HELPING THEIR SCHOOL THOMSEN TOP VOLUNTEER MORE THAN 50 RECOGNIZED AT KNIGHT EVENT.Byline: Daily News PALMDALE -- Knight High School volunteers were honored for their service at the school's inaugural Volunteer Appreciation Awards breakfast. Kerry Thomsen was named Volunteer of the Year, and her name was the first engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. on a perpetual trophy that will be displayed at the school. Also honored were people recognized as Volunteers of the Month: Blanca Gonzalez for August, Diane Shorter for September, Patricia Franco for November, Diane Gonsalves for December, Deborah Davis-Frey for January, Richard Gonsalves for February, Joyce Cooper for March, Terecia Crouch-Murphy for April and Navonica Easterling for May. Thomsen was also Volunteer of the Month for October. Also honored were students Danillo Abrenica and Catherine Barillas for implementing the school's Web site for volunteers. The breakfast was held June 10 at the Cascades restaurant. Guest speaker was Lancaster Mayor Henry Hearns. Students Keli Marshall, Jami Marshall, Sabrina Abram and Erica Cortez performed music on violin violin, family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two f-hole-shaped resonance holes. , cello cello or 'cello: see violin. cello or violoncello Bowed, stringed instrument, the bass member of the violin family. Its full name means “little violone”—i.e., “little big viol. and flute. Knight High's 55 volunteers include retirees, parents, former educators, guardians, grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl and concerned community members. They help in classrooms and in the student store, do clerical work, staff special events, help coach sports teams, tutor TUTOR - A Scripting language on PLATO systems from CDC. ["The TUTOR Language", Bruce Sherwood, Control Data, 1977]. students, help during class registration and aid the school nurse, among other tasks. ``They can do anything a paid employee can do, except take over a classroom,'' said Bertha ber·tha n. A wide deep collar, often of lace, that covers the shoulders of a dress. [French berthe, after Bertha (died 783), Carolingian queen as the wife of Pepin the Short.] Smith, Knight High's coordinator of volunteers. CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1) Kerry Thomsen was named Knight High School's Volunteer of the Year at the school's first volunteer awards recognition ceremony. (2) Lancaster Mayor Henry Hearns presents a proclamation An act that formally declares to the general public that the government has acted in a particular way. A written or printed document issued by a superior government executive, such as the president or governor, which sets out such a declaration by the government. to Knight High School coordinator of volunteers Bertha Smith at the awards ceremony. (3) Knight High School students Danillo Abrenica and Catherine Barillas, with Lancaster Mayor Henry Hearns and Gail Knight, widow of the late Sen. W.J. ``Pete'' Knight, were honored at the school's volunteer awards recognition ceremony for implementation of the school volunteers' Web site. |
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