The Partnership Carson City Steering Committee will be offering a Drug Update Community Forum.
You will be provided with the most recent information on drugs in our community, and answer any questions you may have. It will be 5:20 p.m. March 16 at Seeliger Elementary School.
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Scholarships aplenty...
This is the time of year when seniors should be busy filling out scholarship applications. The Guiding Light is loaded with scholarship opportunities.
Copies of the Guiding Light can be picked up in the Guidance Office or downloaded from the Guidance tab on www.carsonhigh.com.
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Carson High Health Occupations Student Association is putting on a walk to raise money for juvenile diabetes at 11:30 a.m. Saturday on the Carson High School football field.
The walk will be 1.5 miles around the high school campus. To sign up, go to jdr
fevents.donordrive.com. To walk is free, anyone who donates $25 or raises $25 in donations receives a T-shirt.
Come support a great cause.
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This week's senior spotlight is on Trey Jensen. Trey has a grade-point average of 3.6 and is enrolled in advanced-placement government, human anatomy, rhetoric/persuasion, and trigonometry/precalculus.
In addition to doing well in the classroom, Trey is active in the CHS sports program. He has earned varsity letters in football, basketball and track.
He was named to the Northern 4A All-Region football team and earned Northern 4A Honorable Mention quarterback award. Trey would like to continue playing either football or basketball at the college level.
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The Brewery Arts Center Performing Arts Collaborative is presenting "Meshugga-nuns," another wild, wacky Nunsense musical featuring several CHS personalities.
Productions are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Karen Chandler, theater arts teacher at Carson High, is also the artistic director of this BAC group.
She also plays Sister Mary Amnesia, the country western singing nun who lost her memory. Mother Superior is played by Michon Chandler-Douglas, Karen's real life daughter and 1996 CHS alumni.
The band features all CHS folk: On the keyboards is Katie Lauder, an alumni of the music department, and her sister, senior Victoria Lauder playing the synthesizer. Bryan Akerly, class of 2010, is on the drums.
The community is fortunate indeed to keep these talents in our midst for entertainment years after they leave our halls. Tickets are $15 and $18 at www.brewery
arts.org.
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Carson High Culinary Arts just returned from the Nevada State Pro Start competition in Las Vegas. Once again, Carson High came home with more than $20,000 in scholarships.
Congratulations to the second place management team. They developed an entire restaurant plan based on National Statistics and Demographics.
The team members were: Leah Kniffen, Alexa Dunn, Sarah Meckes and Jessica Schmidt.
The hot foods team of Mick Poole, Yesina Hua, Tabitha Howk and Jimmie VanSickle came in third.
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Highlighting our great teachers, Ms. Garbiel is Nevada state champion in extreme biking for women. Ms. Rochelle Kennedy and Mr. Adam Whatley were named the CHS teacher of the month for January and February.
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The academic team is looking for volunteer judges and score-keepers for our competition on March 7. The event will be 2:30 p.m. in the ROTC building.
Food will be provided. If you are interested, please contact Jim Bean at 283-1714.
• Erin Been is a health teacher at Carson High School and a member of Senator Pride.
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