There's never a boring week here, and this week is no exception. The itinerary, although never empty, is especially full for these next coming holiday months. There¹s not going to be a dull moment for any member of the student body, or the staff alike, because everyone is either going to be moving in preparation for or participation in the school wide and community service events.

To start things off, we want to congratulate all of our students that made gold level this grading period. Those students include Alexandra Huff, Amy Reis, Kodi Burr, Zen Carroll, Chelsea Dawson, Justin Duncan, Leana Efestione, Stacey Fedewa, Kim Fuller, Winter Gray, Brittney Habshi, Danielle

Hudson, Alex Huff, Marquice Lamar, Courtney Lawson, Christopher McCarley, Monica McGaffey, Tosha McKeehan, Alex Meek, Jessie Meshreky, Kristina Micheletti, Jamila Parker, Bonny Passley, Sarah Roath, Brooke Robb, Patrick Roberts, Ben Sheridan, Chelsey Shrum, Paul Silsby, Marissa Tagle, Jenny Wynn, Ashley Wiebusch, and Jasmine Andrews.

These students went above and beyond by maintaining an attendance rate of 90 percent or higher this semester, along with making over 15 credits, which is a whopping three more credits more than traditional high students make a semester. Each credit is equal to 12 hours of work, which means that they did at least 36 hours of work more than the expected amount for the semester. So these students definitely deserve the utmost congratulations, and are proving to be great role models for other students.

Next up, our Interact Club went to their luncheon and had a wonderful time. The Interact Club does community service, via voting on one big community project and completing it throughout the year. This year they are working on a safe house for abused children. Everyone in attendance agreed that the

food was absolutely delicious.

The members of the Carlé Interact Club are Alex Huff, Katie Flannery, Marquice Lamar, Atlee Erickson, Bonnie Passley, Courtney McKissick, Tasha McKeehan, Kodi Burr, and Rodney Browning-Munson. Our Interact advisor is Kineen. We would like to thank her greatly for her time and effort.

Also, we want to give out a huge thank you to Dr. Heidi Morgan from Yuba Community College for graciously offering to help our school choir to practice for caroling, starting soon.

That barely scratches the surface of how much Carlé is involved with our community. There¹s going to be quite a few community service events coming up too. One example is that Carlé High will be at the Lower Lake cemetery on Veterans day to help with the inspiring Avenue of the Flags run by Joel and Flora Moore. We have done this for many years. While we volunteer for this event our hearts will be with all the veterans and current soldiers on duty around the world.

This year, our hearts are especially with one of our great benefactors who recently passed away, Russell Ristici. Russell served in World War II and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Carlé has joined with many others in our attempt to have the little Lower Lake park that Russell took such good care of named for him. There also will be a memorial ceremony at the park for Russell in the coming weeks. Our whole school will walk down to pay our respect to this very special person.

Bryan Lane is a student at Carlé High School in Lower Lake.

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