This week marks the beginning of the fourth of six, six-week grading periods. Not many schools in the state have six grading periods. The reason that Carlé does this is to more frequently put the students credits and grades in their hands so with the help of their advisors students can take charge of their own credit history and come up with working plans to graduate.

The students would like to thank all the teachers and especially our secretary Barbara who work hard to produce credit checks and full grade reports every three weeks!

Carlé held its annual arm wrestling tournament and we have six winners. The arm wrestling champions included boys division winners, Daniel Alvarez, Mathew Vaughn, Dylan Nevarez and Vincent Copas. In the girls divisions, best friends Bianca Frias and Alex Von Relowski took the championships.

Congratulations to our arm wrestling champs. All were awarded medallions designed and printed by our own Ellie Hackler in our student-based enterprise. The students would like to thank Mr. Maes for refereeing the tournament and Alan for announcing it.

Also the student body would like to thank student council led by Anthony Henson for designing the competition this year, setting up the library for it, making the music, signs, cleanup etc. Our students continue to learn how much goes into carrying out a successful activity.

The student of the week is Leah Davidson. Leah is new at Carlé and is doing exceptionally well. Leah has immediately stepped into a leadership role in student council and has really become a great asset to this school. Keep up the good work Leah!

The silver level award movie was Friday, Jan. 22. All gold level, silver level and bronze level with 100 percent attendance are invited to attend. All are given popcorn and a drink as part of their reward.

With attendance in mind, Alan and Angie two of our teachers, have donated a big TV set for any student who had a 90 percent attendance rate or higher to be in a raffle to win. The two CHILY (Carlé High is liking you) winners were Chris Clark and Yanet Pineta. They each chose a prize picked out and shopped for by our student council.

Carlé's year books went on sale this week! The new yearbooks are $35 so get them while they last! The head designer was Danielle Hudson and Carlé would like to thank her for her hard work and dedication! She is uniquely talented as a designer and many have commented that this yearbook is the

best ever! Thanks go out to Verna Rogers for shepherding the tough job each year that is the yearbook.

The fourth grade period brings us two courses that will help us in life. Angie will be teaching an adult hazmat certification class which will open a lot of doors to our students and we are very grateful to her for taking the time to get certified as an instructor, prepping this intensive class and teaching it for us.

In addition, Steve Hamann who is a certified driving instructor, brings his drivers education class free of charge to those students who need it. This makes Carlé one of the only schools in the county that still offers drivers education as part of its curriculum.

Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.