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      He finally began to comply with his court-ordered case plan shortly before
he filed his petition in August 2014. At that time, he had completed just over half
of the required parenting classes he had been ordered to attend two years before,
and was merely on a wait list to start the domestic violence program or counseling
he had been ordered to attend more than a year and a half before the petition was
filed. He also had just started to visit Amir, after an 18-month delay, two months
before he filed his petition.
SANTA ANA : Boy Heads for Video Game Championship

LYNN FRANEY

When 12-year-old Julio Montes takes a trip to San Diego later this year, it won't be to loll on the beach or sightsee. The Sierra Junior High School student will play video games. And play them seriously.

Montes was the winner of a Nintendo-sponsored video game competition in Santa Ana over the weekend, racking up 828,300 points on three Nintendo games--Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Kart and Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball.

He'll play those games again when he hits Nintendo's PowerFest '94 championships in San Diego Nov. 18-20.

There, he'll test his hand-eye coordination and quickness against 150 young video game wizards from across the country in the largest video game competition in American history.

"I've been