FHS alum on service team in MidwestVINTON, Iowa -- Alyssa Valcourt, originally from Fitchburg, has joined 220 other individuals from across the country to devote the next 10 months to giving back to communities in the region.Valcourt has been serving with the National Civilian Community Corps, an AmeriCorps program, since Feb. 5. Valcourt and the other members went through an intensive training to prepare them for serving in communities.Their four-week training period emphasized teamwork, leadership development, communication, diversity and service learning. During this time, members were also assigned to one of 20 teams. Each team typically serves on between four and seven projects during its term of service with NCCC.On March 8, NCCC members completed their training and were officially inducted into the ...
Posted May 16, 2013, 5:40 AM by Fitch burg
At FHS, making healthy stridesBooming Health Occupations club sending 7 members to national conferenceSENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / JOHN LOVE Miranda Babineau, 17, center, laughs with Caitlyn Shepard, 16, and Christian Pineda, 17, during a meeting of Fitchburg High School's Health Occupations Students of America Club on Thursday.In its first year, Fitchburg High School's Health Occupations Students of America club numbered only about six students and only one made it to the organization's national competition.Over the past year, the club has grown to 34 students, seven of whom will be representing FHS at the 2013 HOSA National Leadership Conference, scheduled for June 26-29 in Nashville, Tenn."I'm extremely pleased at how well it's grown and extremely proud of ...
Posted May 10, 2013, 7:06 AM by Fitch burg
They're poets -- and they know itWorks by 8 students at South Street School to be published in anthologySENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / JOHN LOVE VERSE CHAMPS: South Street Elementary School students earning spots in the 2013 Young American Poetry Digest are, from left, fourth-graders Mpey Kima-Tabong, Maryam Ashraf, Mackenzie Dodge, Kaden Scopelliti and Aleysha Santos; and second-graders Amerikis Rivera, Natalia Giordano and Kayla Walsh. Some poets wait their entire lives to be published authors, but not at South Street Elementary School.Eight students, ages 8 to 10, will be featured in the 2013 Young American Poetry Digest, to be published later this summer.South Street Elementary School Advanced Academic Learning Initiative coach Elizabeth Maki submitted between 30 and 40 student works to the National ...
Posted May 9, 2013, 11:19 AM by Fitch burg
