PAUL KITAGAKI JR./pkitagaki@sacbee.com

Jeremy Tanforan, 15, works this week on a guitar he's making in wood shop at Casa Roble High in Orangevale. Shop classes have been hard hit by funding cuts, and the Casa Roble program, teacher Rob Leever says, has been forced to get creative. Instead of traditional projects such as bookends, the classes craft items such as Adirondack chairs and offer them for sale.

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