volume 2, issue 5 february issue · some places i would like to work is maybe at a preschool...

Hello readers,

Welcome back to the first issue of 2015 of the

West Valley Gazette, the mouth piece, the voice so to speak,

of the students of the Community Immersion Program. We

are now in our 3 year of publishing and each month we try to

find ways so that students write their articles with either no

help from staff or as little as possible. Indeed this month

marked the first issue in which one of our students, who had

previously had to dictate her article to staff, used her Nexus 7

tablet “speech to text” feature to transcribe her entire restau-

rant review. Way to go Aubrey Beebe! We look forward to

longer and more in depth reviews from Aubrey as she grows

more knowledgeable of her device.

One important announcement for the program. The

date for this year’s Honors Night needed to be changed. So,

Graduation Week will look like this:

Monday June 1st C.I.P. Honors Night at W.V.C.

Tuesday June 2nd LGSUHSD School Board Meeting.

Wednesday June 3rd NOVA Program Graduation.

Thursday June 4th Saratoga High School Graduation.

Friday June 5th Los Gatos High School Graduation.

So plan ahead, if you are looking to spend your entire week

attending exciting and fun graduation ceremonies!

Let’s have a great Spring semester! Kevin

February Issue

Ben’s Corner Love is in the air this Feb-ruary. Love for West Val-ley College, that is. This semester, we have more students than ever taking a wide variety of classes at the home of the Fighting Vikings. Students from our program are repre-

sented in just about every department of WVC including English, Art, Physical Education and Sports. So, wheth-er it’s studying for that writing midterm at the Fox Center or putting on the greens, you are

likely to find one of the exceptional young adults from the Com-munity Immersion Pro-gram engaged in col-lege programing every-where you look on campus. Go Vikings!

What’s Aaron on the Radio? 4

The Play…..with Chris Walsh 4

Movie Reviews with Wata 5

Inspector Daniel... 5

The Phantom Diner...Aubrey 5

The Showroom with Kevin Z. 6

Off the Top of My Head ... Amanda N. 6

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Volume 2, Issue 5

February 11th, 2015

Internet Safety with Priya... 6

Sportz Talk with Zoly….. 7

A.P.E. Beat with John Creelman 7

Totally Awesome Book Review by JR 7

Staff Focus/Milestones 8

Milestones 8

CPR Class/ Independence Tip 10

Student of the Month 9.

Student of the Month

Ricky Picha

The Pitt Stop with Niko 2

Heart rate up with Hayden 2

Mai’s Kitchen 2

“OK” Places with... Oscar K. 3

Cindy ‘s Job Quest 3

Upcoming Events with Brian 3

Dear Amanda... 4

Inside this issue:

heart rate which increases blood cir-culation. It gives your body nutrients and oxygen to your tissues which that helps remove waste quickly from your body. Skiing helps your Thighs Ham-strings and buttock Muscles. I love

skiing because it’s fun. You should love skiing for exercise. See you next month Hayden

Mitchell.

This month I am going to talk about staying healthy by Skiing. I love to ski because it keeps me fit. I ski very good so I will be good and strong. Some ways of how skiing helps is it burns up a lot of calories. It can burn up to 3,000 calories in 6 hours of skiing. It helps your core stomach muscles by toning your stom-ach muscles. It helps to protects your spine by stabilizing it. It helps your cardio vascular system. A better car-dio vascular system means a higher

Hello viewers, I am happy

to help with your automo-

tive questions. You can

ask me anything that you

have in mind.

My subject this month is

“wheel weights.” Wheel

weights are meant to keep

in balance. Cars have 4

struts and 4 springs, that

can vibrate and give a un-

comfortable ride to the pas-

senger. When the wheel is

unbalanced it will wob-

ble. The automotive

technician puts on

small weights to reduce

the wobbling of the

wheel. Here’s an exam-

ple, let’s say on the

right side of the wheel

is 1.75oz, that means

the left of the wheel

needs to be the same.

Thanks for reading, Niko

Hello Foodies, This is Mai, your Bistro reporter. This past Wednesday we made lasa-gna. I peeled the garlic and chopped the garlic. I washed all of the dishes. We served 40 people. The lasagna tasted de-licious. Mai

Getting Your Heart-Rate

The …...with Niko

Mai’s Kitchen

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.Some places I would like to work is maybe

at a preschool because I really like interacting

with children because every time my parents

have a party at my house, they let me watch

my parent’s friend’s kids. I like working with

kids around age 2 or 3 because of their ener-

gy. I have had some experiences working at a

preschool and I enjoyed it.

Until next time,

Cindy

Hello guys,

As most of you guys know, I no longer

work at Safeway. I learned a valuable les-

son on how to be responsible and it was a

perfect lesson to learn. But I am looking

for another job.

First, I need to research what jobs I’m inter-

ested in. Next, I need to do my resume.

These are my interests like working with

children, and doing customer service.

Hi my name is Oscar

Today I am write about

sky high The games are

cool. There food and fun.

Santa clara CA95051.

There is trmpolins.And

there dodgeball.And sky

high is cool because lot

birthday party.

This is your friend Oscar have a good day.

De San Antonio, San Jose, CA

3.DJ Ready Rock Sat February 28

10pm Britannia Arms Downtown 173

W Santa Clara, CA

4.Peter Pan Sat February 28 7:30pm

$5-$15 Anthony Solo

Theater 701 Vine Street,

San Jose, CA

Hey everybody this Is Brian we have

some exciting new events coming for

ya!

1.Dancing with Stars (Live) Wed Feb-

ruary 11 8pm cost:$45-$73 at the San

Jose Performing Arts 255 Almaden

Blvd. San Jose ,CA

2. World Jazz and Music at Vyne Bis-

tro Sat February 21, 7pm 110 Paseo

Cindy’s Job Quest

“OK” Places with….. Oscar K.

Upcoming Events with Brian


Oscar

Hi everybody It’s me aaron.

Today writing pitbull. Has a

new song called Time of

Our lives.

Yes I like the song.

Because it’s cool.

When I hear the song I danced

with nyeo and usher.

Goodbye so long. aaron

Dear Amanda,

I have this crazy fungus growing under my toe. I hate to take

my socks off at the beach, and I don’t want my girlfriend to

see them. Help!

Signed fungus foot

Dear Friend,

My mom is a nurse, she would probably tell you to go get it

checked out by a doctor. I would say that too. When you

go to the doctor he should be able to get an antibiotic which

is a medication to help make it go away. If I were you, I

would not worry about it. If your girlfriend cares about you,

she won’t worry about the small things. She probably

won’t be looking at your feet she will probably be looking at

your face. Don’t sweat the small things. You should still get

it checked out by a doctor. If she does care about you she

might say the same thing that I am saying go see a doctor

and have him help you. If you want more advice I am here

for you. I will listen. You

don’t have to take my word

for it, but I really would

recommend seeing a doctor

about your toe.. Your

Friend Amanda

What’s Aaron on the Radio??

Dear Amanda… (An advice column with Amanda Nelson)

The Play with Chris Walsh


Hey y’all it’s play time. In March San Jose Broad-

way is putting on a Beatles tribute band called

RAIN -A Tribute to The Beatles. They are putting

it on at The San Jose Center For The Performing

Arts located at 225 Almaden Blvd. San Jose. The

performers sound and look exactly like The Beat-

les. They play every song from Sergeant Pepper,

Let It Be to Come Together. Come and enjoy the

music from the past it will be phenomenal.

Dates: Friday March 27 @ 8pm

Saturday March 28 @ 2pm or 8pm

And Sunday

March 29 @

1pm

Ann Landers hands the baton to Amanda!

Aaron loves his music Pitbull

V OLU ME 2, ISSU E 5

think that the pool chair lift works perfect-ly. When I use it, I need to have three people there to help me. The first person helps to make sure my wheelchair doesn’t fall in the water. The second person waits in the water for me to come down. The third person helps me by moving my feet and helping me pivot and transfer into the chair. Thank you everyone. This is the ADA com-pliance guy cutting out.

Hi Everyone, This is the C.I.P. ADA Compliance Guy, Daniel Stickney. We are going to talk about transfers in and out of the pool using the chair lift. There is a chair lift located on the shallow side of the pool. The lift is meant for people who have disabili-ties. I have been using this lift for getting in and out of the pool during my swimming lessons for two years. I

Hi readers, It’s Wata

This month’s movie review is

on my pick for the best movie

of the year. I saw Into the

Woods by Rob Marshall. There

is a lot of singing. It has charac-

ters from stories about Jack and

the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Little

Red Riding Hood and Sleeping

Beauty. If you like these stories

you will watch the movie and

enjoy. My Favorite Part of the

Movie is when the baker is bak-

ing the bread and when Cinder-

ella is wearing her gown and

gold slippers. Cinder-

ella is the best part of

the movie.

Movie Genre: Musical

Fantasy Film

Cast: Johnny Depp,

Emily Blunt, James

Corden, Meryl Streep,

Anna Kendrick, and

more

Run Time: 124 Minutes

Rating: PG

Until next time, Wataru Kubo

(Editors note: Aubrey used the speech

to text feature on her Nexus 7 tablet to

write her Gazette article for the first

time. Until now, a staff member has

had to type it as she disctated….we

are so proud of the progress she is

mak-

ing!!!!)

This week am reviewing Yoko-

hama sushi restaurant in Los

Gatos. I am happy about

it. they have pot stickers and

theyhave a lot of good

stuff. See you next week. I

recommend people go there.

Aubrey

Inspector Daniel A.D.A. Compliance with Daniel Stickney

Movie Reviews with….. Wata

The Phantom Diner….our restaurant critic

Inspector Daniel making

his rounds.

Aubrey after eating sushi

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Even though we are mammals, we

are still animals. A couple

Classifications are reptiles, felines,

canines and many others. We are in

the classification of humans, but we

are still animals. If you don’t be-

lieve me look it up online. But as

far as I know the facts say we are

the animals at the top of the food

chain. More facts next month.

.Scientists say and even I believe that

we humans are animals. All animals

are classified into a group, our group

just happens to be humans. We

evolved from animals and we are still

animals. If you look at where we

came from you will see that we are

still animals and we evolved over

time. There was The Ice Age and The

Dinosaurs. There were Caveman

and apes we evolved from them.

Hi,

This KZ .Chevy Spark is

an electric car. It has cool

seats. They are heated . It

also has a smart phone app

and you can connceci it to

your phone .

I think the Chevy Spark is

fast.

Kevin

to everyone who is online. I use

the websites called

YouTube.com and Netflix.com.

I only search for videos that are

safe.

Internet usage can be fun, but

sharing private information can

be dangerous. Private infor-

mation such as photos should

only be shared with family and

friends. A child is too young to

use a computer alone. This is

because Internet access is open

“Off the Top of my head” by Amanda Nelson

The Showroom with ……...Kevin Z.

Internet Safety with Priya

Kevin typing out his column

Priya has a beautiful smile

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Evolutionary Tree


Hi, this is John Creelman. Working out on the rowing machine is good for your chest, arms and your heart. When I workout, I can totally feel it! See u John

Hi everybody, So today is

gameday , The Ducks vs SJ

Sharks at Jakes. The game

starts at 7:00 pm. This game

will be on tv CSNBA, Radio

98.5 KFOX San Jose. This

game is very important to the

Sharks because it’s a divisional

game and it is a Rivalry be-

tween these two powerful

teams. The Sharks have been

doing very well lately. Be sure

to check out the calendar for

upcoming great games on their

website at www.sjsharks.com

See you guys there! Go

Sharks!. Zoly

movie because it is very spooky. I would definitely watch this movie on hallow-een. This is probably going to be my only movie review, for I will be doing book reviews from now on.

I did not read a book this

month so Im going to tell you about a movie I watched called Final Destination. Final Destination is a cultish - horror film about Death ( the Angel of Death) killing off survivors of a terrible accident that the survivors should not have

survived. I for one think this movie was good as a horror

Adapted Physical Education by John C

Sportz Talk with…..Zoly

Totally Awesome Book Review by John R.

We’ll get you a football next month Zoly!

John writing his book review.

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n!

This month I interviewed Joel Cordero, Joel

has been with the district for 8 years .. He has

two brothers, drives a Honda Passport and loves

to party on the weekends and listen to loud mu-

sic. Joel has an English Bulldog and his favorite

animal is a Silver Back Gorilla. Joel coaches

football and basketball after work. His favorite

things to do is go to the beach, go wine tasting

and hangout with friends. He won lots of money

at the Super Bowl. His favorite football team is

Dallas Cowboys. Thank you Joel

Hayden Mitchell.

Extended School

Year

Summer 2015

June: 22nd to July 17th

Community Immersion Program

Honors Night

Date: June 1st 2015

Time: 6:00PM to 10:00PM

Place: West Valley College

Awards: Each student!!

Fashion Show: Yes

Food: Yes

Dress: Semi-formal

Dancing: Yes

Honors Night

2015

Milestones

December 9th, Oscar Kiely

joins C.I.P.

January 21st Niko begins

work at Full Circle Farm

January 23rd, Aubrey

Beebe independently dic-

tates her Gazette column

using her Nexus 7 “speech

to text.”

January 27th Amanda inde-

pendently begins first aca-

demic class at WVC.

January 28th, First Bistro of

2015! Brunch success! Jan 22nd, Daniel begins us-

ing Amazon Fire TV(voice

commands)

Community Immersion Program Events:

Staff Focus: Joel Cordero

Saved B

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ell Years

Joe

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day!

Student of the Month

Ricardo “Ricky” Picha has been chosen as student of the month for February.

This is Ricky’s second year in the Community Immersion Program. Over the past

two years, Ricky has made great strides towards independence. During his first

semester he was taught how to take college classes and he was travel trained to

use VTA. He now uses VTA to get around town independently and takes college

classes without staff support. Ricky has maintained the direct hire paid position at a

local pizza restaurant that he got through Workability while at Saratoga High

School. He currently works 5-6 days a week! Last year

Ricky became a shining star in our Bistro program

where he sliced and diced his way to local fame by be-

ing featured in the Los Gatos Times and the San Jose

Mercury News! This year he kicked things up a notch

by participating in the El Cajon restaurant internship

program where he currently is learning culinary skills at

an upscale local restaurant. In the world of college,

Ricky has taken on new and interesting challenges by

enrolling in men’s weight training and ceramics for two

semesters. You will be able to see his ceramic work

featured on our art display at this year’s annual Honors

Night. Ricky likes being employed, taking college clas-

ses and spending time with friends and family. He has

worked hard to become more independent while showing a good understanding of

all of the responsibilities that go with being in a community-based program. Ricky

has become increasingly connected to the Los Gatos-Saratoga community by mak-

ing responsible choices and being willing to explore new opportunities that the com-

munity has offered him. He has opened doors for himself by showing up and work-

ing hard. Now Ricky is able to enjoy all of the benefits and freedoms of young

adulthood such as taking classes on his own, spending the money

that he earns however he chooses, traveling where he wants to go

on his own, participating in creating his own schedule and spend-

ing his free time doing fun activities that he likes with his peers.

What will the next two years in the Community Immersion Pro-

gram hold for Ricky? With the continued determination that he

has been showing, there will definitely be a growing number of op-

tions for him to choose from. Keep an eye out for Ricky

Picha. This is one student who is going places.

Ricky in the News!

Ricky in

his ce

ramics class

17421 Farley Road West,

Los Gatos, CA

95030

COMM UNITY IMM ERSION

PROGRAM

Heartsaver CPR/AED Training

Date: Saturday, February 28th

Time: 9:00 to 12:00

Cost: $70.00

Address: 545 Meridian Ave. Suite E.

San Jose, CA. 95126

Monthly Tip for instilling

Independence :

Budgeting:

If you give your son or daughter

an allowance, make sure it is one

lump sum at the beginning of the

week or better yet at the begin-

ning of the month.

Now factor in how many days till

the end of the “pay period” and

help your child divide the number

of days into the lump sum.

This amount is how much they

can spend each day.

If they overspend and ask for

more money at any time, never

give them additional money.

Its better they learn to budget

while we are here to teach them

Upcoming C.I.P

Days Off:

February 13th and 16th

March 30th and 31st

April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd

May 25th

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June 1st Honors Night

June 12th Last day of Spring

Semester

June 22nd Summer school be-

gins

July 17th Summer school ends

Upcoming District and Community Events:

Kevin: (408)_340-8181

Ben: (949)_702-7938

E-mail: [email protected].

E-Mail: [email protected]

Where the Bay Area Gains its

Independence!

The Los Gatos Saratoga Union High School

District

Community Immersion Program

100% community based transition program

Focuses on what young adults with disabilities can do rather than

what they can’t..

Seeks to prepare students for life after Special Education through,

work experiences, travel training, individually targeted, function-

ally oriented IEP goals, social skills and job norms training.

Interacts organically with the school district, the community col-

lege, the community at large and of course our environment.

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