Pegasus boasts prize-winning writers Nine students at...

Pegasus boasts prize-winning writers

Nine students at the Pegasus School in Huntington Beach won prizes

Saturday in the “Stellaluna Read the Book and Write a Story Contest”

conducted by the Carpenter Performing Arts Center and the Long Beach

Public Library youth division.

More than 100 students wrote a short story beginning with “One day

a bat swooped into our house and ...” They also created an

illustration of their story and submitted entries to their local

public library branch or to the Carpenter Center.

Sidney Lee won the grand prize, while fellow first-graders Finn

Dobkin and Joanna Yuan received awards along with third-graders

Stephen Kim, Lauren Paige, Joujou Nguyen, Brian Team, Austin Dix and

Brianna VanHoogenstyn.

Hawes PTA to hold a country fair on campus

Ralph E. Hawes Elementary School is set to hold an old-fashioned

country fair. Students, friends and neighbors are invited the 2003

Country Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 1.

The PTA-sponsored event, which is its primary fund-raiser of the

year, will include game booths and attractions like face painting, a

baseball toss, goldfish catch, arts and crafts and raffle prizes.

Principal Karen Ayres will be on hand for the day as a fortuneteller.

“In light of the drastic budget cuts to our HB schools, we have

high hopes to raise as much money as possible to continue to fund

programs which are important to the growth and development of our

children,” said parent Marianne Owen.

Tickets will be available on the day of the fair. For more

information call (714) 965-1504.

Ocean View gets money for middle schools

Ocean View School District was awarded a $668,000 grant this

month, which will be applied toward improving middle school students’

language arts, communication and technology skills.

More than $100,000 of the grant will go toward allowing students

and teachers instant access to the Internet, including a Smartboard

with projector.

Students will now have access to wireless mobile laptop labs,

digital cameras and camcorders for multimedia projects.

The grant was made available as part of the federal No Child Left

Behind Act of 2001 as a new revenue source to enhance education

through technology.

The grant will go toward seventh-grade classrooms, but the

district is expecting to receive another $334,000 to expand the

program for eighth-graders.

Session on developing student’s strengths

The Substance Abuse and Violence Education Task Force, formed in

2001, will host a training session for community members interested

in applying a new philosophy designed to develop children’s

resiliency.

Clay Roberts, an expert in developing strength in children and

their families, will introduce the concepts of the approach -- called

the 40 Developmental Assets -- to community leaders and parents at

3:15 p.m. on Oct. 28 at Dwyer Middle School.

Roberts will lead another session from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Dwyer

Middle School for teachers and parents focusing on how the approach

will be applied in the classroom.

Developed and tested by the Brea Police Department when its DARE

program was eliminated, the curriculum comes highly recommended, said

Shirley Carey, facilitator of the new task force.

To make a donation, volunteer or for more information, call (714)

968-7287.

A good use for those spare pennies

A drug education program is asking for spare change for its

Pennies for Prevention campaign.

The Promoting Resources in Drug Education, or PRIDE Foundation,

raised $18,000 last year through the campaign and hopes to exceed

$20,000 this year.

Donations can be made through Oct. 23 at the Huntington Beach

Police and fire departments and their substations. The final day’s

collection will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the Bank

of America parking lot in the Five Points Shopping Center.

The campaign supports the Every 15 Minutes program, the Youth

Summit, Red Ribbon Week, Community Forums and the Substance Abuse and

Violence Education Task Force, and is sponsored by the PRIDE

Foundation, Bank of America, Mandic Motors, Police Officers Assn. and

the Huntington Beach Police Department.

To get a collection can for your business and to arrange for

donations to be picked up, call Barbara at (714) 493-6169.