Tradition and Innovation

An interesting week for sure.  JW North continues with its journey to the state championship in Boys Basketball, with its girls’ team not far behind.  Certainly it was an extraordinary win on Saturday night by one point.  A great team to watch but the more interesting human interest story was the one outlined in the Press Enterprise last week.  Three of the players are repeating the path that their father’s laid out – when THEY were involved in similar CIF Championship playoffs as previous basketball players at JW North.  That is tradition!  Way to go Huskies!

As a point of interest I am attaching the upcoming bracketing for the Divisional Championships which begin on Wednesday (tomorrow) with the 6 pm game for our North Girls team followed by the 7:30 game for the boys.  Both at JW North Gym.  A doubleheader – and yes you will need to get there early if you want to actually get INSIDE of the gym.  I am sure it will be SRO.

Another interesting matter was the group performance at the Board meeting last night.  The performance demonstrated a great partnership and the spirit of Riverside.  We had Bryant Elementary students presenting a musical performance.  Not that unusual, you say.  Except the “music” teacher is a “volunteer” in this case who works regularly with our students.  Mr. V brings a lot to the engagement as they sang, played instruments, etc.  Interestingly several of the instruments were actually constructed by Mr. V to add to Bryant inventory.  Great job Bryant!  Great job Mr. V and students!!