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This week we’d like to start off by thanking Mike Boyce and the Clearlake Machine Shop for fixing Carlé's coffee mug press for free, accepting no money for his time.
What he did was an extremely nice thing for us and we would just like to let him know how much we appreciate what he did, especially since it wasn’t something easy to fix and it took quite a bit of time.
In addition, Mike and his fellows have repeatedly helped their community and show way more than people realize how we all work together to make our community a better place. Our local small businesses go out of their way repeatedly for the schools.
On Tuesday, Jan. 22, the hazmat (hazardous materials) course here at Carlé came to a close. Science teacher Angie Siegel was the course instructor.
Seventeen students were trained to become state certified at the HazMat First Responder Operations level, so if a case were to arise they would be ready to respond to a hazardous materials release.
Among those that need HazMat FRO training are firefighters, police officers, medical personnel, truckers and other workers who might encounter a hazardous materials release.
Two men graciously gave the hazmat students here at Carlé their time; these men were firefighter Mark Hill and Fire Chief Willie Sapeta. Hill and Sapeta both trained the students in hazmat protocol.
Hill, a hazmat specialist and paramedic/engineer, taught the kids how to use several standard tools used in hazmat incidents. The tools that were covered were the dregor tube, CGI meters (combustible gas indictors), and the chameleon wrist bands (which change color when in the presence of chemicals).
Fire Chief Sapeta, who has been working with Carlé students for more than 16 years, gave the students a lecture and a general overview of information covered in the HazMat FRO course, teaching the basics of what they needed to know for the field exercise that was performed.
Hill and Sapeta took the kids through a step-by-step training process and supervised a hazmat field exercise. During the exercise the students participated in a simulated decontamination corridor activity. Students who volunteered were given a chance to experience life in a level Level B HazMat suit.
All in all the course was a great learning experience for those who took it, including Cody Beers, Jay Brown, Nura Brown, Cameron Carrillo, Chelsea Cherney, Paige Finely, Junior Garcia, Summer Gunn, Joshua Kennedy, Marla Mitchell, James Mora, Mayra Pentoja, Marco Antonio Rosiles, Roxie Purdum-White, Lucas Stickel, Carlos Trujillo, and Trevor Wilson.
Congratulations to each and every one of you, you should most certainly be proud of yourselves.
Congratulations to the Student of the Week, Emilio Gonzales. Emilio is a very hard working and diligent student, we here are very proud of him and are filled with joy to give him this award. As usual he’ll receive a free DJ’s small pizza and a front of the lunch line pass.
Another winner is Andrew Subjack, who won the CHILY this week. He chose a blanket.
We’d like to send a very big “get well soon” to our principal, Dr. Jim Burger. Recently Dr. Burger became quite ill so we just wanted to show our love and support towards him. We hope that you begin to feel much better soon, and we can’t wait to see you back here at Carlé in full force Dr. Burger.
Finally, on Friday, Barbara, Alan and Angie made the difficult but correct decision to put student favorite Scabby the dog down. He was found and rescued during community service with Russell Rustici almost 13 years ago. The next article will tell the much-loved Scabby story.
Jesse Harrell attends Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club is once again offering the $1,000 Elizabeth Whitehead Memorial Scholarship.
Applicants should be seniors in high school or students who have graduated from a Lake County high school and are continuing their education.
The scholarship is open to students majoring in botany, conservation, entomology, floriculture, forestry, horticulture, landscape architecture/design, biology or plant genetics, urban planning, agriculture, environmental science or related fields.
To be eligible, students must plan to enter the work force in one of these fields of study. Past recipients may apply.
Students must have a 2.75 GPA or better to apply, and may be attending or planning to attend an academic or vocational school as a full-time student in the 2012-13 school year.
Applicants must submit two letters of recommendation, a recent photograph that is suitable for duplication, and a transcript with SAT or ACT tests if these tests have been taken.
Applications are available from counselors or scholarship coordinators at Clear Lake High, Kelseyville High, Upper Lake High, Middletown and Lower Lake High School, as well as at Mendocino and Yuba Colleges.
Scholarship applications and supporting materials must be received by April 15, 2013, to be considered.
Please call club President Leanne Harvey at 707-263-0850 for more information or if you are unable to locate an application.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – At its Jan. 10 meeting the Yuba Community College District governing board approved a project to retrofit antiquated parking lot lighting that will save the district a total of $3,213,425 over a 25-year period.
The project, funded in part by California Energy Commission (CEC) low interest loan will improve lighting efficiency on the Yuba College, Woodland Community College and Clearlake campuses.
In addition, the district entered into a partnership with PG&E to receive $132,000 in incentives through the California Community Colleges and Investor-Owned Utility Energy Efficiency Partnership Rebate Program.
Exterior lights, including pathway, flood and canopy lights, as well as parking lot lights will be upgraded to Light Emitting Diode (LED) Technology at the three campuses and will reduce energy consumption by 63 percent saving the District an estimated $76,242 in the first year alone.
“This is a fiscally positive project,” said YCCD Director of Facilities Planning George Parker.
The new LED Lighting System has a lifecycle of 25 years which consume 50 percent to 75 percent less energy, require less maintenance and have extended hours of operation.
The technologically advanced LED lighting system delivers a clean, white light that is closer to daylight, at improved light levels and will enhance campus safety.
Yuba Community College District has 1,747 interior and exterior lighting fixtures which produce a baseline usage of 881,000 kilowatt hours.
“This is a sound decision that more than pays for itself between the energy savings and the avoided costs to continue to replace the expensive old style lights. The district will redirect the annual and overall cost savings into academic program support,” said YCCD Chancellor Dr. Douglas Houston.
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U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced new legislation to strengthen safety at schools and ensure that state and local officials are able to secure their campuses and protect students.
“We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to ensure that they are safe when they are at school,” Boxer said. “This legislation would give local communities and schools that want to strengthen security the opportunity for new resources and tools to help keep students safe.”
Boxer’s first bill – the School Safety Enhancements Act – would strengthen and expand the Justice Department’s existing COPS Secure Our Schools grants program to provide schools with more resources to install tip lines, surveillance equipment, secured entrances and other important safety measures.
Currently, the COPS Secure Our Schools program requires a 50 percent local match. Boxer’s bill would allow the Justice Department to reduce the local share to 20 percent for schools with limited resources.
The bill also creates a joint task force between the Justice Department and the Department of Education to develop new school safety guidelines, and would increase the Secure Our Schools authorization from $30 million to $100 million.
Boxer’s second bill – the School Resource and Safety Officer Act – would help safeguard America’s schools by using community policing strategies to prevent violence and improve student safety.
The bill would make grants available to local governments to place trained and sworn career law enforcement officials at schools in their jurisdiction.
Cities and school districts that meet the requirements could receive grants of up to $200,000 for each “School Resource and Safety Officer.”
Boxer’s third bill – the Save Our Students (SOS) Act – would allow the federal government to reimburse Governors who want to use National Guard troops to help ensure that our nation’s schools are safe.
This legislation is modeled after a successful National Guard program – in place since 1989 – that allows Governors to use the Guard to assist with law enforcement efforts related to drug interdiction activities.
Under the program, Guard troops could support local law enforcement efforts to keep schools safe, including assisting with security upgrades and relieving local police so officers are able to do more patrols at schools.
The National Guard has said it is “particularly well suited for domestic law enforcement support missions” because it is “located in over 3,000 local communities throughout the nation, readily accessible, routinely exercised with local first responders, and experienced in supporting neighboring communities.”
Boxer has said Congress should enact school safety legislation as part of a comprehensive response to gun violence in America, which would include enacting sensible gun measures – such as expanded background checks, a ban on high-capacity clips and an assault weapons ban – and ensuring that the mentally ill and criminals are not able to purchase guns.