Rummage sale for girls’ basketball Twenty families...

Rummage sale for girls’ basketball

Twenty families will hold a rummage sale at Laguna Beach High

School selling clothes, furniture and more.

Proceeds will benefit Laguna Beach High School girls’ basketball.

The sale will be from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the school.

‘Friendraiser’ at Claes set

There will be a SchoolPower and Claes Andersen Friendraiser at

Claes Restaurant. Andersen is hosting the event, which will include

appetizers and champagne, dinner and wine.

Proceeds will go to SchoolPower and the Laguna Beach Public

Schools.

The event will be at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the restaurant, inside

Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Highway.

SchoolPowers will also host its 11th annual Golf and Gourmet

Classic at Coto de Caza on Nov. 3.

Four Laguna Merit Scholar semifinalists

The names of about 1,600 semifinalists in the 49th annual National

Merit Scholarship Program were announced Sept. 17 and four Laguna

Beach High School students have qualified -- Marisa Reisman, Jeremy

Graves, Grant Hofmeister and Michael Codini.

These students have an opportunity to continue to compete for some

8,000 Merit Scholarship awards worth $32 million. To continue, the

semifinalists now have to fulfill several requirements and advance to

finalist standing.

To become a finalist, a semifinalist must have a record of very

high academic performance, be endorsed and recommended by their

school principal and earn SAT scores that confirm their earlier

qualifying test performance. They also must submit a detailed

scholarship application that includes the student’s self-descriptive

essay and information about their participation and leadership in

community and school activities.