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Volume 26 - Issue 34
Wednesday April 6, 2011 Julian, CA.
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Julian News
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Julian, CA, 92036
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Athletics
pring Sports
Baseball
Thursday April 14 away
@ Borrego Springs High
School 3:30PM
Saturday April 16
@ Warner High School
10:00AM / I:00PM
Softball
Tuesday April 12 away
@ Guajome Park Academy
Guajome Park Academy
3:30PM
ThurSday April 14 away
@ Vincent Memorial H. S.
3:30PM
Track
Saturday April 9
@ Escondido High School
(Calvin Christian
Inv.) I
10:00AM I
Thursday April 14
* Citrus League Meet #2
Julian High School 3:00PM
Saturday April 16
Goff
Wednesday April 6
Escondido Adventist
@ Warner Springs Ranch
Friday April 8
@ Borrego Springs High
School
Wednesday April 13
@ Warner High School
Warner Springs Ranch
Soccer Season
As the seasons change, winter
moves into spring and our Julian
High School athletes moving to
their spring sports; we would like
help whole community of Julian
to sit back and reflect on the
great strides the soccer program
• has made this year.
While looking at a calendar
it would seem as though the
season would drag on and on,
but in reality the season moves
faster than anyone can imagine.
The high school soccer season
is separated into four individual
areas preseason, non-league,
league matches and post season
matches and awards.
Every season begins with the
anticipation of what may happen
and this year was no different.
Riding the momentum built over
the last year, the team finished
last year with some strong
outings and the hope of things
to come. So with a bright future
on the horizon more than twenty
players began training for the
upcoming year. Among the new
arrivals are five freshmen and
several upper classmen who look
to take the program to heights
never seen before. The season
began with back-to-back wins in
both a kick-off scrimmage against
Mission Vista High School and
the first regular season game
against River Valley. With those
games, Eddie Silva (Soph), Brian
Garcia (Fr) and Jordan Postal
(Sr) showed that they were going
to be a force for the rest of the
season on offense; while our
strong defense, was going to be
anchored by Gio Santorumn (Sr)
and Jesse Lopez (Sr).
Our non-league schedule was
limited by the fact that we are in
both a large, but a very strong
league. However, our non-league
schedule was highlighted by the
entry into the Firebird tournament
over the first two days of the
winter break. The highlight of the
tournament was the final game
the team played against another
strong opponent in Maranatha
Christian. The game featured
two teams that had faced off the
Planting The Seeds Of The Future
For Science Day
by Kathleen Beck
Kathleen Beck hands out some worms for the school children
to inspect.
photos by Jeff Holt
On March 31st Julian Thank you to the many
Elementary School hosted volunteers that helped with
Science Day 2011 which VMF's Science Day station: Chris
provided an opportunity for the Elisara, Sheana Fry, Felicia Hill,
Volcan Mountain Foundation Jeff Holt; and Colleen Bradley-
(VMF) to educate area students Kaltenthaler.
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Spencer Valley School Performs
A Very Shakespearian "As You Like It"
story by Lanson Moles
"All the world's a stage,"
explains Jaques (pronounced
"Jake'-qwees), "and all the men
and women merely players:
they have their exits and their
entrances; and one man in his
time plays many parts..." This
beloved Shakespearean comedy
treats fairness, forgiveness,
how urban politics can fall into
a rotten state, and the practical
and romantic aspects of love.
The 31 actors from pre-
Kindergarten to 7th Grade
presented Shakespeare's"As
You Like It" was preformed
Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday, March 29, 30, and
31. The show opened with a
discordant yet charming dance
by the Old Schoolhouse players,
grades Pre-k through 2. The
top-hatted dancers, all in black,
[ performed on a starkly black and
1 white set.
That urban landscape mirrored
the fact that the good duke had
been sent into exile by his bad
brother while tyrant Sir Oliver
disgraces the memory of his
beloved late father.
Things become prettier and
(slightly) less discordant when
the action moves to the forest
of Arden, where life is hard,
but charity prevails. While the
younger students took parts as
dancers, EMT's, and gamboling
goats, the Ritchie Hall students,
grades 3 through 7, memorized
prodigious quantities of lines,
learned their blocking, and
added their own creative ideas
for making the play funnier,
clearer for the audience, or more
dramatic.
Goatherd Audrey and jester, Touchstone, prepare to wed
Students at Julian Elementary
getting up-close and personal
with some worms.
on issues of reforestation and.
recycling with hands-on botany
and life sciences projects. VMF
Education Coordinator, Kathleen
Beck, taught the students about
forests from the ground up,
beginning with the soil and the
creatures that help make the soil
fertile and rich--worms! They dug
through compost for the worms
and observed them up close and
personalthrough magnifying
glasses.
This activity was followed by
songs and lessons that helped
them understand about the
importance of native plants and
our ecosystem. All students
planted native seed balls donated
by Ramona's Wildlife Research
Institute using recycled milk
cartons that they brought from
home or cups formed out of the
Julian News, which uses soy-
based inks. That means the
paper will decompose right into
the ground without too much
inorganic material entering the
soil upon plantingua recycling
lesson in itself. The seed balls
in the cups are a control study to
see what comes up.
The sixth-graders planted
cedar saplings as well as taking
some seed balls that will help
to landscape the banks of the
school campus. The seed balls
.... FFA Getting Set For
Contest Season
by Jaqueline Gurrola
left to right - Johnny Hake, Lladira Gonzalez, Christina
Martinez, Dorotea Busalacchi, Virginia Turnbull, Josh Savage
Julian FFA has been fairly events will be held at our school
busy in the month of March. front lawn. With the pre-fair
We have been busy working on going from 11am to 2pm, all of
parliamentary procedures and the students that are raising an
attending contests. We have animal for the San Diego County
attended three contests, one at Fair will be showing their animals
Escondido High School, another for the first time. We will also
at Fallbrook High School, andbe having a petting zoo and
the last at Cal Poly Pomona. boothswill be set up for food and
Our Parliamentary Procedure entertainment. Following that will
team participated in the Regional be the banquet from 2pm till 4pm,
Parli-Pro Contest for the chance where awards will be given to the
to go to state. Although our team people who have supported our
did not place in the final four, FFA chapter through the past
they did their very best. They years. We will also be giving out
are going with high hope and a our state degree awards. Both of
lot more practice so that they will these events will be hosted by
hopefully attend state next year. members of our FFA chapter.
State Conference will be heldAt school we have student
in Fresno, CA from April 14 until projects for the San Diego
April 20 with over five thousand County Fair and Ramona Fair.
Blue and Gold jackets. Attending We have sheep, pigs, cattle, and
State Conference helps our FFA rabbits, as well as landscape and
learn how Important leadership mechanics projects. They will be
can be and also participate in going to the San Diego County
lots of fun activities that involve Fair on June 28th to July 5th and
leadership skills. Going to to the Ramona Fair on August
the conference will be seven 2nd to the 8th. We hope to see
members ofourFFA, many of our locals, families,
Also coming up will be our and friends there supporting our
Orlando and Charles the Wrestler square off in a dangerous
match..
Students and parents
helped with set painting, set
construction, and costumes.
The script was shortened, but
not otherwise changed from the
original, adapted by local author
and director, Don Winslow.
Wednesday's performance was a
dinner theater and silent auction
as a benefit for the Spencer
Valley Educational Foundation.
As usual with Shakespeare
characters, women disguised
as men lead to confusion and
the wrong people falling in love.
In a tour de force of problem
solving, Rosalind, disguised
as "Ganymede," a man, brings
all the right pairs together for
the wedding at the end, and
is reunited with her father, the
banished duke. This performance
ended with a classic folk dance
to the tune, "Hole In The Wall."
previous week in Julian. While were filled with seeds from our banquet and pre-fair with our chapter. And remember, Leaders
region, theme being "Down by the Leave a Legacy. "".... the bloody handkerchief to Celia and Rosalind.
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