February 21, 2014 • CEDAR STREET
Taco Dinner Will Help Send Students to Spain
Pacific Grove High School World Language Project will hold its annual Taco dinner and Silent Auction fundraisers to provide an opportunity of a lifetime for the students of Pacific Grove High School’s French and Spanish Clubs.a European trip that will take the students on tours of Paris, Biarritz, Madrid, Barcelona, Pamplona, and San Sebastian to name just a few cities. The trip is not offered every year, because of the expense, but every other year to allow the group to hold fundraisers, work part time jobs and raise funds. As you can imagine it is an expensive undertaking and we are working hard to make it possible for our hardworking and deserving students. We have several activities throughout the year and this event we hope will kick us off on the right foot and make it more affordable for more students to participate and enjoy this wonderful opportunity. We think that this is one of the best and most fun ways our teachers can improve our students’ lives, while improving their grades and desire to become connected to the global community. The Taco Dinner and Silent Auction set for May 2 will be held at the Sally Griffin Center, Meals on Wheels Building, from 5 until 8 pm. We hope that after a long day you will want to swing by to relax your feet, enjoy a taco dinner, which you won’t have to cook, just enjoy and then look for some great deals by participating in our silent auction. There has been an overwhelming response from the local businesses and the auction items are stacking up. Hotel stays, dinners, rounds of golf, kick boxing lessons, and more. If you wish to be part of the event and want to make a donation, you can also contact us. It is a tax deductible donation. Tickets for the event are on sale now. $10 per adult, $5 per child, or $25 per the whole family. Give us a call and we can bring your tickets to you: Lawrence Bangert (parent) at llbangert@yahoo.com, 831-920-1554 or Kathy Buller (Spanish Teacher) PGHS 831-601-2275. Bring the whole family.
Free Workshop Offered for Student Composers
High school music students in the greater Monterey and Santa Cruz areas are in for a treat on Saturday, March 1: the opportunity to spend a day learning and collaborating in pre-professional workshops with working composers. This all-day workshop event, put on by nonprofit organization Composers and Schools in Concert (CSIC), is free for high school music students, thanks to a generous grant from McGraw-Hill Education. The day will be filled with composer workshops which will introduce these students to music composition and the skills used by professional composers in the music-creating industry. Each student will participate in one morning workshop and one afternoon workshop of his or her choice. Students can choose from composer Gino Robair’s, “Improvising and Conducting Strategies for Large Ensembles”; composer Karl Cronin’s, “Orchestrating American Folk Songs”; composer Steve Horowitz’s “Classical Graphic Scores and Improvisation”; composer Katrina Wreede’s “Creating the Blues”; composer Edward Schocker’s, “Creating Music with Made/Found Objects and Other Unusual Instruments”; and composer Steve Kirk’s, “Scoring and Sound Design for Film, Television and Games.” “Everything we do, we approach from the angle of: what opportunities do we wish had been available to us when we were high school music students? What do we wish we could have been exposed to, as musicians, before we got to college, or beyond?” explains Lisa Oman, Executive Director of Composers and Schools in Concert. The organization is filled with working composers, musicians, and music teachers. “We are so pleased to give local students this opportunity to work closely with professionals, Grammy winners, innovators, at the top of their games in the field of composition.” Although the deadline to register is February 27, we strongly encourage students to register now in order to claim their seat, and especially to let us know their primary instrument, in case any special arrangements are necessary,” says Oman. The March 1 event will be held at 20 Ryan Ranch Rd., Monterey, CA 93940. Students must pre-register. Registration is online at http:// www.composersandschools.com/events/a-day-in-thelife-of-a-composer/. For more information please visit www.composersandschools.com or contact Lisa Oman, CSIC Executive Director, at omanl@composersandschools.com or (916) 248-5541.
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offering a reward of up to $5,000; The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust are offering a reward of up to $5,000; California Department of Fish and Wildlife is offering a reward of up to $4,500.00; U.C. Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center is offering a reward of up to $2,000.00; an anonymous private donor is offering a reward of up to $2,000; Defenders of Wildlife is offering a reward of up to $1,000; Friends of the Sea Otter are offering a reward of up to $1,000; and Dusty Nabor, a private citizen, is offering a reward of up to $500. Southern sea otters are protected as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. They are also protected by California law. Killing a southern sea otter is punishable by up to $100,000 in fines and a possible jail sentence. California sea otters were listed as threatened in 1977. They currently range from San Mateo County in the north to Santa Barbara County in the south, living in the near shore waters along the California coast. Anyone with information about the sea otter shootings should contact Special Agent Souphanya of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at 650-876-9078. An anonymous report can also be made by calling the US Fish and Wildlife contact line at 703-358-1949, or the California Department of Fish and Wildlife CalTIP line at 1-888-DFGCALTIP. The local number is 831-649-2870.
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PAC I F I C G ROV E C H A M B ER O F CO M M ERC E
Friday, February 21 • 6-9 PM Glenn Gobel Custom Frames 562 Lighthouse Avenue Strouse and Strouse Studio Gallery 178 Grand Avenue Butterfly 207 A 16th Street Crema 481 Lighthouse Avenue Artisana Gallery 612 Lighthouse Avenue Sun Studios 208 Forest Avenue Tessuti Zoo 171 Forest Avenue
“Downton Abbey” Paperoni at Butterfly
The Pacific Grove Art Center will be open from 7-9 PM.
FREE EVENT • PLENTY OF PARKING Walk maps available at all locations 831.373.3304
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