A.B. Miller High School students will get a first look at their school’s new mascot during a pair of upcoming on-campus rallies. The school will reveal its new-look “Rebel” mascot and pass out t-shirts with the new mascot to students in attendance.
Río Hondo College will host a ribbon cutting during a grand opening celebration for the institution’s first Pride Center. The center will serve as an inclusive space where students who identify as LGBTQIA+ can go for support resources and gather in community.
Bonita Unified educators will see their classroom projects come to life after receiving mini-grants from the Rotary Club of San Dimas that will support a campus wellness center, outdoor play areas and resources for math students, as the service organization continued its tradition of supporting District initiatives during the Feb. 7 Board of Education meeting. Rotary Club of San Dimas members distributed $1,500 in mini-grants to Chaparral-Vista High School counselor Val Herrera, Shull Elementary School kindergarten teacher Somer Estrada and Shull Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Susan Hsiung.
Bonita Unified elementary school students are discovering the joys of having a high school mentor and best buddy through a new career technical education partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters Los Angeles, which provides mentoring specialists to lead programs for Grace Miller Elementary and La Verne Heights Elementary students who desire afterschool companionship. Big Brothers Big Sisters pairs older students, known as “Bigs,” with younger students, known as “Littles.” The Bigs consist of Bonita High School volunteer mentors who meet once a week at the elementary school campuses to connect and spend time with their Littles. The program, which debuted in Oct. 2023, will run for the rest of the 2023-24 school year.
California High School’s Model United Nations (Condor MUN) program is giving students a real-world perspective on global issues and allowing them the opportunity to learn the importance of diplomacy by serving as delegates, role-playing and writing position papers on a diverse array of topics such as maritime piracy and mental health in humanitarian crises. Available as an afterschool extracurricular since 2007, Condor MUN has increased its profile among southern California MUN programs, with Cal High adding an AP Comparative Government class compatible with MUN research areas and boosting its MUN club membership enough so that Cal High could host its first Condor MUN conference in December 2023.
More than a dozen aspiring nurses lit candles, symbolizing their devotion and commitment to the care of others, and catapulted their career aspirations in the medical profession during the Lynwood Community Adult School’s vocational nursing graduation and pinning ceremony on Feb. 1. Sixteen students in the 2023-24 cohort graduated from the intensive 13-month vocational nursing program, which equips students with the principles and skills necessary to succeed as nurses in a hospital setting.
El Monte Union High School District will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of a new 80-foot mural, marking the culmination of the District’s Clean Mobility in School Pilot Project, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Friday Feb. 23. Artists Lalo Alcaraz and Levi Ponce will join with media personality Alysha Del Valle to host the event. The mural, which displays the message, “The Future Will Be Emission Free,” will be visible to tens of thousands of commuters on the 60 freeway. Guests will also be treated to a screening of the District’s new Clean Energy Careers animation. The ceremony will be held at the EMUHSD Bus Depot, 1003 Durfee Ave. South El Monte.
Río Hondo College will host a ribbon cutting during a grand opening celebration for the institution’s first Pride Center scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15. The center will serve as an inclusive space where students who identify as LGBTQIA+ can go for support resources and gather in community. The Pride Center is near Río Hondo College’s Administration Building (A-119), located at 3600 Workman Mill Road, Whittier.
William Workman High School’s girls wrestling program is celebrating a historic 2023-24 season, as the Hacienda La Puente Unified team secured its first-ever Montview League championship and qualified all eight team members for the upcoming California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section (CIF-SS) individual championships, to be held Feb. 9-10. The Lobos put together dominant performances both individually and as a team, culminating in the Montview League Meet on Jan. 23 where they produced five individual champions, with three more wrestlers placing in their respective weight classes.
The El Monte community sits at the nexus of several major freeways, negatively impacting the air quality for the people who live, work, and go to school there. Join artists Lalo Alcaraz and Levi Ponce and Media Personality Alysha Del Valle to celebrate the completion of a new 80’ mural, visible to tens of thousands of commuters on the 60 freeway, and EV car wraps to encourage the use of clean transportation. The project marks the culmination of El Monte Union High School District’s Clean Mobility in Schools Pilot Project. Guests will also be treated to a screening of the District’s new Clean Energy Careers animation.
