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Catholic Schools Week time to celebrate faith and education
This week the students and faculty of Ss. John and Paul High School will be participating in events that we can consider a tradition, but what most schools have never even heard of. That is Catholic Schools Week. Catholic Schools Week is celebrated by all Catholic schools and is a week filled with learning but fun activities as well.
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Local students chosen as officers for SkillsUSA northeast region
The lives of six students associated with the Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus were forever changed recently. During the week of Jan. 15 through Jan. 20, two seniors from the Graphic Communications program and their counterparts from several of A-Tech’s associated schools, traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in a series of regional officer training programs for SkillsUSA.
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Lakeside students display talents in many of fine arts
Outside of the sciences, math, history and English, the arts play an equally vital role in education at Lakeside. Many students take their creative ambition beyond the band or choir room to the Ashtabula Arts Center. Among these students is Sarah Mudd, a ninth grader at Lakeside. Mudd fancies dancing in particular; in fact, she’s been involved with the Arts Center for eight years. In that time she has participated in nearly 30 plays, most notably playing the lead role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in this year’s performance of “The Nutcracker.”
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Students learn to balance time for studies and jobs
Many students at Jefferson Area High School participate in the “real world circus” that is juggling their school work and their jobs. Although it can seem like a difficult balancing act, the responsibility, time management and perseverance that it teaches can be very much worth the effort.
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Local professional shares leadership insight with students at Grand River
Within every great leader there are qualities that are inborn and those that have to be learned. At Grand River Academy students had the chance of getting to meet a person to help teach those lessons. Ashtabula native Kevin Grippi, who was essential to both the Light the Lift Bridge project and the Rails for Trails bike path, came to speak at the Lunch with a Leader Program at Grand River Academy held in the Robert S. Morrison Lecture Center.
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Henson breaks record for most career points in GV basketball
History is not only in the making at Grand Valley High School, it’s being rewritten. A.J. Henson, a senior at Grand Valley, broke the high school record for most career points in basketball on Jan. 6 during a nail- biting game against rival Maplewood.
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Conneaut NHS to host Valentine's Day dance
Conneaut High School's chapter of the National Honor Society is up and running with its new adviser, Emily Wacker.
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Geneva preparing for annual Science Fair
It’s that time again! The Geneva High School Science Fair is just around the corner and students are working very diligently to finish up the last minute touches to projects. With the expanded focus on the Science Department, teachers have encouraged even more participation and involvement. Science fair adviser Wendy Booth expects between 160 and 200 junior high and high school students to participate.
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You never know surprises in store for Pymatuning's annual wild game dinner
Pymatuning Valley High School’s chapter of Future Farmers of America encourages leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education through various activities, teaching them transferable skills necessary in many career fields. Throughout the year Pymatuning Valley High School’s FFA takes on many events, including, Toys for Tikes, Career Day, Kiss a Critter, Polar Bear Plunge, FFA Spirit Week, Teacher Appreciation Day and Drive Your Tractor to School day. Another event the FFA has been organizing is the Wild Game Feed which will be Jan. 18.
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Edgewood students learning lifesaving skills
For the past four years, Edgewood Senior High School has offered a unique experience to its 10th grade health classes. Thanks to a grant awarded to University Hospitals, every student at Edgewood has been given the knowledge to become certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This course is offered to many schools in Ashtabula County, including Braden Junior High School.
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