TEAM HITS INKJET-TONER JACKPOT

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Team hits inkjet-toner jackpot
The
Kennedy High School baseball team won the nationwide Staples $25,000
Cartridge Chase competition by collecting the most used inkjet toner
cartridges for recycling. Staples offers $3 for every used toner
cartridge collected.”When we were doing the fundraiser, we thought, `$3
a cartridge is great,”‘ team coach Manny Alvarado said. “We thought
$4,000 or $5,000 would be good money. We never, ever thought we’d win
$25,000, although it was always in the backs of our mind.”The Kennedy
team plans to use the money to help pay for a new scoreboard.The annual
contest is open to any type of school team, athletic or otherwise. To
sign up, visit http://www.staplesrecyclefored.com.The Los Angeles Area
Chamber of Commerce this month awarded $186,000 in scholarships to 125
local students as part of its “Cash for College” project.The chamber
chose the winners at random from those who attended a career convention
and workshop held last fall.Winners from the San Fernando Valley were:
Steven Nguyen, Birmingham High; Jessica Barreto, Burbank High; Angie
Celis and Jeanette Solis, Canoga Park High; Jennifer Gallardo,
Chatsworth High; Roshanak Basharzad and Daniel Chae, Granada Hills
Charter High; Sentia Marutian, Glendale High; Vanessa Alzamora, Jessica
Arevalo and Diana Mendez, Kennedy High; Daisy Ramirez, Polytechnic
High; Brenda Le Brane, Reseda High; Anai M. Chaidez, San Fernando High;
Jhania Lantan, Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies; Angelica G.
Gameros and Jiehong Xu, Sylmar High; Yaniv Ovadia, Taft High; Brenda
Rodriguez, Van Nuys High; and Leo Alvarado, Verdugo Hills High.Glendale
High School student Natalie Granucci is attending the National Youth
Leadership Forum on Medicine that began Saturday at the University of
California, Los Angeles.Students were chosen nationwide based on
academic excellence, leadership potential and interest in a career in
medicine.Granucci and her fellow nominees will learn about public
health, medical ethics, research and general practice at the 10-day
event. The students will also visit medical facilitiesand clinics and
engage in simulated problem-based learning and diagnoses.Granucci will
also travel to Europe this summer as a student ambassador with People
to People International, a government-sponsored cultural exchange
program.Sixteen-year-old Dylan Gutierrez of Van Nuys has earned a
scholarship to the Royal Ballet School in London. He will leave for
Europe in September, after first going to New York to participate in
the summer program at the official school of the New York City Ballet.A
dancer since age 11, Gutierrez was the youngest of six males to place
in the “Youth America Grand Prix” international ballet competition in
New York in the spring. After seeing the performance, the royal school
offered him the scholarship to join roughly 45 dancers at the upper
school in London, few of whom are non-Britons.”Dylan is quite a
character at the studio,” said his mother, Andrea Paris-Gutierrez, who
is also one of his trainers. “He is a big personality in the room,
funny, passionate, temperamental and extremely talented. We will miss
him very much when he leaves for London.”Fifty-one high school and
adult school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District were
given $1,000 college scholarships from the Council of Mexican-American
Administrators this month.Recipients were chosen based on grade-point
averages, extracurricular activities and community service, and skill
and poise during the application process.Seven of the students came
from San Fernando Valley schools. They are: Jasmin Escobedo from Canoga
Park High; Nicole Lantello from Granada Hills High; Ana Pineda from
North Hollywood High; Felicia Paraz from the Pacoima Skills Center;
Omar Rodriguez from Polytechnic High; and Iylene Patino and Marlene
Patino from Verdugo Hills High

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June 27, 2006 at 11:25 AM