The Courier Newsletter: Thanksgiving Edition

Welcome to week twelve of the PCC Courier newsletter! Hope everyone has a great Gratitude Day with family, friends and plenty of scrumptious food. We are extremely grateful for everyone and their readership and support of independent journalism. We are continuing to take feedback on the newsletter until our final edition on December 15th. We plan to work on implementing those suggestions and improvements over the winter holiday. For this week, we published early for the Thanksgiving holiday. (on Tuesday) Check out our website, for the remainder of our stories that are not featured below at pcccourier.com!

News

News Editor Seamus Bozeman, and staff writers Laura Dux and Clyde Burns covered the latest in the Superintendent-President search process, as the Board of Trustees approved the search timeline, committee appointments and the job application form for the candidates that will be able to apply over the next several weeks. More stories will be written once applications come in and the candidates are narrowed down.

Opinion

In opinion, Assistant Lifestyle Editor Ayden Saeki wrote about the issues of corporations like Goodwill and Savers upselling their customers and ruining the experience of consumers who come to retailers to avoid companies that promote “fast fashion.”

Features

In Features, Social Media Editors Dante Estrada and Sabrina Farooq wrote about a presentation on AI here at PCC, and the dangers it presents to every facet of human life. One question, was incredibly striking: Is artificial Intelligence the death of creativity? Read on, to learn more about the panel and the future of AI.

PCC Sports

In sports, Assistant Lifestyle Editor, Ayden Saeki, and Assistant Opinion Editor Carlos de la Luz, covered the opening games of the Men’s Basketball season at the Skip Robinson Tournament. And as the title suggests, their season started with one beatdown, and one marginally bad loss. Read the story for quotes from the coaches and players on the opening games.

Lifestyle

In Lifestyle, Assistant Features Editor Trina Jaconi-Biery led The Courier staff in a written potluck. With submissions that included an Acorn Squash dish, Tomatillo Soup, Cookies, Ham??? and an assortment of personalities: Including cyclists, forgetful people and cultural diversity. Hopefully some of these dishes inspire some creativity or ideas for a last minute dish for tomorrow.

Podcast

The podcast editor has to eat food too! Enjoy your holiday! (The podcast will be out this weekend at some point.) So enjoy time with family, friends, and anyone else you like to spend time with.

Social Media

Here is a link to all of our social media pages, with a weekly TikTok and other content: https://linktr.ee/pcccourier