Sts. Simon and Jude gets $10,000 in...

Sts. Simon and Jude gets $10,000 in books

A Huntington Beach Catholic school received $10,000 for new books

last week after one of the school’s parents won a contest through

Target.

Laurie Martinez, whose first-grade son attends Sts. Simon and Jude

Catholic Elementary School on Magnolia Street, won $5,000 in spending

money and was allowed to select her school of choice to receive

$10,000 toward new books. She won in a Target contest that rewarded

one random user of a Target Visa card.

The school, which had an assembly last week celebrating the new

funds, will share the $10,000 with its sister school, St. Joseph’s in

Santa Ana, librarian Lynne Deakers said.

“This is going to enable us to upgrade our collection of

nonfiction material at the elementary level,” Deakers said. “We

really lucked out.”

In addition to the $10,000, every one of the school’s 670 students

received a hardback book at the assembly courtesy of Target through

its “Ready Sit Read” campaign, Deakers said.

Golden West College blood drive today

Healthy people weighing at least 110 pounds are invited to donate

blood at Golden West College today through the Red Cross.

Sponsored by the college’s activities office, “Blood Donor Days”

will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Rustler hangout, on the south

side of the gym.

Blood donations are expected to take about 90 minutes. For more

information, call the student activities office at (714) 895-8261.