BISHOP – Laramie Collins of Weed is leading the Bull Riding competition (77) at the California High School Rodeo Association State Finals after the first go. Fort Jones’ Daniel Ferreira is leading in Steer Wrestling (4.63) after one go.

The second go around will conclude on Thursday night, with the finals taking place on Friday night.

WEED -  The College of the Siskiyous Foundation recently presented students throughout Siskiyou County with a variety of scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year. The awards were presented to the high school students at their high school graduation ceremony (or awards night ceremonies) and individually to continuing COS students.  Siskiyou County high school students are annually offered the opportunity to apply for a variety of scholarships.  Listed are the names of the scholarships and the recipients for 2009-2010.  For more information about the COS Foundation, call (530) 938-5373.  The Weed Campus can also be reached by calling toll-free (888) 397-4339.

Siskiyou Scholar Awards
* $3,000 Siskiyou Scholar Continuing Scholarship -Cassidy Hammon, Seiad Valley
* $3,000 Siskiyou Scholar First-Year Scholarship – Giovanni Lamana, Mt. Shasta High School (more…)

WEED -  For the first-time ever, College of the Siskiyous is offering seventh through tenth grade students who are interested in science the opportunity to enroll in a brand-new camp designed for the math enthusiast, aspiring chemist, computer whiz, or the “science freak.” Whether you get As in science or not, this camp is filled with exciting, hands-on projects that will focus on energy using science, technology, engineering and math. (more…)

WEED – College of the Siskiyous is offering a Computer Camp for all middle and high school students (including those that are still young of heart) the week of July 27 – 31, 2009, from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday. The total cost for students who have not graduated from high school is $23 ($43 if you have graduated) and will include all materials.

All participants will:
* design and create T-shirts
* create buttons to put on T-shirts
* create their own computer game
* take videos with a digital video camera
* make their own video DVD’s
* use search engines and download music to make their own CDs
* make their own music CDs (more…)

By Anna Austin

Graduation: the passing into adulthood, the gateway to life, the stepping stone for greater things, a commencement ceremony. By whatever name you prefer, Butte Valley High School’s graduation took place on Friday June 12, 2009 in the school gymnasium.

The class of 2009 consisted of 33 students. The class always showed a lot of spirit, got along well, and stuck together through the good times and the bad. Most of class has been together since Montessori. Yet, they never had any trouble letting new people into the group.

There were many scholarships awarded to the graduates. Some of the groups that gave out scholarships include: The Butte Valley Staff Sponsored by Coca- Cola, Butte Valley Senior Citizens, Butte Valley Chamber of Commerce, Dorris Lions Club, California Story Slam, CSF (California Scholarship Federation) Missy Tonelli Scholarship, Gloria Garza Memorial Scholarship, Joyce Ross Memorial Scholarship, Tulelake Butte Valley Fair Board, Tulelake Rotary Club, Siskiyou County 4H Leaders Council, Siskiyou County Cattlewomen, Shasta Blood Center Scholarship, Future Farmers of America Scholarship, Cash for College, Cal-Grant Awards, University Awards, and the Ford Family Foundation. The seniors who received these scholarships were very thankful for the groups that chose to award them. (more…)

Scores

Saturday, June 13

Babe Ruth

CLT Logging @ Dunsmuir

Happy Camp 5 – Peter’s Trucking 0

Ray’s Market 11 – Yreka Transfer 0

PremierWest Bank @ Stidham Trucking

ASA Softball

Siskiyou Heat U-14 @ Junction City Tournament

Siskiyou Heat U-12 @ Crater Black (more…)

Weed–The College of the Siskiyous Foundation hosted its 15th Annual Golf Tournament, on Sunday, June 7, at the Lake Shastina Resort with 136 golfers enjoying a beautiful day at the Resort.

The event had three individual contests, including a hole-in-one contest where the winners had the opportunity to win a cash prize of $7,500 sponsored by Market Place Insurance – Lou Sbarbaro and Larry Stock in Mt. Shasta, Closest to the Pin and Longest Drive.  Players also enjoyed a continental breakfast and lunch prepared by the Lake Shastina Resort, as well as a raffle, oral auction and awards ceremony following the tournament.  The event raised $17,000 to support the Rural Health Sciences Institute endowment for the new facility currently under construction at the Yreka Campus. (more…)

By Anna Austin

Tylor Cilione is a senior this year at Butte Valley High School. She has lived in Butte Valley all her life, and has made wonderful contributions to her class. She was student body vice president, and helped make many great things happen for the school, such as prom.

Tylor put on a summer camp for anyone who wanted to practice basketball. The first week she set it up for elementary school students to come and learn the correct way to play basketball, and have fun doing it. Then, she worked with the middle school and high school students. This one she made tougher and gave them more of a challenge since most of them had already played basketball.

Tylor then contacted Sacramento University and arranged for her high school basketball team to go to Sacramento for a training camp that they were having there for high school students. She had no help from the school, or even her coach, when contacting the head coach at Sacramento University. Tylor would not give up until she knew for certain that they were able to go to the camp.

Tylor has been very active in sports all through her high school career. She played volleyball and basketball her freshman and sophomore years. Then in her junior year, her basketball season was cut short by a blown out knee. Tylor finished out her high school career with basketball and softball in her senior year.

During her last basketball season she fulfilled her dream of making it to the section championship game and coming within one point of winning in double overtime. (more…)

YREKA—Do you have talent? Want to share it with Siskiyou County? Then come on out to the Siskiyou Golden Fair and show us what you’ve got!

The fair will be accepting applications for Community Acts beginning June 8. Community Acts include a variety of entertainment from singing, instrumental music, bands, martial arts demonstrations, dance groups, etc. Community Acts are not paid but do receive free admission to the fair for the day of their performance.

The Siskiyou Golden Fair averages 50,000 people in attendance each year and this is a great way to showcase your talent. Be sure to get an application at the fair office or on the website at www.sisqfair.com.

For more information, contact the fair office at 842-2767 or info@sisqfair.com. The 2009 Siskiyou Golden Fair, “A Blast with Memories to Last,” runs August 12-16 in Yreka.

Mike Pendley has been named the new Etna Lions basketball coach. More details coming.

By Anna Austin

Promenade or “prom” is known as many things: the night to remember, the night every little girl dreams about, and the most important dance of the year. This year’s prom took place at the Butte Valley High School gymnasium, on Saturday May 30. The students put a lot of hard work into it, and it turned out really well. It was easy to forget that you were even in the gym. The theme was Deep Blue Destiny, and the students went all out in decorating the gym.

You started out by walking into an “underwater” cave and then into an “underwater” tunnel. You then walked into the main dance floor which looked spectacular. The students who decorated did an amazing job. 

The decorators started on Tuesday, May 28 and had it finished except for a few minor details, such as balloons, by the time that they left on Friday. They even managed to continue working on Friday after the power went out.

For anyone who did not want to go to Klamath Falls for prom dinner, the Hospitality Dinner House and Pub had a special dinner menu just for those who were going to prom. The menu consisted of sirloin steak, shrimp fettuccini alfredo, chicken fettuccini alfredo, and chicken in a honey orange sauce. All the food was delicious. The owners of the restaurant even came out, talked to the students, and took pictures. (more…)