In a discussion of the La Cañada Unified School District Facilities Master Plan, the size of a prospective swimming pool became a point of contention Tuesday night. Continue reading “The Long and Short of a Future Pool at LCHS”
LCHS Parents Make a Game Effort to Bolster Football, Lacrosse
Tobias Humphrey (4) was a standout on the football team, whose 0-10 record last season isn’t helping attract new players, although team-building events sponsored by the LCHS Spartan Football Foundation could increase interest.
A national sports trend has touched down on La Cañada High School’s home turf, where two groups of parents have dedicated themselves to promoting participation in their kids’ sport of choice — one an American tradition whose safety is being questioned, the other an upstart fighting for a foothold in a crowded athletic landscape. Continue reading “LCHS Parents Make a Game Effort to Bolster Football, Lacrosse”
LCHS Grad Nominated for UC Student Regent Role
Hayley Weddle, a La Cañada Flintridge native and UC San Diego doctoral student, has been nominated to be the 2019-20 student regent by a University of California Board of Regents special committee.
If approved this month, the 2007 La Cañada High School graduate would become the 45th student regent since the position was established in 1975. She would serve as the student regent-designate for the coming year and be able to participate in all deliberations, then will have voting privileges when her one-year term begins in July 2019. Continue reading “LCHS Grad Nominated for UC Student Regent Role”
Teens Give Young Patients Rooms for Recovery
A young patient shows off his superhero skills beside Thomas Gonzalez, a Pasadena resident who serves as Junior Room Crew treasurer, during one of the group’s recent room-decorating events.
Jenny Hull gathered 30 energized teens around her in the lobby of UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital: “The most important thing today is that we have to be super, super quiet, OK? And really wash your hands as you go in and out.”
And with that, the teens in Junior Room Crew — many of them students at area schools, including St. Francis, Westridge, Mayfield Senior and Flintridge Sacred Heart — went to work transforming 24 hospital rooms from impersonal, cold spaces into personalized, colorful rooms incorporating the interests and tastes of the patients inhabiting them. Continue reading “Teens Give Young Patients Rooms for Recovery”
LCHS 7/8 Principal’s Call: Stow Your Cellphones
La Cañada High School 8th-graders are in for an adjustment when they return to school in August.
They’ll have to put their phones down.
For the 2018-19 school year, LCHS 7/8 will no longer allow students to have cellphones out during the school day, Principal Jarrett Gold said. Continue reading “LCHS 7/8 Principal’s Call: Stow Your Cellphones”
‘Hackademia’ Aims for Young Tech Devotees
La Cañada High School students Justin Hyon, Rucha Kadam and Kamyar Salahi have spent a year bringing to life Hackademia, the first high school hackathon in Southern California. The free event takes place July 28 at UCLA.
Kamyar Salahi, a rising senior at La Cañada High School, wished he could enter a hackathon for people his age in L.A.
The problem was that nothing of the kind existed in Southern California. Not yet.
Continue reading “‘Hackademia’ Aims for Young Tech Devotees”
LCHS Seeks to Reintroduce Peer Counseling Class
Hoping to cultivate student wellness, school district officials recommended at Tuesday’s Governing Board meeting that the district reintroduce a peer counseling elective for the upcoming academic year.
“The goal here is to have a class which, in essence, trains schools in peer counseling skills for about three quarters and the last quarter [students will] begin to work with students,” said Jim Cartnal, the La Cañada Unified School District’s executive director of pupil and personnel programs and services. Continue reading “LCHS Seeks to Reintroduce Peer Counseling Class”
Local Internship Program Empowers Capable Teens
Karl Johnson, a local financial adviser, was inspired to bring aboard Stephanie Lee (right) this summer as part of the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce Summer Internship Program after his daughter Nicole Johnson (center) had an empowering experience as an intern for the Allen Lund Co. a year ago.
Students hired to participate in the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce Summer Internship Program shouldn’t expect to do much shredding or to be going on many coffee runs.
They should expect to be tasked with big-time responsibilities.
“I felt like I was the kid and was instructing adults on what to do, which is kind of strange,” said Nicole Johnson, a rising senior at La Cañada High School who participated in the program last summer as an intern for the Allen Lund Co., where she created three computerized training courses for 400 employees to use nationwide. Continue reading “Local Internship Program Empowers Capable Teens”
LCHS Students Seek to Inspire at Science Camp
Members of La Cañada High School’s Science National Honors Society are serving as mentors at a summer camp this week, teaching 4th-, 5th- and 6th-graders through activities such as slime-making, tower-building and aluminum-foil boat racing for 1½ hours each afternoon.
LCHS students began planning the camp about three weeks ago, brainstorming a “whiteboard full of ideas,” said society member Jon Potter, a senior. The mentors were excited about working with youngsters because they had all been inspired by outreach programs in elementary school and wanted to provide that same spark for the younger students. Continue reading “LCHS Students Seek to Inspire at Science Camp”
District Wants Advice on Construction Work
With the oversight committee for the $149 million Measure LCF bond scheduled to meet for the first time today, June 28, and the first $30 million of bonds having recently been issued, La Cañada Unified School Board President Kaitzer Puglia encouraged the community to continue to offer input.
In an update at Tuesday’s board meeting, Puglia said that the district has begun working with consultants and architects to prioritize which projects would be the best to tackle first, but that nothing “is set in stone.” Continue reading “District Wants Advice on Construction Work”