Seattle Sun Newspaper - Vol. 7, Issue 6, June 2003
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Education briefs:
Child Safety ID Day, June 20
Maintaining an accurate physical description of your child is an important safety step, say experts.
To help reduce the number of missing children, Bill Pierre Ford is sponsoring a free child identification event on Friday, June 20, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at 11525 Lake City Way NE.
Children will have their photo taken and parents will be given a Commitment To Kids identification kit to record their child's physical description information. It is recommended that parents update this information every six months.
Civic Light Opera workshops
Civic Light Opera will offer summer musical theater workshops for youths in July. Sessions, taught by theater and musical professionals, will be held for age groups from second grade through high school. The deadline for registering is June 16. For more information, call Greg Morales of CLO at 363-4807.
Music camp for youths
Pontiac Bay Symphony Orchestra, a nonprofit, is sponsoring orchestra music camps in July and August for youths, ages 12-18, that feature music from film and television. Camps are led by guest conductors from Pontiac's concert season and are held on Saturdays at Sand Pont Education Center. For schedule and application, visit the orchestra's Web site, www.pontiacbay.org, or call 364-0907 or send e-mail to info@pontiacbay.org.
Summer reading program
"Read Around the World" is the theme of this year's Summer Reading Program, sponsored by the Seattle Public Library.
The three-month effort to keep kids reading while school is out kicks off Sunday, June 1. Youngsters can sign up at any branch library and receive a reading log to keep track of their summer reading. Every child who reads ten books gets a book as a reward.
The program also features hundreds of free programs for families at branch libraries.
To find out more, pick up the 40-page Summer Reading Program booklet at any branch library or call 386-4636.
Local schools given donations
Five North End elementary schools were among the beneficiaries last month as the Windermere Real Estate Company's sales associates and staff and the Windermere Foundation donated $48,235 to local programs.
B.F. Day Elementary in Fremont received the largest grant, $13,000, to provide summer services to low-income families. Summer camp scholarship money was given to Greenwood Elementary ($4,000), an outdoor education program for 4th graders at View Ridge Elementary was funded ($1,265), and the Laurelhurst Elementary Principal's Fund to help pay for the needs of low-income students during the school year also received a grant ($2,260).
Other grants were made to YMCA of Greater Seattle, the Center for Human Resources, and Bagley Elementary School near Green Lake.
A portion of the commission from every home sold by the company is donated to the Windermere Foundation.