SEE RELATED: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE IVIES | By Joe Livernois Diosdado Gica arrived in Salinas from the Philippines at the age of 12, a stranger with no grasp of the languages being spoken around him. “The expectation of going to college wasn’t really in my realm of possibilities,” Gica said during a recent telephone … Continue reading A bright and shining year at Alisal High The Class of ’86 blazed academic trails, and now those graduates are making a difference in their communities