Springs’ Magnolia Girls Varsity Volleyball team finished a strong season with a 7-5 regular season record in the Warrior League. Coaches are Ray and Tori Cantu; it was a young team as the only returning player from the previous season was junior and team captain Claire Hill.
Autumn Hargrove, 7, a 2nd grade student at Springs’ Magnolia Student Center, is donating 100 copies of the children’s book “Our Pledge, Our Promise,” by Sheri Wall to be donated to 100 Magnolia families. The books were purchased with funds raised through a gofundme campaign by Autumn and her mother, Andrea Hargrove, “in response to someone vandalizing and taking down the American flags we placed for the 13 soldiers killed in Afghanistan.”
The Magnolia Student Center’s afterschool program has begun and is “full of fun, enrichment and building connections,” reported Jamie Secoda Martinez, the school’s personalized academic coach.
Nefertari Hammant, 17, a graduating senior from Springs’ Magnolia Student Center, was a preliminary 1st place essay winner of the 2021 Ninth Circuit Civics Contest for high school students in the Central District of California.
Springs’ Magnolia Student Center Site Facilitator Irma Herrera was selected to participate in the making of disaster preparedness videos targeted at California’s Indian tribes.
Magnolia Student Center students, Ben Noble, Kyleigh Chalfant and Natalye Tinajero, joined with advisors Susie Carpenter and Amber Baxter to produce the school’s annual yearbook, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic lockdowns.
Magnolia Student Center staff encouraged students to read during the month of March by creating a student “Rise to the Challenge and Read” reading challenge. Each student was assigned a novel to read, and the one who devoted the most time to reading earned the school’s traveling “Participation Party ‘P’ (a light-up letter P). Classes with the most Party Ps will win a year-end pizza party.
Brian C. 18, is a senior and Mira Loma resident attending Springs’ Magnolia Student Center who is a master pianist. His favorite classical pieces are Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Mahler’s 2nd Symphony, and Chopin’s 1st Ballade. He practices up to four hours a day, and, in the past year, has performed virtual concerts.
Nichol Regalado, a 7th grade ELA/History Academy teacher at Magnolia Student Center, has had great success using DonorsChoose to fundraise for things she needs in the classroom. Magnolia Principal Beverly Voechting said, “Nichol is very creative and has taught many of our staff how to optimize to get what they want for their students and class. She is an expert in fundraising!”
The Magnolia Student Center held a Riverside Family Scavenger Hunt so that students could learn the history of the City of Riverside. Families were asked to visit sites around the city and take selfies at the site; sites included 1911 Fairmount Park, 1903 Victoria Club, 1920s Benedict Castle, 1870s Evergreen Cemetery, and 1904 Riverside County Courthouse. Continue reading
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Eagle = Choice, Freedom, Initiative
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Book = Empowering Parents (Knowledge is Power)
Torch = Curiosity, Passion for Learning
Hands = Collaboration
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