Two weeks ago retired Carlé teacher Verna Rogers led our volunteers at the LLCAG's annual cioppino sea food dinner. It was a community service opportunity for Carlé students to get in the hours that they need to graduate.

Verna Rogers reported that students Sienna Norton, Jonathan Lansdowne , Chris Stutz and Mayra Pantoja all did a remarkable job. Not only did they work hard, but they worked for a long time from 2:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. For their efforts they each earned a full credit.

Friday and Saturday was another community service opportunity. The annual rotary seafood broil was held. Fifteen Carlé students have signed up to work the event. The specifics of the event will be given in next week's article.

So many students were nominated this week during the staff's meeting that we had two students awarded Student of the Week.  

The Students of the Week this week are Antonio Rosiles and Devin Black. Both of these people have been excellent students during their time here at Carlé and we’d like to show them both how much we appreciate their efforts.

Carlé would also like to give a very big welcome to our new Carlé student Eric Scroggins. Glad to have you become part of our family and we look forward to watching you succeed.

The Carlé ping-pong tournament began Friday, Feb. 22. Many students have signed up for the event, which itself will take place over the course of a many days.

Carlé designer Lance Thurston, who also is a contestant, will be designing all of the award medallions that will be given to the first and second place finishers.

The CHILY winner this week was Nura Brown. Nura took home a fleece blanket as her prize.

This next week will be the end of the fourth grading period, which puts us two-thirds of the way through the school year.

Students are expected to own their own credits and schedules and will be going over their strategies and plans with advisors in the next week.

Parents are encouraged to talk to their children about their school life and how they’re doing. Let's every one of us do the most we can to achieve graduation and success.

Jesse Harrell is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.