BRIEFLY.Youth panelists sought by city LANCASTER -- The Lancaster Parks, Recreation and Arts Department is recruiting youth commissioners for the 2006-07 school year. Application deadline is Friday. Youth commissioners serve in an advisory capacity to the Lancaster City Council and are representatives for youths throughout the city. Youth commissioners interact with city officials, learn how to run a meeting according to Robert's Rules of Order Robert's Rules of Order: see parliamentary law; Robert, Henry Martyn. Robert’s Rules of Order manual of parliamentary procedure by General Robert. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 717] See : Orderliness , participate in the annual Youth in Government Program, and nominate other teens for the Teen Spotlight Award Program. Commissioners meet on the second Thursday of each month at Lancaster City Hall. Applicants must attend a Lancaster high school Lancaster High School may refer to:
Applications for the program are available on the city's Web site, www.cityoflancasterca.org, or through high school associated student body advisers or at the Parks, Recreation and Arts Department at Lancaster City Hall, 44833 Fern Ave. 4 local students are Commended LANCASTER -- Paraclete High School students Alexander Copeland, Ashley Holtz, Kaitlin Huerta and Stacey Thornton have been named Commended Students in the 2007 National Merit Scholarship Program The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC), a privately funded, not-for-profit organization. The program began in 1955. . Although they will not continue in the 2007 competition for Merit Scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.4 million students who took the 2005 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. About 34,000 students nationwide got the recognition. Adventist Church begins meeting ACTON -- Acton Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church (abbreviated "Adventist"[2]) is a Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished mainly by its observance of Saturday, the "seventh day" of the week, as the Sabbath. will begin meeting Saturday at 32142 Crown Valley Road. Bible study is at 9:30 a.m. and corporate worship at 11 a.m., with a vegetarian fellowship luncheon following the worship service. For information, call Ernie Morford at (661) 269-2491. Boxers, festival vendors sought LITTLEROCK -- Boxers are being sought for the USA Amateur Boxing match and vendors for the Dia de la Raza Dí·a de la Ra·za n. October 12, celebrated as a holiday in Spain, Latin America, and Hispanic regions and territories of the United States to commemorate the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492. Festival to be held Saturday at Jackie Robinson Park. The boxing match will be hosted by the Jackie Robinson County Park Boxing Club. Entry fee is $5. The festival will run from 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday in the park Saturday in the Park may refer to:
For boxing information, call boxing club coordinator Jose Rodriguez at (661) 944-2880. Vendors interested in participating in the festival can call Peg Lee at (661) 944-2880. Schiavo attorney to speak locally LANCASTER -- Attorney David Gibbs III, who represented the parents of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in their legal battle to stop her husband from removing her feeding tube, will speak in Lancaster. Gibbs will speak and sign his book, ``Fighting for Dear Life -- The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us'' at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at Lancaster Baptist Church, 4020 E. Lancaster Blvd. A.V. Republican Women to lunch PALMDALE -- Antelope Valley Republican Women, Federated will meet for lunch Oct. 17 at the Holiday Inn, 38630 Fifth St. W. Social time begins at 11:30 a.m., lunch is served at noon and the program begins at 12:30 p.m. Speaking will be Heather Peters, a campaign staffer for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Guests are welcome. Reservations are required. Call (661) 273-0964. NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. chapter schedules dinner LANCASTER -- The Antelope Valley branch of the NAACP will host its annual Freedom Fund Dinner, celebrating 39 years in the Antelope Valley. The dinner will be 6 to 10 p.m. Oct. 20 at the Essex House Hotel. Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. President Jackie Fisher will speak on ``Voting Our Values, Valuing Our Vote,'' the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. theme. Music group Pocket Change will perform. Tickets are $60 a person. The public is invited. For ticket information, call (661) 223-7376. Palmdale school food data on Net PALMDALE -- The Palmdale School District has created an Internet site to provide parents, students and teachers with information on school meals. Health-e Living -- accessible from the Child Nutrition page on the district's Web site at www.psd.k12.ca.us -- provides nutrition information on foods served in the school lunch and breakfast programs. The Web site also provides basic health data and nutrition calculators, district menus and more. -- Daily News |
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