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Each year the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) bestows awards on educational leaders whose work goes above and beyond to positively impact the students of California.  At ACSA’s Region VII conference in South Lake Tahoe, CA, May 4-6, Cindy Young, Director of ROP/Career Technical Education programs at the Stanislaus County Office of Education, was named the 2012 Classified Manager of the Year.

Young began her career at SCOE 32 years ago as Secretary to the Director of ROP (Regional Occupational Program).  She was hired as a result of her training through ROP and has had a strong commitment to ROP since that time.  Young works closely with the 14 districts and numerous instructors in Stanislaus and Tuolumne counties.

MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- The Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office is grieving the death of its third prosecutor in less than two years.

Assistant District Attorney Carol Shipley says Deputy District Attorney Frank Alvarez died Sunday at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in north Modesto.

Shipley said the circumstances and causes surrounding Alvarez's death are not immediately known.

Alvarez, 57, also was the commander of a local Latino veterans group and is survived by his wife and daughter.

Alvarez is the third Stanislaus County deputy district attorney to die in less than two years. Prosecutor Shawn Barlow, 40, died of natural causes at his home in Turlock in Sept. 2010. Prosecutor Nate Baker, 42, died a month earlier in a San Francisco hospital where he was awaiting a heart procedure.