DEMONSTRATION OF CLASS LAURA BUSH TOURS AREA SCHOOL.Byline: Gina Keating Staff Writer ALTADENA - The wife of GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush inspected two innovative social programs at an Altadena school Wednesday during a campaign swing through the area. As first lady of Texas and a former teacher, Laura Bush has made education, especially reading, priorities she intends to keep if she and her husband move into the White House next year. Bush, 53, made no speeches during her two-hour morning visit to Andrew Jackson Elementary School
Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. started the Healthy Start Center with a $400,000 grant to provide health, social and educational services to parents and students, 70 percent of whom receive free or reduced-price lunches. In what seemed a special pleasure for her, the former librarian (1) A person who works in the data library and keeps track of the tapes and disks that are stored and logged out for use. Also known as a "file librarian" or "media librarian." See data library. (2) See CA-Librarian. plunked down on a tiny chair to read ``Officer Buckle and Gloria'' to enthralled en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. second-graders. ``You know what you have to do - you have to read every day,'' she told them at the story's end. ``It's good for your brain. You have to turn off your TVs.'' The school stop was sandwiched between a morning visit to volunteers at the 44th Assembly District campaign headquarters and a $1,000-a-plate fund-raising fund-raising, large-scale soliciting of voluntary contributions, especially in the United States. Fund-raising is widely undertaken by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and political groups to acquire sufficient funds to support their activities. luncheon in Pasadena. At the 20-minute campaign stop, Bush told about 70 volunteers crowded into the East Colorado Boulevard Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale, the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Arcadia, ending in Monrovia. storefront: ``There are not that many days left - we've got to turn them out. George is George I, king of Greece George I, 1845–1913, king of the Hellenes (1863–1913), second son of Christian IX of Denmark. After the deposition (1862) of Otto I, he was elected to succeed on the throne of Greece. going to work very hard. He's not giving up California.'' Bush worked her way around the room, posing for pictures, shaking hands and leaving a trail of admirers in her wake. ``A lovely, lovely lady,'' Arvilla Splawn of Pasadena said of Bush. ``A big word is 'class.' I told her I married a Texan, too.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: First-grader Raquel Zarate reads an eye chart Wednesday as school official Pat Lechelt and Laura Bush tour Andrew Jackson Elementary. Walt Mancini/Staff Photographer |
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