Class Notes: Panda Cares Center of Hope coming to Spring Hill

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Class Notes: Panda Cares Center of Hope coming to Spring Hill
PHOTO COURTESY DELEON SPRINGS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC.

On Dec. 15, a ribbon-cutting took place at the Lacey Family Spring Hill Boys & Girls Club, representing the partnership with Panda Express and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Volusia/Flagler Counties. The pair will be bringing a Panda Cares Center of Hope to Spring Hill.

Project Learn, the platform that unites each Center of Hope, is a holistic strategy intended to reinforce and enhance what youth learn during the school day, while creating experiences that invite them to fall in love with learning.

The Panda Cares Center of Hope is a newly renovated space within the Lacey Spring Hill Club, designed to deliver more joy, education and critical social-emotional development to local communities.

The final option in the Standard Response Protocol is “shelter.” Shelter hazards might include tornadoes, hazmat, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. The Safety Strategies might include evacuation to a shelter area, seal the room, drop, cower and hold, and get to high ground.

Students are to train in appropriate hazards and safety strategies, while adults and staff are trained in their own appropriate hazards and safety strategies, accounting for students and adults and reporting injuries or problems using the Red Card/Green Card Method.

The Superintendent’s Winter Reading Challenge draws to a close Tuesday, Jan. 2. Log onto Beanstack to record your reading minutes.

The Friends of the DeLand Library will have their next monthly used-book sale Friday and Saturday, Jan. 12 and 13. On Friday, hardback and softback books sell for $1, with eight pocket-size paperbacks costing $1. On Saturday, a bag of books goes for $3, while a bag of children’s books costs $2 throughout the sale.

Donations of books, records, DVDs, CDs, puzzles and games are welcome. The bookstore is at 130 E. Howry Ave. in DeLand and is open for the book sale 3-5 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday.

Students return to the start of the third grading period Wednesday, Jan. 3, while teachers and staff return Tuesday, Jan. 2.

The Early-Release Wednesdays in January are the 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st.

The next holiday from school for all will be Monday, Jan. 15, so all can observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Gus Gibbs Memorial Basketball Tournament

The 2023 Gus Gibbs Memorial Basketball Tournament will be played Thursday-Saturday, Dec. 28-30, in the DeLand High School Bulldog gym. The daily games will be at 3 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

The teams participating on the first day are Eustis vs. Spruce Creek at 3 p.m., Orange City University vs. Seabreeze at 4:30 p.m., Oakleaf vs. Leesburg at 6 p.m., and DeLand vs. McKeel at 7:30 p.m.

Each team will play a game daily during the tournament. If DeLand wins the first day, they will play at 7:30 p.m. on the second day. If they lose, they play at 4:30 p.m.

The championship game will be played at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 30.

DeLand High School football

The DeLand High School Bulldogs were stopped by Venice in the semifinals of the 4S FHSAA Playoffs. Venice went on to the finals but lost to Lakeland High School, 60-48, while only trailing by 6 points at halftime, 27-21.

The DeLand squad was ranked fourth by MaxPreps in the 4S Division behind Venice, Buchholz and Lakeland. The team was ranked eighth in the Orlando rankings behind Cocoa, Mainland, Hawthorne, Sanford, Lake Mary, Jones and Edgewater.

Deltona Lakes Elementary School

Deltona Lakes Elementary School gifted enrichment students recently researched invasive species. They shared all the details learned about these animals with other students.

Deltona High School

Deltona High School grad Blake Hinson is leading the University of Pittsburgh basketball team in scoring, as the team is currently 7-3, losing only to Florida, Missouri and Clemson. Hinson is averaging 21.9 points per game, while pulling down an average of 5.1 rebounds per game.

Pine Ridge High School

Acapocalypse, a vocal group at Pine Ridge High School in Deltona, was a guest performer at Daytona Beach International Airport, singing festive songs for the busy travelers commuting in and out of the airport.

Taylor Middle-High School

The advanced-placement art students attending Taylor Middle-High School in Pierson were visited by the Art Critiques, who gave insightful feedback to these art students.

DeLand High School Athletics

The varsity squad of the DeLand High School Lady Bulldogs weightlifting team placed fifth in the Five Star Conference Olympic Division and sixth in the Traditional Division. Addison Ruocco took second (2), as did Katyah Ross.

Ross also lifted a third-place finish, while Hollee Brady grabbed two fourth-place finishes, with Elena Cruz getting one. Katherin Rodriguez got two fifth-place finishes, while Cruz earned one. Spruce Creek won both divisions.

The junior-varsity girls weightlifting squad took first in the Olympic Division of the JV Five Star Conference Meet. Mia Camacho and Ashton Miller took firsts in their weight division, while Simone Stephenson took two seconds, and Sara Visconti, Abigail Walczer, Sierra West and Ah’Miyah Sweet each gained one second. Camacho and West earned a third, as well.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal has announced the six finalists for the Volusia/ Flagler All Area nominees for Male Bowler of the Year. DeLand had Sebastian Baldwin, Jesse Barger and Tyler Sprague on the list, while DeLand’s coaches Garon Keuten and Dustin Seymour were named Coaches of the Year.

DeLand High g rad Bridgette Gordon, who is the head women’s basketball coach at Florida A&M, is currently 1-7 in her first year, after being hired in late July. Their win was against Jacksonville University, 59- 54. The team has lost three other games by only 3 points each. Ahriahna Grizzle is the leading scorer for the team with a 17.4-point average.

The DeLand boys basketball team topped Spruce Creek, 49-46, while the Lady Bulldogs stopped Atlantic, 51-20, and Father Lopez, 54-29, to move to 7-1 in the early season.

The DeLand girls soccer team tied Crescent City, 0-0, while the Bulldog boys defeated the same team, 2-0, while also picking up a win over Pierson Taylor, 3-2.

On Friday, Jan. 5, the boys basketball team plays host to Lake Mary at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., while the girls soccer team greets The Master’s Academy at 6 p.m.

The Bulldog wrestling team will play host at the DeLand Duals Friday and Saturday, Jan. 5 and 6, with Olympia, New Smyrna Beach, Ocoee, Viera, Seabreeze, West Port, Apopka and Pine Ridge competing.

Stetson University Athletics

The Stetson University Hatter men’s golf program has added Gaspar Glaudas, a standout from Sainte-Tulle, France, who played at Indian Hills Community College.

The Stetson basketball calendar has the Hatter men hosting Charlotte at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29, followed the next day with the women hosting Flagler at 2 p.m.

On Thursday, Jan. 4, the men greet North Florida at 7 p.m., while the women travel to North Florida, also at 7 p.m.

College honors

William Andrew Carbino, of Lake Helen, has earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Communication f rom the Col lege of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

— Send school news to Tony Tussing via email: at flacoach43@hotmail.com.

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