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The workshop was a collaboration involving Mendocino College’s Public Safety Programs, the Superintendent/President’s Office and the Instruction Office.
The active-shooter incident at Virginia Tech created heightened awareness amongst Mendocino College staff of the need to revise their Emergency Preparedness Plan.
Superintendent/President Kathy Lerner met with various constituent groups of the college and made emergency preparedness training and campus safety a priority for students and staff.
“Both federal and state laws require community colleges to plan and prepare for all types of disasters in order to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff. This includes training under the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Standard Emergency Management System (SEMS), along with having a compliant emergency operation plan,” explains Lehner.
Guest speakers at the workshops were Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas D. Allman, Mendocino County Emergency Services Coordinator William Woodworth, California Community College Emergency Management Coordinator Dr. Craig Zachlod and instructor Lou Madeira, who also is an adjunct faculty member at Napa Valley College, University of California at Davis, and Mendocino College. In the past year, Madeira has worked for several agencies in seven states related to emergency management/preparedness training.
The sessions covered organizing an Incident Command System (ICS) to handle a wide range of disasters. Scenarios that were reviewed included regional flood, light airplane crash, earthquake roof collapse, arson fire and violent active-shooter incident.
Since 2006, Mendocino College has taken a lead in presenting seven NIMS/SEMS training workshops in multiple locations to numerous public safety agencies in Mendocino and Lake counties.
For additional information, contact the Mendocino College Public Information office at 468-3012.
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- Written by: Yvette Kinyon
To help the staff get to know some of the new parents and let the parents get a feel of the Carlé atmosphere we designed a back-to-school night on September 18th where we all brought a warm dish that we enjoyed. This was a good way to relax and really get to know each other.
Progress reports are coming out. At Carlé High School, students are given either a progress report or a full report card every three weeks. This way, we make sure that students are aware constantly of their progress towards graduation and play a major role in their plans to be successful.
We had our first gold level trip of the year and Bill took our gold level students from last year – Kevin Almond, Natosha Hill, Amy Jones, David Ochoa, and Sina Radley – to a Giants game in SF.
“The game was awesome and I’m glad Carlé gives us opportunities like this,” said David Ochoa.
We have had many community services already this year. On Sept. 11 and Sept. 14 Angie and her crew finished phase one of the creek restoration project. On Sept. 15 and Sept. 16 we were part of Lake County’s history by being part of Greg Dills’ crew that disassembled and move dan historic barn located in the Clearlake Oaks. We also will be helping out with the Bluegrass festival on Sept. 22 and Sept. 23.
In last weeks article we thanked many people for supporting the creek restoration project, but left out the person who did almost all of the organizing, wrote all the permits and grants, did all behind-the-scenes leg work, and pretty much got this project rolling, Angie Siegel.
We took our annual Highland Springs trip on Sept. 18. This trip is designed to help our bonding and aid our teamwork skills. We had many games and lots of good food.
Our art class is flourishing greatly and we would like to thank Lauren for her hard work. We would also like to thank Pamela Bordisso for coming on Sept. 12 to talk to our students about what Yuba College has to offer.
Thanks for reading!
Yvette Kinyon is a Carle student and the dedicated writer of the Carle Chronicle.
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All candidates for the Kelseyville Unified School District Board of Education have been invited to participate.
The evening is strictly formatted for fairness to all participants and candidates will answer questions put to them by each group.
Candidates may then make themselves available to meet with the general audience and answer public questions.
For more information contact Rico Abordo of Kelseyville Unified Teachers Association at 279-4923, Extension 1204, or Holley Luia (CSEA) at 279-4923, Extension 1286.
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The Konocti Unified School district owns a part of the Seigler Canyon Creek that we will be planting willow wattles along to prevent erosion. On September 6 Todd Fiora, Corey Givens, Kim Fuller,
Vonnie Claytor, Matthew Tipton, Matt Mack, Cindy Amaral, Brendon Melton and Joyce Walker volunteered from Carlé to harvest and bundle the willows to make the willow wattles.
The willows will soak in Dan Desmond's pond for one week so they can begin to grow roots healthily. Alongside our student volunteers we had adult volunteers that are part of the restoration of the creek: Charlotte Griswold, Dan Desmond and Fran Ransley. Thanks guys!
We are always having projects and events because we believe in teamwork and working together, not against each other. Right now we are having a horseshoe throwing tournament and a scrabble play off.
I would like to give a round of applause to our first two students of the week, Kevin Almond and
Mia Dupard. Kevin is always setting an example by being helpful and positive. Mia is a new student that works hard and is very level-headed.
I would also like to congratulate LaVonne Pattee for receiving the $50 perfect attendance award. We have a couple more additions to our school welcome to Ino Morano and Bryan Layne.
On Sept. 7 we had a special event that involved music and diversity, two of our favorite things. It was the wonderful music of Edmund Badoux and Francy Vida¹s music of the Andes band called “Chaskinakuy.” They played a very unique form of music that lets us get a quick peek of what other cultures listen to. Thank you so much for exposing us to this great music.
Thank you for reading! Tune in next week.
Yvette Kinyon is a Carle student and the dedicated writer of the Carle Chronicle.
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