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RB/4S DIGEST Get gifts wrapped Rancho Bernardo High School’s Friends of the Library will be gift wrapping purchases from 2-6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23 and Saturday, Dec. 24 at Barnes & Nobel, 11744 Carmel Mountain Road in Carmel Mountain Ranch. Gift wrapping is free, but donations will be accepted. Money raised will benefit the library.
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CELEBRATING THEIR DIVERSITY — Rancho Bernardo High students held their fall semester multicultural fair on Dec. 16 during lunch. At the Ireland table, there was green mashed potatoes and a pot of gold candy. See more photos at www.PomeradoNews.com. Photo by Beverley Brooks
Gov. Jerry Brown was among dignitaries in Rancho Bernardo to celebrate the dedication of Soitec’s new plant that when fully operational in late 2012 will lead to 1,500 jobs. Soitec’s new North American solar factory will make concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules used on solar farms to generate electricity distributed via San Diego Gas & Electric’s Sunrise Powerlink that will be complete by mid-2012. “I’m glad to be here for the dedication of Soitec’s manufacGOV. JERRY BROWN See SOITEC, Page 14
RB High educator nominated for state Teacher of the Year BY ELIZABETH MARIE HIMCHAK Jeff Carpenter, a longtime Rancho Bernardo High government teacher, is advancing to the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ California Teacher of the Year competition. On Dec. 15, Carpenter was presented his awards for being Rancho Bernardo VFW Post 7766 and VFW District 1 Teacher of the Year. In the latter, he competed against teachers nominated by 30 posts in San Diego County, according to Dave Epstein, Post 7766’s senior vice commander. “It’s an incredible honor to be recognized by a group of people whom I have high respect for because of their contributions to our country,” Carpenter said. “They’re an
amazing group of men and women. I’ve been teaching for a long time and can’t think of an honor that is better.” Epstein said when selecting its Teacher of the Year, the post looks for educators who “teach patriotic values that made the United States what it is today.” In his letter, Epstein wrote that Carpenter, “defends and respects the contributions of veterans and the active military forces to the welfare of the nation. He clearly enunciates an indisputable fact, which is that America is a light of freedom and prosperity for the entire world and without a strong military establishment, the United States would cease to exist.” See TEACHER, Page 14
At the Dec. 15 VFW Teacher of the Year award presentation were, from left, RB High Principal Paul Robinson, Post 7766 Commander Don Schmidt, Jeff Carpenter and Post 7766 Senior Vice Commander Dave Epstein.
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