Getting out of town for the day, Pittsburg High's Newspaper class took a field trip to San Francisco's 826 Valencia Street to hone their journalistic skills.
Reviewing such topics as the inverted pyramid and writing a lead, students eventually settled into small groups and wrote individual news stories. Whitney Deanšs topic was her dream of attending Florida A & M University.
"It would be the bomb. It really has been a lifelong dream of mine," said Dean, clutching her fuzzy teddy bear, Deandra Lee.
Others showed more imagination in their work. Senior Niall Murray wrote as fantastic piece about bootlegging soft drinks onto our now cola-less campus. Little Jimmy Freeman wrote of how he would conquer Hollywood by directing an independent film called Stardust. "Just wait until I get there," he insisted, "I'm gonna shake things up."
