Banning Principal Resigns

Estela R. Pena has resigned after five years as principal of Banning High School. She will move to Hawaii, where she and her husband, Jerry Halverson, a retired associate superintendent in the Los Angeles Unified School District, are building a home.

Augustine (Augie) Herrera, 45, of Montebello, took over the Banning post Monday. He was director of secondary school instruction in the Los Angeles district’s Region F in the north San Fernando Valley.