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The Scimitar Coachella Valley High School Thermal, CA
Issue Date: Friday, May 02, 2008 Issue: May 2008 Last Update: Wednesday, May 07, 2008
  • Publications staff completes 70th anniversary volume of school’s yearbook, La Conchilla

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Staff

    Its bold colors and creative theme add to the nowhere near traditional look of the 2008 La Conchilla yearbook. What makes “Insider ’08” so unique is its design. Inspired by a variety of magazines suc

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  • Teachers, staff and students meet in Appreciative Inquiry Summit

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Melissa Vargas

    An Appreciative Inquiry Summit was held on April 12 and 13, at Bobby Duke Middle School. Teachers, administrators, students and parents all gathered to discuss how to improve Coachella Valley High Sch

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  • C.V. closes in on La Quinta in blood drive competition: Next drive set for May 22 & 23

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Mireya Rodriguez and Isabel Gaeta

    One hundred and eighty one units of blood were collected for the Community Blood Bank during the second blood drive of the school year held on March 13 and 14 in the Coachella Valley High School mini

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  • Go “behind the wheel” with Mr. Fisher: Driver's training course offered to CV students

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Nydia Franco

    C.V students who want to complete the behind the wheel portion of driver’s training have a friend in Mr. Scott Fisher. Mr. Fisher has been licensed by the state to help students under the age of 18 t

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  • Mrs. Bishop to retire after 32 years as English teacher

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Robert Figueroa

    A Q&A with Mrs. Bishop as she prepares to retire after more than 30 years of teaching English at CVHS.

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  • Ms. Fain to retire after 32 years as P.E. teacher

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Robert Figueroa

    A Q&A with Ms. Phyllis Fain as she prepares to retire after 32 years as P.E. teacher at CVHS

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  • Mrs. Gloria Castaneda to retire after 21 years in Health Office

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Robert Figueroa

    Mrs. Gloria Castaneda to retire after 21 years in Health Office

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  • C.V. RecyclersA small act, a big change

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Cynthia Castillo and Jessica Valdez

    Ms. Tina Rimer, earth science teacher, started a recycling program January 4, 2008, open to all students. Every Wednesday members of the program go to assigned classrooms and empty the recycling bins.

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  • Join the Health Academy and dare to care

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Melisa Ramirez and Imelda Garcia-Grande

    “CVHS Health Academy is a small learning community that gives you many opportunities that can benefit you if your interest is in the health field,” says Mrs. Gibson, Health Careers teacher. Picture yo

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  • Retail and marketing class tests advertising skills

    Friday, May 02, 2008 By: Billy Franco

    The student store curriculum got a touch-up this year. Students enrolled in the R.O.P. retail and marketing class added advertising to their skill set. Mrs. Rebecca Gilbert, their instructor, helped

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At-a-glance

Mentors for the GEAR UP program had their first meeting of the 2007-2008 school year in February when a group of junior and senior volunteers went into freshmen science classes.
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The 5th Annual A Salute to the Troops will be held on same stage where Bob Hope, Jerry Cologna, and Rita Heyworth performed for draftees in 1943
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From CV athlete to graduate to coach and equipment manager, Pat Custer's time as a CV Arab spans 45 years
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Vaya con Dios, Mrs. Martinez. We love you and we miss you.
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Aloha Hawaii, goodbye Coachella Valley. The Lady Arabs varsity softball team traveled to Hawaii on March 2, 2008. A five-hour plane flight seemed like eternity, but it was all worth it when the team
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Who is responsible?
In March, nine third graders at Central Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, plotted to attack their teacher. The students were between eight and ten years of age. They took a broken steak knife, h
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Exercise your voice, vote!
Turning 18 is an important milestone in the life of a young person. Eighteen is the age of majority, the age when society begins to expect more of us. We have new rights and responsibilities; most i
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Rachel Scott was a young woman who tried her hardest to find the good in people, was friends with everyone and had not an enemy in the world, and was murdered in cold blood on April 20, 1999. It’s bee
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Numerous educational studies have shown that minority students face tremendous obstacles towards high school graduation. These difficulties ring especially true for many of the children of low-income,
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“The first day that I walked into my ceramics class last year, I had no idea that I would someday end up being part of a competition, much less the winner of one.
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