COMMUNITY NEWS THINGS GOING SWIMMINGLY IN QUEST TO RAISE MONEY FOR CALMONT SCHOOL'S.TOPANGA - Students at Calmont School raised $16,350 during their annual swimathon to support nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County. Students from 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. swam 1,336 laps toward the school's total of 5,408 laps. Students also are involved in nine monthly service projects that benefit organizations in Topanga and the metropolitan area. The school serves preschool through eighth-grade students. Jennifer Leao of North Hollywood has been sworn into the AmeriCorps, National Civilian Community Corps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), or AmeriCorps*NCCC is an AmeriCorps program in which 18 to 24-year-olds dedicate 10 months to address national and community needs. . Leao was selected from thousands of applicants to join the group of young people, 18-24, in the 10-month national service program committed to meeting community needs. Members are assigned to one of five campuses in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and complete 1,700 hours of community service through their 10-month terms. New members began their first project this month. Leao's first project is working in Lancaster, Pa., with the Lancaster County Lancaster County is the name of four counties in the United States:
Hilary Gushwa, 21, of Moorpark has won the Miss Ventura County 2005 title. She also won the Top Talent award in the October pageant with her piano performance. Gushwa attends the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. When she was 16, Gushwa created her own nonprofit organization Heart2Heart to raise funds for leukemia research and to get people registered on the National Bone Marrow Registry. THOUSAND OAKS - California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. seniors Marcus Green of Seattle and Courtney Parks of Puyallup, Wash., were crowned king and queen of the CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. Homecoming Court. Nominated by members of the senior class and elected by the entire student body, Green and Parks were among four couples vying for the title. Seniors who were named princesses and princes were Lindsay Elliott of Irvine; Lauren Habib of Thousand Oaks; Ashley Reagan of Sherman Oaks; Brian Roberts of Las Vegas, Mark Nielsen of Santa Maria and Ryan Lisk of King City. |
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