It was a great week for Carlé last week. On Wednesday, Feb. 27, more than 80 women arrived at Carlé in order to improve and beautify the campus. These were women taking the advanced women's leadership seminar at High Valley Ranch.

They worked the entire day decorating and building onto our facility. They installed soil containers for planting herbs, vegetables and other plants. They will be building a greenhouse so that we can grow healthy vegetables to be used in our culinary class, or to help feed those who don't have the means to feed themselves.

High Valley Ranch is owned by a nonprofit organization called PSI World, which hosts seminars

all over the continent that educate people for their personal development. There are many basic women's leadership seminars throughout the United States and beyond, but the advance courses are given at High Valley Ranch, right here in Lake County.

So, women from all over were here at Carlé, interacting with the students and serving our school. I talked with Kathy Quinlan-Perez, who is a lead facilitator of the women's leadership seminars and executive vice president for PSI World, and she told me of how PSI World has been a part of community service all over the world. They base their community service on helping children, and they have improved the lives of children in places such as Thailand, Venezuela and even Egypt!

The reason that this leadership seminar decided to spend its required day of community service on Carlé is because the owner of High Valley Ranch, Jane Willhite, met with Bill MacDougall and decided that Carlé and its students are deserving of this service. So, everyone at Carlé would like to thank all

those involved in this great service to our school.

Congratulations to our student of the week last week, Kelly Trask. She has shown that hard work and

perseverance can bring you success no matter what.

Hope you enjoyed reading this week's chronicle! Have a great week!

Atlee Erickson is a junior at Carlé High School.

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