Ashley Inglis saw a dachshund she wanted to adopt last week at the local SPCA shelter, but she was given bad news. "It was being saved for Wednesday," she said. Wednesday also happens to be the day the SPCA holds its annual adoption event.
Leslie Lipton teaches Computer Literacy Intergration, also known as "CLIC" at Arvin High. It's a required class for freshmen. The idea -- setting a foundation so they can take the skills they learn there and use them the next four years in high school and beyond.
After receiving her One Classroom at a Time grant in December, Taleia Larkin has bought a Nintendo WII and is giving her severely disabled students some physical education, in a virtual setting.
Rosann Wattonville's seventh grade class from Freedom Middle School will be raising trout eggs and then releasing them into the Kern River. All the while, learning how to be good caretakers of the environment.