I'm ecstatic," the La Mirada resident said. "This is like Christmas morning. This is the culmination of a dream." Not quite. Already, Pflanzer has a new dream: providing 100 refurbished computers a month to schools across Southern California. On Wednesday, however, the celebration was all about La Pluma school in La Mirada, where officials and about 640 students attended a grand opening for the new lab. "This means that (students) will have another learning tool," Principal Rob Williams said. Each computer is programmed with Scholastic Reading Counts and Math Steps educational software, he said. Williams said he is impressed with what Pflanzer has done for La Pluma. "It's been pretty amazing," Williams said. "He's really run the show himself. He's taken on every aspect of this project -- all the way from hunting down the machines to getting them refurbished and bringing them onto campus." The computers in the lab range in speed from Pentium 75 to Pentium 233 megahertz and have hard drives ranging from 550 megabytes to 3 gigabytes. Much of the equipment donated to La Pluma came from So Cal Recycling and Cerritos College. And donations keep coming in, Pflanzer said. That's one reason he has decided to help other schools. "Every day in California, 6,000 computers are thrown away," he said. Pflanzer is still accepting donated computers. He can be reached at (714) 521-4400, or (714) 521-5111. • • • Mike Sprague can be reached at (562) 698-0955, Ext. 3022, or by e-mail at mike.sprague@sgvn.com. |
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