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Students strike gold at Special Olympics
Rolling Hills Middle School students Camille Peterson and Nassreen Zarea won gold medals in long-distance running at the Northern California Fall Sports Classic. The competition is a culmination to the Special Olympics fall sports season in Northern California and also includes bowling, powerlifting, roller skating, soccer and volleyball.
Peterson, a sixth-grader, won a gold medal in the 3K race, and Zarea, a seventh-grader, won a gold medal in the 5K event.
The Fall Sports Classic, which involved about 1,000 athletes and coaches from around Northern California, took place Nov. 8 through 11 in Sacramento.
Los Gatos district opens enrollment
Parents who wish to enroll their children in the Los Gatos Union School District can pick up registration packets at district schools beginning Jan. 29. Registration packets will be for kindergarten and other grade levels. Parents can turn in completed packets to respective schools starting Feb. 5.
Parents of new students can visit district school campuses March 20 and May 29 at 9 a.m. Visits will be at all five school sites.
National Merit honors go to twenty six seniors
Twenty-six Los Gatos High School seniors earned high honors in this year's National Merit Scholarship Competition. Nine of the students--Nelson Bradley, Adrienne Clark, Chelsea Collonge, Ben Dodson, Margaret Fitzgerald, Courtney Hayashi, Kari McClelland, Eliana Saffouri and Aaron Silberstein--scored high enough on the 2000 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test that they are semifinalists for Merit Scholarships, worth from $2,500 to full tuition for four years of college.
Seventeen other seniors scored within the top 5 percent of students who took the test in California.
They are Adriana Anavitarte, Evan Brown, Rachel Dodson, Chris Doherty-Gottschalk, Mary Elliot, Jason Herberg, Mohammad Hindi, Daniel Holtzman, Katherine Kao, Kenneth McKell, Eric Medefesser, Benjamin Miller, Kathleen O'Donnell, Lauren Russell, Schirin Tang, Natasha Wilder and Katie Zuparko.
Hispanic publication honors WVC teachers
Saludos Hispanos/Saludos.com, a career and education magazine and website for bilingual Hispanics, recently awarded West Valley College a 2001 Educators of Distinction award. The magazine and website give the award to 100 institutions each year that demonstrate a commitment to higher education success for Hispanics, the nation's largest and fastest-growing minority.
In the last decade, the percentage of Hispanic students at the college level has more than doubled, from less than 7 percent to more than 15 percent of the student body.
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