Jazz student lives for music
      <!-- Page Number: 19--> When you reach eighthgrade student Scott Lamm on his cellphone, the recorded message invites you to enjoy the classical music while waiting for Scott to answer the call. It's all about music for Scott, who is enjoying his final year at Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills.
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School hosts car raffle
      <!-- Page Number: 34--> New Community Jewish High School is selling tickets for its inaugural automobile raffle. The prize is a 2007 Lexus Hybrid SUV. The raffle drawing will be Sun., May 20 during the New Community Jewish High School Benefit at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles.
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Brookside teacher instills love of reading
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com
      <!-- Page Number: 34--> Learning to read and write is an academic- and developmental- milestone reached by children starting in kindergarten and continuing in each grade level. By second grade most children are developmentally ready to decipher words, grasp story lines and pen their own preliminary adventure tales.
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Special Ed PTA honors hard-working staff
By Stephanie Bertholdo bertholdo@theacorn.com
      <!-- Page Number: 36--> The unsung heroes of the Las Virgenes Unified School District were honored last week for their dedication and devotion to helping children with special needs realize academic, social and emotional success. The Las Virgenes Special Education ParentTeacher Association drew a large crowd of supporters.
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Dance school to perform in New York
Students selected to appear at Radio City Music Hall
      <!-- Page Number: 37--> Students from A Step in Time School of Dance in Calabasas will travel to New York City this summer to perform at Radio City Music Hall and study at American Ballet Theatre in New York for a ballet intensive. They were selected from auditions held at various dance schools throughout the country.
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      <!-- Page Number: 38--> Going where you're wanted If it's Tuesday, it must be Boulder. I always enjoy visiting colleges, and last week's trip to Colorado was packed with five schools in two days, not a schedule I usually recommend to my clients. But I didn't want to miss any of the college admission conference in Denver that was the reason for this trip.
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Bay Laurel celebrates teachers
      <!-- Page Number: 38--> Parents at Bay Laurel Elementary School celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week last week with a New York City theme. The week's observance began Monday with a breakfast served to all the teachers. On Tuesday, students brought flowers to their instructors, and dessert was served in the faculty break rooms.
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Student recognized
      <!-- Page Number: 38--> Camille Mahlknecht, a student at Lindero Canyon Middle School, has been named a United States National Award winner in the subject of English by the United States Achievement Academy. Camille is the daughter of Cheri and Henry Mahlknecht of Agoura Hills.
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Art scholarship winners announced
      <!-- Page Number: 39--> Chloe Weiller of Thousand Oaks High School won a fourth-place prize of $100 in the 2007 Tamima AlAwar Memorial Scholarship Program sponsored by Focus on the Masters and the Ventura County Arts Council. Erica M. Honles of Camarillo Young At Art received honorable mention.
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      <!-- Page Number: 39--> All events (subject to change) are listed by name, location and time if provided. If calendars are modified, school sources are asked to contact us with updated information at this email address: newstip@theacorn.com.
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Olde World Faire coming to Lindero Canyon
      <!-- Page Number: 39--> Lindero Canyon Middle School seventh-graders will present the 21st annual Olde World Faire from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Fri., May 18 at 5844 Larboard Lane, Agoura Hills. Social science teachers work with the students to develop an understanding of the social, historical and economical features of previous societies.
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