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Veterans Day writing
For the second straight year, a Catholic elementary school student has earned top honors in a local Veterans Day essay contest.
Andrew Johnson, an eighth-grader at St. Timothy School in Mesa, placed first in the junior high school category of the annual contest sponsored by the Phoenix VA Health Care System. His reflective essay on what [...]
Schools roundup
I sort of thought that since publising our graduation issue, that we wouldn’t have much school news until we work on our “back to school” issue in August. I was wrong.
Schools stay plenty busy during the summer running summer school programs and camps. That’s also a “upgrade” time, both for the campus and for classroom [...]
Girls w-i-n in Spanish too
Remember Jennica Dumond, the St. Thomas the Apostle eighth grader who won the diocesan spelling bee two years in a row? She apparently set a trend for girls to excel in diocesan spelling bees.
At least a dozen of the 18 students who competed in the 13th annual Diocesan Spanish Spelling Bee at St. Mary-Basha School [...]