GATE students go on winning Odyssey
By Susan Wachtel Special to The Acorn
      Forty Gifted and Talented (GATE) students from the fourthand fifth grades at White Oak Elementary School in Westlake Village traveled to Pasadena on March 7 to participate in the Odyssey of the Mind educational tournament.
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High School Highlights
      Agoura Chargers Fri., March 27: Lip Sync/G building/7 p.m. Mon., March 30: Relay 4 Life meeting/A-1/7 p.m. Wed., April 1: Student council election assembly PFC meeting/9 a.m. Grad Nite meeting/A-1/7 p.m. Parent education night/G building/7 p.m.
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Grants available to benefit women
      The Ventura County Community Foundation's Women's Legacy Fund annual grants program is accepting grant proposals. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Fri., May 15. This is an endowed grantmaking fund to support nonprofit programs focused on the economic, education, physical, emotional, social, artistic and personal growth of women and girls in Ventura County.
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Learn the sport of curling
      SoCal Curling Club will host a curling open house from 7 to 9 p.m. Sat., March 28 at Iceoplex, 131 W. Easy St., Simi Valley. Attendees will learn how to curl. All equipment is provided. Curling is a Winter Olympics sport played on ice. There is no skating involved.
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Honor roll
      •The following students made the dean's list at Azusa Pacific Unviversity for a 3.5 grade average or better: Ashley Duckgeischel of Calabasas, and Emily Blumenthal and Kyle Brooks of Agoura Hills. •Devon Geyer of Oak Park made the fall 2008 dean's list at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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