 Yosemite
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February
18, 2005
Coarsegold
Union School District News
Coarsegold
Cougars won the 2005 Mountain Area Junior High Boys’ Basketball
Tournament
Rivergold
sixth through eighth grade students named to the gold honor roll
Rivergold
sixth through eighth grade students named to the gold honor roll
“Cougar
Pride” recipients honored
Rivergold
girls’ soccer team won the Mountain Area Championship
Rivergold
science fair winners had a wide variety of projects
SPICE
volunteers and high school students help with science fair
1
million pages; the principal kisses a pig
The Coarsegold Cougars won the 2005 Mountain Area Junior High Boys’
Basketball Tournament. Hosted by Yosemite High School and organized
and run by Steve Lopez, the tourney featured teams from Oak Creek Intermediate,
North Fork, Sierra View, Wasuma, Rivergold, and Coarsegold schools.
The championship game featured the previously undefeated Wasuma Wildcats
against the Coarsegold Cougars. Coarsegold utilized a full-court press
to jump out to a nine-point lead but Wasuma fought back with determination
and tied the game late in the second half. Coarsegold scored a key jumper
inside the paint by Robert Rainey and held on to a two-point lead for
the remaining 48 seconds. A last second shot by Wasuma star Jesse Lownsbury
just missed, giving the Coarsegold Cougars the championship. The Cougars’
members were: Taylor Cano, Jackson Glines, Rainey, Garrett Yoder, Clint
Contero, Ray Millar, Jarredt Beatty, and Johnny Green.
Rivergold sixth through eighth grade students named to the gold honor
roll for the second quarter are those who received a 4.0, or straight
A, grade point average. They are: Front row left to right:Amanda Padilla,
Jordan Smith, Kayla Tilden, Samantha Ralph, Chelcie Bohner, Will George,
Teresa Naumcheff, Calliope Holingue and April Booth. Second row: Ariel
Vang, Nicholas Schumaker, Jeffery George, Brandon Landon, Ryan Baker,
Kyle Bohigian, Jonathan Pierce, Danielle Holt, Hallie Withrow and Molly
Calloway. Third row: Ashley Eggleston, Victor Estrada-Urrutia, Taylor
Koellish, Shawna Neidenbach, Taylor Jensen, Mary Gomez, Olivia Tovar,
Kelci Craig and Kelly MacLaggan. Back row: Hillary Prince, Bethany Davenport,Camille
Subia, Shelby Jacobs, Jordan Ellis, Elizabeth Avina, Brittany Baker,
Devin Grant and Ashley Leforge
Rivergold fourth and fifth grade students named to the gold honor roll
for the second quarter are those who earned a 4.0, or straight A, grade
point average. They are: Front row left to right: Stephanie Brown, Shane
Smith, Thalia Holingue, Samantha Dominici, Jazmin Jones and Kayla Hayner.
Second row: Giavonnie Cambell, Vanessa Magee, Riley Cooks, Morgan Masuen,
Kathryn Tovar and Amanda Bausch. Back row: Jacob Corchine, Matthew Thompson,
Alexander Lynch, Dana Day, Danielle Reimer,Craig Talbot and Heather
Reichard.
“Cougar
Pride” recipients honored
Coarsegold School
is busy building a caring community of successful learners, says Principal
Randy Haggard. “We are committed to the character development
of each student as they grow to meet the challenges they will face in
our society.
The core values of caring, trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility,
respect, and citizenship are emphasized in classroom instruction, as
well as in school-wide incentives, he says. Each quarter a student is
chosen who has best represented a value selected for that quarter as
the “Cougar Pride” recipient from each class. In the first
quarter, the value was respect, and in the second quarter the value
was fairness.
First quarter Cougar Pride recipients were: Front row left to right:Jake
Menezes and Ashly Bahram; second row: Juliet Trembley, Cassidy Mauldin,
Lauren Craven, Erin Asis and Logan Szabadi; third row: Ariana Cornell,
Destiny Anger, Brenna Hatfield, Robert Shortnancy, Clifford Munton and
Crystal Miller; back row: Zachary Voltmer, Tyler LeQuia, Brandon Bruce,
Elvira Gallegos, Michael Barr and Kyra Marquez.
Recipients of the “Cougar Pride” award for the second quarter
went to Me-N-Ed’s in Oakhurst for Pizza with the Principal. Pictured
are Front row left to right: Wyatt Alsup and Ryan Laymon; second row:
John Griffin, Corey Skerce, Joseph Saenz, Bobby Woolsey, A.J. Torres,
Amy Majeno, McKenna Hunziker, Brianna Dalpoggetto, Brenndon Damiano-Craib;
third row: Kirk Townsen, Lanae Contero, Taylor Cano, Jessica Wiliams,
Ashley Ellis, Lacey Cadile, Gavin Rodrigues, Craig Stieler, Larry Randon,
John the Pizza Man, Jamie Odum, Brett Hendrickson and Principal Randy
Haggard.
The Rivergold girls’ soccer team won the Mountain Area Championship
this year. They defeated Oak Creek Intermediate School in the finals
held at Sierra View. The OCI girls’ team was previously undefeated
in league play. The Rivergold team is coached by Bob Elliott and Terry
Rich.
Rivergold
science fair winners had a wide variety of projects
Hallie Withrow (center),
an eighth grader at Rivergold School, was selected as the Sierra Sunrise
Rotary Club Student of the Month. She was recognized for her outstanding
citizenship and academic performance. She is active in music, sports,
video production and the Leadership Class. She is shown with her mother,
Jennifer Withrow (left) and teacher Lynn Reimer.
Rivergold School’s fifth through eighth grade students recently
participated in the 2005 Science Fair.
Projects ranged from earthquakes to bedding for a horse stall to oil
additives and the effects of colored light on bean growth.
Best of show and honorable mention awards were given.
Best of show winners were:
Primary Division: Melting Ice, Andrea Whitcomb, third grade.
Intermediate Division: Which Uses More Water: A shower or A Bath?, Tyler
Sikora, fifth grade.
Primary Classroom Entry: Solutions, Suspensions and Emulsions, Kor Davis’
first grade class.
Junior Division: How Light and Shade Affect the Type of Pigments in
Plants, Hillary Prince, seventh grade.
The Science Fair was sponsored by Yosemite Bank and Gold Mine Pizza
who donated savings bonds and certificates.
SPICE volunteers
and high school students help with science fair
Coarsegold School
held a Science Fun Day January 27. Over 70 volunteers from Seniors Participating
in Community Education (SPICE) and Yosemite High School joined parent
volunteers to get students involved in hands-on science activities in
kindergarten through fifth grades.
The high school students worked with elementary students and provided
a science “magic” show after lunch as the culminating activity
for students in first through fifth grades.
The goal of the Science Fun Day was to interest younger students in
the sciences, but a bonus was the great example provided by the high
school students, Coarsegold Princi-pal Randy Haggard said.
“They showed how learning can really be fun, and set a positive
example as science learners for children who are just beginning to discover
science,” the principal noted.
1 million pages; the
principal kisses a pig
Coarsegold School
students were busy reading during the week of February 7-11 in hopes
that they would complete one million pages so Principal Randy Haggard
would kiss a pig February 11.
The Read-A-Thon was part of Bibliomania Week at the school during which
students listened to master storyteller Diane Ferlatte and participated
in a Vocabulary Parade and the Fresno Grizzlies’ “Wild About
Reading” challenge.
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