Los Gatos High School senior Mia Bradbury was selected as the Graphic Design WeTip Poster Design winner, a competition held to promote the district’s anonymous and confidential reporting service, WeTip.
Bradbury unveiled her winning posters at the March 28 board meeting, where she received a $1,000 scholarship donation from the Los Gatos High School Home & School Club, a $100 Visa gift card from WeTip, and an offer for a paid summer internship with Catapult CMS, WeTip’s parent company.
Initiated by Assistant Superintendent of Student Services Heath Rocha and facilitated by Los Gatos High School Graphic Design Teacher Alex Czech, 15 Honors students submitted poster designs for consideration. The assignment was to make a poster that encouraged students to report inappropriate actions that they witnessed or knew of for both schools in the district. With the requirement to include the WeTip hotline, and a call to action logo, students built out their concepts to encourage anonymous reporting of bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault and fentanyl use.
The winner was selected by the district’s Title IX Coordinator Megan Farrell and Assistant Superintendent Heath Rocha.
“Mia’s posters captured the message we wanted to convey in such a creative and relatable way,” Superintendent Bill W. Sanderson said. “We are so grateful for the partnership with the LGHS Home & School Club and Catapult CMS for helping us honor and celebrate Mia’s work.”
Czech’s Graphic Design classes commonly partner with student groups, nonprofit organizations and local businesses in the community. Czech said that students build kits for many of the school’s sports teams, have recently completed a logo for the School Safety staff, and continue to create identities, posters, packaging, app/web prototypes, apparel kits, and more for local businesses and organizations.
Bradbury’s posters will be printed and distributed to every classroom at both Los Gatos and Saratoga high schools, as well as hang on display in the District Office Board Room. Through the district’s partnership with WeTip, Bradbury will work to provide campaign opportunities for other school districts who may choose to focus on the poster’s actions.
WeTip was acquired by Catapult CMS in 2020. Founded in 1972 as a way to aid law enforcement and provide anonymous reporting resources and empowerment to citizens, WeTip has led to more than 1.2 million crimes reported, 16,000 arrests and 8,000 convictions.
El Camino Healthcare District will offer home Covid-19 test kits
After three years, more than 63,000 vaccines and 53,000 tests, the El Camino Healthcare District voted March 28 to replace its Covid-19 testing and vaccination program with a stockpile of at-home test kits available to community residents who are unable to purchase or receive test kits through other means.
The District invested more than $1.4 million toward its testing and vaccination program, which will end April 15, when 500 at-home antigen test kits will become available to community members.
“It was money well-spent and the fact that we can now wind this effort down is really a cause for celebration,” said Julia Miller, chair of the El Camino Healthcare District board. “We were able to help tens of thousands of community members. That’s why we’re here.”
The decision to end testing comes one month after California lifted its Covid State of Emergency and Santa Clara County ended its mass vaccine and testing sites. Health care providers and pharmacies throughout the county now have enough capacity to provide residents with access to testing and vaccinations.
Testing, vaccines and therapeutic treatments are still available at El Camino Health’s outpatient pharmacies.
Highway 17 lane closures are ongoing
Caltrans will perform daytime lane closures on Highway 17, between Blossom Hill Road to Summit Road, in Los Gatos through April 14.
These closures are needed to remove fallen and leaning trees impacted by the recent storms. Motorists are advised to expect delays and allow extra time for their commute.
Schedule of lane closures:
• Northbound Highway 17 from Summit Road to Blossom Hill Road Overcrossing: April 5-7, 9am to 3pm
• Southbound Highway 17 from “The Cats” to Summit Road: April 10-14, 9am to 3pm
