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Public access station, resident win top awards

De Anza College's Cupertino Community Television, a local public access station, won 12 Western Access Video Excellence (WAVE) awards at the 1998 Alliance for Community Media Regional Conference.

The station, shown on TCI cable channels 26 and 38A, won five first-place spots and seven finalist awards. Sunnyvale resident Don Yeager, of Able Cable Productions, walked away with two first-place awards for "On the Move: Dreams Do Come True" and "On the Move Tours Alaska." On the Move is a program addressing the issues faced by physically challenged people in the Bay Area.

Part-time De Anza instructor and elementary school teacher Andrew T. Willyoung won first place for What's Up Wit' Kids Chat. The show featured his students discussing social issues and alternative lifestyles.

Other first-place winners are the Indian Vegetarian Gourmet, hosted by Cupertino resident Hema Kundargi, and Four Student Video Projects, produced by Deborah Vanni, a Monta Vista High School teacher.

De Anza taking applications

De Anza College is accepting applications for the winter quarter, which starts Jan. 4.

Appointments are needed to register for classes. For new and former students the appointments are scheduled between Dec. 15 and Dec. 23. De Anza is closed from Dec. 23 through Dec. 28, and from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1, 1999. Walk-in registration is Tuesday, Dec. 29.

The winter schedule of classes is now available at the De Anza Bookstore and at selected Walgreens Drug Stores, Longs Drug Stores, McWhorter's Stationers, and other businesses. Classes can also be accessed on-line at www.deanza.fhda.edu.

For more information call 864-5300.


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This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, December 16, 1998.
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