Combing out cigarette butts High school students...

Combing out cigarette butts

High school students scoured the beach last week, filling bags

with cigarette butts.

The cleanup was sponsored by Stop Tobacco Abuse of Minors Pronto,

a nonprofit group, and organized with the help of English teacher

Pamela Hostetler, who brought 33 students from Huntington Beach High

School and schools in Anaheim and Cypress.

“We got a lot of bags of cigarettes,” said Jim Walker, director of

the nonprofit group.

The elimination of smoking on beaches is a movement that appears

to be gaining steam. The San Clemente City Council enacted such a ban

in March.

Designer clothes to fund students’ trip

Student artists will be selling designer fashions to help pay for

a performance in Scotland.

Women’s clothing, sold in department stores like Macy’s and

Bloomingdale’s, will be marked down as much as 93%. The clothing will

be on sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 18 at the Huntington Beach

High School Student Center. The high school is at the corner of Main

Street and Yorktown Avenue.

The money raised will be used to pay travel bills for selected

students who will be performing “The Secret Garden” at the American

High School Theatre Festival scheduled for August in Edinburgh,

Scotland.

The sale will be the primary fundraiser as the school prepares for

the trip.

“We’re counting on this one, a big turnout on this one,” parent

organizer Terry Amundson said.

Higher-tech goods are on the way

Two schools in the Ocean View School District have been awarded

grants that are planned to boost the use of technology in the

classroom.

Spring View Middle School was named the recipient of a $5,000

award from Reader’s Digest.

Spring View Principal Cameron Malotte said the school would use

the grant to help pay for computers and tools called “smartboards,”

which allow a teacher to write notes on a whiteboard and have those

notes transferred into a computer’s memory banks.

One benefit of the program, Malotte said, is that students can

have easy access to a copy of a teacher’s lesson.

“Say there’s a kid who has trouble taking notes ... the teacher

can just push print,” Malotte said.

Hope View Elementary School was awarded $2,500 from Best Buy. The

funds are slated to beef up technology in the school’s kindergarten

classes.

Hope View kindergarten teachers plan to use scanners and digital

cameras in lessons so children can make and print out books on what

they learn, teacher Joan Whitfield said.