St Bonaventure Catholic School

A standing-room-only crowd of parents, faculty and former Irvine students listened to representatives from the foundation, Parent Teacher Associations, Irvine Partnership for Music, sports boosters and arts organizations ask the school board to consider the effects potential cuts may have on the "whole" education of IUSD students.

Foundation leaders argued that the impending larger class sizes could damage the average student's educational experience and introduced their "Bigger is Worser" campaign to raise money for large classroom teaching support. According to representatives of the district and California PTA, the governor's budget proposal reduces funding for the kindergarten to third grade class size reduction program.

Foundation CEO Neda Zaengle said her group is only being supported by 6 percent of IUSD families, and asked each district parent to donate $1 a day, a suggestion repeated by parents and some board members throughout the evening. According to speeches and initial estimates, the foundation could raise around $9.8 million if parents made the $1 a day contribution for each of the 27,000 Irvine Unified students.

Advocates for the arts, especially in the elementary school curriculum, dominated the evening as more than 20 speakers either shared stories about the importance of art on their children's lives or praised the educational benefits of artistic and creative education.

Many of the speakers, as well as residents in the audience, pinned red construction paper hearts printed with the word "Art" on their shirts to show their support for the program's survival.

The school board did not make any budget decisions or explicitly embrace any of the ideas presented in the meeting, and instead continued to praise and invite community involvement in the financial process.

Rather than directly address specific solutions, the district staff and trustees emphasized the importance of understanding the realities and context of the budget problem, and referred residents to the Budget Watch section on the IUSD Web site, www.iusd.org/budget_watch/index.html.

Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. As of January 1, 2008, the population of Santa Rosa was approximately 161,496 residents. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California’s Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont.

Santa Rosa’s metropolitan statistical area has a population of 486,630, making it the 12th largest in California and the 105th largest in the United States

Islamic Clothing information can be obtained from the following Islamic shops and mosques in Santa Rosa and surrounding areas.

1. Al Huda Islamic School
2. Al-Arqam Islamic School
3. Al-Hadi School
4. Al-Madinah School
5. Al-Ridah Academy
6. AlManar Modern School
7. Amaanah Montessori School
8. California Science Academy
9. City of Knowledge School
10. Clara Muhammad School
11. Dar Ul Uloom
12. Darul Uloom Al Islamiyah (Boarding School for Boys - Emphasis on Hafiz )
13. Folsom Crescent School
14. Granada Islamic School
15. ICC Community School Claremont
16. Islamic Academy of Riverside
17. Islamic School of San Diego
18. Meraj Academy
19. New Horizon Elementary School of Irvine
20. New Horizon Irvine
21. New Horizon School Pasadena
22. New Horizon School-Los Angeles
23. New Horizon Westside
24. Northstar School
25. Orange Crescent School
26. Peace Terrace Academy
27. Qurtobah School
28. Salam Elementary
29. Silicon Valley Academy
30. Straight Way School
31. Valley Crescent School
32. New Horizon School
33. Al-Basit Academy
34. Al - Madinah School
35. Al Furqan
36. Annur Islamic School
37. Sister Clara Muhammad School
38. Islamic Middle School
39. Al Qalam
40. Silicon Valley Academy
41. Al-Huda Islamic School california
42. Al Ridah Academy
43. Taqwa School for Children
44. As-Safa
45. Islamic School of Greater New Orleans
46. Al Rashid Weekend School
47. Al-Arqam Islamic School
48. Muhammad university of islam
49. Iftin Charter School
50. Al-Ilm Educational Institute (Emphasis on Hafiz)
51. International Studies Academy
52. Council of Islamic Education
53. OCI Foundation
54. Islamic Center of Hawthorne (AlHuda School)
55. Al-Rasool
56. Islamic Education School
57. South Bay Islamic School
58. M T O Shahmaghsoudi School of Islamic Fusfifem
59. Islamic Center of San Diego
60. ICC Islamic School
61. Islamic Weekend School
62. Islamic Center of Riverside
63. Islam Center of Livermore
64. Torrance Islamic Institute
65. WDM Islamic Learning Center Inc
66. Fatimah Girl’s Academy
67. Intesar Schneider
68. Islamic Society of Santa Rosa

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Last week we completed our first two days of this amazing charity event and want to send a HUGE thank you to all of the families involved!!!

We were able to raise $500 for New Covenant Lutheran Church and Preschool. It is especially humbling when so many families are struggling financially to see the generosity they share to help support local charities, in particular this local church and school. I love being a part of this event that directly benefits the children of our community.

The event itself is always a blast!!! I can't get enough of watching the kids react to these baby chicks. Their reactions are so real and unscripted. The girls are usually soft and gentle, and the boys usually, well... curious! :)

Here's a sneak peak of some of the chicks and their models. Please contact either Jennifer or me if you need log-in instructions to view all the images.

I thought anonymity was a sin?

Neil Wightwick, Manager of the Glasgow Climbing Centre said:

“The Scottish High Schools Climbing Competition has been tried and tested on a relatively small scale this year. Scottish local authorities have already shown a huge amount of interest in becoming involved in next year's competition. We aim to link up with the MCofS and other climbing facilities across Scotland to create a large scale nationwide competition for Scotland's school pupils in 2011.”

Kevin Howett, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) Sports Development Officer, said:

"The MCofS is targeting the development of climbing through Schools, as it is the perfect sport to contribute to the government's aspirations within the Curriculum for Excellence. The development of a FUN competitions network at schools is part of this initiative."

• The Scottish High School Climbing Competition is supported by the MCofS
  

Lately, I’ve been trying to get information on some North American reptiles – snakes to be exact. I’ve had some interest in them having watched various movies where snakes were encountered.

I found a source which gives some information on FAMILY LEPTOTYPHLOPIDAE (slender blind snakes), FAMILY BOIDAE (boas and pythons), COLUBRIDAE (colubrid snakes), ELAPIDAE (cobras and coral snakes) and VIPERIDAE (vipers). I was interested to look for info on the Cottonmouth (which I believe inhabits the bayous and swamp lands of the Gulf states) and eventually I found something under VIPERIDAE - Agkistrodon piscivorus. There are still some types I can’t find mentioned. Sometime ago I heard or saw reference somewhere, maybe a movie, to an Alabama Black Snake and though I looked through library books, I couldn’t locate the species. However, it must be either a local name for the increasingly rare Coluber constrictor (Black Racer) or Elaphe Obsoleta (Black Rat Snake) found in North-East Alabama.

Can anyone shed some light on the species ?