{"id":12766,"date":"2018-05-17T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2018-05-17T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T04:12:20","slug":"valadez-middle-school-academy-celebrates-its-ten-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=12766","title":{"rendered":"Valadez Middle School Academy celebrates its ten year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, May 11,\u00a0Valadez Middle School Academy in Placentia celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a special after-school ceremony.\u00a0 The campus first opened its doors\u00a0on September 2,\u00a02008 with 462 sixth and seventh grade students.\u00a0 The\u00a0middle school is named in honor of Gualberto J. Valadez, who taught in\u00a0the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD)\u00a0from 1939 until 1983 and inspired a countless number of\u00a0young students.<\/p>\n

To kick off the festivities, Principal James Hardin welcomed those in attendance and introduced honored guests including PYLUSD Board of Education members, Superintendent, Dr. Greg Plutko,\u00a0and the Valadez family.\u00a0 He also entertained the audience with stories about the school\u2019s rich history and accomplishments over the decade.<\/p>\n

Following Principal Hardin’s introduction, those in attendance were treated to a performance by Los Hermanos Morales, a mariachi band comprised of\u00a0four\u00a0talented PYLUSD students — Jeannine, a sophomore at Valencia High School, Miguel, an\u00a0eighth grader at Valadez,\u00a0Diego, a sixth grader at Valadez, and Ashley, a a fourth grader at Rio Vista Elementary School.<\/p>\n

The Valadez Eagles band and orchestra, under the direction of Jennifer Landaverde, also performed a series of songs to entertain guests.<\/p>\n

Besides musical performances, the celebration also included carnival games\u00a0courtesy of Eastside Christian Church, face painting, photo booth pictures, a wide variety of food selection, and much more.\u00a0 Old yearbooks and spirit wear were on display for current and former students, families, staff, and community members to be reminded of Valadez over the years!<\/p>\n

Congratulations and happy anniversary, Eagles!
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On Friday, May 11,\u00a0Valadez Middle School Academy in Placentia celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a special after-school ceremony.\u00a0 The campus first opened its doors\u00a0on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1178],"tags":[1898,1706,1900,1682,1899,291,1657],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","tag-10-year-anniversary","tag-eagles","tag-gualberto-j-valadez","tag-valadez","tag-valadez-family","tag-valadez-middle-school-academy","tag-vmsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}