COMMUNITY NEWS KIDS CHIP IN TO AID TSUNAMI VICTIMS.ARLETA - Some of the poorest children in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. managed to collect nearly $1,000 for tsunami victims this past week. Children at Sharp Avenue Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Arleta scraped together their allowances and handed over their Christmas cash in hopes of helping. ``I'm so proud of them. They are so generous and they are so excited,'' Principal Jackie Schneider said. More than 95 percent of the 1,000 students at the school qualify for free and reduced-price lunches. Fourth- and fifth-graders on the student council led the effort. ``When I watched the news, I saw a lot of people without homes and a lot of them died. It's really sad,'' said Brenda Castellanos, 10. Classmate Nadine Romero, 9, said, ``It made me feel sad that some people don't have parents anymore. Maybe they could (use the donations to) buy something they would have always wanted, like probably toys or something.'' Mario Solis, 10, donated the $1 weekly allowance that he earned for cleaning his room and doing his homework. And Luis Lopez Luis Lopez or Luis López can mean:
NORTH HOLLYWOOD - Fair Avenue Elementary School in North Hollywood plans to celebrate its new science and music laboratories with a ribbon-cutting and a program of speakers and performances at the school on Monday. The science lab, funded by the Boone Foundation, is equipped with beakers, microscopes, stethoscopes and other teaching tools. The music laboratory aims to provide students with more instruments and push them to develop their vocal ranges. North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are blue, white, grey. students from the Naturalist Academy will serve as tutors and instruct Fair Avenue students on basic science concepts. ``At Fair, we take science and music very seriously,'' said Principal Rosalba Manrique. ``I want all my children to enjoy and explore the wonders of science and the joy of music.'' SANTA MONICA - Two area high school students were among 29 students from the United States and Canada who were invited to Los Angeles to perform in the 2005 Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensembles. Victor Gould of Simi Valley, a piano student at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA or Arts High) is a public high school that operates on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. Though it shares facilities with the university, the two schools' activities tend to be separate. , and Katie Thiroux of Chatsworth, an alto at Hamilton High School Hamilton High School may refer to:
The students will rehearse Feb. 6 and 7 with musical directors Justin DiCioccio of the Manhattan School of Music Founded in 1917, the school is located on Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to the campus of Columbia University, where it has been since 1969. Many of the students live in the school's residence hall, Andersen Hall. and Ron McCurdy of the USC Thornton School of Music The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999, is one of the premiere music schools in the United States. Founded only four years after the University itself, the Thornton school is the oldest continually operating arts . The ensembles are scheduled to perform at jazz clubs, including The Vic on Feb. 9, and the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on Feb. 10. For the finale, the students will perform at the Grammy pre-telecast ceremonies and the post-telecast celebration. They also will attend the 47th Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 13 as guests of the Recording Academy. Students will be eligible for more than $2 million in scholarships through the college incentive program and its partners, Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts, with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,900 students and a 2004 faculty of approximately 430. , USC Thornton School of Music, New School University and Manhattan School of Music. |
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