Board to review budget

The Laguna Beach Unified School District Board of Education will meet

at 7 p.m. in the board room at the district educational center, 550

Blumont St., to discuss the final district budget.

Preschoolers graduating

Twenty-five local families celebrated Friday , as their children

finished their very first school year at the Boys & Girls Club of

Laguna Beach Club preschool program.

The preschool program is a free preschool for 3-and 4-year-old

children from qualifying low-income families living in Laguna Beach

and surrounding communities.

The goal of Club Preschool is to give children an even start when

they enter the public school system. Children learn the alphabet,

counting skills, and some reading, and have learned social skills

needed to thrive in a classroom setting by the end of the program.

Families also benefit throughout the school year, by accessing

many other services and programs offered through collaborations at

the Boys & Girls Club.

While the children attend the preschool, La Playa offers English

as a Second Language classes to parents on-site at the club.

Health and developmental screenings are periodically offered, as

well as dental cleanings and referrals, nutrition classes, parenting

classes, and counseling by Coastal Family Therapy Services.

The preschool class graduating this year will be the first to

attend a new after school program at the club designed just for

kindergarteners. The new program, called “Kinder Buddy,” will be a

fee-based program open to all children in Laguna. Club Preschool

graduates will be receiving full scholarships to Kinder Buddy.

For more information on the Kinder Buddy Program, Club Preschool

or the Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach, call Terry Anne at (949)

494-2535, ext. 107.

Celebration

of ‘Chocolate’

The library will give children 7 to 12 a chance to watch a movie,

have fun and swirl fruit in melted chocolate from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Friday, July 8 to celebrate Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory.”

Parental permission and sign-up required. Call the library for

details, (949) 497-1733.