Shining Stars encourage school attendance at YHS

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Assistant Principal Randy Haggard and SheriffJohn Anderson congratulate Ronnie Miears on winning the grand prize for the Shining Stars program which recognizes students for their perfect attendance record.

Yosemite High School now has a way to reward students who have excellent attendance records. The Shining Stars program is for students who have no absences, tardies, or truancies between December 3, 2001 and January 31, 2002. These students will be able to participate in a drawing that could allow them to win any number of prizes.

Students who had perfect attendance last month were able to win prizes such as a Winter Formal package and also being escorted to each of the student's classes by a custodial cart. This time, there are two different grand prizes for students of the junior and senior classes, and the freshmen and sophomore classes.

If the grand prizewinner is a freshman or a sophomore, he or she will win a 2001-2002 yearbook. If the student is a junior or senior, however, they will receive a pair of prom bids.

Other prizes include movie tickets, video rentals, music and book certificates, and four lift passes to Badger Pass skiing.

Students who have perfect attendance will be at a drawing today, February 8, at lunch in the new cafeteria. Students from this drawing and the drawing last month will then be put into a final drawing at the end of the year where they can win some "Big prizes" says Randy Haggard who is the Assistant Principal and coordinator of the Shining Stars program.