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UKIAH, Calif. – The Mendocino College Foundation has received a generous gift from Mrs. Catherine Gregg and daughter Leslie Gregg Banta in memory of their late husband and father, longtime Ukiah restaurant owner Les Gregg.
The new scholarship, which is in perpetuity, will be awarded to students enrolled in the Culinary Arts Management Program at Mendocino College.
Gregg owned and operated the beloved House of Garner Restaurant in Ukiah for more than 26 years.
According to daughter Leslie, “Dad’s love of cooking started out early on and continued to grow while he served his country during World War II.”
Gregg ran the mess hall during his tour of duty in Ardennes and later would own and operate The White Cottage restaurant in Willits during the early 1950s and 1960s.
In 1958, he bought the House of Garner in Ukiah and with wife Catherine by his side, they owned and operated one of the most successful and popular restaurants in all of Mendocino County.
Gregg loved to cook for people and believed in everyone having a good meal. He was an accomplished chef who trained every employee that stepped into his immaculate kitchen.
Gregg encouraged his employees to learn every aspect of the restaurant business and move on to more increasingly responsible positions within the restaurant.
The Culinary Arts Management program at Mendocino College, led by newly hired faculty member Nicholas Petti, consists of a majority of the students enrolled in the program working toward their culinary arts certificate.
Students electing to complete the certificate will possess the skills necessary to succeed in jobs in the food service industry. The two-semester program covers everything from local foods to advanced pastry making.
“The Mendocino College Foundation thanks Catherine and Leslie for their generosity and desire to honor Les Gregg. This gift has the potential to create an entire generation of Les Gregg restaurateurs,” stated Executive Director Katie Wojcieszak.
“In perpetuity scholarships are established with a gift of $25,000 and provide an annual $1,000 scholarship based on the Foundation’s investment policy,” according to foundation Vice President Gary Smith.
The Mendocino College Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization and charitable donations are tax deductible.
For more information about the Mendocino College Foundation Scholarship Program, please contact the Foundation Office at 707-467-1018 or visit http://foundation.mendocino.edu.
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Senior Raina Golden delivered her phenomenal portfolio to staff, friends and family on Thursday, Oct. 27. Carlé congratulates her!
Annette Fender received a special present made by Raina Golden. Raina designed and produced for Annette a mug to thank her for taking time to come up to Carlé and serve breakfast and lunch to all the students! Annette has done a great job over the years and the student body wanted to let her know how much she means to the school.
The mug contest is now over! Carlé's students designed and produced some incredible mugs.
On Wednesday, Oct. 12, students from Carlé took the ASVAB test (as written about in a previous article). Students received their scores and got their results interpreted on Wednesday, Oct. 26.
Teesha Greer will deliver her portfolio on Thursday, Nov. 3. Best of luck to her!
In Carlé's attempt to show everyone how much they mean to them school senior Chrissie Green designed and produced a key chain for the school bus driver Roland Cram for driving Carlé's afternoon bus and taking care of students day after day.
Carlé will like to thank Vince Weldy, Lower Lake's postmaster, for donating some great science fiction books to the school.
Carlé also thanks Dr. Harry Lyons for coming to Carlé and talking with the Interact Crew.
Harry Lyons is professor at Yuba College and is highly respected in the community. He came to Carlé and talked about how the lake was formed, the algae in the lake, and ways to remove the algae.
The Interact Team is very interested in helping clean the lake and is very grateful to Dr. Lyons for coming and speaking to them. Senior and student body president Desiree Bauer is designing a thank you plaque to show Dr. Lyons the school's appreciation.
On Monday, Oct. 31, Carlé will have their its Harvest Fest. In the Harvest Fest the whole school dresses up, plays games, compete in activities through advisories. Senior Ashley Ables has put together a spooky plaque for the winning advisory that will have all the advisories names on it and will stay at Carlé in perpetuity.
The student council members and Mr. To came together to plan this year's activities. They will include the individual costume contest, advisor's mask contest, pumpkin carving, door decorating, clue, what's under the bucket, musical chairs, the exploding hearse relay, and Fear Factor pie eating. Great thanks go to counselor Kim Van Horn for organizing the library and all the decorations with a crew who stayed late on Friday to get it all done.
The results of the fest will be the heart of the next article.
Have a great week!
Chrissie Greene and Jade Fox are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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Tyson teaches Intro to Health Careers, ROP Health Tech I and ROP Health Tech II as part of the Health Pathway.
She has worked as a teacher for many years but just recently joined Clear Lake High School part way through last school year.
The students within the Health Pathway are learning a variety of skills within the medical field with a focus on career exploration.
Tyson is revamping the existing program to expose students to wide variety of opportunities including the possibility of job experience.
The students enrolled in the ROP classes have a wide range of career interest that include psychologist, plastic surgeon, doctors and nurses just to name a few.
Tyson encourages students to think beyond themselves as they explore the world of medicine. During a recent lesson on vaccinations where they leaned the pros and cons on this controversial issue, one student shared his battle with meningitis at the age of 6 despite being immunized. Students were encouraged to share their thoughts, opinions and experiences on the topic.
The medical pathway at Clear Lake High is a valuable program that will assist students in their ambition to be a part of the growing medical field.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Healthcare will generate 3.2 million new wage and salary jobs between 2008 and 2018.”
ROP Health Careers will allow students to discover their field of interest amongst the many possibilities.
Soon students in the health pathway will also have the opportunity to be a part of the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA).
Tyson is exploring the return of HOSA which is a national student organization dedicated 100 percent to health care.
Their mission is to “enhance the delivery of compassionate, quality health care by providing opportunities for knowledge, skill and leadership development of all health science technology education students, therefore, helping students to meet the needs of the health care community.”
With more than 120,000 members nationwide, HOSA will be a valuable addition once again to the curriculum and leadership development of the pathway.
Past participants of this program have been extremely ambitious in their medical interest with some becoming licensed certified nurses assistants, phlebotomist or medical assistants while still in high school.
A majority of students completing the sequence of courses have also gone on to pursue the medical field upon graduation making this pathway one of the most successful at the school.
Although the Health Pathway at Clear Lake High is well supported by the administration, Tyson is looking for more support from the medical community.
She is working on scheduling industry guest speakers, is seeking job shadowing opportunities, and looking for medical supplies and equipment.
Tyson feels that the ability for students to see and touch medical supplies and equipment is an instrumental part of learning regardless of working order or expiration date.
For more information on this program, to become a guest speaker or to make a donation to the Health Pathway at Clear Lake High, please contact Peggy Tyson at 707-262-3010 or
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On Thursday, Oct. 20, Carlé High School had an earthquake drill.
At 10:20 a.m. the students and teachers ducked under desks and tables. A few minutes later everyone was escorted onto the field to take roll. All of the students did a wonderful job and exercised good judgment!
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, all students will get the day off due to a staff development day.
Starting on Friday, Nov. 4, student Emily Thompson will be in charge of cotton ball packing for an ongoing community service.
The project is called “Any Positive Change.” The project seeks to halt the spread of blood born disease such as HIV in the community.
Once a month Verna Rodgers and a few students help out at the Lower Lake Community Action Group. Verna brings three students to set up, serve and clean up. So far they have attended two meetings.
At the first meeting Ashlee Ables, Shania Jones and Jessica Johns attended, and at the second Ashlee was sick so Emily Thompson filled in for her.
All of the students attending are earning community service credit and are one step closer to graduating!
Every week students at Carlé puts together food boxes, under the supervision of Lou Denny, for people and families in need.
The Carlé student government is currently planning the yearly Harvest Festival. It will take place on Monday, Oct. 31, Halloween. During the fest students and staff are welcome to attend and wear costumes and face paint.
The Carlé media class had students make wonderful gifts for Annette Fender – the school's lunch and snack person – and Gary Oakes, the school's maintenance person, as well as Barbara Dye, the school's former classified employee of the year and the super secretary.
These gifts are just a small thank you for all the hard work they do to help the students and staff.
Students Tonya Smith, Raina Golden, George Viera and Ashley Ables made plaques, mugs and key chains as thank yous to these wonderful people.
As usual the printing of all of these special items was abetted by the wonderful work of Yuba College student and media aide Derrick Grace.
That is all for now, have a great week!
Chrissie Green and Jade Fox are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.