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“Each class has a theme … and they come around and give stuff. The freshmen gave us lots of pink stuff, I think their theme was Fresh Prince of Bel Air…The juniors’ theme was ‘Rise of the Toys’ and they gave us these little voodoo dolls, very tongue-in-cheek stuff. They gave us little trinkets, some food, based upon their theme,” said Schlaff, who has been a game referee since the Olympics began. The sophomores won first place in the dance and pyramid, although the week-long cumulative victory went to the seniors, who were leading in spirit points going into the competitions. Classes also won points based on the number of participants in the themed-days of spirit week, Monday, Blue and Gold Day, Tuesday, Marvel Day, Wednesday, Tie Dye Day, Thursday, -er Day (dress up as anything that ends in -er) and Friday, Class Color Day.

The soon-to-be-retired teacher also credits the local community’s willingness to let the school try new, sometimes controversial, productions for the department’s success, “We’ve brown tones, guatemalan textiles, mayan, slip on, flat shoes, ballet flats, handmade, handwoven been given this wonderful level of tolerance by the community so that we can do shows like ‘Rent,’ ‘Angels in America’ and ‘The Laramie Project.’ These shows are meaningful to the kids, but many communities won’t allow them.” Moorhead said, Looking back over the years, Moorhead finds it difficult to pick out a favorite production, “Honestly, it’s whatever show I’m working on at the moment,” he said, “But there were certain shows that were important to the school, We did productions for my first 14 years in the cafeteria, and, then in 1999, we moved to the renovated gym with a production of ‘The King and I.’ Doing ‘Les Miz’ in 2003 was also a milestone — it put our program on the map, We were also one of the first high schools to do ‘Rent.’ For shows like ‘Rent’ and ‘Hair,’ I got really good at writing my director’s notes in the program, I’d remind the audience that their kids had handled the subject matter and language in a very adult manner, and I challenged the audience to do the same.”..

The multimedia dance and music event will pay tribute to such musical talents as Ray Charles, Lena Horne, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Nina Simone and Luther Vandross. A tradition that dates back to June 19, 1865, Juneteenth celebrates African American liberation when enslaved people in Texas were informed by Union soldiers that slavery had “ended.” This jubilant news, at last being supported by the Union Army’s reinforcement of the law, came two and a half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Amos said.

Starting a business that revolves around the creation of custom hoops seemed like the next logical step for the couple of 15 years, Dubbed TrinityStarr, their company sells hoops made of different types of plastic in various colors and sizes: a standard heavier hoop, a lightweight dancing hoop and the travel hoop, Ron Starr bends and shapes the hoops by hand, and his wife puts the finishing touches by wrapping each one with special tape or other decor, “It brown tones, guatemalan textiles, mayan, slip on, flat shoes, ballet flats, handmade, handwoven definitely takes a level of precision,” Ron Starr said, adding that their niche is the travel hoop that can be broken into pieces–which, of course, must be cut just right so they can fit back together properly when used, “We’ve figured out how to do it well.”..

Under the county library district’s funding formula, each community library operates a minimum of 30 hours a week. Milpitas’ 30 hours cost $1.7 million, according to city staff. Additional funding for the Milpitas library’s remaining 24 hours comes from a special tax approved by voters in 2004 and renewed in 2013, which provides $836,819 in staffing dollars. Stephen Fitzgerald, Milpitas’ community librarian, previously told the Post that the additional funding will pay for two full-time positions, one library assistant and one full-time clerk, and three half-time positions, two half-time librarians and one half-time clerk, to support the longer hours.