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Foothills Sentry Oakridge spellers get A's for bee Daniel Leonidas, middle school


English teacher at Oakridge Pri- vate School, is narrowing his search for students to represent the school at the Scripps Na- tional Spelling Bee. Those in the running for a place on the Oakridge team were winners of the school’s own spelling bee. The eighth grade winners were Austin Alexander, first place; Ni- cole Fellhoelter, Arianna Ostwald and Aiden Traynor, second place. Seventh grade winners were Ol- ivia Thompson, first; Carolina Harrison, second; Nihal Ernest and Idean Shahbazian, third. Sixth grade winners included Connor Chisick, first place; Mina Kim, second; and Anya Alexan- der, third place. A spell-off was held to find


From left: Olivia Thompson, Daniel Leonidas and Connor Chisick.


Cowan Heights offers chipper days


Cowan and Lemon Heights


residents are encouraged to clear brush and tree limbs from their properties to create defensible space and promote wildfire pre- paredness in the community. Residents of the area south of Cowan Heights Drive and Grove Oak Drive may bring their cut- tings to Bent Tree Park on Sat- urday, Feb. 21 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. to have them chipped for free. To aid this effort, the North


Tustin Fire Safe Council and Or- ange County Fire Authority will visit registered addresses and haul discarded material from the street end of properties to a chip- per location. Shrubs, trimmings, branches, small trees and limbs will be accepted. Any species of palm, grass, leaves, manu- factured lumber/plywood, dirt, rocks, pine needles, plastic or stumps will not be accepted. For questions or more infor- mation, go to readysetgooc.org.


VP Rotary gives mini- Teachers at


local schools


shared a total of $6,736.80 in mini-grants from the Rotary Club of Villa Park. The following teachers were selected to receive mini-grants for their specified classroom programs. Teachers receiving grants from Villa Park High School included Danielle Barrington, Gregory Smith, Joa- quin Gonsalves, Paul Hunt, Dr. Linda Bartrom, and Gwen Cor- bett. Cerro Villa Middle School was awarded $575 for a computer in their new STEM lab, and $345 for a laptop for counselors for col- lege and career prep. Plus, CVMS teachers Bernard Tayag, Jennifer


Charity


shopping spree


Unique vendors will gather at


a private residence at 18961 Val- ley Drive, Villa Park, on Friday, Mar. 13 from noon-6 p.m. to of- fer their boutique items to shop- pers. The event will raise money for Project Hope Alliance, which aids U.S. military families and the homeless. Wares will include jewelry,


clothing and accessories, bling apparel, home décor, custom blended makeup, designer sheets, Haviana sandals, vintage signs and marquees, salsas, relishes and jams, bows and spankies, skin care products, one-of-a-kind tribal totes, decorative succulent arrangements, candles and home scents, cell phone and other ac- cessories, and beaded bracelets.


grants to teachers Wong, Ashlie Hallenback, and Audra Smith received grants. Orange Lutheran High School teachers Matt Potthoff and Rob LaPointe received grants. In addi- tion, grants were given to Jeanne Carter from El Modena High; Tammy Williams from Villa Park Elementary; Maria Phillips from St. Norbert’s Catholic School; and Louis Avina from Serrano El- ementary School.


two representatives to compete at the district level. The finalists were Austin Alexander, Olivia Thompson and Connor Chisick. Thompson and Chisick tied in the spell-off, and are advancing to the Orange County regional spelling bee.


After four months of hard work,


sixth to eighth grade students at McPherson Magnet School show- cased their projects at the school’s annual science fair. This year’s competition focused on commu- nication skills -- each student’s ability to convey project ideas and discoveries -- in alignment with newly adopted state standards.


Eric Woolery, treasurer for the City of Orange from 2013 to January 2015, was sworn in as Orange County’s auditor-controller by Orange Mayor Pro Tem Fred Whitaker. Woolery replaces Jan Grimes, who had served in this post as the replacement to David Sundstrom, who had resigned in mid-term. Woolery served as an elected member of the Orange County Board of Education from 1996-2000. Woolery is seen here with his wife Lisa, their children Liam and Kate.


McPherson showcases science projects The top 20 highest-scored proj-


ects will advance to the 2015 Orange County Science and En- gineering Fair (OCSEF), to be held at the Orange County Fair & Exposition Center in April. Proj- ects were scored and ranked via a rubric developed by local scien- tists and a McPherson team. The scoring was completed by com-


munity members actively engaged in science, who work for compa- nies such as NASA, Broadcom, Beckman, Disney and Chapman University. A number of this year’s best


projects will also be shown at McPherson’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Night on March 26.


Tuesday, February 10, 2015


Students demonstrate the art of science at McPherson fair.


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