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VOL. 29 ■ ISSUE NO. 14
APRIL 6, 2022
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Analise Gutierrez, left, poses with Theodore Judah Elementary School teacher Judith Fletcher at Gutierrez’ Eagle Scout project site. The teen remodeled the school’s garden area to better serve students. The Eagle Scout is also in Girl Scouts and earned her Gold Award with a local troop.
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First place in an ORHS door decorating contest designed to showcase successful Black Americans and women goes to Summer Dixon, Dae Larkin, Joe Hargon and Audrey Ewing, who used textile art to share the story of Bisa Butler.
SCOUT DOES DOUBLE DUTY Contest opens ■ Youth achieves highest award in creative doors both Girls Scouts and Scouts BSA Sel Richard Staff writer
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ith a poise and confidence, Oak Ridge High School junior Analise Gutierrez holds some unusual accomplishments in her back pocket. She is the first girl in El Dorado Hills to achieve the Scout BSA Eagle Scout rank, on top of already earning her Girl Scout Gold Award. Having joined Girl Scouts as a kindergartener, Gutierrez was firmly entrenched in the program as a high school freshman when her brother returned from his Scouts summer camp. “He just kept talking about how fun it was,” she remembered. So Gutierrez joined a local troop accepting girls, Troop 1855 in Folsom. Scouts BSA, formerly Boy Scouts of America, began admitting girls in February 2019. Troop 1855, under ■
In honor of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, Mr. Hodgin’s 11th grade U.S. history class at Oak Ridge High School worked in groups of up to four students to decorate 10 doors on the El Dorado Hills campus. Each door art was meant to articulate how the group’s person of choice, either a Black American and/or woman, had contributed to society.
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