Spring is finally here! Along with the warm spring weather will follow the Spring-Bling that will take place on Friday, April 15.

You may be curious about this “Spring-Bling” you're hearing all about and wondering if it really is as glamorous as it sounds? To answer that simply, yes! Filled with spring activities and a whole lot of laughter, Carlé High School knows how to start off the season!

Additional information on this event, games and winners will be in next week's article.

Wednesday, April 13 will be another school wide clean up day around the campus. The five advisories will come together and have a great time showing our school our appreciation. Each advisory will choose one area around the campus to be responsible for.

Carlé High School would like to give a special thanks to the dental sealant clinic for taking time on April 5 to provide free dental care for the students who needed it. As we all know, health care can be expensive these days. That is why we feel so privileged that these kindhearted people would offer this to our students.

Teacher Dan Maes has just returned from a visitation of his Western Association of Schools & Colleges Team, which is a team that gives accreditation to other schools based on their environment, learning experience and the overall schooling.

The Lower Lake Community Action Group will hold its monthly dinner on Wednesday, April 13, at Russell Rustici Park.

Working alongside this year's team leader Ellie Hackler will be Levi Floyd, who will be taking over leading these community functions in the next school year. Also working that night will be Stevie Cook, Aaron Mearns and Tyler Stirling.

Student of the week last week was LJ. “He has shown great improvement since being here at Carlé,” said teacher Angie Siegel.

Can anyone say “as good as gold?” Well, students Desiree Bauer, Leticia Bowman, Matt Brown, Shannika Chandler, Stevie Cook, Nia Edmonds, Aaron Mearns, Arturo Negrete, Raylon Ray, Tyler Stirling and Jorge Vieira can. These students will be attending this grading period's gold-level trip to Scandia.

Portfolios that took place on April 7 were given by graduating students Rebecca Englander and Holly Brumback. Congratulations!

Students are being encouraged to do their best on this year's STAR tests that will begin on May 9. Carlé High School is shooting for a score of 704.

On April 11 teacher Alan Siegel will be in Sacramento to help run the video for the California Teacher of the Year Celebration. Middletown teacher Jennifer Kelly, was a winner this year. She is only the second Lake County Teacher to ever receive said honor.

This very lovely day is also teacher Alan Siegel's birthday. Carlé High School would like to wish Alan Siegel a very happy birthday!

On Friday, April 8, the student body awarded Alan a special photo collage of Scabby made by Heidi Kratz. He was also given a birthday card, which every student and teacher at Carlé receives on their birthday, which was handmade by Christine Mcquoun.

Karalena Cole is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.