BRIEFLY IN EDUCATION

School board selects state board candidate

The Laguna Beach Unified School District Board of Education held a special meeting yesterday, April 5, to choose their candidate for the California School Boards Association.

Region 15, which encompasses Orange County and the Lowell Joint Unified School District, held its delegate assembly election recently but one election resulted in a tie, which requires a run-off election.

The assembly sets the general policy direction for the association, and is divided into regions to ensure the interests of all districts are reflected.

Following the meeting, the Board began its interviews for a new district superintendent.

National Boys & Girls Clubs Week marked

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Laguna Beach joined more than 4,000 other clubs across the country in celebrating National Boys & Girls Club Week, March 25 to 31.

This year, the Clubs’ week-long celebration was kicked off with a sleep-over party. TLC and Main Branch members designed and printed their own t-shirts to show off their club spirit and originality.

Expressions included “The Club is Fun,” “The Art Room Rocks,” “Join the Club,” and recreations of the Clubs’ interlocking hands logo. They wore their shirts the following day.

The fun went on for the rest of the Boys & Girls Club Week at the Main Branch, including games and tournaments, the ever popular “Bunkerball” in the gym, Edible Explosions (science experiments in the Technology Center) and Dance Dance Revolution in the Cove Teen Center.

At the TLC Branch, kids continued the celebration with karaoke, a bubble party, planting flowers and tie-dying their own t-shirts.

For more information, call (949) 494-2535.

Eagle Scouts to be honored April 18

Four Lagunans will be among the 619 boys in Orange County who earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 2006 and will be honored at a dinner at 7 p.m. April 18 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Garden Grove.

Alexander Cowan, Adam Everroad, Donald Sand and James Suchy earned Boy Scouting’s highest achievement.

To qualify for the Eagle award, a Scout must earn a total of 21 merit badges and must organize and implement a service-oriented project.

Local residents named to dean’s list

Lagunans Joy Henderson and Katherine McIntyre were named to the Dean’s List of Emory College in Atlanta, Georgia for the fall 2006 semester.

Students must be in the top 20% of Emory College or have approximately a 3.82 grade point average or higher to be named to the Dean’s List.

Host families sought for international students

STS Foundation is seeking host families for international exchange high school students during the 2007-08 school year.

These students will integrate themselves into a Laguna Beach-area family with the goal of experiencing American culture as an American high school student does. In turn, they will provide insight into their own culture.

Students this year include Piotr, a 15-year-old from Poland plays on a soccer team and enjoys practicing the guitar; he also likes to study history. Joanna, a 16-year-old from Finland, enjoys dancing, surfing and horseback riding.

The host family provides a separate bed, family meals and a safe environment.

For more information on being a host family, call Sean at (800) 522-4678, e-mail seant@stsfoundation.org or visit www.stsfoundation.org.

Disney donates $5,000 to Boys & Girls Clubs

In celebration of National Boys & Girls Clubs Week, The Walt Disney Company helped brighten the lives of approximately 220,000 youngsters by donating $5,000 to each of the 44 Boys & Girls Clubs in Orange and Los Angeles Counties, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Laguna Beach.

Disney also announced that a 12-passenger van worth approximately $30,000 will be donated to one Club each year in both Orange and Los Angeles Counties.

This year’s van recipients were the Boys & Girls Club of Anaheim and the Variety Boys & Girls Club in Boyle Heights.

Each of the 44 clubs also received 50 complimentary admission tickets to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.

Disney’s history with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) spans more than 50 years, when Walt Disney was an honorary member of the Board of Directors.

For more information, call (949) 494-2535.