LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Oct. 27 marked the end of the of the second grading period and with that we would like to look back on all the students who have won student of the week this year.

Good job Zoe Markowitz, Shaina Yaquinto, Estefania Cuevas, Aileen Landeros, Marco Anguiano, Gilbert Lopez, Jessica Texeira, Marissa Doolin, Teagan Tompioner, Adrian Carpenter and Michael Naber. Congratulations to all these students for achieving above and beyond.

During the week of Halloween Carlé held its own Harvest Festival. Carlé’s student government hosted this daylong event. This was a great opportunity to build leadership skills as a school.

Some of the contests that were held were costume, musical chairs, the mummy wrap where the students wrapped their advisors to simulate them being a mummy, spooky donuts, a pie-eating contest, spooky jeopardy, spooky family feud, door decorating, face painting, pumpkin carving, jack o’ lantern candy toss and candy corn games.

In addition to all these activities, Carlé had lots of different food sponsored by Performance Mechanical. Thank you, Phil Harris, for how much you’ve given to Carlé in such a short time. Mr. Harris acted as DJ the whole day for this event as well as head barbecue chef.

We also would like to show our appreciation to Lily Oats and Taylor Smith, roommates of English teacher Lexi Fredricks, for baking all the sweet treats for the Harvest Festival.

Thanks goes out to our previous secretaries for coming and judging the doors of each of the classes and pumpkins. Thank you, Gina, Sherry and Barbara it was great seeing all of you again; we all miss you very much.

The winner of the costume contest for male participants was Autry Holbrook and the winner for female participants was Lexi Fredricks.

The results of the door decoration contest were Alan Siegel’s advisory lead by Shaina Yaquinto won first, Lance’s advisory won second, Angie Siegel won third and Lexi Fredricks in fourth.

The winners overall of the advisory contests were Alan Siegel’s advisory which came in first, Angie’s advisory came in second, Lance’s advisory came in third, and Lexi’s advisory came in fourth.

I asked Cataleena Steward, pumpkin carver extraordinaire, about her experience at the Harvest Festival. “I really enjoyed the day of having so much fun at school and just chilling with everyone listening to music and playing games,” she said. “I really enjoyed that everyone got along so well.”

I felt this event was really good experience for the school and hope to see many events this lively later in the year.

Thank you to everyone who helped organize this event for Carlé students we truly loved having fun all day.

Vanessa Bigelow, head designer for Carlé’s Student Body Enterprise Pegasus Productions, is making the plaques for the winner’s advisory for the Harvest fest competition. She will put the names of everyone who competed for Alan’s advisory on the plaque and it will stay on the walls of the school commemorating the event long into the future.

Ms. Bigelow helps on literally every design project in the school. She is effectively another teacher in the room every day in design class.

She is just finishing up a major project for the children of a program called Ultimate Peace that takes place in the middle east.

Nicholas Phipps is a student at Carlé Continuation High School.