Foundation gives $10,000 to physics and English...

Foundation gives $10,000 to physics and English

The Huntington Beach High School Foundation recently approved

spending more than $10,000 to upgrade computers in the physics

department and fund an English and social studies program.

Using funds from a fall registration membership drive, the

foundation will use $7,500 to fund the Lay Reader Program and $3,000

on upgrading physics department computers.

The Lay Reader Program will provide students with a second reader,

besides their classroom teacher, to give them more feedback on

English and social studies essays. The second reader will also allow

teachers to make more writing assignments leading up to essays,

giving students a better opportunity to write quality essays.

Computers that don’t have the speed, memory or networking ability

to allow physics students to do the calculations and exercises in

their textbooks will be replaced using the $3,000.

Golden West thanks Assistance League

Golden West College dedicated a pillar to the Assistance League of

Huntington Beach in recognition of its nursing scholarship donations

of more than $30,000.

The Assistance League awards six scholarships totaling $10,000

each year to students in the college’s nursing program. The pillar is

Golden West College’s top award in a program that honors donors to

the campus in various ways.

Fifteen members of the Assistance League attended the ceremony.

Ocean View to get physical with grant

Ocean View School District has been selected to receive a grant of

more than $400,000 that will fund a new physical, health and wellness

program for students in pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade.

The district is one of 13 in California to receive the Carol M.

White Physical Education Program grant, totaling $410,571, from the U.S. Department of Education.

The new program, called Steps to Success, aims to expand and

strengthen the district’s current physical education program and

respond to the rising rate of childhood obesity and diabetes. Steps

to Success is expected to start in November.

The first application of the program will be the inclusion of a

brisk 10-minute walk into the daily routine of school communities

districtwide.

Band tournament marches into 10th year

Huntington Beach High School will host the 10th annual Surf City

Open Marching Band Tournament on Saturday at Cap Shue Football Field,

with about 20 high school marching bands participating.

Competition begins at 3 p.m. and will continue until the awards

ceremony at about 8:30 p.m. The Huntington Beach High School marching

band and color guard will perform at about 8 p.m.

Tickets, which will be available at the gate, are $7 for general

admission, $5 for senior citizens and students, and children under 10

can get in for free. Cap Shue field is on the corner of Main Street

and Garfield Avenue. Parking is available behind the school on Main

Street.

For more information, call (714) 536-2514, ext. 4387.

Students, educators honored in Huntington

The Orange County Hispanic Education Endowment Fund celebrated its

10th anniversary Saturday in Huntington Beach by announcing it had

reached the $2-million mark and awarded its 500th scholarship.

In addition to announcing scholarship winners at the 2003 Apple of

Gold Awards Gala Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort

& Spa, members honored three leaders in advancing educational

opportunities for Hispanic youth.

They were Rueben Martinez, literacy and language arts; Kathleen

Sabine, retired principal at Heninger Elementary School in Santa Ana;

and Juan Francisco Lara, assistant vice chancellor of enrollment at

UC Irvine.