LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Carlé would like to welcome new students James Aitken, Ashton Legg, Triston Miller, Destiny Parlet and Stephani Utley – we hope Carlé is a great experience for you and you achieve your goals while at this school.

Our student of the week this week was Emily Simmons. Emily is an excellent student who is always hard working and thoughtful. Congratulations.

Carlé wants to give a big thanks to maintenance worker Sean Fielden for being our custodian. Sean did a great job and we will miss him. At the same time we would like to welcome back Gary Oakes to our staff.

Our media class made the staff members of Carlé mugs, plaques, key chains and mouse pads. We have taught our students to always show appreciation for those who take care of us like the Totes for Teens group and DJ’s pizza.

We realized that we hadn’t thank our own staff. With that in mind Sam Miller designed and produced mugs for Mr. Maes and Angie. Destiny Cypert handled a plaque for Maes.

Candice Safreno made our math teacher a going away mug and a mouse pad for super secretary Barbara. Cynthia Oakley made Principal Strahl a tie. Elliot Mckay made plaques for Olga, Mr. Schaerges and Angie. All of these beautiful things were given out during our outside bulletin.

Carlé would like thank Mr. Rich Mellott for subbing for math until we get a new math teacher. Jasmine made Rich a welcome mug and Elliot added a special keychain.

Mr. Maes has taken on our portfolio process for the graduating students. This celebration is our key senior project.

Maes has really upped the portfolio presentations quality do to a full dress rehearsal and the use of index cards. Students have been able to engage our audiences with eye contact and energy while showing off their unique graduation documents and creative samples of their work.

We will detail all students who have given their presentations this year along with a report on our special Friday where the whole school wore our new Carlé ESLR t-shirts and had drawings and breakfast provided by our principal in our next article.

Kristin Melcher is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.