by The Editors on June 28, 2007
Recent Carlsbad High School graduate Jon Talley is trying his had at the Big Leagues as he reports to the Toronto Blue Jays’ Gulf Coast League rookie team in Dunedin, Fla, according to San Diego Union Tribune writer Kevin Gemmell.
I’m going to train as hard as I can,” said Talley, 18, who bats left and throws right. “I’m going to put everything I’ve got into it with no regrets. And if I don’t make it, I’ll have something to fall back on.”
Talley’s former coach says it’s all about his batting.
The bottom line is: He’s a pure hitter,” said Carlsbad coach Chris Greene. “I think that’s why the scouts have been coming to see him perform. I think they feel confident they can play him at a number of positions. . . . It’s just a matter of finding him a position, because they know he can hit, and if he can continue to hit at the next level, he’s going to be successful.”
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune and The North County Times]
by The Editors on June 27, 2007
There’s nothing like a write up in the local paper to help a high school grad get where she’s going. Carlsbad’s Miranda Hann, 18, got the full deal in the San Digeo Union Tribune when writer Leah Masterson broke it down for everyone.
Miranda Hann isn’t your typical teenager. . . Throughout her high school career, she spent weekends and summers volunteering for organizations that nurtured her love of science and her desire to enter the field of medicine. . . For three years, Hann volunteered every weekend in the Maternity Unit at Tri-City Medical Center.
Right on, Miranda.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on June 27, 2007
If things go as the Carlsbad Unified School District hopes the next five years will bring $223 million of improvements to district facilities including rebuilding Carlsbad High School, building a second high school, and upgrading six other schools.
Known as the facilities master plan, the 137-page document details $223 million in spending and provides construction options for each project, including costs and scheduling. The master plan includes some changes from previous district thinking. . . “The facilities master plan is not just another binder that will sit on my shelf,” school board President Kelly Moors said Tuesday. “It’s a working document that I will carry with me as I visit schools and talk to residents. It’s a step-by-step description of what will happen, and when, at each site.”
We’re looking forward to it. For all the details, click the link.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 20, 2007
No, it isn’t William Wallace and his clan plotting a takeover of Carlsbad this week. It’s just the 37th Annual Summer School for Bagpipers being held at the Army and Navy Academy. This summer 72 students will be in town until June 23, many of them kids.
This year’s camp features 17 youngsters, in part because organizers received $3,000 in youth scholarships from the North County Scots organization, John Keys said. This is the 14th year the school has operated in Carlsbad, but it has long been housed in beautiful spots — previous locations include Santa Cruz, Pebble Beach and Idyllwild.
But don’t worry about the incessant squealing noise. The school has “strict regulations regarding when and where” the students can play their pipes. . . Thank God.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 19, 2007
The Carlsbad Unified School District is apparently overjoyed this year because only half as many seniors failed the California High School Exit Exam in 2007 as did in 2006. This year only 45 of the students failed compared to last year’s 85 failures. While the staff is “not ready to declare victory yet,” it is an improvement.
“The numbers represent a tremendous effort by staff and parents to get as many students as possible to pass,” Suzanne O’Connell, assistant superintendent of Carlsbad Unified School District. “Each time they take the tests they get closer, a little more familiar with the format, and the way the questions are asked. Each time they take the test, they get more comfortable.”
One question: is it about getting students to pass the test, or is it about getting them to learn. . . we’re confused?
[Link: The North County Times]
by The Editors on June 18, 2007
Carlsbad High School’s Spencer Hood, 18, graduated last week with honors and a 4.1 grade point average. Now, he’s on his way to Dartmouth where says he’d like to put the “stereotype of dumb-jock to rest.”
I always get labeled as the ‘football player,’ the ‘dumb jock,’ but that’s not the case,” he said last week. “It’s a general misconception that athletes are not well-rounded, that they don’t focus on academics. People are surprised when they see someone who can excel at both.
Hood, who was named scholar-athlete of the year and defensive football player of the year, has a fraternal twin brother, Gordon, also graduated with honors and is off to Brown. Yeah, they’re a double threat.
Congrats to the entire Hood family.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 3, 2007
Today at noon, the senior class of Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad officially relinquished their command and turned it over to the junior class, while the sophomore class welcomed next year’s freshman. At least that is what we thought was going on during the “change of command parade” on Maffucci Field (a.k.a. the athletic field). With 74 cadets graduating it was the largest senior class in the Academy’s history, according to the school’s website.
Students’ families travelled from around the world to witness this annual festivity. Wealthy parents, poor parents, crying grandmothers, dads with newer, younger wives, older moms with newer plastic surgery, hot aunts with their g-strings visible above their skin tight jeans, older brothers all Tokyo popped, along with the hardworking elite of the US Military (we’re guessing here so forgive us in advance) came to see their boys, kids they hardly recognize in those white dress uniforms, march on a big lawn, parade in front of the viewing stands, and finally listen to Bill Gang Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Information Systems Laboratories give a commencement address on the lawn in front of the academy’s Davis Hall.
While families celebrated, Carlsbad’s Finest saw a perfect opportunity for generating some revenue for the city and proceeded to write parking tickets for each and every one of the visitors cars that were parked illegally on the East side of Carlsbad Boulevard. As one father leaned over and said:
I can’t believe they would do that on a day like this. It’s really kind of bullshit.
We couldn’t agree more. Welcome to Carlsbad, here’s your ticket. Then again it’s only June 2 and this officer probably filled his parking ticket quota for the rest of the month.
More photos after the jump.
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Recent Carlsbad High School graduate Jon Talley is trying his had at the Big Leagues as he reports to the Toronto Blue Jays’ Gulf Coast League rookie team in Dunedin, Fla, according to San Diego Union Tribune writer Kevin Gemmell.
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