flagger

In Ventura County, no flagger does it better than Ventura High junior Ava Ortman, who is among the state leaders in touchdowns and is equally effective running the ball.

The city of SeaTac sent a flagger to alternate cars on one road lane during school walk times, providing a 15-foot safety margin.

“He was an omnivore, an orange-hanky flagger, an aficionado of all-you-can-eat buffets,” Lawlor writes of her shape-shifting protagonist.

For her father Milton Johnson, who works as a flagger on road-construction projects, it’s a call for economic opportunity.

Dunston obtained her high school diploma, completed a barista training program at the Orion Center; and then Atlantic Street Center paid for her to get her flaggers’ license and she got a job as a union flagger.