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The Clarion

The Student News Site of Selma High School

  • March 2025
  • “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Dear old world', she murmured, 'You are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “It’s such a relief to talk when one wants to and not be told that children should be seen and not heard.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it’s so hard to keep from loving things, isn’t it?” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  • “Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
  • “That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.” -L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

The Clarion

The Clarion

Monica Cruz Perez

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster

Monica Cruz Perez is a second year Clarion student. She’s Clarion’s Co-News Editor and Webmaster. Besides focusing on academics, Monica immerses herself in language learning, her primary focus being Chinese. In her free time, she watches as many dramas as she can. As a senior, she hopes to spend her year to the fullest with family and friends.

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Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
December 12, 2024
Cheer closes off a performance with a unified stunt (Photograph by Priscilla Fester)

Cheer Starts Off the Year

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
October 31, 2024
Stages of Life

Stages of Life

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
October 3, 2024
Selma High Winter Guard performs at Bearchella.

Bear Dayz of Competition

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
April 12, 2024
Boys Soccer Aims Towards the Next Goal

Boys Soccer Aims Towards the Next Goal

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
March 7, 2024
AVID Goes to L.A.

AVID Goes to L.A.

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
February 9, 2024
The Hogs hold Selma High School’s 2023 Turkey Bowl trophy

Winner Winner Turkey Dinner

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
December 8, 2023
The Black Bear Brigade’s opening performance

SHS’ Annual Community Rally

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
November 3, 2023
Mr. Carrillo in Room 407

Welcoming A New Spanish Teacher, Mr.Carrillo

Monica Cruz Perez, Co-News Editor, Webmaster
October 13, 2023
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