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ur principal of four years, DarrylJohnson, will leave our school tolead the personnel departmentat Panama-Buena Vista UnionSchool District. That’s a huge
loss! He’s the heart of Stonecreek JuniorHigh School but runs a tight ship. He putschildren’s safety first and requires stu-dents to, “Go HOME,” directly after schoolevery day. He puts in countless hours —he’s generally the first to come and the lastto leave.
I used to carry on — grumbling, whin-ing, and fussing — at the end of eachschool year when changes occurred. Thatincluded teachers moving to differentschools, people receiving promotions thatforced them to move, and retirements. Achange of heart about my losses tookplace a few years ago when I poured outmy soul to Nancy O’Neil, then the coun-selor at Warren Junior High School.
I wrote her a notecomplaining ofchanges that left mewith the loss of afriend who decidedto teach at anotherschool. Nancyexplained that whena friend leaves it’slike a part of youdies. But when thathappens, considerwhat it was that theybrought out in you.Then appreciate the
things about yourself that your friend sawin you. “Whatever they love about you isthe quality you show to your friend. Hon-or that quality in yourself ... you’ll be rich-er for this experience,” according toNancy.
Then, she said, let them go and do what
they need to do.I took Nancy’s advice to heart and asked
myself what it was that Darryl saw in me.He saw a capable, charismatic teacherwho cares about our students. He sawsomeone who would take the ball and runwith it. Then he gave me the ball, and I didjust what he expected me to do.
He helped make me a better teacherand a better friend.
I don’t even want to imagine whatschool will be like without him, but I knowI’m a better person having worked withhim. So, Darryl will leave and see wonder-ful things in the next generation of teach-ers, helping them be better educators andpeople. I’ll miss him tremendously, but it’sa good move. Bon voyage, Darryl, andthanks for putting Stonecreek Junior Highon the map!
Peggy Dewane-Pope is an eighth gradeteacher.
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Y O U R S C H O O L S
Y O U R S C H O O L S
OSchool to miss Principal Darryl Johnson
BY PAIGE FARADAYCommunity contributor
ighth-grade students SrutipriyaMalay, Po Tsui, and ShreyaBanerjee, from Earl WarrenJunior High, recently won theNational History Day California
competition on May 1 with their groupdocumentary, entitled: “The IranianHostage Crisis.” The group will advanceto the Nationals at the University ofMaryland from June 12 — the first timein Wildcat history!
This year’s NHD theme is Debate andDiplomacy: Success, Failures, and Con-sequences. Students from grades 6-12research and analyze a topic, ranginganywhere from the Cuban Missile Crisisto the Brown v. Board of Education toAlice Paul, to explain to judges how itrelates to this year’s theme and whatimpact it has on history and currentsociety. They present their research in apaper, exhibit, performance, documen-tary, or website, as individuals orgroups.
Only the most dedicated and diligentstudents can advance.
For these Wildcat state champions,this is no exception. They have laboredsince the beginning of the school yearwith weekly meetings to research, writea script, record voiceover, interviewindividuals, edit footage, and completean annotated bibliography and processpaper; a task that required icebreakersas incentive and multiple late-nighters.Even now, improvement on their docu-mentary continues to ensure the bestwinning chance at Nationals, as pressureescalates.
However, parents of these studentshave another concern on their minds.The cost of the trip will not be easilymanaged, with prices of airplane ticketsand hotel rooms skyrocketing. It is stillunclear whether the Panama BuenaVista Union School District will fundthis trip. However, no matter what theoutcome, these students truly are cham-pions.
Good luck!
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Earl Warren Junior High eighth grade students celebrate victory at the recent NationHistory Day California competition and prepare for nationals on June 12.
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Krauss family ready to serve the community inthe annual Mormon Helping Hands Day atGreenacres Park.
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More than 550 volunteers lent a “helping hand” as part of the annual MormonHelping Hands Day at Greenacres Park.
Local students make Wildcathistory ... with History Day contest
COURTESY OF FRESH & EASY NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETresh & Easy Neighborhood Mar-ket announced that 48 schools inBakersfield earned more than$30,000 through its third-annualShop for Schools program. Nearly
2,000 schools actively participated inShop for Schools this school year, earn-ing more than $1.3 million that eachschool can use for whatever they needmost.
Kindergarten through eighth-gradeschools located within a three-mileradius of any Fresh & Easy store canparticipate in the Shop for Schools pro-gram. For every $20 spent at a Fresh &Easy store from September 15 throughDecember 31, 2010, participatingschools received a $1 donation. In addi-tion to collecting receipts, registeredschools could also participate in Shop-ping Nights, which provided an opportu-nity to raise even more money. From 4p.m. to 8 p.m. on each school’s designat-ed shopping night, five percent of thetotal sales at the local Fresh & Easystore were donated to the school.
Neighborhood schools participated inthe fundraiser through their local Bak-
ersfield stores, with a total of 1,466schools actively participating through-out California. The top fundraisingschool in California was Sunset ViewElementary, which received a $5,000bonus in addition to their fundraisingefforts.
“We are thrilled to be involved in ourlocal school community and be a part ofschools continued success through Shopfor Schools,” said Khristy Roberts, Shopfor Schools Regional Coordinator.“Schools in our neighborhood continueto struggle for funding right now and weare proud we can be part of the solutionby giving back to local schools.”
Shop for Schools was launched as apilot program in spring 2009, raisingmore than $130,000 for schools in Cali-fornia, Nevada and Arizona. Fresh &Easy brought the program back in fall2009 with raising another $670,000 forlocal schools.
Fresh & Easy plans to bring the pro-gram back again in fall 2011 and for thefirst time ever, offer online registrationin mid-May. Visitwww.freshandeasy.com/shopforschoolsfor more information.
FLocal schools earn more than $30,000
’m not crazy about reading books morethan once — even if I love them.Exceptions, however, must be made! Abook that really wowed me is the fanta-sy, Name of the Wind, written by
Patrick Rothfuss. My then 22-year-old songave me his copy a couple years ago. It’sintimidating in size but once I picked it up, Iwas hooked.
A whole different world emerges from thepages that’s somehow both ages old butadvanced as well. Some people liken it tosomething that would appeal to Lord of theRings fans but frankly, I think I enjoyed itmore. The book appeals to boys in a big waybut girls who have read it loved it.
“It’s the myth of the Hero seen from back-stage,” Rothfuss says in his website — per-haps the cleverest author’s page I’ve seen.
His biography is from a parent’s perspectiveand says things like, “Growing up, Pat didn’tapply himself and failed to live up to his fullpotential. Despite the fact that he seemedto have no interest doing something pro-ductive with himself, Pat’s parents contin-ued to love him. They also wereencouraging, but in a very general way, ashe seemed to have no actual talents tospeak of.” Now that appeals to me both as ateacher and a mother. I’m pretty good atloving kids who don’t appear to be fired upabout their direction and it’s so lovely tohave someone who displays those traitsland firmly on his feet! Like the bio, thebook shows Rothfuss’ clever wit.
Name of the Wind is about a young manwho is trying to find his way in a fantasyworld and leads the reader through adven-
tures including a magic and love-filledchildhood, devastation and loss, homeless-ness, a college career, and beyond. I pickedup the second book in the trilogy, The WiseMan’s Fear, at Russo’s Books in the Market-place recently. A review tells me that themain character, “Kvothe, grows up a little inthe second book. He learns more aboutmagic. He learns how to fight, gets tangledup in some court politics, and starts tounravel some of the mysteries of romanceand relationships, which is really just magicof a different kind, in a way.” Hmmm…I justmay have to read Name of the Wind again.
Peggy Dewane-Pope is a junior highteacher in the Panama-Buena Vista UnionSchool District.
IBakersfield’s brainiest step up for Sixth annual ‘Brains of Bakersfield’ contest
BY PAM WILLIAMSCommunity contributor
ost 13-year-old girls wouldspend their Saturday texting,shopping, or watching a moviewith friends. But on a recentweekend, Madilyn Krauss and
her family joined forces with hundreds ofother “helping hands” to beautify and reno-vate two local NOR parks: Greenacres andStandard Parks.
On April 30, more than 550 volunteersfrom The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kern County participated intheir annual Mormon Helping Hands(MHH) Day with the theme “Serving OurCommunities.”
Donning a signature yellow vest andpushing around a wheelbarrow of compost,Madilyn and four of her brothers spent theday sprucing up Greenacres Park. The dayleft her feeling “really exhausted,” but shesaid she was also “really proud” of heraccomplishments.
“This day of service was important inhelping the community and teaching otherpeople that we should take care of our envi-ronment,” Madilyn says.
The volunteers’ efforts proved successfulat both parks. In addition to general clean
up, volunteers planted, staked, and fertil-ized 100 trees, as well as painted three bath-rooms (inside and out), two baseballdiamond back stops, four dugouts, andtrash holders. They also leveled and reseed-ed bare spots in the ground and trimmedbushes, shrubs, and trees.
“There were many families and smallchildren, as well as teenagers, who allpitched in and worked hard for severalhours to accomplish these tasks,” says Mil-ton Woolsey, Multistake Public AffairsDirector for The Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints. “As I stood back andlooked at Greenacres Park at the end of thework day, I was very impressed with all thathad been accomplished to beautify it andmake it a more enjoyable recreation areafor the community.”
Not only did volunteers feel a sense ofaccomplishment, but NOR officials werethankful for the help. “I figure this projectsaved NOR personnel a minimum of amonth and a half of labor. The volunteerswere very friendly and eager to help,” saysJD Grissom, Assistant Director of Parks andRecreation of NOR. “My opinion of human-ity has been elevated substantially.”
Madilyn says volunteering was fun, but
she also learned an important skill: she cannow plant a tree by herself. Her mother,Hydee Krauss, says she wants her childrento not only learn the value of hard work, butalso live a compassionate life dedicated toserving others. That is why she signed upherself and five of her children, ages four to13, to participate in MHH day.
“If we want to teach our children to liveChrist-like lives, then we need to teachthem to serve. I want to instill in my chil-dren the desire to do good, to learn to helpothers, and that they can make a differencein their own community to make it a betterplace,” Hydee says. “Doing service togetheras a family helps to build unity andstrengthens bonds between family mem-bers when they can learn to work togetherto accomplish something.
“When we serve we are the ones thatgrow the most from our service because wefeel good about ourselves.”
This annual event is part of a statewideservice effort involving thousands of Mor-mons throughout California and Hawaii.For more information on the MormonHelping Hands project, please visit:www.mhhcalifornia.org or call PamWilliams at 805-6863.
MHundreds provide ‘Helping Hands’ to the community
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Stonecreek Junior High School Principal Darryl Johnson takes on a new opportunity tolead school district's personnel department.
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