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Jax Beach Art Walk celebrates first anniversary

Better Jacksonville Beach adds monthly car cruise to lineup

Posted: August 8, 2014 - 1:40pm



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A collection of works displayed by Amy Michelle Gregory of AMEJ Art during last month's Jax Beach Art Walk.

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Jon McGowan, president of Better Jacksonville Beach, organized and oversees the Jax Beach Art Walk.

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Artists Dino Baron and Jo Marie Carter from the L'Arche Rainbow Workshop show off their designs during the Jax Beach Art Walk.

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Amy Michelle Gregory of AMEJ Art paints a table during the Jax Beach Art Walk in July.

By Michele Gillis

As families and couples stroll by storefronts in downtown Jacksonville Beach, artist Amy Michelle Gregory puts the finishing touches on her latest piece of art.

“I like to paint live,” said Gregory of AMEJ Custom Artwork, one of approximately 70 artists featured in the Jax Beach Art Walk. “I love it. Sometimes it gets a little windy out here while painting, but I really enjoy creating art in front of the people walking by.”

Jacksonville Beach’s Art Walk celebrates its first anniversary this month. Held the second Tuesday of each month from 5-9 p.m., the event is staged along First Street between Beach Boulevard and Fifth Avenue North.

Gregory said the Art Walk is popular with both tourists and locals, allowing her an opportunity for marketing and networking while she paints. The free event is also free for the artists who participate; the only requirement is that all of the goods have to be handmade and the artists need to provide their display tables. The event, founded in August 2013 by Better Jacksonville Beach in an effort to bring families back to the downtown district, typically draws 500 to 1,000 people.

“We needed more family-friendly events at the beach,” said Jon McGowan, president of Better Jacksonville Beach and owner of McGowan Firearms in Atlantic Beach. “The real base of the program is the Art Walk, and last month we started a Classic Car Cruise.”

After a highly publicized fight in Jacksonville Beach on Memorial Day 2013, McGowan said he formed the nonprofit Better Jacksonville Beach by reaching out to business owners in the downtown area.

BJB now has five business owners on its board and about 20 other local business owners as members of the association.

“We wanted to get the business owners all together to work together to improve the area,” he said.

McGowan said he knew of the success of Art Walks in neighboring communities, and started by doing his homework, reaching out to organizers of other area art events and asking questions.

“It’s not just about the art, it’s about building the community and getting families to feel like they can come back down here again,” said McGowan. “They can bring their family and walk around, get reintroduced to the area and get familiar with all the neat restaurants.”

McGowan chose a Tuesday night to hold the walk because he believed the area is already overwhelmed on the weekends.

“We were trying to get families down here, and the best way is to start with a clean palate,” he said. “We started on a Tuesday night when there is no one in Jacksonville Beach.”

McGowan said his hope was that families would then start coming out other nights of the week and eventually rowdier crowds would stay away as families come back in.

“Families have abandoned it,” he said. “They felt it wasn’t theirs. It was just a place where college kids came to get drunk and party. If [families] went out to dinner, they’d go along Third Street or to Atlantic Beach. We have to let them know that this is their downtown again.”

McGowan said he didn’t struggle getting the event off the ground once word got out, noting that the City of Jacksonville Beach was helpful in the process. All he needed was a permit and insurance, which was paid for by the businesses involved in BJB.

“I threw the first one together in about three weeks and had 45 artists,” he said.

Delcher Carter of Delcher’s Leather, which specializes in customer leatherwork in Neptune Beach, has been a part of the Art Walk since its inception.

“I’ve been here for nine years, and I think it’s really great for the community,” Delcher said.

Print and floral artist and Jacksonville Beach resident Tiffany Turner has been selling her hand-painted cards, prints and framed art in the Art Walk since the event’s beginning. She said she enjoys the sense of community that the local artists help create.

“The whole idea of the Art Walk is to let people know this is not a bad place; it’s a wonderful place,” said Turner. “That’s one of the reasons the Art Walk is great because more and more people are coming, including families with kids.”

Capitalizing on the weekday family-friendly event, Better Jacksonville Beach introduced a Classic Car Cruise every third Tuesday of the month from 6 to 8:30 p.m. More than 40 cars owners took part in the first event two months ago, but there were visibility and organizational problems that needed tweaking. The City of Jacksonville Beach has since partnered with BJB to improve the event. Now, about 30 vehicles are selected to park in Latham Plaza and the Sea Walk Pavilion. Other cruisers are encouraged to start parking in the northwest corner of the city parking lot between Latham Plaza and Sneakers. At 8:30 p.m., participants are joined by attendees for an organized cruise along First Street.

“... It is becoming a fixture in the community,” McGowan said. “I hope over the next year we’ll see more people start to show up, and we can continue to help make families feel the downtown is their area.”

Those interested in the Art Walk or the Classic Car Cruise can contact McGowan at info@betterjaxbeach.com.

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Faces of the Forest
Meet Jennifer H. Barnhart
Office of Communication
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 15:30

Jennifer Heisey Barnhart has always loved the outdoors so it is only logical that all of her jobs have been working outdoors. Jennifer currently works for the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. She is a fairly new employee of four years for the U.S. Forest Service, but the experience she brings to her natural resources specialist job in recreation is many years strong.

Jennifer Heisey BarnhartHow did you get started with your natural resource career?
I started working for state parks in Pennsylvania at a young age and that’s where I learned to appreciate the outdoors. I was involved in my high school’s environmental club competing in envirothons. In college, I decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in natural resources recreation with a minor in forestry and then went on for a master’s degree in natural resources management for recreation. I also continued to work while pursuing both degrees.

After graduate school, I took a job with the Green Mountain Club

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, a non-profit partner with the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, as a backcountry caretaker. I was living in the woods solo for four months out of the year. I would be out for five days straight, only to come out for 48 hours and then go back. I was performing trail maintenance and educating hikers on Leave No Trace
External Links icon
when they would come through on the Long Trail which is co-aligned with the Appalachian Trail. That was the only interaction I had with the outside world until I went out to restock on food and shower. It is one of my favorite jobs ever.

I’ve also worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club as an outdoor recreation planner and with Virginia State Parks as a district resource specialist. The U.S. Forest Service hired me as a full-time permanent employee on the Calcasieu Ranger District as their natural resources specialist for recreation. I had been applying for years and years because it was my ultimate goal to get in with the Forest Service. I am really excited to be working for the agency and very thankful to the Calcasieu Ranger District who gave me my start. I recently took the same position with the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina, which includes the management of the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and the Ellicott Rock Wilderness.

What or who has had the greatest influence on your life?
I wouldn’t say one person, but instead will focus on what gave me the drive to work hard. I came from a blue-collar family and was the first person in my family to go to college. I was very driven to get a degree and somehow I ended up getting my master’s degree – which was awesome. I was determined to keep working hard and moving up, always trying to set goals and be able to accomplish them. So, I think my biggest influence is coming from a hard working blue-collar family.

As a child, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
I started working as a teenager for Pennsylvania State Parks. I knew I was into the environment, enjoyed the outdoors and always wanted to help protect it. Once I figured out I could go to school and get a degree in forestry, wildlife or recreation, I finally narrowed it down to natural resources recreation. So yes, I knew early where I was headed.

I based my answer on where I grew up which was close to the Appalachian Trail, surrounded by state forests and state parks, not national forests. But I had an upbringing in a beautiful area and that really influenced me.

Jennifer Heisey Barnhart If you could be or do anything else, what would it be?
I would run a non-profit organization related to promoting outdoor recreation amongst youth and families.

Since you’ve only been working on a forest for about four years, have you had any opportunity to tackle a big project dealing with a recreation area?
There are all kinds of major repairs and daily crises. We did have a major event happen just before Thanksgiving several years ago that I was involved in. Our Louisiana campgrounds are very popular in the state because our developed campgrounds have water and electric. We generally fill our 41 sites completely each year at Thanksgiving. It was close to the end of the day when the water pump completely shut down. I had to immediately figure out who I could get before a holiday to repair or put in a new pump. I was desperate, but I was able to call our local town’s water system and they gave me a contact.

Thankfully, a repair person was able to come out on short notice and actually fix the pump. I had to get approvals on very short notice and we all worked on Thanksgiving trying to repair the site for campers to have water to cook their turkeys. That was a big deal for me, being fairly new in the agency, trying to communicate with the campground hosts and campers while keeping them calm and informed of all of the developments.

Another big accomplishment was increasing the volunteer program on the Calcasieu District. I was able to partner with a lot of different organizations such as the Kisatchie Bicycle Club and our mountain biking community to do trail work for us. The mountain bikers re-blazed an entire tail system. The trail system was re-marked in the hopes of becoming more user-friendly. I also co-coordinated National Get Outdoors Day in June 2013. We were able to have local organizations donate their time and materials to lead mountain bike rides, yoga demonstrations, kayaking, and hikes to an awesome eagles’ nest. Everything was free for the community to come and enjoy.

If you could meet and greet some famous people in history, who would they be?
I guess one person would be John Muir. I learned about him in my conservation classes and he seemed interesting, traveling all over the country trying to preserve different natural public lands that we have today. In late 2013, Gifford Pinchot’s home, Grey Towers celebrated its 50th anniversary. Both Muir and Pinchot were great conservationists in the Roosevelt era.

Another person folks may not know is “Molly Pitcher” from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to set foot on the battle ground in the Revolutionary War. She would give pitchers of water to the men and when one of the men went down, she actually took over the cannon. She was very interesting and I learned about her when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. She is actually buried in my hometown. Revolutionary War buffs might have heard of her.

Do you have any hobbies?
I’m super into outdoor recreation. I’m a mountain biker, runner, cyclist and a swimmer. In the past two years, I’ve competed in triathlons. In the summer of 2012, I competed in my first Ironman competition at Lake Placid up in the Adirondacks. It took me about 14 hours to complete the whole race – a mere 140.6 miles! I was actually able to train on the Calcasieu Ranger District’s trails in the winter and on the roads around the Kisatchie National Forest in the summer. It’s a great hobby for me, but also beneficial to work on the forest, be outdoors and to be able to easily do that right outside your office.

What do you like about working for the Forest Service?
I love that I’m able to do what I’m obviously passionate about in my personal life: being outdoors and loving recreation, having access to public land and being able to be a manager in that area. I’m happy that I can make positive contributions to the community by making sure the recreation areas and trails are managed to meet high standards and tax payers can directly see and experience these benefits.

I say this to my employees because a lot of them don’t realize that their shoulders are holding up the weight of the public’s image of the national forests. Recreation areas and trails are what the public directly experience regularly and that reflects back on our image. The public doesn’t necessarily directly see the positives of what’s going on in the timber, wildlife and fire programs. So we’re the ones holding it on our shoulders to make sure that the public views what the Forest Service does as beneficial and important.
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Faces of the Forest
Meet Jennifer H. Barnhart
Office of Communication
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 15:30

Jennifer Heisey Barnhart has always loved the outdoors so it is only logical that all of her jobs have been working outdoors. Jennifer currently works for the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina. She is a fairly new employee of four years for the U.S. Forest Service, but the experience she brings to her natural resources specialist job in recreation is many years strong.

Jennifer Heisey BarnhartHow did you get started with your natural resource career?
I started working for state parks in Pennsylvania at a young age and that’s where I learned to appreciate the outdoors. I was involved in my high school’s environmental club competing in envirothons. In college, I decided to pursue a bachelor’s degree in natural resources recreation with a minor in forestry and then went on for a master’s degree in natural resources management for recreation. I also continued to work while pursuing both degrees.

After graduate school, I took a job with the Green Mountain Club

External Links icon
, a non-profit partner with the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, as a backcountry caretaker. I was living in the woods solo for four months out of the year. I would be out for five days straight, only to come out for 48 hours and then go back. I was performing trail maintenance and educating hikers on Leave No Trace
External Links icon
when they would come through on the Long Trail which is co-aligned with the Appalachian Trail. That was the only interaction I had with the outside world until I went out to restock on food and shower. It is one of my favorite jobs ever.

I’ve also worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club as an outdoor recreation planner and with Virginia State Parks as a district resource specialist. The U.S. Forest Service hired me as a full-time permanent employee on the Calcasieu Ranger District as their natural resources specialist for recreation. I had been applying for years and years because it was my ultimate goal to get in with the Forest Service. I am really excited to be working for the agency and very thankful to the Calcasieu Ranger District who gave me my start. I recently took the same position with the Andrew Pickens Ranger District on the Sumter National Forest in South Carolina, which includes the management of the Chattooga Wild and Scenic River and the Ellicott Rock Wilderness.

What or who has had the greatest influence on your life?
I wouldn’t say one person, but instead will focus on what gave me the drive to work hard. I came from a blue-collar family and was the first person in my family to go to college. I was very driven to get a degree and somehow I ended up getting my master’s degree – which was awesome. I was determined to keep working hard and moving up, always trying to set goals and be able to accomplish them. So, I think my biggest influence is coming from a hard working blue-collar family.

As a child, did you know what you wanted to be when you grew up?
I started working as a teenager for Pennsylvania State Parks. I knew I was into the environment, enjoyed the outdoors and always wanted to help protect it. Once I figured out I could go to school and get a degree in forestry, wildlife or recreation, I finally narrowed it down to natural resources recreation. So yes, I knew early where I was headed.

I based my answer on where I grew up which was close to the Appalachian Trail, surrounded by state forests and state parks, not national forests. But I had an upbringing in a beautiful area and that really influenced me.

Jennifer Heisey Barnhart If you could be or do anything else, what would it be?
I would run a non-profit organization related to promoting outdoor recreation amongst youth and families.

Since you’ve only been working on a forest for about four years, have you had any opportunity to tackle a big project dealing with a recreation area?
There are all kinds of major repairs and daily crises. We did have a major event happen just before Thanksgiving several years ago that I was involved in. Our Louisiana campgrounds are very popular in the state because our developed campgrounds have water and electric. We generally fill our 41 sites completely each year at Thanksgiving. It was close to the end of the day when the water pump completely shut down. I had to immediately figure out who I could get before a holiday to repair or put in a new pump. I was desperate, but I was able to call our local town’s water system and they gave me a contact.

Thankfully, a repair person was able to come out on short notice and actually fix the pump. I had to get approvals on very short notice and we all worked on Thanksgiving trying to repair the site for campers to have water to cook their turkeys. That was a big deal for me, being fairly new in the agency, trying to communicate with the campground hosts and campers while keeping them calm and informed of all of the developments.

Another big accomplishment was increasing the volunteer program on the Calcasieu District. I was able to partner with a lot of different organizations such as the Kisatchie Bicycle Club and our mountain biking community to do trail work for us. The mountain bikers re-blazed an entire tail system. The trail system was re-marked in the hopes of becoming more user-friendly. I also co-coordinated National Get Outdoors Day in June 2013. We were able to have local organizations donate their time and materials to lead mountain bike rides, yoga demonstrations, kayaking, and hikes to an awesome eagles’ nest. Everything was free for the community to come and enjoy.

If you could meet and greet some famous people in history, who would they be?
I guess one person would be John Muir. I learned about him in my conservation classes and he seemed interesting, traveling all over the country trying to preserve different natural public lands that we have today. In late 2013, Gifford Pinchot’s home, Grey Towers celebrated its 50th anniversary. Both Muir and Pinchot were great conservationists in the Roosevelt era.

Another person folks may not know is “Molly Pitcher” from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She was the first woman to set foot on the battle ground in the Revolutionary War. She would give pitchers of water to the men and when one of the men went down, she actually took over the cannon. She was very interesting and I learned about her when I was in the fourth or fifth grade. She is actually buried in my hometown. Revolutionary War buffs might have heard of her.

Do you have any hobbies?
I’m super into outdoor recreation. I’m a mountain biker, runner, cyclist and a swimmer. In the past two years, I’ve competed in triathlons. In the summer of 2012, I competed in my first Ironman competition at Lake Placid up in the Adirondacks. It took me about 14 hours to complete the whole race – a mere 140.6 miles! I was actually able to train on the Calcasieu Ranger District’s trails in the winter and on the roads around the Kisatchie National Forest in the summer. It’s a great hobby for me, but also beneficial to work on the forest, be outdoors and to be able to easily do that right outside your office.

What do you like about working for the Forest Service?
I love that I’m able to do what I’m obviously passionate about in my personal life: being outdoors and loving recreation, having access to public land and being able to be a manager in that area. I’m happy that I can make positive contributions to the community by making sure the recreation areas and trails are managed to meet high standards and tax payers can directly see and experience these benefits.

I say this to my employees because a lot of them don’t realize that their shoulders are holding up the weight of the public’s image of the national forests. Recreation areas and trails are what the public directly experience regularly and that reflects back on our image. The public doesn’t necessarily directly see the positives of what’s going on in the timber, wildlife and fire programs. So we’re the ones holding it on our shoulders to make sure that the public views what the Forest Service does as beneficial and important.
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3rd-6th grade participated in the Fitnessgram this year. We had 30 candidates qualify to receive certificates for reaching all 5 Healthy Fitness Zones for their age level. Students participated in the PACER, shoulder stretch, curl-up, push-up, and trunk lift stretch. The students are Josiah Vansel, Victoria Stratton, Kaleigh Rich, Hector Garcia, Colton Caldwell, Athena Scribner, Gavin Martin, Gavin Elliot, Jaden Harshner, Andrew Vansel, Austin Daves, Osvaldo Martinez, Jake Martin, Lillian Bastion, Sarah Weber, Cody Pool, Sariah Navarro, Elias Martinez, Donovan Hicks, Alivya Harshner, Megan Daves, Logan Mahin, Aiden Knoernschild, Hannah Jackson, Kaden Hudson, Brett Green, Brendan Green, Drew Bedwell, Yasmin Barajas, and Keely Elwell.

Athlete of the Month Hall of Fame for this year August/Juan Fernandez, September/Hector Garcia, October/Hannah Jackson, November/Jose Lemus, December/Emma Schouten, January/Landon Bauer, February/Keely Elwell, March/Tyler Weber, April/Cooper White, and May/Johanna Arroyo.




YOUR VIKINGS ARE A MIGHTY CREW


Throughout the school year the students of La Monte R-IV schools worked hard and have been recognized for a variety of activities. This month’s newsletter is a tribute to the students and their accomplishments.




CHEMISTRY STUDENTS QUALIFY TO TAKE NATIONAL EXAM


Seventeen chemistry students went to the Chemistry Olympiad on March 21st in Springfield, MO with great success. The students took either the 1st year exam or the 2nd year exam depending on which year of chemistry they were enrolled in. The test qualified them to compete in the national exam.

Clayton DeMotte scored 5th overall and qualified to take the national chemistry exam in April. Jessica Reynolds was in the top 20% of test takers on the advanced test and also took the national exam in April. The Chemistry I students who did not take the advanced test scored as follows: Erin Warner - Top 10, Zach Warner - Top 15, Jesse VanBooven - Top 15, Sandra Arroyo - Top 20, Vada DeMotte - Top 20, and Logan Rieckhoff, - Top 25.




Seniors Clayton DeMotte and Jessica Reynolds take National Chemistry Olympiad Exam




SOFTBALL TEAM REPEATS CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP




SCHOLARBOWL MEETS GOALS


La Monte’s Scholar Bowl Team had a successful campaign in its second year of existence. We met all of our beginning of the year goals. We beat the eventual District Champs; hosted the District Meet; and had one of our own, Doug Fletcher, Freshman, selected to first team "All District".




Doug Fletcher named to All District Scholar Bowl Team in his first year of participation.




Front Row: Tori Karigan, Alexa Shull, Cathy Butts, Katie Patrick, Brittany Green, Kameron Morton. Middle Row: Kayla Redmon, Maya Martin, Felicity Richey, Sandra Arroyo, Tiffany Boone, Alyson Patrick, Dara Fiedler, Coach Dabecka Kirk. Back Row: Jolee VanBooven, Daniele Rose, Madison Harris, Vada DeMotte.


L A M O N T E R - I V V I K I N G E X P R E S S


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ELEMENTARY STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN KAYSINGER MATH AND SPELLING BEES


Third, fourth, fifth , and sixth grade students participating in the Kaysinger Math and Spelling Bees are as follows: Front Row -- Osvaldo Martinez, Esteban Arroyo, Lucas Hillman, Jayleen Raed, Jessie Boone, Brendan Green. Middle Row -- Mary Martinez, Juan Arroyo, Josiah Vansel, Emma Schouten, Donovan Hicks, Saraih Navarro. Back Row -- Tanner Martin, Michelle Rogers, Natalie Cumpton, Gavin Elliot. Esteban Arroyo placed 3rd in the 3rdgrade spelling bee, Tanner Martin placed 2nd in the 6th grade math bee, and Natalie Cumpton placed 3rd in the 6th


KAYSINGER 2014 MATH CONTEST RESULTS


There were 10 schools and up to 40 students per test. (It was over 80 degrees in their classrooms.)


LaMonte team was 3rd place!!



We brought 22 students. 16 placed in top ten of their tests.

Of those 4 placed in every test they took.


Sandra Arroyo

placed 3rd place in Medley, 9th place in Geometry 10, and 10th place in Hodge Podge 10.

Clayton DeMotte

placed 1st place in Probability & Statistics, 3rd place in Analytical Geometry & Graphing, 4th place in Word Problems 12, 10th place in Hodge Podge 12, and 6th place in Team 12.

Vada DeMotte

placed 3rd place in Team 10, 4th place in Geometry 11, and 7th place in Hodge Podge 11.

Steven Durst

placed 4th place in Team 11.

Maria Garcia

placed 4th place in Team 11.

Faviola Lemus

placed 3rd place in Medley, and 10th place in Hodge

Podge 11.


Cobey Martin

placed 7th place in Probability & Statistics and 6th place in Team 12.

Katie Patrick

placed 3rd place in Team 10.

Joey Perez

placed 3rd place in Probability & Statistics, 3rd place in Word Problems 12, 9th place in Trigonometry, 10th place in Number & Set Theory, and 6th place in Team 12.

Jessica Reynolds

placed 3rd place in Medley, 4th place in Analytical Geometry & Graphing, 5th place in Algebra 12, 7th place in Hodge Podge 12, and 9th place in Exponents, Logs, & Complex Numbers.

Felicity Richey

placed 6th place in Team 12.

Logan Rieckhoff

placed 4th place in Team 11 and 8th place in Analytical Geometry & Graphing.

Jesse VanBooven

placed 4th in Exponents, Logs, & Complex Numbers, 5th Place in Number & Set Theory, and 8th place in Algebra 11.

Jolee VanBooven

placed 3rd place in Team 10.

Erin Warner

placed 1st place in Hodge Podge 10, 3rd place in Team 10, 3rd place in Geometry 10, 5th place in Word Problem 10, and 10th place in Algebra 10. She was the 3rd place overall sophomore!

Zach Warner

placed 4th place Word Problems 11 and 4th place in Team 11.

MATH TEAM CONTINUES TO EARN RIBBONS AND MEDALS


The La Monte math team earned two more 3rd place plaques at the California and Kaysinger contests. Overall students earned 60 ribbons and 56 medals at math contests this year. Erin Warner was the 2nd Top Sophomore and the California,


The Math team at the Warrensburg contest: Front Row: Maria S. Lemus, Maria Lemus, Antonia Arroyo, Sandra Arroyo, Katie Patrick, Vada DeMotte, Faviola Lemus, Maria Garcia. Back Row: Cathy Butts, Erin Warner, Clayton DeMotte, Zach Warner, Logan Rieckhoff, Joey Perez, Jessica Reynolds, Maya Martin, and Mrs. Hibbard.


CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2014


Front Row: Alicia Canida, Felicity Richey, Jessica Reynolds, Patricia Martinez, Blaire Lazenby, Alsyon Patrick, Diana Rodriguez. Back Row: Guillermo Marcos, Cobey Martin, Seth Reynolds, Joey Perez, Clayton DeMotte, Zach Lazenby, Jacob Schilli, Cody Berg, Jospeh Aslin. Not Pictured: Carmen Magana and Rafael Garcia


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MAY 2014

LA MONTE R-IV VIKING EXPRESS


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1

French toast sticks, fruit cocktail
Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes w/ gravy, peaches, baby carrots

2 Biscuits & gravy
, oranges
Fish on bun, macaroni & cheese, fruit cocktail

5

Pancakes, peaches
Spaghetti, green beans, pears, bread sticks

6

Peanut butter toast, peaches
Ribletts, baked beans, applesauce

7

Biscuits & gravy, oranges
Sausage pizza, lettuce salad, peaches

8

Waffles, cantaloupe
Taco salad, fruit cocktail, peanut butter cookies

9

Breakfast pizza, cantaloupe, raisins
Hot dog, BBQ potato chips, Mandarin oranges

12

Potato puffs, toast, raisins
Crispitos, green beans, mozzarella cheese, Mandarin oranges

13 French toast sticks, fruit cocktail
Chicken patty, scalloped potatoes, applesauce


14

Biscuits & gravy, oranges
Hamburger, French fries, pickles, pears

15 Honey Nut Cheerios, toast, banana
Beef nachos, corn, lemon cake


16

Sausage & pancake bites, fruit cocktail
Corn dogs, broccoli & cauliflower w/ cheese

19

Sausage patty, toast, orange pineapple juice
Sloppy Joe, potato puffs, vanilla pudding

20

Fruit Loops, toast, grape juice
Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, fruit cocktail

21

Biscuits & gravy, oranges
Chicken fajitas, corn, pears

22

Blueberry muffins, banana
Sausage pizza, lettuce salad, peaches

23

Breakfast pizza, cantaloupe, raisins
Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes w/ gravy, Mandarin oranges

26 NO SCHOOL Memorial Day

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