Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Saddleback College Art Gallery's 2012 Juried Student Art Exhibition
The Saddleback College Art Gallery’s annual Juried Student Art Exhibition features work from Saddleback College’s studio art, photography and graphic design students. From about 400 submitted entries, 80 pieces were chosen for display at the exhibit. Saddleback College students were given the opportunity to vote on their favorite pieces on display at The Juried Student Art Exhibition. Jon Hartl, who won Best of Show for his sculpture, “In the Spirit”, knows first-hand about the hard work that has gone into each student's piece. “You know how much of a labor of love this is”, says Hartl, while speaking about the creation of his award-winning sculpture. Hartl won $500 for his piece at the artists’ awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 1st. Awards …
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Saddleback College
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Mission Viejo is one step closer to two new daycares following the Monday planning commission meeting
Two new daycares were approved by the planning commission Monday, Associate City Planner Tim Martin said. One of the businesses is planning to open in south Mission Viejo, while the other plans to open near Lake Mission Viejo. Here's a quick look at both daycares. Umaña Academy is planning to open just north of Crown Valley near Sport Chalet and Café Maiz with a 5,040 sq. ft. building and an outdoor play area of unspecified size. Daycare would be provided for young children, along with fine art classes for small groups of children under 13. The average number of students planned for the site is 50. The owner, Maureen Umaña Boatman of San Juan Capistrano, already owns and operates a similar business in Ladera Ranch. She said she plans to…
Before converting to Christianity, Waffen SS Lt. Werner Langer fought for the Germans in World War II and shook Hitler's hand. On Monday, he spoke with a Rancho Santa Margarita classroom.
He's 87 years old, one eye is mostly closed, and he's wearing an American flag lapel pin. His accent is strong, his humor self-deprecating and his message is clear. Lt. Werner Langer fought for the Germans in World War II. On Monday in a Santa Margarita Catholic history class, Langer fought the stereotype. He wasn't exactly what the kids expected from a former Hitler Youth and Nazi soldier, a caricature they had seen only in movies. Yet, for the better part of an hour, Langer regaled the mostly senior class—primarily boys, a handful of girls—in Scott McIntosh's class, which devotes one semester to the Civil War and another to WWII. As an officer in the Waffen Secret Service—which Langer likened to the Marines—he fought against the Russians…
Monday, May 14, 2012
If voters shoot down a November initiative to temporarily raise taxes, school districts statewide would face $5.5 billion in cuts, about $700 million worse than what the governor estimated in January.
Gov. Jerry Brown continues to lay his hopes for state fiscal soundness on a November tax initiative, but if it doesn’t pass, schools will face additional cuts that could chop three weeks off the next school year. On Monday, Brown revised the 2012-13 budget he first released in January. Called the May revise, his new figures reflect tax revenues that have fallen far short of earlier predictions. “It’s a difficult budget,” Brown acknowledged in a press conference. If voters approve his temporary tax hike measure, Brown’s revised budget would actually increase funding for schools by $15 billion in four years, or $2,500 per student. Brown called the tax initiative reasonable. “I think it’s fair, and I think it provides a reliable source of …
Send us your favorite prom photos and memories!
Ah, the prom. It's that unforgettable night rife with wonder and excitement; high school juniors and seniors on the precipice of adulthood bursting with teenage angst and hormones, praying that damn pimple goes away before the big night, the excruciating pressure of asking that special boy or girl, the last-minute rush to the tuxedo store, the elaborate hair and make-up sessions. And, of course, your mother...and her dreaded camera! It really is a special time in a young person's life, and for Mission Viejo students, it's coming up soon: Before the events, we were hoping you could help us collect some embarrassing prom photos and memories. If you have a great prom photo (or if you’re able to sneak us your spouse's, or better yet, your …
Friday, May 11, 2012
Find out who the big winners were.
The local Elks recently gave out $4,000 in scholarships to Mission Viejo's outstanding students, as well as savings bonds and certificates. Some of the students are heading to such top schools as UCLA, Stanford and Harvard. Mission Viejo Mayor Pro Tempore Rhonda Reardon was there to honor the outstanding students, too. Here are the top scholarship winners: John Dellos also recognized a sixth student, Karli M. Thompson, Rancho Santa Margarita, Trabuco Hills High School, who was awarded an $800 scholarship at the state level competition. "I was astonished by the tremendous academic and community service accomplishments of the foregoing student scholars," Dellos said. "It is not surprising that have been accepted at such prestigious …
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Mission Viejo Elks Lodge 2444
25092 Marguerite Pky, Mission Viejo, CA
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Annual ROP Distinguished Student Awards ceremony awards scholarships in five career majors as well as a select number of special scholarships funded by the ROP staff and community partners.
When students earn awards through the Capistrano-Laguna Regional Occupational Program, a whole audience gets to hear their praises from the teachers who shepherded them along. The nominating teachers used words like "passion," "vision," "intensity," "achievement," "outstanding," "driven," "talented," "remarkable" and "inspirational." The audience hearing these adjectives were with well-dressed students, supporting family members, sponsoring business partners and many representatives from the Capistrano Unified and Laguna Beach Unified school districts, who filled the theater at San Juan Hills High to the brim Wednesday. The ROP honored outstanding students who enrolled in specialty classes which focus on career-oriented instruction, …
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San Juan Hills High School
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
One student wrote an election song, others talk about global politics, and there's a major track meet, wrestling highlights and more in this video roundup
The end of the school year is rapidly approaching. Misison Viejo students seem to be feeling the excitement, and are being featured on videos around the Internet. Here are some videos showing off the various talents of our students, from music to sports to politics:
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
John Freeh and Father Robert Spitzer share with parents their hopes to help students maintain a curiosity for learning and desire for faith.
“The mind is created as a heat-seeking missile with respect to the truth; it wants to know what the truth is, and that is true at every stage of one’s life," said John Freeh, tapped in February to become the next principal at JSerra Catholic High School. Guiding that heat-seeking missile and cultivating a sense of curiosity and wonder is how he sees his job, which technically starts in July. Freeh said wants each teacher to treat his career as a vocation; a calling. Taking the lead from poems such as “The Four Quartets,” is one way in which Freeh learns about how to be such a leader, he said. “ 'Old men ought to be explorers,' ” Freeh quoted T.S. Eliot. He believes that the quote expresses the human need to constantly be learning. Freeh …
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JSerra Catholic High School
26351 Junipero Serra Rd, San Juan Capistrano, CA
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Under a proposal coming before the school board, some area high schools would introduce beginning Mandarin Chinese courses.
Local high school students may get the chance to study Mandarin Chinese next year if a proposal to add beginning courses in the language is approved by the Saddleback Valley Unified School District board. The school board is scheduled to review the proposal Tuesday evening at its monthly meeting in Mission Viejo. If the board approves the new courses, "some high schools" in SVUSD could offer them for the 2012-2013 school year, according to the staff report. The report does not specific which schools are interested in adding Chinese classes to their course catalog and attempts to reach the district for more information were unsuccessful. According to the report, enrollment, site funds for textbooks and materials and the availability of …
Glenn Acosta
6:52 am on Wednesday, May 16, 2012
At times it is difficult to separate the individual SS officer with the devastation caused by the Nazis and SS as a whole, such as the almost 9,400 American soldiers buried at Normandy, the millions of Jewish people killed at Nazi concentration camps, and the countless innocent lives lost across Europe. Many in the SS were quite ruthless and cold-blooded, like Friedrich Jeckeln, which makes the … more ›