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2008 » Issue March 5 » Your KidsStudents go green Green isn’t just for grown-ups anymore. Through recycling programs, garden-based education and community initiatives to get them outside playing, Los Altos children are learning about ecology, conservation and reducing their personal carbon footprints. Los Altos’ public elementary and junior-high school students and parents are pushing hard on conservation and waste reduction. Oak School parent Jeanmarie Cahill spearheaded a waste reduction initiative this year, handing out reusable lunch bags and sponsoring Waste-Free Fridays. Summer program sets up camp at Loyola School Camp Galileo, a day-camp program offering art, science and outdoor activities for children entering kindergarten through fifth grade, has scheduled sessions throughout the summer at Loyola School in Los Altos. Each day, campers rotate through 75-minute sessions of hands-on, age-appropriate curriculum revamped annually with Camp Galileo’s partners at the de Young Museum, the Tech Museum of Innovation and Klutz Inc. ‘Peter Pan’ flies into Mtn. View Peninsula Youth Theatre’s production of the musical “Peter Pan” – with Los Altos resident Hanna Laurtizen playing the title role in one of the two casts – is scheduled to open Saturday and run through March 16 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St. Although composers Jerome Kern and Leonard Bernstein each took stabs at turning J.M. Barrie’s book into a musical, director-choreographer Jerome Robbins produced the best-known stage version of “Peter Pan” – the one PYT is staging. Robbins enlisted Mark Charlap and Carolyn Leigh to write the songs, but after the show’s troubled start at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in July 1954, he asked the more established team of Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green to add music and revise the script. It opened on Broadway three months later with Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook. Both actors won Tony Awards. CSMA sponsors teacher/student art show The Community School of Music and Arts at Finn Center has scheduled “A Delicate Balance,” an exhibition of paintings, drawings, sculptures and collages from local students and their teachers, through March 14 at Mountain View City Hall, 500 Castro St. The exhibition features more than 200 pieces of art created by students and teachers from local schools in grades 1-8, all of whom receive weekly art instruction through CSMA’s arts-in-the-schools program, Arts in Action. |
In Our OpinionEditorialWe’ve recently covered the passing of two of this community’s most involved and committed volunteers, Lee Lynch and Billy Russell. They represented an era when people helped out, not so they could get their name on a building, but because it was simply the right thing to do. There’s a new generation of volunteers hard at work right now in this community who are carrying on their legacy. The level of involvement in the recent Los Altos Relay For Life event bears this out. |
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