Escondido eNews
November 8th, 2009
In This Issue:
Escondido News:
1. PTA Meeting – 11/09, 7:00 PM
2. Talents Show auditions this week! – 11/09-12
3. Veterans Day – no school! 11/11
4. Has your school registration information changed?
District News:
5. School Board Regular Meeting – 11/10, 6:30 PM
Community News:
6. Volunteer Track Watch – help deter student suicides
7. Puppet Romeo And Juliet, open dress rehearsal – 11/14, 2:00-3:00 PM
8. PACO Sinfonia Concert – 11/15, 3:00 PM
9. Get the Stanford Email Newsletter, Stanford For You
10. Sports opportunities for your child
11. Local Parent Education events and resources
12. Local Community Service opportunities
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1. PTA Meeting – 11/09, 7:00 PM
In the library. Agenda includes anti-bullying update and PTA program review.
2. Talent Show auditions this week! – 11/09-12
If you haven’t turned in your forms please bring completed audition forms and signed Parent Permission forms to the auditions. Additional forms are available in the front office.
Note: Students may only perform in ONE act (unless they are a 5th grader MC then they may perform in a MC skit + one additional act).
General Audition Dates (in Multi-Purpose Room):
November 9 Monday 3:00—5:00pm
November 10 Tuesday 3:00—5:00pm
For 5th graders only (in Library):
November 12 Thursday 3:00—5:00pm MC tryout date
Questions? Please email Tanna Kienitz.
3. Veterans Day – no school! 11/11
4. Has your school registration information changed?
If it has, you can go on line and update changed phone numbers, e-mail addresses or other information. This is a quick and easy way to keep your info up to date. Go to: http://www.pausd.org/parents/registration/index.shtml (then click the link at the bottom of the page)
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5. School Board Regular Meeting – 11/10, 6:30 PM
25 Churchill Ave. The meeting will include a discussion on the parcel tax poll results. Community members who are interested in the results of the poll (of 600 likely voters conducted a couple of weeks ago), hearing the discussion about a potential parcel tax measure and/or hearing the annual report on the existing parcel tax can attend the meeting or watch from home. Agenda: http://www.pausd.org/community/board/agenda.shtml
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6. Volunteer Track Watch – help deter student suicides
A volunteer track watch group has been organized to deter suicides. You can help by signing up for a short shift watching the tracks. The effectiveness of a presence at a site that is a suicide hot spot has been researched and documented. Prevention by deterrence at a hot spot is likely to not only stop a suicide there, but may also prevent the suicide altogether. Volunteers must be over the age of 21. Volunteers monitor the tracks by sitting or standing on the sidewalk with a cell phone to call the police. They do not attempt to take anyone from the tracks. For current information or to sign up for a shift, email hopepaloalto@gmail.com or visit paloaltotrackwatch.weebly.com. Please indicate that you are a parent interested in participating.
7. Puppet Romeo And Juliet, open dress rehearsal – 11/14, 2:00-3:00 PM
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Campus. The Stanford Symphony Orchestra &Bing Nursery School present an open dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet (with a happy ending) by the 90-piece Stanford Symphony Orchestra with Puppeteers and a Storyteller. Doors open at 1:30 pm.
Large-scale puppetry creates a three-dimensional counterpart for Prokofiev’s vivid music to Romeo and Juliet, one of the most successful of all Soviet ballets. This is a special open rehearsal for The Prokofiev Project in collaboration with the Stanford Department of Music, the Stanford Lively Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies. Volunteer ushers needed. For more information on The Prokofiev Project: http://livelyarts.stanford.edu
8. PACO Sinfonia Concert – 11/15, 3:00 PM
Cubberley Theater, 4000 Middlefield, Palo Alto
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra’s Sinfonia will perform their first concert of the 2009-2010 season under the direction of PACO music director Benjamin Simon. This challenging program includes movements of four primary pieces and a variety of masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire performed by small ensembles comprised of Sinfonia members. $10 for general admission and $5 for seniors and students.
Info: http://www.pacomusic.org, 856-3848.
9. Get the Stanford Email Newsletter, Stanford For You
As a service to the community, Stanford recently launched a free monthly email newsletter, Stanford For You, about upcoming events on campus, including information about concerts, sports, lectures, parenting and health resources, art exhibits and more. All of these events are open to the public, and many of them are free. To subscribe: http://4you.stanford.edu. You can see the November newsletter at http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs061/1102638954456/archive/1102794696379.html.
10. Sports opportunities for your child
Sports: basketball, sailing, archery, football, lacrosse, soccer (AYSO and CYSA), swimming, and tennis. http://info.paloaltopta.org/sports
11. Local Parent Education events and resources
From your district PTA
http://info.paloaltopta.org/parents
12. Local Community Service opportunities
From your district PTA
http://info.paloaltopta.org/service
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