The Senn Files

By Cheryl Senn It was reminiscent of long lines for a rock concert, blockbuster movie or opening night of a famous play. If you would have driven by the Sanger High School on Tuesday afternoon, you would have wondered what ...

By Cheryl Senn “Vision is the ability to see potential in what others overlook,”-Rick Warren For the past few years, James Pinedo, owner of Definitive Staffing, in downtown Sanger, looked at the big blank east wall of his business building. ...

By Anahi Jaramillo “And yet the dawn is ours before we know it. Somehow we do it, somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished. We are the successors of a country and a time ...

By Cheryl Senn I have been hearing the phrase,”the light at the end of the tunnel” a lot lately from our leaders. Most of them are talking about the Nation going through a world pandemic. With the distribution of the ...

By Dana Xiong, Allie’s mother Dear Friends,  I am sharing a very intimate speech that I gave during an interview with the local news. I know that no words can fully capture the life of my beautiful daughter, Allie Chang. ...

By Cheryl Senn “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it,” said Helen Keller This holiday season is complicated, at best, and presents many challenges that no other year has ever experienced. ...

By Cheryl Senn Christmas time in Sanger has always been a time of traditions. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of the time honored traditions had to be cancelled or modified. Even visiting with Santa has been ...

By Cheryl Senn “Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.” – Henri Frederic Amiel The pandemic may have everyone feeling divided and separated, but ...

By Cheryl Senn “Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others,” said Paul Bloom. Sanger Unified School District’s (SUSD) motto for the 2020-21 school year is “Always connected.” While dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

By Cheryl Senn This has been a very busy week for all the election workers. It appears that more people than in previous elections voted, especially by mail in ballots, prior to the election. It was important for everyone’s voices ...