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Hosted by George and Martha Washington, this musical review of early American history covers the period from before the arrival of the Europeans through the signing of the Bill of Rights. Everyone seems to show up, from Leif Erikson, the Iroquois and Ponce de Leon to Ben Franklin, Sibyl Lud- dington and The 13 Colony Singers. Keeping all the charac- ters in line are the History Police, crashing the party whenever it looks like the hosts have started to mess around with history. Congratulations to Mrs. Burton, Mrs. Dominick and Mrs. Isaacson's fourth- and fifth-graders for their won- derful performances this week. Antelope School per- forms entire grade level musicals monthly as well as band and fiddle perfor- mances. The students will end the year with their school wide 28th Annual Folk Dance di- rected by Music Specialist Becky Huskey. ANTELOPEELEMENTARY Studentsperform 'The 13 Colonies' COURTESYPHOTO RichfieldSERRFworeyellowMarch27forSeth,afive-year-oldboybornwithnoimmunesystem.Thestudents have been talking about acceptance in character education, Rachel's Challenge and they wanted to honor him with some love and support. Yellow is Seth's favorite color, he also likes Paw Patrol and Fireman Sam. The stu- dents came together and got Seth Rubble, a dog from Paw Patrol, to send him along with the picture. RICHFIELD SERRF students wear yellow for Seth COURTESY PHOTO Vina SERRF tried drumming with the Tehama County Mental Health Staff member Katy McDonough who brought in 25 different percussion instruments and led the students through a percussion session. This is just one of the many recreational activities the SERRF students are able to receive while attending the a er school program. VINA SERRF students do drumming COURTESY PHOTO Richfield Elementary School seventh-grader Jakob Grootveld displays the essay he entered into the VFW Patriot's Pen Essay Contest, taking first place at the local Corning VFW Post 4218earlier this school year. He has now been selected as one of the top three contestants out of 12post competitions in the district. Grootveld is being honored at a VFW Awards Luncheon on May 2in Chico, where he will be asked to read his essay. RICHFIELD ELEMENTARY Grootveld takes first in patriotic essay contest Lincoln Street School third grade students were presented with dictionaries donated by Mr. and Mrs. William Murphy. Each year, Rotary members donate dictionaries to all Tehama County third grade students. The students are very grateful for their new dictionaries. Thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Murphy's generous donation, many county home school students now have their very own dictionaries. LINCOLN STREET St ud en ts r ec ei ve d on at ed d ic ti on ar ie s COURTESY PHOTO By Jean Bartlett The Associated Press Alma Heights Christian Schools (AHCS) is a "Chris- tian learning community with students, parents, teachers, and leaders grow- ing together in faith, knowl- edge, and virtue." AHCS of- fers an elementary school, a middle school and a high school. This year is their di- amond jubilee. "We thought a lot about what those words mean — faith, knowledge, and vir- tue — when we chose them as our 'tagline,'" said Da- vid Gross, head of school. "'Faith' implies a lot more than the idea of religious af- filiation. It has more to do with faithfulness, which means you are a committed person of character. You fin- ish what you start. It's in- tegrity." "We believe that 'knowl- edge' implies that there is a lot more to reality than just empirical knowl- edge," Gross continued. "We believe that we can be informed about real- ity, through relationships, through the scriptures, through experience. Con- cepts like beauty, concepts like truth, we don't think they are vague abstractions, we think there is a true idea about them. We believe that 'virtue' is a central part of educa- tion and that it is not just taught but 'caught.' If stu- dents are part of a respect- ful community then the virtue of respect is caught. Good character traits like kindness, we think that is a very important part of our school. Out of an idea of knowledge that is more than just empirical, you can build an argument for vir- tue more easily. We think people have a soul and that it matters and that what we do really counts for a really long, long time." Founded by the Pillar of Fire Church, ground was broken for the origi- nal Alma Heights building on Seville Drive in 1953. Opened in 1955, it was a country boarding school for boys. In 1963, David's par- ents came to Alma Heights as dorm parents. David was an infant. "The idea of the found- ers back in the 1940s was to move away from the city and the things that were happening in the city, to be in a more agricultural set- ting," said Joe Gross, Da- vid's dad and president and general superintendent of Pillar of Fire. "After we ar- rived, this valley, which had mainly been artichokes and Brussels sprouts, was being replaced by homes and the population was building up. We were getting more and more applications for day students." The boarding school principal, Miss Elsie Cinna- mon, made the decision to close it as a boarding school and accept the school appli- cations that were coming in from the local population. "When I was 10, the mid- dle school building was just completed," said David Gross. "Before that it was all baseball fields." (To fund the building of the middle school, Alma Heights sold an acre to the Pacifica Fire Department. 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