Exceptional Student Performance This Year honorees for December received certificates at the monthly School Board meeting on Dec. 10. With Supt. Tom Yahres, center, are, from left, second-grade Jocelyn Simmons of Foster, fourth-grader Ryenn Boyd of Holley, Isaiah Burns of Sweet Home High School, fifth-grader Aubree Shanholtzer of Oak Heights, second-grader Landon Phinney of Sweet Home Charter School, fourth-grader Zane Garrett of Hawthorne, seventh-grader Olivia Gilmore of Sweet Home Junior High, second-grader Talon Temple of Hawthorne and second-grader Pyper Hall of Oak Heights. Also honored, but not present, were first-grader Addisyn Bonneville of Foster, sixth-grader Layla Prewitt of Holley, first-grader Jada Kauffman of SHCS, eighth-grader Alyssa Redfern of SHJH, and Chloe Burks of SHHS. The New Era staff shot a photo of the November winners, but due to equipment failure, we lost it. Winners in November were: seventh-grader Riley Anderson of SHJH, fourth-grader Ali Bair of SHCS, fourth-grader Katelynn Carter of Foster, second-grader Tessa Cooley of Hawthorne, Kaitlyn Jensen of SHHS, fifth-grader Keira Johnson of SHCS, first-grader Jacob Eli-Lovik of Holley, third-grader Payton Nunes of Oak Heights, sixth-grader Violet Nunes of Oak Heights, fifth-grader Kambria Parker of Holley, sixth-grader Laylend Peterson of Hawthorne, eighth-grader Allyssa Redfern of SHJH, fourth-grader Hannah Sieminski of Foster, and Andy Wright of SHHS.