BURBANK GIRL WINS CUTIE PIE CONTEST.Byline: Diana Peyton They say shes cute as pie! Four-year-old Katie O'Brien of Burbank has been chosen by the Comstock and Wilderness pie filing companies as one of three children nationally acknowledged as an ``All American Cutie cut·ie also cut·ey n. pl. cut·ies also cut·eys Informal A cute person. Pie.'' She was awarded a $10,000 U.S. Savings Bond Savings bond A government bond issued in face value denominations from $50 to $10,000, with local and state tax-free interest and semiannually adjusted interest rates. savings bond A nonmarketable security issued by the U.S. and a family vacation for four to Walt Disney World Noun 1. Walt Disney World - a large amusement park established in 1971 to the southwest of Orlando Orlando - a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World . She also participated in The National Cherry Blossom Festival The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual spring celebration in Washington, D.C. commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift to the city of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo. Parade in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. Joan O'Brien, Katie's mom, rode with her in the parade in a red 1966 Ford Mustang convertible. ``If you've ever seen Katie you'd know how really outgoing she is. She waved to everyone; she loved every minute of it,'' she said. O'Brien entered the contest by submitting a photo of Katie with an essay describing the ``cutest thing her child had ever said or done.'' She said that while visiting Disneyland, Katie set a chair in front of a towering Mickey Mouse to climb up and meet him eye to eye. While standing face to face, she kissed him on the nose and said, ``Ahh . . . that's just what I needed!.'' She also received a trophy and a visit to Minneapolis for a photo shoot. She plans on taking cousins Jesse and Kristen Frederick to the theme park sometime in June. Look for Katie in magazine ads this month. Two local students have been recognized for outstanding writing and academic achievement. Ashley Oppenberg, a fifth-grade student from Chatsworth Hills Academy Chatsworth Hills Academy (CHA) is a private, coeducational day school located in Chatsworth, California, USA. CHA students are enrolled in Grades K through Eight and Preschool. , has been named first-place winner in the American Lawyers Association, Southern California Chapters' Creative Writing Contest. Ashley was awarded $200 and an opportunity to participate in the national competition. Students were asked to respond to the statement, ``Why I am glad America is a Nation of Immigrants.'' The poems and essays were judged by Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. district Board of Education member Genethia Hayes, state Assemblyman Tony Cardenas, D-Panorama City, and Ronald Lew, U.S. District Court judge. National judges in Washington, D.C., will select a winner to visit the capital in June. Another notable student, Tyler Newman, has been recognized by The United States Achievement Academy for his performance in Leadership and Science. The seventh-grader from Grace Brethren High School Brethren High School may refer to the following Christian high school:
Tyler's parents are Simi Valley residents Dave and Judy Newman. The Valley University Women will honor 15 seniors from local high schools with $1,500 Scholarship Awards at a luncheon in their honor May 16. The students and high schools they attend are: Bojana Zdraljeric, El Camino; Celia Ranos, Sylmar; Elena Perez, Monroe; Margaret Lee, Taft; Chitua Alonzic, Granada Hills; Caridad de Casal, Kennedy; Nancy Pham, Canoga Park; Dalia Alcazar alcazar Spanish alcázar Form of military architecture of medieval Spain, generally rectangular with defensible walls and massive corner towers. Inside was an open space (patio) surrounded by chapels, salons, hospitals, and sometimes gardens. , San Fernando; Anthony Pena, Monroe; Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Natanian, Kennedy; Katherine Delgado, Francis Polytechnic; Vivian Bodey, Reseda; Anoushka Scott, Burbank; Sarah Neyssani, El Camino; and Hanh Huynh, Sylmar. Students from the Monroe High School For other uses, see James Monroe High School. Monroe High School may refer to:
Broadcast from the Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., via satellite, students from around the country joined interactive discussions. ``It was a great opportunity for the students to see the federal appeals court, which we don't get to see too often,'' Mark Elinson, honors law class teacher, said. ``There is a very interesting contrast between state and federal judges.'' Sixty-five participants from two Monroe honors classes attended the conference. If you have news in your neighborhood, send it to Diana Peyton, Editorial Department, PO Box 4200, Woodland Hills, CA 91365-4200. Fax (818) 713-0058. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Katie O'Brien, 4, of Burbank won a cutie pie contest after her mother described a touching incident at Disneyland. |
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