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Casa Grande Union High School Casa Grande, Arizona

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Volume 3, Issue 5 MARCH, 2015

CGUHS

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY

OFFICE EXTENSION

PRINCIPAL

Thomas Trigalet Zona Campas, Secretary 3102

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL:

Greg Anderson

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR:

Randy Robbins

Cynthia Soto, Secretary 3122

DEAN OF STUDENTS:

Christopher McKenna

Melissa Sanchez, Discipline Secretary 3104

GUIDANCE

2015 & 2018(A-D)-Roy Lewis 3114 2016 & 2018(MO-Z) - Bettina Salazar 3145 2017 & 2018(E-MI) - Tori Boremi 3147

Debbi Miers, Registrar & Secretary 3111

GEAR-UP COORDINATORS:

Judy Merrill (All Freshmen) 3129 Lorraine Campos (All Freshmen) 3126

ATTENDANCE

Becky Brown 3130

BOOK STORE

Brad Kepler 3201

NURSES OFFICE

Linda Cassidy 3136

Christine Collins 3137

TRANSCRIPTS

Francis Pitman 3133

PARENT/COMMUNITY LIAISON

Jetcel Rodriguez 3121

MIGRANT/HOMELESS LIAISON

Alba Diaz 3127

JOHNSON - O’MALLEY PROGRAM

Gene Manuel 3153

3-4: SPRING AIMS MAKE-UP;

WRITING &READING

11: EARLY RELEASE @ 2:00PM

13: Q3 PROGRESS REPORTS

DUE

23-27: SPRING BREAK

Class of 2015: 50

Class of 2016: 230

Class of 2017: 410

Class of 2018: 590

As of 3/4/15

PG 2: Culinary Arts News PG 3: Students of Month PG 4: FBLA, Construction, Lunch Deliveries PG 5: FFA Students succeed PG 6: Percussion, Color Guard, and JROTC News

Blue is for loyalty, cougars into the fight,

Gold is for victory, and we will win this game

tonight, fight, fight, fight! When we have

victory, we’ll be on our way to fame. Our honor defend, we’ll fight to the end. and

win this game!

How many days until you graduate?

Congratulations to our Culinary Arts students Ariana Almaguer, CV senior, Kendra Katingima, CG junior, Yenifer Ruelas, CG

senior, and Brianna Cruz-Rabago CG senior For competing in the CCAP (Career thru Culinary Arts Program) culinary event on Saturday February 7th. The CCAP (Career thru

Culinary Arts Program) is an organization that works with high school culinary students, who are competing for scholarships. 96

students competed and out of that 96, 4 were CGUHS students. First round the students prepared an omelet and a cucumber

salad. Only 30 seniors and 10 juniors will move on to the next step.

I am so proud to announce the results of the CCAP culinary competition held Saturday. Moving on into the finals we have:

Senior, Brianna Cruz-Rabago and

Junior, Kendra Katingima

The final is held at Le Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale on March 21.

Wish them luck!

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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s cupcake competition:

3rd place goes to Mater made by Aaron Sehy and Santana Marquez

2nd place goes to the apple tree made by Yenifer Ruelas and Elias Makil

1st place goes to the Minions made by Ariana Almaguer and Kendra Katigima

2nd

1st

3rd

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Congratulations to the following students for being nominated as CGUHS

Students of the Month

• Brittany Stover

• Caroline Mejia

• Christopher (Scotty) Ashford

• Gina Von Ronne

• Hailey Moe

• Kaitlyn Reich

• Karla Valeriano

• Leanez Rodriguez

• Lindsay LeBret

• Mateusz Kojs

• Rhianna Cheetham

• Tanner LeBret

• Yenifer Ruelas

• Baillie Wallace

• Samantha Confer – not pictured

• Shey Petersen – not pictured

• Jalan Dukes – not pictured

If you’re skipping lunch because you’re too busy to make it to the teacher’s

lounge then you’re going to love this!

CG-Food Service is now offering food delivery services for all CGUHS

Teachers and Staff! It’s easy, simply:

-Email your order to CG-Foodservice, -let them know what you will be having,

-what time you would like it by, -what room number you are located in and what type of change you will be

needing. Its that simple!

On February 7th, 2015, 21 Casa

Grande Union High School

Future Business Leaders of

America members and their

advisor, Annie Hunter, travelled

to ASU Polytechnic campus in

Mesa, Arizona for a day of fun

and competition. The members competed in tests, skill

events, and public speaking, as well as got the chance to

participate in games and campus tours. Our Casa Grande

chapter took home 7 awards including; Jacob Pesta 3rd in

Business Law, Gloria Suarez 1st in Computer Applica-

tions, Taylor Haskin 1st in Future Business Leader, Team

of Taylor Haskin and Wyatt Ackland 1st in Desktop Pub-

lishing, Team of Shaun Wyllie, Savannah McMahon,

Kayla Scribner, Bianca Hernandez, and Caitlyn Turner 1st

in Parliamentary Procedures, Team of Alison Cotton and

Dulcina Kennon 2nd in Website Design, and Yamilex

Rios 2nd in Word Processing.

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CGUHS FBLA brings home 7 awards!!

Construction students traveled to Tucson Magnet High School as visiting competitors last week; as visitors we could not officially place and earn stage recognition,

however, the contest would demonstrate our position by points. Long story short we didn't officially bring home medals. If we would have been able to bring home

medals this is who and where we placed. Please congratulate them on a job well done, the instructors from the Tucson area were very excited to have us there and

could not stop talking about their skills and commitment. They represented CGUHS well.

Construction Technology (pairs) 19 competitors

2nd place Tie: Luis Alcaraz with Jose Aldana & Cody Bennett with Jovanni Saldivar

Carpentry 9 competitors

2nd place: William "Billy" Steve 4th place: Ryan Chritensen

Masonry 9 competitors 2nd place: Matt Coon 3rd place: Izik Turner

Team Works 5 competing teams

3rd place: Erven Leon, Cj Cooke, Alejandro Ramirez, Quinten Cooper

STUDENTS EXCEL

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Please congratulate the following students for their tremendous performance at the 2015 Dean Merrell FFA Field Day, on February 10th, 2015 at

CAC. More than 10 schools competed in the numerous Career Development Events (CDEs). Casa Grande FFA is full of talent!

Nursery Operations CDE:

1st place team: Kori Pateck, Lucas Vacca, Tiernan Larkin, and Caleb Clark. 1st place high individual & recipient of $150 scholarship from The Avocado Nursery: Tiernan Larkin

Livestock Evaluation:

1st place team: Georgia Whitehead, Shelby Wood, Royal Whitehead, and Jasmine Lorefice. 2nd place team: Amanda Garcia, Jessica Leinton, Brooke Lorefice and Martii Sullivan.

1st place high individual: Amanda Garcia. 3rd place high individual: Georgia Whitehead.

Agronomy:

1st place team: Morgan Hatten, Peyton Barnes, Guierrmo Piñon, Elizabeth Travis. 2nd place team: Chase Salcido, Joshua West and Koby Charles.

1st high individual: Guierrmo Pinon 2nd high individual: Chase Salcido 3rd high individual: Morgan Hatten

Agriculture Mechanics:

1st place team: Ballie Wallace, Tyler Russell, Trevor Miers, and Jacob Auza. 2nd place team: Caleb Ramierez, Tristan Larkin, Leeland Woodward, and Justin Martinez.

1st high individual: Trevor Miers 2nd high individual: Ballie Wallace

3rd high individual: Jacob Auza

Entomology:

2nd place team: Sadie Merrell, Jazmin Buie, Jacob Cotten, and Ariana Trevino. 3rd high individual: Jacob Cotten

Soils:

2nd place team: Ally Bayness, Mariah Lara, Chase Hubbard, Melanie Paytosh. 3rd place team: Luis Medina, Janine Diaz, Cassity Wellington, Anaya Dominguez.

1st high individual: Luis Medina 3rd high individual: Chase Hubbard

Horse Evaluation:

2nd place team: Victoria Shoemaker, Callie Charles, Tatum Shields, Naiya Guinn. 3rd place team: Shawnee Alvarez, Dayton Johnson, Alyssa Komzelman, Pilar Stoor.

Range Management:

2nd place team: Carlos Brown, Savannah Cockrill, Katlynn Martell, And Kolten Debold.

The MCJROTC drill team competed in the West Mitchell drill meet this past weekend at Sky Harbor Airport. The kids did an outstanding job representing our school. Seventeen schools competed, and the kids brought home the

following trophies:

1st place - unarmed regulation 3rd place - armed regulation $100.00 - sweepstake check

3rd place - sweepstakes champion trophy

We look forward to our next competition in March.

Congratulations to the CGUHS Percussion and Color guard, who competed in the Gilbert Winter invitational on Saturday, February 21st. Both teams did an outstanding job bringing home awards. Our Color Guard finished in 3rd place and Percussion brought home 1st place. The Indoor Percussion and Color guard teams also competed in the Casa Grande Winter invitational on Saturday, February 28th and both groups finished in 1st place! Congratulations to both teams once again and what a great way to represent Casa Grande Union High School!

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