ADVISORY/Most Outstanding Community Program to Be Honored by Children and Families Commission of Orange County.

News Editors

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 6)

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WHAT: The Children and Families Commission of Orange County will
      hold its annual Community Awards Program and present the
      distinguished Peter A. Hartman Award to the most outstanding
      community program. Named for the former superintendent of the
      Saddleback Unified School District and a champion of children's
      issues, Peter A. Hartman, Ph.D (1938-2001), the Hartman award is
      given out to the community program having the greatest impact in
      serving the needs of Orange County's children in getting them as
      ready as possible for school.

WHO: The program selected this year for the Hartman award is the Oak
     View Preschool and Education Resource Center based in Huntington
     Beach.

     The Children and Families Commission of Orange County was
     created as a result of Proposition 10, the California Children
     and Families Act of 1998. The proposition added a 50-cent sales
     tax on tobacco products sold in California and requires the funds
     raised be used to support education, health and childcare
     programs that promote healthy early childhood development from
     the prenatal stage to age five.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 6, 2002 at 6:00 pm

WHERE: The Discovery Science Museum in Santa Ana. Interested
       individuals can call [phone] to purchase tickets or
       learn of sponsorship opportunities.

WHY: To recognize examples of outstanding programs that further the
     intent of Proposition 10 in preparing children to be healthy and
     ready to learn when they enter the school system.