On the blackboard On the blackboard (September 15, 2004)

DO YOU SUPPORT I? . . . If you want more information on the district's proposed parcel tax on the November ballot, you may be interested in two upcoming meetings hosted by Palo Alto Unified School District Superintendent Mary Frances Callan and school board president Kathy Kroymann. Measure I is a $521 a year per parcel tax that would help pay for programs and personnel in the district. The tax would replace Measure D, an $293 per year per parcel tax that was passed in 2001. Measure I would increase Measure D by $228 a year. The first meeting is on Saturday, Sept. 25, 10 a.m. at 25 Churchill with a repeat on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 7 p.m. at Terman Library. For more information, log on to http://www.quality-schools.org/

SPREKEN ZE DEUTSCHE . . . Helga Marshall speaks German and teaches it even better, according to the American Association of Teachers of German. Marshall, a teacher at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, recently won the AATG's Outstanding German Educator Award for the K-8 level.

HUMANITARIAN FOR SHER . . .State Sen. Byron Sher will be honored at the Ninth Annual Josephine and Frank Duveneck Humanitarian Awards Dinner held from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills. The annual fund-raising awards dinner recognizes humanitarians like Sher and benefits Hidden Villa's innovative environmental and multi-cultural education programs. Throughout the years, the Duveneck dinner has raised nearly $1 million toward scholarships for low-income youth to participate in the Villa's summer camp and environmental education programs. For more information, visit www.hiddenvilla.org.

SOCIALIZIN' 'N DANCIN' . . .Kick up your spurs at Addison's Harvest Hoedown Oct. 8. The elementary school is throwing a dinner and dance Western fund-raiser from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Families are invited to buy tickets for dinner or bring their own picnic. Drinks will be provided by the fifth graders for $1 to benefit the fifth grade fall field trip. For more information, call 322-5935.
Send notices of news and events related to schools, child care or youth activities to Alexandria Rocha, Palo Alto Weekly, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, 94302, or arocha@paweekly.com. The monthly school section runs the third Wednesday of each month. The deadline is the second Thursday of the month at 5 p.m.

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