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to you is not just a dream, it can happen,” he said.
Silvern talked about a concept to build a state of the art health and wellness district to surround the Antelope Valley Hospital in Lan- caster.
He talked about how 74 percent of Antelope V alley residents travel outside the A V to work and said the plan is to change all that. He said the proposed growth of business here is a very exciting opportunity for Lancaster.
Eastside Union School District Member Dr. Mark Marshall agrees educating our youth is the key to success and talked about how Palmdale is committed to student success by helping stu- dents get career and college ready.
Marshall said the Palmdale School District is focusing on preparing the students for the aerospace industry.
Dr. Michele Bowers, Lancaster School Dis- trict, admits it’s a big job, “Our task is to make sure our students are college ready,” she said. Bowers said education in the AV is big busi- ness and said educators need to focus on the 21st century.
Introduced by Palmdale Mayor James Led- ford, Palmdale City Manager Jim Purtee shared his vision of Palmdale’s future.
“The next 20 years in the AV are going to be like nothing we’ve ever seen,” he said. He talked about how business is growing here with several new hotels being built in Palmdale, he said officials are working on improved trans- portation and said we will see the day when residents can travel from Palmdale to Las Vegas in 90 minutes and from Palmdale to Burbank in just 20 minutes.
He talked about CarMax moving in, which,
he said created 100 jobs with 100 more com- ing. “Eight-five people that were hired live here, that’s changing lives,” he said.
“We’re expecting incredible changes in the A V ,” Purtee said. He said the aerospace in- dustry is the area’s top employer, and offers more jobs, more growth and the need for more workers.
“Transformation is coming, it’s time to pre- pare for it,” he said.
Congressmen Kevin McCarthy, R, of Cali- fornia’s District 23 and Steve Knight, R, of California’s District 25 were on hand and also expressed excitement about the valley’s future.
McCarthy, who is currently the Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives says he’s thankful for the opportunity to serve and said he plans on bringing AV values to Washington. He talked about the chaos going on in the country and acknowledged that Ameri- cans are facing challenges in this country and in the world.
He talked about the next 200 days and said during that time he’s going to focus on four major items.
1. Regulations: He said the voice has to come back to the people.
2. Affordable Care Act: He said Obamacare needs to be repealed and replaced, “Keep politics out of it and let’s make a system that works.”
3. Tax reform: McCarthy says America has the highest corporate rate which pushes busi- nesses to go to another country. “The tax system needs to be restructured, we’ll make it simple and we’ll make it fair.
we have let it go too long,” McCarthy said. McCarthy said the message he’d like deliv- ered is that the election is over, “There are times I win and times I lose, and when the election is
over, I want to work with whoever wins”.
The congressman said he doesn’t want to see someone win a political fight; he wants to see all of California gain. “We can be best friends and
we can have different philosophies,” he said. Knight, who just returned from Iraq, focused on what he considers the great things that are happening in America and talked about the ac- complishments being made on the three com-
mittees that he sits on.
The House Armed Services Committee is
busy sending young, selected students to major military academies, something Knight says they are very proud of.
In the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, the talk mostly centers around traveling to Mars and the Moon, but one of
Knight’s pet projects is aeronautics. He said NASA is working on a low boom-supersonic demonstrator and marveled about how much travel time that would save. “Wouldn’t it be great if we could go across this country in more than 1.7 Mach?” Knight wonders.
The congressman said it takes 4 hours and 42 minutes for him to fly to Washington, D.C., and 5 hours and 40 minutes of fighting the wind to fly back
He said once supersonic travel is perfected people won’t even know that someone is flying supersonic over their heads. “And we can go from LA to Washington in about 2 hours and 15 minutes.”
“That’s something,” he said, “we need to accomplish in our generation.”
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The conference was opened by AVBOT President Kelly Hanley who welcomed everyone and talked about what she called “great work” being done here to inspire and educate the valley’s local youth, today’s young people destined to become the valley’s next workforce generation.
“So today, join us on a journey not just to forecast our future, but to facilitate, drive and determine our destiny.”
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