COMMUNITY NEWS SCHOLARSHIPS WILL HELP AREA STUDENTS BLOOM.The West Valley Garden Club will present college scholarships Tuesday to several local students who plan to study horticulture, floriculture floriculture Branch of ornamental horticulture concerned with growing and marketing flowers and ornamental plants, as well as with flower arrangement. Because flowers and potted plants are largely produced in plant-growing structures in temperate climates, floriculture is , landscaping or a related field. This year's winners will are: Bridget Venavides of North Hollywood, a senior at Canoga Park High School Canoga Park High School is a public school located in Canoga Park in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, USA, within the Los Angeles Unified School District. It is located right across the street from the Topanga Plaza shopping center. ; Farah Lee of Chatsworth, a student a Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. ; Jose Angulo of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, , a student at the West Valley Occupational Center; and John Willett John Willett was a translator and a scholar who is famous for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht into English. He was born on June 24 1917, and died August 20 2002. He was 85. Early life Willett was educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. of Lake View Terrace, a student at Pierce. The club will also honor its two statewide first-place winners in the Smokey Bear/Woodsy Owl poster contest sponsored by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. and the Department of Agriculture's Forestry Department. These were Jenniffer Ovalle, a third-grader at Calvert Street Elementary in Woodland Hills, and Kristin Tjosaas, a fifth-grader at Cottonwood Elementary in Palmdale. Their posters are on display at the Platt Branch Library in Woodland Hills and the Palmdale Library in Palmdale. Los Angeles Unified school board President Marlene Canter was named the city's top female executive by the Los Angeles Business Journal during its recent Women Making a Difference luncheon. Canter worked 30 years as a special education teacher before her election to the board in 2001. |
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