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Cardinal Pride Welcome to our tribe
Chocolate Covered
Anything Day
December 16, 2016
Finals Periods 0, 1, 2
Read and Post
9 days to Christmas
Library books are now being checked out through winter break. Come in check out a book, you can have up
to 5 books over winter break!!
Make plans to attend the “SPHS Fantastic Variety Show” sponsored by Theater Team. It is this Friday, Dec 16, 7
pm in the auditorium. Bring your friends and family.
Concurrent enrollment classes. Applications need to be returned to Ms. Delgado in counseling tomorrow.
Courses for Spring 2017 are: American Sign Language: Intermediate (Tuesdays 3:30-6:20pm), Intro to Chicano
Studies (Thursdays at 3:30-6:20pm), Child Growth and Development (Mondays 3:30pm- 6:45pm). Applications
are available in the counseling office. Open to students with at least a 2.0 GPA. Gain high school and college
credit at the same time at no cost to you.
SPHS Talent Show being sponsored by the senior class is Friday Jan 27. Get your act together and sign up in the
student store.
Seniors Deadline to apply to Cal Lu is January 1. Please have your application information completed before
we go on break!
Menus
Kitchen #1 Breakfast – Mon. Cinnamon Swirl Bun, Tue. Egg, Chorizo & potato Burrito, Wed. Yogurt parfait, Thurs
Fruit Smoothie, Fri. Egg & Cheese Sandwich.
Hot Line: Fri. minimum day, Mon minimum day, Tue minimum day
Kitchen #2 Salad & Sandwich Bar.
Sports
Home Games/Matches in bold Find all the Latest Cardinal Sports news @ www.sphsathletics.org
FRI 12/16/16
Boys Varsity Basketball @ Pacifica tournament 12/14-17
Boys Varsity Soccer @ Mira Monte 3:00-release VAR only 12:45
Girls Frosh Soccer @ Hart 3:15-release frosh 1:15
Boys Wrestling @ Channel Islands 2:00-release 12:35
SAT 12/17/16
Boys Varsity Basketball @ Pacifica tournament 12/14-17
Boys Varsity Soccer @ Golden Valley 12:30 & 4:00-depart 10:15
Boys Wrestling @ Channel Islands 9:00-depart 7:30
Girls Wrestling @Ridgeview 9:30am –depart 5:00am
Clubs
Unless noted meetings are during lunch.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
MESA meeting rm. 522, Travel Club Rm. 424, Community Building Workshop 3:30 520
Key Club rm. 215, SPARC Cardinals rm. 208
SESPEA rm. 522, Mock Trial rm. 208, Senior Citizen Companionship rm. 513
Leo’s meet rm. 216, Cancer Crushers Bryden Gym,
Interact every other Fri, Gay Straight Alliance rm. 432, National Honor Society rm. 422, Art club rm. 206
College & Career
New Scholarships to add to the scholarship list:
Cal Lutheran Visual & Performing Arts Scholarships deadline to apply for seniors is January 1 more info at
sss.calLutheran.edu/vapa or call Music dept. at 493-3305
2017 GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program High School Seniors who demonstrate leadership, drive,
integrity and good citizenship are eligible for $10,000 renewable scholarships - up to $40,000 per student. Please
apply online at reaganfoundation.org/scholarships Deadline: January 5, 2017. Please see Mrs. Learn in the
Career Center for more information. Go to www.Reaganfoundation.org/scholarships for more information. Get
your letter of recommendation now!!
VCCGA – Ventura County Career Guidance Assoc. Shirley Blackburn Scholarship, deadline Feb 5. Application
available in the CC Center GPA 2.80-3.7.
Have some free time over break? Work on the Lion’s Club speech contest. Awards are; Santa Paula winner
$100, District $4,500, Area $6,500, Final winner $10,000. Local qualifiers are awarded $25. Theme “Is the right to
privacy a threat to our national security?” Speech must be between 5-10 minutes long. Entrants must turn in
their written speech by Feb. 3 to Mrs. Learn. Up to 5 speeches will be selected for presentation on Feb 8 to
independent judges who will determine the winner to go to the next level. Pick up rules in the C &C Center.
Cardinal Lunch time Talks
Fri.
12/16 Minimum Day - Center closed 12:30, 1-2 pm - Secret Santa Lunch
Mon. 12/19 UC Irvine Student talk 9:30 in C&C Center. Open to seniors finished with period 3 final
Find out the first year of college is going.
Calendar
Fri
12/16
Minimum Day Finals- periods 0, 1, & 2. Holiday Variety Show 7 pm in the auditorium.
Mon 12/19
Minimum Day Finals- periods 3 & 4
Tue 12/20
Minimum Day Finals- periods 5 & 6
Wed 12/21 - Mon 1/9 Winter Break Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Tue. Jan. 10 Beginning of SPHS’s Second semester.
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Leather skin does not have any smell. The leather smell that you sense is actually derived from the
materials used in the tanning process.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction,
compared to right-handed individuals.
Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.
Malcolm X''s original name is Malcolm Little.
Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.
Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire.
On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
On average, the life span of an American dollar bill is eighteen months.
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water.
Paper money is not made from wood pulp but from cotton. This means that it will not disintegrate as fast
if it is put in the laundry.
Q-Tip Cotton Swabs were originally called Baby Gays.