Remembering a fallen friend

His former swimming and water polo coach said Justin Valdez was going to make the world a better place, and many at the vigil Sunday for the 20-year-old Garden Grove High grad said he already had – by changing them.

Valdez, a sophomore at San Francisco State University, was shot in the back Sept. 23 after getting off a train in San Francisco. He was known for environmental activism on the Garden Grove campus.

“You were someone I knew who could change the world … We're going to change the world for you,” Vivianne Mai told the crowd of more than 300 gathered on the campus pool deck.

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Adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster, A Room with a View is a shining example of Merchant-Ivory's ability to achieve maximum quality and opulence at minimum cost.

Set during the Edwardian Era, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, who like all proper young British ladies is compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone -- in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith).

While in Italy, the ladies make the acquaintance of a wide variety of personalities; the most fascinating of their fellow tourists -- at least in Lucy's eyes -- is free-spirited George Emerson (Julian Sands). Aware that her cousin is becoming too familiar with Emerson, Charlotte demands that Lucy return to