LOWER LAKE, Calif. – Carlé recently went on a Woodland college trip, and we were shown around the campus by the Clearlake mayor himself, Bruno Sabatier.

Sabatier expressed to us the importance of education and how far it could get us. We toured the campus and heard some of the stories from Carlé graduates themselves who are now attending at Woodland. We got a chance to see some of the rooms and the library led by the wonderful Kandace Goodman.

Thank go out to Sabatier, Danielle Stennet, Goodman, Brianna Legg, Emily Simmons, Nick Kieffer and everyone who contributed to our wonderful trip. Also a huge thank you to Chef Robert Cabreros and his staff for the delicious food served.

We would also like to congratulate our teacher Alan Siegel for being chosen by State Superintendent Torlakson to be a part of the California State Teacher of the Year Selection Committee. He has served on this committee since 2007. Siegel was also selected to be one of the three teachers out of approximately 350,000 teachers in California to site visit and evaluate the 15 finalists and how they perform in their classrooms.

As a dedicated teacher, Siegel decided to turn the opportunity down, due to the fact that it would cause him to be absent from his own classes too much. Siegel was the first teacher in Lake County to be awarded Teacher of the Year in 2005. The second was awarded to Jennifer Kelly from Middletown in 2011.

We are proud to announce that the third Lake County teacher to be awarded with the honor of “Teacher of the Year” goes to Erica Boomer from Upper Lake. Congratulations from Carlé High School!

Siegel and Kelly attended a special event for Boomer and all the other wonderful certificated and classified award winners from all the districts around the lake put on by the Lake County Office of Education.

Our media class wanted to do something special for all these people so led by head designer Desirae Krebs and Caiden Harvey have made mugs for each and every one of them that we will deliver in the near future.

In addition, in a joint project between Siegel’s media classes and teacher Lexi Frederick’s English classes we made many plaques and keychains and wrote many letters to express our appreciation to the Draper Fire Department of Utah for putting their lives on the line for the people of Lake County. Special plaques were made to commemorate the firefighter who lost his life, Battalion Chief Matt Burchett. The media class led by student Piper Carr are also making special bookmarks for each one of the amazing Totes for Teens group led by Cheri Johnson who will be taking care of so many students in need during this holiday season.

In other news, students Howard Womack and Crystal Quezadas were awarded students of the week.

Angie Siegal nominated Howard, stating that he is an amazing student and received 100-percent on a recent test.

Lexi Fredericks nominated Crystal, explaining, “She is a leader, very mature. She does a lot for the school including the articles.”

Congratulations to Howard and Crystal.

Also, a reminder spirit week begins next week, and the Harvest Festival is on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Don’t forget to dress to impress!

We will report on the first big gold level trip led by Fredericks, Angie Siegel and the kind and generous Phil Harris in the next article.

Crystal Quezadas is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.