May 17th, 2008
Strawberries pay off then and now
Photos by Jason Redmond / Star staff Evelyn Leon, 9, works on math problems with Bard Elementary School classmate Jocelyn Rosete. Evelyn’s drawing was the winner of the California Strawberry Festival Youth Art Contest.Fourth-grade student Evelyn Leon, left, reviews multiplication problems with classmate Jocelyn Rosete before taking a quiz in Isela Escamilla’s class at Bard Elementary School in Port Hueneme on Tuesday. afternoon. Leon’s drawing was the winner of the California Strawberry Festival Youth Art Contest. Escamilla used the contest in her combined third and fourth-grade class at an occasion to kick of studies focusing on the birthday of Cesar Chavez.
It’s like one of those full-circle-of-life tales featured in a movie.
Elementary school teacher Isela Escamilla, the daughter of farmworkers, won a scholarship in 1995 from the California Strawberry Commission to help pay for college.
After graduating and earning her credential, she returned to Oxnard, where she has taught for the past six years.
“I love teaching,” she said. “A different side of me comes out. It’s a high.”
So when organizers of the California Strawberry Festival sought applicants this year for its Youth Art Contest, Escamilla went to work.
“At the end of February we Googled strawberry images, and strawberries and farmworkers came up,” she said. “This led to a discussion of Cesar Chavez. As teachers, we are always looking for ways to incorporate art into language arts and history lessons.”
All 26 of her third- and fourth-grade students at Bard Elementary School in Port Hueneme entered the contest.
Last month, Escamilla learned that one of her students, 9-year-old Evelyn Leon, won — with a drawing of a large strawberry, ocean scene and palm trees.
“I live close to the ocean, so I thought I’d do an ocean picture,” said Evelyn, who received a $150 gift card for Lakeshore Learning Store and a $50 gift card for Target.
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15 Responses to “Strawberries pay off then and now”
Theist: doesn’t it take faith not to believe in God?Athiest: No, I just don’t believe in Gods that don’t have the evidence to support them.[Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah]Theist: How about I come in and punch your fat head for Jesus.
Why not? If they are directly witnessed / corroborated, what exactly makes the observation of a miracle any different from observation of anything else? The explanation may be suspect, which is why we don’t go about deifying stage magicians, but the actual observed miracle is certainly empirical evidence.
Actually, I was serious infinite. It’s a sad situation.
You laugh but go into a planned parenthood building, they are locked and secured with bars and caged areas.
You know, the title really misled me. I was all ready for the caller to say something like ‘Well, you’ve certainly given me some ideas to think over.’ and I was about to have faith in Christians being sensible again. Then he bloody ruined it.
Southern whites thanyouverymuch. There’s no slave ownership in my history.
Arostotle know of Socrates and studied under plato three years after his deathso presumably he met people that knew him and wrote about it. Xenophon was alive during the same time and wrote a personal history of greece during his lifetime which mentioned socrates and included several quotes. I also recall there was someone else who wrote political satires during the same time as socrates and included him as a character in several of them, though I can’t remember his name.
“I don’t want to compare God to Bigfoot.”Typical of the right. Ask a question, get a response, reject it.
I have the cheapest cable TV package from Time Warner. 10% of the channels are Christian programming. Maybe I should ask for an atheist discount.
Its an old joke Atheist and a theist sitting at bar. Start talking. T:So you don’t believe there’s a God? A:Well, first you’ll have to define belief (blah, blah - long 15 minute argument examining , reasoning, analyzing, hard logic etc etc etc) T:So you don’t believe there’s a God? A:Not in the sense of the word that (blah, blah, blah, etc.), no. T: OK. What would it take for you to believe in God? A:Well, “He” would have to perform some sort of an act right here, right now, demonstrating his displeasure with my defiance of “Him”. T:(Punches the atheist next to him, breaking his nose) (Blood everywhere, tears, screaming, crying. Gets up. Pays his bill.) T:The Lord works in mysterious ways. (Leaves)permalinkparentxerogod (0 children) [+]xerogod 2 points 2 months ago [-]take a peak
More or less.
Please break apart into paragraphs with some degree of structure that follows the logical sequence.
I guess it depends on the language - in Ruby for example Nil==Nil returns true… In Databases null=null returns false always…
I’m intrigued by this atheist’s argument. I think he has convinced me his epistemology is correct.But now I have a problem. Without appealing to personal experience, I cannot prove that humans are conscious beings.So, I have become an agnostic a-consciousness-ist. Would someone care to try to convince me that humans are conscious?Or should I start my own television program explaining the intellectual superiority of being an agnostic aconsciousnessist?