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Last week students received progress reports after this year's first of six-week grading periods.
Carlé gives out a progress report or report card every three weeks so students have maximum feedback and the opportunity to take control of their own education.
Students and staff would like to thank district employee of the year Barbara Dye for getting all this work done so quickly and professionally.
Excited about what level – gold, silver or bronze – students received, they gathered in the quad last Wednesday as Principal Ed Zander announced each individual gold level achiever.
He called out the names of Leticia Bowman, Justin Boyce, Matt Brown, Jeremy Burton, Karalena Cole, Stevie Cook, Lisa Davis, David Echols, Nia Edmonds, Rebecca Englander, Levi Floyd, Nick Ford, Bianca Frias, Ellie Hackler, Brandon Haggard, Daniel Hernandez, Andrew Johnson, Heidi Kratz, Justin Lindsey, Gary Martin, Jefrey Martin, Christine McQuown, Aaron Mearns, Dylan Nevarez, Nate Oberdorf, Lucas Powell, Ashleigh Short, Richard Skinner, Robby Smith, Gerald Stahlman, Erika
Streckfuss, Emily Thompson, Stephanie Trout, Jonathan Truax, Jorge Vieira and Dylan Ward our principal handed each one a gold level card while applauding them for their hard work.
Steve Hammond coached this year's fleet ball team: Vincent Adams, Robert Barrios, Jeremy Burton, Darren Gasperoni, Joseph Griffith, Josh Guerrero, Brandon Haggard, Jason Hammond, Tyler Lawson, Dylan Nevarez, Marco Ochoa, Lucas Powell, Raylon Ray, Richard Skinner, Robby Smith, LJ Stewart and Mathew Vaughn and was astonished by what he saw.
In the game between both Carlé teams, Student Dylan Nevarez showed what a true sportsman he was when his team scored, during a time his team was losing.
When he saw that his team did not deserve the points he went up to the referee and told him that they had already used their direct run; therefore the touchdown shouldn't count. His fair play and not wishing to take advantage of the rules cost his team a touchdown as the play was replayed. This is something I have rarely seen in a competitive athletic team sport.
Fortunately, in the end, Dylan's team won the game by one point.
Congratulations go out to Dylan for his sportsmanship, and for his team for winning. I would also like to thank everyone for their fair play and hard work.
Student of the week this week came in tied. This has rarely happened in Carlé's History. Justin Boyce is student of the week for cleaning the library without being asked, and playing excellent music at Back to School Night.
The second student of the week this week is Stevie Cook, for designing all of the badges for the district office and for being one of the key players at Carlé. Stevie is also Carlé's current student body president. The student council is hard at work organizing this year's Harvest Fest.
Leah Davidson took over the recycling of the school with Gary Martin. Because of these two, Carlé is an environmentally friendly school.
On Oct. 9's community service Lake County Land Trust dinner was a crew of five (David Echols, Leticia Bowman, Lisa Davis, Paul Larue, and Katie Keys) that worked incredibly hard. Because of their hard work people attending the dinner took notice and were very impressed with the quality of students Carlé has attending this school, according to teacher Angie Siegel.
On Saturday, Oct. 16, paintball was held. Thanks go out to Principal Ed Zander and Michael and Renee Skidmore for organizing the event and allowing the students to use their equipment. Students had a great time exchanging colorful paint.
On the same day was a community service opportunity for our students at Clarks Island on Highway 20 next to Tower Mart. More information on this event will be in next weeks article. We are very happy to help out Holly Harris and Chuck Lamb on this important project for Lake County.
Karaleena Cole is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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Students, parents and staff of Carlé High School enjoyed a tremendous evening together last Thursday's Back To School Night.
This evening brought together the current Carlé “family” for a potluck, with many bringing special homemade dishes. A particular favorite were the tamales made by the family of Daniel Hernandez.
Principal Ed Zander shared with the students and parents our stupendous accomplishments of the last year including the school's six-year Western Association of Schools and Colleges accreditation and the state Academic Performance Index scores along with a plan that to reach a new high this year. He also convened a site council meeting to discuss the needs for the coming year.
Guest speaker Joel Moore from TV8 talked about the upcoming news broadcasting show that is currently being established and will be hosted here at Carlé high.
Rob Young from Lake County AmeriCorps Community Services comes to Carlé as a community member, speaking on the behalf of a program known as eScrip.
Through the eScrip program you can sign up to have Carlé as your recipient and go shopping at any Safeway. Four percent of what is spent at Safeway will go toward this school.
If you are interested in being a part of this call Carlé High School at 707-994-1033 and we will help you sign up.
Susan Thomas from Nurturing Parenting spoke about a free and fun parenting/teen class starting on Wednesday, Oct. 14.
Pamela Bordisso from Yuba College said that “everyone can go to college.” She explained the many
ways to help students pay for college and fund their future.
Everyone then came together for a feast while absorbing the sounds of students Nicholas Ford and Justin Boyce, teacher Mr. Maes and Lower Lake High student Austin Layne while they played songs that were relaxing and sweet to the ear.
On Friday the annual fleet ball tournament was held. Students of Carlé were coached by Steve Hammond.
This year Carlé challenged Clearlake Community School. A great time was had by all. All athletes and students were treated to a barbecue lunch.
Student of the week this week was Leticia Bowman for being an excellent student, very respectful and very focused in class.
New students at Carlé are Jessica Boyle, Monica Jackson, Justin Singer and Latosha Ayatch. Carlé High welcomes you.
Carlé High School student Stevie Cook, designed, produced and took the photographs for the new Konocti Unified School District badges. She has just about finished them and they have a sleek new look for 2010.
On Saturday there were two very important dinner events that were held.
The first, was a dinner honoring Konocti Unified School District Employee Of The Year, Barbara Dye alongside Lake County's Educators of the Year.
Many Carlé staff and friends attended to honor Barbara. Students and staff are so proud she won this award seeing that she is the heart and soul of Carlé.
The other important dinner that transpired was the Land Trust Dinner, in which many Carlé High School students alongside teacher Angie Siegel volunteered to help.
One final note, on Oct. 14 students Dylan Nevarez and Jeremy Burtons graduation portfolios will be held.
Karalena Cole is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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The sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the corner of Highway 29 and Wardlaw Street.
There will be a lot of variety including furniture, building/repair supplies, electronics (tested and working), housewares, toys, two bikes and many more items.
Proceeds will benefit Middletown Middle School student incentive programs.
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On Friday, Sept. 24, Carlé High School students went on our annual team building trip to Highland Springs. It was an exciting, fun-filled experience for all of students and staff.
The purpose of this excursion was to put the students through character-building games, which involve each of the students working together as a team. Students and staff members have became even closer while achieving the goals of each activity and having a superb time doing so.
The entire day was jam-packed with physical and athletic things to do, whether it was running in several of the fantastic games, jumping into the water for a swim or kayaking. Thanks to Alan and Angie Siegel for providing the kayaks. We would also like to thank Bob Rumfelt for doing a great job
as our lifeguard. Students definately had quite the workout throughout the entire day.
The first athletic challenge was a chase game. The students were split into two teams. It was then up to the teams to decide whether to be the babe, the bear or the hunter. In deciding which to be the team members had to keep in mind in each round the rules to figure out who chased who.
To show which of the three possibilities was chosen by each team the teams would have to “strike the pose” that best fits one of the categories. If your team was to be chased, you had to make it safely to the end of the field. If a student was tagged they had to switch to the other teams side until one of the teams
retrieved everyone. Team two defeated team one and had won that game.
The next game to be played was known as The Blob. The Blob starts off with two people who had to hold hands, standing in the middle of the field while everyone else who is playing runs across the field, in hopes that they won't be tagged. If they are tagged they must join the blob and attempt to tag others.
The blob groups had to be at least sets of two students holding hands, working together, to make “tag” count. This was a very physical activity. The overall student winner of this game was Lucas Powell. Lucas was the final student who hadn't be captured by “the blob.”
We then went into a calm, yet not so calm game called “The Snake and The Rabbit. In this game all the students participating sat in a huge circle while two students or staff went in the middle of the circle blindfolded.
One person was the “rattlesnake” while the other person was the “rabbit.” They both had to shake cans full of rocks to determined where each other were. Then the rattle snake would have to chase the rabbit blind folded by merely sound. This was a hilarious game that brought everyone to laughter as they watched their friends and teachers uncertainly find each other.
We were then taken into another challenge that was a race to determine who was the fastest boy and fastest girl this year at Carlé High School. The boys started their race first; they had to line up on one side of the field and ran their hearts out to the other side.
Nate Oberdorf came in the lead, maintaining the title he won last year as well. He is Carlé's fastest boy and will receive a plaque from our school based enterprise designed by Kayellia Landsdowne.
Andrew Johnson finished second and will receive a medallion from our business.
It was then the girls' turn to show their running skills. The girls also lined up in the same fashion as the boys. Tonya Smith came in first place earning the title of Carlé's fastest girl. Tonya will receive a plaque created by Nia Edmunds.
Bianca Frias finished second and will also receive a medallion homemade at Carlé.
Our two winners both have incredible speed and were able to show Carlé just that.
After eating a delicious lunch of hamburgers cooked up by Verna Rogers, Leah Davidson and Amanda Gamble with help from a host of others, each advisory dueled the others to a game of tug of war. They each grabbed a side of the four part rope and pulled until they could pull no more. Angie Siegel's advisory won overall.
At the end of the amazing day everyone was allowed to go swimming, kayaking or simply rest and relax from all the activities. The day was sunny and warm and was entirely a “dream day.”
On another note, our student of the week this week was Gary Martin.
Alan Siegel said of Gary, “He is really working hard to graduate, has been recycling the school and going out of his way to beautify the school and help others out.”
Gary, Carlé High School is very appreciative of everything you do to make our school just that much better.
Back to school night is this Thursday, Oct. 7. This will be a splendid evening of fun, and will allow parents and guardians to see how Carlé works.
Students, parents and guardians will also be able to seek college and FASFA information from our guest speaker Pamela Bordisso from Yuba College. She will provide the information needed for the possibilities after high school. Hope to see all the parents and guardians there. We will share a meal and listen to the music of teacher Dan Maes and students Nick Ford and Justin Boyce.
We as a school are very proud of all of the remodeling that was done over this past summer. We recognize the hard work it took and the effort that was put into our school. We realize that it is steps like this that built up and brought Carlé High School to what it is today.
Some things that were done over the summer were the bathrooms being remodeled to be more accessible for handicapped persons; some of the rooms were recarpeted; the media room has all new cabinets; lockers were repainted in our school color, maroon; and the school looks incredible.
Our school-based enterprise as a way of expressing our thanks to everyone who was involved in our remodel will be making thank you gifts including mugs for all who played a role in this wonderful project.
We are even planning a Dana Moore Day to express our gratitude to Konocti's head of maintenance who shepherded the whole project to completion. It has really made a difference here at our home away from home.
Karaleena Cole is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.