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Staff report A craft fair to benefit Castle View High School’s athletic department’s programs and various school clubs such as the debate team will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 9 at the school, 5254 N. Meadows Drive, Castle Rock. Last year, the event made about $3,000, and organizers hope for a bigger number this there as there are more vendors, said Debbie Costello, an organizer. Some of the items available for sale include clothing, home decor, candles, jewelry, gourmet foods, bath and body items, chocolates, glassware, children’s items and more. A photographer will be available to take family holiday pictures for $40. For more information, go to www.cas tleviewhs.com and click on “craft fair.”
Library of Congress stores photos, letters By Ryan Boldrey
rboldrey@ourcoloradonews. com Former Marine Corps Sgt. Lou Seago had so many close calls in World War II that he almost didn’t make it home alive. And if it weren’t for the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project, his tales of fortitude might have been forever lost. The project, initiated in 2000, now has more than 70,000 oral histories — soon to include Seago’s stories of Saipan and Iwo Jima — and other mementos. With help from local institu-
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CORRECTION Castle Rock’s annual Starlighting event will be held on Nov. 23. Activities will start at 2 p.m. Starlighting ceremonies will begin at 5 p.m., and the “Lighting of the Star” will take place about 5:30 p.m. More details are at www.castlerock.org.
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“I think we’re all in a better place,” he said. “We’ve been allowed to save programs and reduce our ratios in the classrooms.” The schedule is based on freshmen and sophomores taking seven classes, juniors six and seniors five or six, Kappas said, but requests for additional classes are always considered. “We try not to ever turn a student away based on their question or demand,” Kappas said. Highlands Ranch High School students were not limited with the introduction of the block schedule, Principal Jerry Goings said. “We put 10.25 in. suggestions on what they could and couldn’t do, but we never put a limit on them,”
tions across the country — such as Douglas County Libraries — those oral histories and original materials are being collected before time runs out for older veterans such as Seago. Before shipping the documents and interviews to D.C., the library district also retains copies of all area veterans’ histories at the Philip S. Miller Branch in Castle Rock, and visitors can make an appointment to view them at any time. One can also listen or read the transcripts of about half of the 100 interviews already done by visiting www. douglascountyhistory.org. “We try to play the role of facilitator,” said DCL archivist Adam Speirs. “We create the space where these things can
happen, but it’s a volunteerdriven project ... what we do is make sure all the paperwork gets filled out and everything is preserved correctly.” The library will celebrate its 10th year of involvement in the project from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 16, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St. in Castle Rock. Local veterans who have participated will share their experiences, while a group called Remembering Our Veterans will demonstrate how they share veteran stories. For more information on the project, visit www.loc.gov/vets. To volunteer or share your story if you are a veteran, please contact Speirs at 303-688-7733 or aspeirs@dclibraries.org.
he said. “We worked with every single kid individually to make sure their educational needs were met. It’s not the perfect system. But we were still able to operate the schools on less money.” Students are not required to take three off-periods, but some choose to, he said. “It does seem like our kids have more free time and our teachers have less,” Goings said. “I don’t know if that’s a good thing. Kids are making choices, whether or not that choice is right for them. But a lot of kids do use their time in meaningful ways.” Both principals credit their teachers for taking on additional duties. “The one major recognition and kudos goes to the teachers,” Kappas said. “They’re most definitely working harder. But that has opened the doors of opportunity for the kids.”
Goings echoed him. “The biggest sacrifice was on teachers,” he said. “If the money was there right now, I would come back with a derivative of what we’re doing now; I probably would look at a five-of-seven with some block like we’re doing now.” That schedule would help teachers, he said, but added, “I’ve got to make sure my class sizes continue to be at a good level. The year before (the block schedule), they were not. I don’t think having classes of 35, 36 kids was a good situation.” Staffing and other financial problems pre-dated the current administration and impacted schools statewide,” Goings said. “We got a little more money this year but we still are not even close to being funded at the level we were in 2007,” he said. “No school in the state of Colorado, after the economic downtown, is where it was.”
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