Kindergartens Learn New Math: a Dozen Chairs Change 12 Lives
When the Top of the World kindergarten set out to raise funds for Irvine-based Free Wheelchair Mission, their success not only surprised the students but their teachers, too. Under an initiative suggested by kindergarten teacher Megan Bartlett, each child was asked to raise $2 to help towards the purchase of four low-cost wheelchairs. Full Story
Cops Seek Help in Nabbing Brazen Thief
A thief stole a wallet with $800 in cash from a woman celebrating her birthday at South Laguna's Ti Amo Restaurant Dec. 9 who stepped outside to smoke, police reported. The thief scooped up the wallet from the purse and shoved it under his shirt. A security video camera system inside the restaurant captured it all on tape. Full Story
Mystic Hills Fire
Police received more than 80 calls over 90 minutes about the two-alarm structure fire at 650 Mystic View, which began about 2:35 p.m. The smoke was visible from surrounding cities. Full Story
Plein air painter
Staff photo by Courtenay Nearburg Jim Lamb, of Sammamish, Wash., works on a Laguna Beach landscape Saturday at Heisler Park as art enthusiasts admire the 40 painters visiting as part of annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Invitational. They had two hours to create a final "quick draw" work. See more online at www.lbindy.com Full Story
Video Teaches Tidepool Visitors to Tread Lightly
After years of modeling appropriate "etiquette" to tidepool visitors by its docents, Laguna Ocean Foundation is stepping up its efforts at protection by producing an educational video for distribution to schools planning tidepool field trips and to vacationers staying in local hotels. Full Story
A Student's Family Ties Play Out Onstage
The Holocaust that resulted in the deaths of over six million Jews during the Nazi era is a tough subject to teach children. But Thurston Middle School's Park Avenue Players have embraced the topic in a play about Jewish children living in a Czech ghetto, many of whom die in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Full Story
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