Work off those holiday pounds and support James Logan High School's by doing ZUMBA!
Come shake your bootie for an hour to Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow dance moves on Thursday, Jan. 5 at the JLHS Al Rodrigues Gym from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Tickets will be sold at the door for $10, or $7 with student ID. All of the proceeds will be donated to JLHS Puente and used for college and cultural field trips and our Senior Banquet. Child care will be provided by responsible student volunteers.
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"This fundraiser is extremely important in order to keep the program going, and we'd really love to get the whole community involved," said Puente Language Arts teacher Julie Panebianco.
"With the continued cuts to education here in California, Puente, like many other academic programs, is threatened with having to reduce services just to keep the program alive," she said. "We are trying to make sure that this does not happen to for the program here at Logan, and depend on our fundraisers to raise money for our college and cultural field trips and other Puente events."
What is Puente?
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The Puente Project is an academic preparation program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California's educationally disadvantaged students. Its mission is to increase the number of educationally disadvantaged students who:
- Enroll in four-year colleges and universities
- Earn college degrees
- Return to the community as mentors and leaders of future generations
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