Several Lamorinda Teams Advance to Odyssey of the Mind Finals
Teams from Burton Valley, Glorietta and Del Rey elementary schools, Orinda Intermediate School, as well as Moraga Rotary, Lafayette Rotary and Orinda Rotary, competed for and landed either first or second place in their divisions Feb. 27 in the Odyssey of the Mind ...By Jennifer Wake
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'The Music Man' Parades Through Sleepy Hollow School
Fifty-three fourth and fifth grade students from Sleepy Hollow School in Orinda will perform in "The Music Man Jr.," an All-American, family-friendly musical classic. The show was produced by Lamorinda Theater Academy and is sponsored by the Educational Foundation of ...Submitted by Andra Berkman
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Lynn's Top FiveIs a Vacation Home Right for You?
As the weather begins to warm, spring break around the corner and the summer travel season just a heartbeat away, many of you will enjoy relaxing and frolicking out of town in remarkable places. Some of you will fall in love with these locations and decide to look into ...By Lynn Ballou CFP(r)
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Good Golf, Luxury and Scenic Views Highlight San Martin's Rosewood
Mention to others that you are spending the weekend at Rosewood CordeValle and you will likely receive a few blank stares. Clarifying that it's located in San Martin, in the Santa Clara Valley, just an hour's drive south on Hwy. 101, still might not elicit signs of ...By Fran Endicott Miller
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Hold Court with 'Legally Blonde'
The effervescent Elle Woods takes on Harvard as Miramonte High School presents "Legally Blonde." Performances will be held at the school and tickets are $20, available at the door on the school website, www.acalanes.k12.ca.us/miramonte.
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Ecotherapy Helps Connect People to Natural Health
Have you ever felt better after taking a walk in the woods or watching waves crash at the ocean? If so, you have probably experienced what has become known as ecotherapy. "Connection with the earth and its systems are at the core of ecotherapy," says Certified Master ...By Sophie Braccini
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Happy Valley Fifth Graders Bring Colonial America to Life
Kids decked out in aprons and bonnets were dancing with joy to the music of a fiddler in a historic barn directly adjacent to Happy Valley Elementary School for Colonial Days. Who knew 90 fifth graders could have this much fun on a rainy day without electronics?
By Cathy Tyson
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Climb onto a Flying Carpet and Soar into a Magical New Musical
For its 2016 season, East Bay Children's Theatre proudly presents a World Premiere Musical Event: "Aladdin and the Lamp."
Based on the timeless "Arabian Nights" tale, "Aladdin and the ...Submitted by Ron Lytle
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'Convictions'
Youthful works by composers often display raw talent and impressive musical instincts. At the beginning of their careers, Felix Mendelssohn and Richard Strauss experimented with different types of ensembles, writing for piano trios, string quartets, solo piano, and ...Submitted by Pamela Freund-Striplen
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The Good College: An Engineering Example
There has always been great demand for college students with engineering degrees. Engineers and the engineering they do serve to help all of us in our busy modern lives. Engineers design the computers and smartphones we use every day, the medical instruments we rely ...By Elizabeth LaScala
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Miramonte Junior Google Code-in Grand Prize Winner
Miramonte High School junior Hannah Pan, who founded her school's Software Design Club last fall, has not always been attracted to science, technology, engineering and math, but she got hooked when she took advanced math classes at DVC, and her love for coding recently ...By Sophie Braccini
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Farmyard Darlings Bring Country Back to Lafayette
A little bit of country was added to the small town of Lafayette last Thursday morning when 12 cowgirls rode their horses through downtown. The destination? Farmyard Darlings, a local business at 20 Lafayette Circle, and a visit to the Round Up Saloon for some ...Submitted by Roxeanne Voeltz
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LAMORINDA SUMMER CAMPS 2016
Aspen Network Team Camp
(Sierra Nevada Mountains)
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Tackling the Disturbing Trend of Stressed-Out Students
According to the 2013 California Healthy Kids Survey, which was administered to all four of the AUHSD schools that year, more than 900 students from the Acalanes Union High School District (AUHSD) seriously considered suicide. Twenty-four percent of ninth-graders and ...By Uma Unni
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Domestic Violence Survivor Uses Meditation to Build a New Life
Mojgan Kaviani greets her visitors with warmth and grace before inviting them to sit in her living room where tea will be served, along with the pastries she made herself. Far away from her native Iran, Kaviani has reconstructed a life for herself and her two ...By Sophie Braccini
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Lamorinda Weekly, Moraga CA