IMMERSION INFORMATION . . . An informational meeting for parents interested in exploring a Spanish immersion kindergarten class at Fairmeadow School next fall (to continue the one that started this year) will be held Dec. 4. Principal June Schiller, San Jose State Professor Kathryn Lindholm, Fairmeadow Spanish Immersion kindergarten teacher Mary Antuna-Munoz and kindergarten parents will be available to present information and answer questions. The information meeting will be held twice, once in Spanish, at 6:30 p.m., and once in English, at 7:45 p.m. It will be held at the Jackson Hearing Center, Room JHC-7, Fairmeadow Elementary School, at 500 E. Meadow Drive in Palo Alto.
SPACE AVAILABLE . . . The city of Menlo Park's Belle Haven Child Development Center has 48 new subsidized child care spaces available primarily for low-income parents with children 3 to 5 years old. Eligibility is based on income, family size or special need. The center has a ratio of one staff member for every eight children and offers activities that meet cultural, linguistic and other needs. Breakfast, lunch and two snacks are served daily. To apply, contact Wendy Pacheco at the Belle Haven Child Development Center, 100 Terminal Ave. in Menlo Park, or call 322-0158.
GREEN SCHOOLS . . . The Palo Alto Unified School District has received 700 recycling containers for school use from Lipton Tea Company, which had hundreds of plastic pails and sturdy paper boxes used for fructose and frozen fruit storage. The boxes cannot be reused by the tea maker, but are durable and clean, so with help from the city of Palo Alto's Recycling Program, which linked the district with Lipton, the schools can now place the containers in classrooms and outdoor lunch areas.
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED . . . Two Palo Alto students, Gabriel Aranovich, a senior at Gunn, and Marissa Ocegueda, a senior at Castilleja, have been named Scholar Finalists in the National Hispanic Recognition Program. Students enter the program by taking the Preliminary Scholastic Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as high school juniors and by identifying themselves as Hispanic. From more than 100,000 students nationwide, 3,000 of the highest-scoring students are identified as semifinalists, and from there, the finalists are chosen. The program recognizes the exceptional academic achievements of Hispanic high school seniors and identifies those who are academically well-prepared for colleges.
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