Copper Senior chooses Community Garden as senior project

17 year old Darrell Lucas has chosen the Copperopolis Community Garden as his senior project.

"I wanted to do something that helped the community." So Darrell, who had worked side-by-side with his parents as they volunteered in the garden, hatched a plan that he would take over the onion production part of the garden. The onion production produces approximately 1000 onions for the Copperopolis Food Pantry.

Darrel began in earnest late November working with mentor Richard DeBussman learning how to start onions from seed.

Bret Harte Senior picks Copper Library for Senior project

Lucas Cox, a 17 year old Bret Harte senior, chose to help out his community and finish his senior project in one fell swoop, by donating time to the Copper library.

Since late October Lucas has been volunteering at the Copper library every Wednesday to help with whatever was needed. He has hosted two kids movie nights and helped out with shelving of books and movies and used a lot of organizational skills and muscle in the recent big move to a new location.

To date Lucas has volunteered almost 75 hours to the library. "It's rewarding. I really enjoyed movie night; something for the kids in the community to do."

Senoir Project raising funds for Humane Society through some 'dog gone fun'

17 year old Copperopolis Senior Hayden Smith has developed 'A dog agility fun day' for his senior project. Smith says he has always loved animals and has two dogs himself - Kit and Mona- a Queensland heeler and a McNabb/Walker Hound. "Kit and Mona are not trained in agility. I don't know how they will do on the course. It will be interesting to see."

Having never completed nor been to an agility event before this arena was all new for Smith. His mentor Karen Kaua, owner of Aloha Boarding, has given him the much needed information to run an agility event. She has also graciously allowed the use of her facility for the event. As part of the preparation Smith has helped to fix and re-paint obstacles.

The event is set for March 30, 2013 at Aloha Boarding and Training on French Gulch Rd. 

Copper Senior's project to help newly formed VFW Post 12118

Local senior Zachary Haste, grandson of Ralph and Eva Murphy, has created a senior project that benefits the community and the local VFW Post 12118.

 

Zachary's love for the automotive industry and his knowledge that many cars, especially during these tough economic times, are not maintained properly helped him to create his senior project. With his mentor, Bret Harte automotive instructor Ken Sooter guiding him, Zachary has created a day long event where anyone with a vehicle in Calaveras County (and beyond) can come to the Bret Harte campus parking lot and have a maintenance inspection. Included in the inspection will be checking tire tread and pressure, oil level and condition, fluid levels, etc. This is only a maintenance inspection for the car owner to become knowledgeable on the maintenance needed for their car.

 

Robert Broyles Senior Project - Support for our Troops

Robert Broyles, Bret Harte Senior and Copperopolis resident, has created a senior project to support our troops "to send care packages to military personnel to raise morale and help them out a little bit."

The Military Donation drive will run from March 1, 2012 to March 31, 2012.
For more information visit https://www.facebook.com/events/214003302025912/
 

Senior Project raising funds for fire apparatus room at Bret Harte

Seniors Blake Cuevas and Dominic Celilio, friends since 6th grade, have paired up to raise funds for a common interest...fire fighting.

The program is a multi-year project "expected to take five years to complete" said Celilio, who is concurrently enrolled as a student at the Calaveras County Fire Academy and a cadet with CFPD. With the goal to raise a minimum of $15,000 per year through various fund raisers and presentations to fire districts and community groups. The end product of all the fund raising will be the construction of an apparatus room at Bret Harte to house the fire engine and all the gear for the ROP fire tech program. Currently the equipment is stored in a modular classroom and the larger equipment is subjected to the elements and possible vandalism.

Senior Project hopes to have you in stitches for a good cause

Caity Johnson is proud to present her senior project “Off the Cuff”, an improvisation show to benefit the Murphys Creek Theatre Mirror Project. Each cast member of “Off the Cuff” is a student from Bret Harte High School they are quick witted, wild, and wacky. They play a variety of improve games at rely on the audience as much as the players.  From the Alphabet game to Zip, Zap, Zoop the audience will be in stitches from one crazy situation to the next.

Heading up this crazy crew as director is Caity Johnson a senior at Bret Harte has the aspiration of becoming a nurse and obtaining a minor in the Dramatic Arts. Jesse Hart is also a senior who is raising money to fight Leukemia for his senior project. Cheyenne Johnson and Ashley Sierra Varn are sophomores, while Phebe Auger is a freshman who moved to California from France.   Lighting director is Emma Brown, a sophomore and behind the scenes as stage manager is Sophie Proctor, a freshman at Columbia Jr. College.

Bret Harte Senior Crissy Shevlin takes on Drunk Driving as Senior Project

18 year old Copperopolis resident Crissy Shevlin has chosen as her Senior Project ‘Every 15 Minutes.’

‘Every 15 Minutes’ is a two day program that focuses on high school juniors and seniors, challenging them to think about drinking, driving, personal safety, the responsibility of making mature decisions and the impact their decisions have on family, friends and many others. The program brings together a broad coalition of interested local agencies with the goal of reducing alcohol-related incidents among youth.