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The First Christian Church of Huntington Beach signed a three-year

lease for the use of Burke School site.

In a special meeting Tuesday night the Huntington Beach City School

District board of trustees approved the lease renewal by a 4-0 vote.

Trustee Brian Rechsteiner was absent from the meeting. The board entered

into an initial three year agreement with First Christian Church to use

the site as a school serving students in the kindergarten through the

eighth grade.

The Burke Elementary School closed down in 1985. The site has had a

number of tenants in the past 17 years, including, most recently, Step by

Step Preschool.

Swimming pool projects gets boost

Work on the swimming pool project at Huntington Beach High received a

big boost from The Robert Mayer Corporation in the form of a $100,000

donation.

Robert Mayer presented the Huntington Beach City School District with

a check last week.

With the gift, a donation that provides a bulkhead for the pool,

District Supt. Susan Roper said that Christmas came in January.

“With this gift we will be able to complete the long-dreamed of

aquatics facility at Huntington Beach High,” she said.

The facility has a price tag of $1.8 million. Funds have come from a

variety of sources including the City of Huntington Beach; the Huntington

Beach Union High School District; the State of California and community

contributions from Take the Plunge and Huntington Beach High School

Foundation.

Students at Eader are eager to help

Students at Eader Elementary School are learning in style with 100 new

desks for their classrooms.

The old desks, circa 1965, are still in good shape and have drawn

interest from several different organizations and individuals interested

in using them, Principal Dixie Arnold said.

But fifth-grader Sydney Milucky asked the administration if they could

send the old desks to Afghanistan school-age girls after reading a

newspaper article about a top school in the city of Kandahar going coed

again.

“She was really concerned about these girls and the poor conditions of

their classrooms. She wanted them to have desks for their schooling,”

Arnold said.

Huntington Beach City School District administrators have been helping

Arnold facilitate requests for the desks and how they are to be

dispersed, Arnold said.

Milucky has written a letter to UPS in hopes of getting them to donate

the shipping of the desks. Early responses from UPS indicate the company

is interested in helping with the project, Milucky said.

And the W-I-N-N-E-R-S are

The winners of the Huntington Beach City School District annual

district spelling bee were announced this week.

Huntington Seacliff Elementary School student Matt Deaner won the

fourth-grade competition and Moffett School’s Ringo Yen took the

fifth-grade competition. Sowers Middle School students won the top honor

at three levels as Jacob Jaffe won in sixth grade, the seventh-grade

winner was Mai-Linh Nguyen and Annie Stapleton took the eighth-grade

competition.

The five individual winners will be presented with awards at an

upcoming board meeting.