COMMUNITY NEWS MOISES GARAY TAKES FIRST PLACE IN CHAN DASH.Sun Valley Middle School Sun Valley Middle School is located in Sun Valley, a section of Los Angeles, California, and is part of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In April 1948, school officials announced that "the most charming of all the new junior high schools" in the Los Angeles system would seventh-grader Moises Garay took first place in the citywide semifinals of the recent Jackie Chan Studio Fitness School Dash. Garay defeated 15 other Los Angeles-area students in the Dec. 3 competition, with his schoolmates, eighth-grader Samuel Aguilar and sixth-grader Jennifer Flores Flores, town, Guatemala Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the , coming in second and third, respectively. Garay won a gold medal, a $100 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 trip to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where he will compete in the National Grand Championship for a $10,000 college savings bond. Aguilar won a $50 gift certificate and Flores won a $25 gift certificate. Burbank's Woodbury University recently named Stephen Chandler, James Inman, Greg Lippe and Arthur Zenian to its board of trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . Chandler has more than 35 years' experience in real estate investment and management, while Inman is president of the Wilnor Corp., a nonprofit senior citizens' housing complex in Los Angeles. Lippe serves on the board of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association and is managing partner of the accounting firm Lippe, Hellie, Hoffer and Allison in Woodland Hills. Zenian is president of the biomedical engineering and information technology firm Binovia in Burbank. Chandler, Lippe and Zenian are alumni, and Inman's father was a member of the private university's first graduating class in 1887. The House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically recently donated 23 guitars to fifth-graders at Our Community School in North Hills as part of its ``Make an Impression Program.'' The school's music teacher, Emily Wells, will teach the students how to play and they will perform at the House of Blues at the end of the school year. The International House of Blues Foundation and Washburn Guitars sponsor the program. HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) Bank recently awarded a $5,000 grant to Penny Lane Centers, a North Hills-based home for abused children. Write-in voters chose Penny Lane for the grant and Assemblywoman Cindy Montanez presented the award. Penny Lane serves more than 1,500 abused teens in Los Angeles County annually with residential and foster care, adoption services, housing, mentoring, independent-living skills, job skills and mental health services. |
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