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A8| Thursday, April 26, 2018
Cinco de Mayo Queen candidate
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Melissa Valdez is the daughter of Yolanda and Horacio Valdez. She is currently a Senior at Dinuba High School in the Medical Academy.
She has maintained a 3.5 GPA while being the ASB President, a tri-athlete and being involved in Catholics in Action, link crew, spirit club, and HOSA .
Melissa has helped out in the community with the blood drive at Dinuba High School, Alta Family Clinic's toy drive and has taken part in designing and selling breast cancer awareness shirts for the last four years.
She is a young entrepreneur that has made a thriving business since the age of 12. She is currently self-employed and the CEO of “Melissa’s Beagle Puppies.” She also interns at Reedley Veterinary Hospital. She has a passion for photography and volunteers at Visalia Senior Gleaners with her tia.
She aspires to attend medical school to become a clinical psychologist in order to help those
in need. She will be attending Vanguard University in the fall and majoring in psychology.
She would love to be the next Cinco de Mayo queen because she wants to not only learn more about
her Mexican heritage but also to inspire the younger generation. Being a part of this Pageant has been amazing experience for Melissa. She made new friends and reconnected to her culture.
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Nayeli Castillo is 17 years old and her mother is Delia Castillo.
She is a senior at Dinuba High School and has a cumulative GPA of4.3. Shehasattainedsixwhite academic chevrons, and two varsity letters for swimming and water polo. She is in the top three percent of her class.
She is currently the secretary of Gay Straight Alliance Club as well as for the Academic Cultural Community Enrichment Program for Triumph, A.C.C.E.P.T, and secretaryofKeyClub. Sheis also the president of the Leo Club, on the varsity water polo team, tennis manager, varsity swim team, a CSF member, and two years in Upward Bound.
Her contribution to the community is being involved in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for the last four years. She has contributed 200 hours of volunteering service over the course of four years.
Her hobbies are sleeping, shopping, giving speeches, volunteering, Netflix, and writing poetry.
Her future goals are to double major in business and political science and to become a politician.
She would like to be the Cinco de Mayo Queen because the
queen is someone people can look up to. This last year Nayeli became homeless and placed in foster care all while maintaining her varsity sports, four clubs, and 4.3 grade point average.
Cinco de Mayo Queen candidate
Melissa Valdez
Nayeli Castillo
WIS Math Team wins trophy, ribbons
Contributed The Washington Intermediate School Math Team competed in the Tulare County Math Super Bowl
earlier this month. Approximately 600 of the top math students around the county attended.
The Power Bowl, an individual competition, resulted in a second place trophy for Evelyn Jaime. Israel Mosqueda, Adrian Garcia and David Ian Moos won ribbons.
The Pro Bowl event featured teams of five students from different schools working on a project. Rebecca Blas Sanchez, Kaleb Ramos and Bobby Adame each won the top award - a blue superior ribbon. Five more T-Birds also won red ribbons.
The Team Bowl consisted of teams of five students from each school. The seventh and eighth grade teams both won blue superior ribbons, also the top award.
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a workshop on any topic of my choice about leadership. I get to go and present it at schools all over California.
“I get to go to San Diego, Santa Barbara, as well as Santa Clara ... It’s really cool. I didn’t know they were going to do all of this.”
Andrew’s duties on the board will also include creating CASL’s theme for 2018-19 and providing input on how to better improve the organization.
Andrew is currently an eighth grader at WIS, preparing for his freshman year at Dinuba High School. The young leader says he already has his standards in place as he aims to ultimately be a teacher or professor.
“I just want to do something where I’m financially stable and I’m allowed to live life the best that I can,” Andrew said.
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Andrew Santana is pictured in front of Washington Intermediate.
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