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The Golden West College International Symphonic Band will embark on

its European tour June 29. The band will leave from Los Angeles for

Athens, Greece.

The highlight of the trip will be a performance for Pope John Paul II

at Vatican City on July 4.

It is the first such honor for any band from Orange County.

Maestro and founder of the band, Tom Hernandez will head the trip that

also features stops in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Venice, Verona, Stressa

and Milan.

The Golden West College Symphonic Band will wrap up its free summer

“Concert on the Green” series at the college’s Starshower Amphitheater at

5:30 p.m. Sunday.

“Then it’s off to the most exciting journey this band has ever

experienced,” said Hernandez, who founded the symphonic band in 1966.

Edison student wins essay contest

Jonathan Baustani, a student at Edison High, is among five winners

selected recently in this year’s fourth annual Health and Nutrition Essay

Contest.

The contest was sponsored by the Orange County Health Care Agency and

Orange County Nutrition Alert Coalition.

Judges awarded Baustani second place honors for an essay entitled,

“Calcium and Bones.”

The County of Orange Board of Supervisors will honor Baustani and the

four other winners at the board’s Tuesday meeting.

Baustani, who will be a junior next year, will also receive a $100

United States Savings Bond to continue his educational experience as well

as a $20 gift certificate from Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

The contest is staged annually to encourage Orange County high school

students to explore the relationship between health and nutrition, and to

encourage the use of reliable sources of information about nutrition.

“We work with teachers in the community in an effort to promote health

issues and research to their students,” David Thiessen of the County of

Orange Health Care Agency said. “By taking advantage of the information

available to them, students, such as the ones who entered this contest,

will become more knowledgeable when it comes to health issues.”

More than 220 entries were submitted in this year’s Health and

Nutrition Essay Contest.

Summer: a time for reading

Golden West College’s community services department is once again

offering its popular series of summer reading programs.

The programs meet once each week for five weeks, with the first

program beginning next week. Another set of programs will begin the week

of July 30.

The tuition is $269 per student.

For children in preschool through third grade, the programs focus on

phonics and comprehension skills required to become a fluent, successful

reader.

For children in fourth through 11th grades, the programs focus is on

achieving substantial gains in reading comprehension, reading speed,

vocabulary and study skills.

An adult program is also offered, which emphasizes increases in

reading speed while improving concentration, comprehension and recall.

All of the programs encourage interest in reading for pleasure.

Instructors for the programs are provided by the Institute of Reading

Development.

Interested parents are encouraged to call 1-800-834-3693.

Sowers, Dwyer students head to the beach

The surf teams from Sowers and Dwyer middle schools will head to the

beach next week to compete in the 2001 National Scholastic Surf Assn.’s

National Interscholastic Championships at Salt Creek in Dana Point.

Sowers edged out rival Dwyer by one point in the battle for fourth

place at the recent state competition, and the two figure to be in the

hunt for the middle school title at Salt Creek.

Sowers also won a state title in bodyboarding, was third in longboard

and the girls’ surf team was fifth in the state.

The NSSA National Championships will run Saturday through June 30.