COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Continued from A10
In addition to performance,
fi nancial, and compliance au-
dits, Crear has conducted orga-
nizational reviews and opera-
tional analyses for a variety of
agencies in the public, private,
and nonprofi t sectors, includ-
ing the City of DeSoto, Texas,
Denver Counseling Center, the
Environment and Natural Re-
sources Division of the United
States Department of Justice,
and the City of Burleson, Texas.
He has also served as the city-
wide performance and organi-
zations systems manager for the
City of DeSoto, Texas.
Crear holds a doctoral degree
from the University of Denver
in Colorado. He earned a master
of public administration at the
University of Texas – Arling-
ton and a bachelor of business
administration from Southern
Methodist University in Dallas,
Texas.
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CGHS names winter homecoming royalty
By Lucas Davey
For The Sentinel
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This year, the Winter Home-
coming King and Queen of
Cottage Grove High School
(CGHS) were Logun West
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and Ashley Pippit from the
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ate special needs and individu-
alized curriculums. They were
both able to mingle with and be
recognized by their peers and
enjoy the music.
Jason Crain, head teacher of
the Lifeskills department, said,
“Being on stage in front of their
peers allows the king and queen
to gain confi dence as well as
meeting fellow high schools'
students and staff.”
In the past, the high school
had numerous traditions for the
time they called Winter Home-
coming, such as parades and
ceremonies for the basketball
teams, but few of these have
endured over time. For the past
seven years, the Lifeskills de-
partment staff have selected two
students from their class to be
honored by their local commu-
nity at the Winter Formal dance
as king and queen. This year is
no different and as usual, the
dance made quite the impres-
sion on both of them.
Lifeskills Instructional As-
sistant Jan Haffl y was excited
to see West and Pippit be hon-
ored as king and queen. “Logun
and Ashley had never done it
and they’re such hard workers,
they’re really good kids. So it
was very easy to pick them this
year.”
Thanks to the kindness of
their teachers, Pippitt and West
were able to experience the
thrill of being on stage in front
of an audience of people their
age to encourage them. They
both work on a daily basis to
keep the campus clean and
running smoothly for all of the
other students and are mostly
isolated from their peers outside
their department while classes
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“The students at CGHS have
been so positive and support-
ive,” Crain said. This event is
a fantastic opportunity for them
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“I think that it’s really great
when they crown them,” Haff-
ly said. “The whole crowd goes
nuts and claps and yells.”
According to CGHS teachers,
West and Pippitt can at times be
quite shy, yet up in front of their
school, they both appeared to be
overfl owing with joy and nei-
ther of them seemed at all lack-
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up the stage and accepted their
crowns. And although they en-
joyed being crowned king and
queen, West and Pippitt both
agreed that their favorite part
of the dance was the music (es-
pecially the country music for
Pippitt). After the crowning cer-
emony, Pippitt and West danced
to every song together and were
soon joined by their friends to
help add to the fun.
High school counselor Vicky
Evans thinks this tradition has
the ability to stick around for
years to come. “I’ve never
heard of any other school that
does this, and it’s pretty special
that our student body continues
this tradition.”
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