DINNER WILL RAISE FUNDS FOR PALMDALE HIGH SCHOOL BAND.

Byline: Joanne Pepiak

PALMDALE - The Palmdale High School band boosters will hold a spaghetti dinner March 1 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Palmdale Cultural Center, 704 E. Palmdale Blvd.

Tickets for the fund-raiser are $5 for adults and $3 for children under 12, booster president Dan Lintemoot said.

Tickets can be purchased by calling principal's secretary Cindy Lintemoot at the school, 273-3181, ext. 133.

Proceeds from the event will go toward the Palmdale High School Band and Pageantry Corp May 1-May 5 trip to the Orlando Musicfest competition, Dan Lintemoot said.

The dinner is one of several fund-raisers to be held recently in efforts to raise the $65,000 needed to cover travel expenses for the 85 students, Lintemoot said. As of Feb. 6, booster parents and band members still needed to raise about $30,000, he said.

In addition, boosters will hold a rummage sale Saturday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Palmdale High School Falcon football field parking lot, located at 20th Street East and Avenue R.

Boosters are seeking community members interested in donating unwanted items to the effort, Lintemoot said.

Contributions such as clothes, books, household appliances and other typical garage sale goods can be dropped off at the field at 7 p.m. on Saturday or call Lintemoot at 947-4930 or Alice Ruckman at 947-9155 for pick-up service.

Another booster fund-raiser includes candy bar sales going on through March 15.

Candy bars are $1 each and can be purchased from any PHS band booster parent, band member or by calling Cindy Lintemoot.

LITTLEROCK - About 40 Littlerock High School foreign students are seeking community sponsors for a spring trip to France.

Anyone interested in contributing to the effort should mail checks to the school in care of the French Club, 10833 E. Ave. R., Littlerock, CA 93534. Checks must be made payable to the Littlerock High School French Club - not to Littlerock High School, as was mistakenly announced last week.

Cost of the trip being scheduled later in the spring is expected to be about $1,500 per student, Littlerock senior Rob Robledo said.

For more information call the school front office at 944-5243.

PALMDALE - About 800 Summerwind Elementary School students experienced ocean life in the classroom Feb. 1 and Feb. 2.

In "Ocean Alive," presented by the Los Angeles County Office of education Marine Education Program, students received hands-on experience with sea life and talked about the harmful effects of pollution, principal Mike Ohren said.

"What it does is actually bring the sea to the school," Ohren said. "They have sea urchins they can touch and sand dollars, star fish. . . . It's kind of like a tide pool on wheels."

Representatives from the program met with two classes at a time and the kindergarten through sixth-grade students were able to spend about 50 minutes with sea experts, Ohren said.