Tuesday - September 21st
8th-graders: Littleton High School has tours and information sessions to learn about its programs and opportunities on 5 different Tuesdays this fall. Learn more and sign up on the 8th Grade Visits page of the Littleton High School website.
Sixth-grade volleyball players - Our next and last volleyball practice is next Thursday, September 30, after school. We hope to see you all there for some skills, fun, and games!
Attention all Faculty and students,
Yearbook wants your summer photos. Please upload them to the HJ eShare App or visit www.hjeshare.com and enter school code 12449. You can also email them to yearbook adviser, Yvette Manculich, at ymanculich@lps.k12.co.us Don't miss out on this opportunity to be featured in the 2022 award-winning Prowl publication.
TONIGHT is Dining for Dollars at Chipotle! Visit the Chipotle on University, by Arapahoe High School, between 5 and 9, and 33% of your sale will be donated to Powell. You can also order online and pick up your dinner by using the Promo Code K3LKB62 on the Chipotle app or website. You must order through the Chipotle app or website for your order to count.
Good luck to our 8th grade track team as they travel to Euclid and Options after school today. Go Pumas!
Sept. 15th - Oct. 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month! On Tuesdays and Thursdays during this time period, we will look at the lives of Hispanic Americans that made their mark in American and/or World History. Here is our first Honoree: Richie Valens
Mexican-American singer Richie Valens quickly rose to fame in the late 1950s while still only a teenager. His producer insisted he change his last name from Valenzuela to Valens in order to be more widely accepted by White American audiences, and his breakout hits, “Donna” and “La Bamba,” put Valens on the level of other huge pop stars of the day. Sadly, together with the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly, Valens died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, when he was just 17. Although his life was short, it was impactful. The song “American Pie” by Don McClean references the tragic incident as “the day the music died,” and Valens’ life was portrayed in the 1987 film La Bamba, starring Lou Diamond Phillips. But the fact that he introduced American audiences to Mexican music was his true legacy.
Singer/Song Writer Richie Valens, a Hispanic American that we honor today for Hispanic Heritage Month.