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The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

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Downtown Disney’s new Parkside Market food hall located in 1569 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, offers customers an indoor space to eat away from the summer heat on Wednesday, May 7.

BREAK BUCKET LIST: 5 Orange County spots to check out this summer

Elise Pak, Opinion Editor • May 15, 2025

A young girl feeds a sheep at the petting zoo during the ag department’s Fall Festival Saturday, Oct. 19, at the farm. Besides the opportunity to interact with such animals as sheep and goats, the event offered carnival games and food options.

Ag students host return of Fall Festival on Saturday, Oct. 19, after 7-year hiatus

Kyuwon Han, Opinion Editor • October 22, 2024

After a seven-year hiatus, Sunny Hills ag students who are part of the Future Farmers of America [FFA] hosted a Fall Festival at the farm on Saturday, Oct. 19. “We really wanted more community events,...

Sophomore Ryan Kim (left) interacts with his classmates Monday, Oct. 7, in the new, nearly $3.8 million building at the farm during teacher Brian Kim’s fifth period Agriculture Chemistry class in Room 201.

Almost two months into fall semester, agriculture students and teachers get to use new, nearly $3.8 million building at the farm

Katelyn Ahn, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter • October 9, 2024

This story was updated on Thursday, 10/24, with new information from school officials explaining another reason for the delay of the new ag building's use as well as an image of what the student desk furniture...

A rendering of the completed ag building. Once finished in the summer, the nearly $3.8 million three-classroom structure will replace the portable classrooms there.

Nearly $3.8 million building to be constructed on ag farm, replacing 20-year-old portables

Katelyn Ahn, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter • January 30, 2024

This story was updated Friday, April 12, with an image of what the new ag building will look like. Groundbreaking has begun on a nearly $3.8 million agriculture farm building that will contain three...

Two steers lie down inside the agriculture farm after school on Thursday, Dec. 21. Though the program has animals that produce manure, the unfamiliar smell that infiltrated campus in November did not originate from the farm.

DID YOU KNOW? Contrary to popular belief, animals from school’s agriculture farm are not the source of the stench around campus before Thanksgiving break

Lauren Kang, Managing Editor • December 22, 2023

As a continuing feature from last year, The Accolade investigates the strange odor that permeated the campus in November. The Accolade sends cub reporter Lauren Kang to investigate. It was a Tuesday...

Standing next to Ronald the cow, English and journalism teacher Tommy Li (left) waves to the audience in the quad during lunch Friday, March 3, as Future Farmers of America vice president junior Paloma Wizikowski applauds. Wizikowski started the countdown for Li to perform his duties of kissing the bovine as a culminating event to national Future Farmers of America [FFA] week. The less than five-minute show in which Li was chosen among a list of other teachers and staff –including principal Craig Weinreich – after earning the most votes from digital voting was originally scheduled for Friday, Feb. 24, the last day of FFA Week, but was postponed because of rain.

Photo Gallery: FFA Week

Rebekah Kim and Summer Sueki • March 12, 2023

Ag teacher feature

New agriculture teacher aims to continue with traditional events like ‘Kiss the Cow’ while helping students grow as leaders

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • January 19, 2022

Shannon Deskin grew up in South Orange County with parents who owned such pets as cats, dogs, horses, snakes, lizards and geckos. “We always had animals,” Deskin said of her childhood Mission Viejo...

Not his first rodeo — English teacher who grew up on a dairy farm gets most student votes to kiss the cow as culmination of Future Farmers of America Week

Alice Lee, Staff Reporter • March 16, 2021

English teacher Randy Oudega never thought he would get enough votes from students to be nominated for the honor of a Future Farmers of America [FFA] spring semester tradition: Kiss the Cow. “Udder...

Agriculture teachers Brian Kim (top left) and Jeremy Cates await visitors to their Zoom session during the Jan. 7 virtual Open House. Since an on-campus Open House was not possible because of the coronavius pandemic, school officials provided the Fullerton community with a PDF file of Zoom links for anyone interested in meeting with instructors, counselors or coaches to ask them questions.

Despite reduced attendance, virtual Open House provides opportunity for eighth-graders and their parents to inquire about Sunny Hills’ programs

Nevya Patel, News Editor • February 10, 2021

During the school years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Open House gave the Sunny Hills programs and pathways a chance to attract prospective students to their booths with their unique displays. The...

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