This week in schools | Jan. 23
RICHLAND 2: The Lake Carolina Elementary Recycling Club gave out recycling bin stickers at the Harbor Lights event last month. The stickers are to help people understand the items that can and cannot be placed in Richland County recycle bins. Club members are working to educate the community on recycling properly as part of one of the school's service learning projects. Shown here are students Katie Murphy, Sophie Pirich, Jennifer Warner, Shamarah Grant, Unriah Hinton, Trevor Squirewell, Keshav Nair, and Lauren Schwartz.
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LEXINGTON 1: Lexington Elementary third-grade teachers Julie Goegeline, Courtney Leaphart, Molly Scott, Spring Bridgers, Andrea Whitley, Janet Daniels and Principal Jim Hamby can’t wait to share these brand new dictionaries with their students. The Lexington Kiwanis Club and Publix donated dictionaries to all third-grade students at the school.
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LEXINGTON 1: Carolina Springs Middle School students carried out a service project to benefit teens at Epworth Children’s Home. Originally proposed by the eighth-grade Leadership Team, the school and community came together to collect gift cards for stores, theaters and restaurants. The students’ successful efforts will allow Epworth teens to select their own clothing and to participate in everyday teen activities they would not otherwise be possible. In all, CSMS raised $2,200 in gift cards for Epworth teenagers. Here, the Carolina Springs Middle School Leadership Team welcomes Mitzi Schafer to their school to receive the gift cards for the teens at Epworth Children’s Home. Leadership Team students include Sadie Marsden, Brandon New, Hannah Cooper, Jason Wong, Audrianna’ Peebles, Amy Ditch, Danica Leaphart, Tyler Pocisk, Breanna Tindal, Assistant Principal Debbie Scott, Megan Reynolds and Lauren Williams.
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LEXINGTON 1: Winners of the first Miss Pleasant Hill Middle School pageant include Miss Seventh Grade first runner-up Alexis Almeida, Miss Seventh Grade Summer Rogers, Miss Seventh Grade second runner-up Ashleigh Harding, Miss Eighth Grade second
Rebekah Norris, Miller Ouren, Spencer Perrett, Gavriel Pincus, Ja'quarius Pleasant, Alexandra Poltoratski, Benjamin Porter, Sean Roper, Christopher Sanchez, Janisah Saripada, Meghan Schulien, Michelle Schulien, Zephyr Seagraves, Matthew Smalley,
Joseph Sale Interviews Kristina Barlaan, Team Nova Uniao ...
The purpose of these interviews is to speak with people who have created successful outcomes, for themselves and for others in the world of sports, business, and other endeavors.
Rarely is the path to any goal or successful outcome an easy and direct ride. Yet the public most often sees or hears only about the end result and / or when the media picks it up. What’s missed and what the public often doesn’t hear about is all that happened in route, the work that was done, the sacrifices made, the life lessons learned, and the temporary setbacks that had to be overcome on the way to any given goal or destination.
My objective is that through these interviews, the reader will pick up pearls of wisdom and overriding universal life principles that they can apply to their own life regardless of their destination.
- Joseph Sale, Founder, Optimum Performance / Human Performance Systems
Joe Sale / Kristina, allow me to run through a short list of your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu stats. You train under the expert Brazilian Jiu Jitsu instruction of Gustavo Dantas and compete at 129 lbs. You rank as a Purple Belt and have a current Medal Count of 47: 29 Gold, 6 Silver, 12 Bronze. Your team is Nova Uniao / Gustavo Dantas Jiu Jitsu. How did you become involved in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
Kristina Barlaan / I first started training at the Cesar Gracie Academy in Pleasant Hill, CA in 2006, but at that time, I only enrolled in the Muay Thai program. I really had no idea what Jiu-Jitsu was. My Muay Thai instructor, Dan Black, was a Blue belt under Cesar and was the first person to show me any kind of Jiu-Jitsu. He showed me some No-Gi moves and I remember I didn’t really care for it. It didn’t make any sense to me, especially since everyone was telling me that even though I was small, I could still be really good at Jiu-Jitsu. When I rolled, I just felt like a fish out of water. A year later, in 2007, one of my team mates loaned me his gi and told me to give Jiu-Jitsu another chance. I was hooked. All of a sudden, as soon as the gi was introduced, Jiu-Jitsu made sense. Jiu-Jitsu just felt really natural. After 8 months, I competed at my first tournament and I was a little surprised by how much I enjoyed competing. Now, it’s my life and sometimes I’m still in disbelief.
Officially a member of the Cesar Gracie Academy in Pleasant Hill.
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Awesome training today first at pleasant hill (ceaser gracie), with @ @ @ , and others.