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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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