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Top 5 Kids Factors colleges may consider when choosing students: 1. Athletics 2. Legacy status (parent attended that college) 3. Development (parents are significant donors) 4. Race, gender and ethnicity 5. Geographic and socio-economic diversity Source: Sally Springer, co-author of “Admission Matters” For many high school students these days, the college admissions process is fraught […]
Alma Troccoli is the picture of good health and cheer, so put together and well-spoken, it’s hard to imagine her any other way. But the 80-year-old Davis resident and grandmother of four says if you’d met her for the first time just a couple of years ago, you would have encountered a very different person. Struggling […]
Two longtime Davis residents have opened a school in Lusaka, Zambia, in honor of Richard Hiroshi O’Brien, a beloved Davis teen who died in a skiing accident almost two years ago. Ken and Joy Hoffman say the school, the RHO Appleseed School, will serve nearly 100 orphans and other vulnerable children every Monday through Saturday. […]
Kids, get out those pencils and crayons: The 2011 Street Smarts Traffic Safety poster contest is under way. Students in grades K-6 have until Thursday, Nov. 10, to produce a poster about one of four themes: safe helmet use, safe bicycle riding, safe driving or safe street crossing. Grand-prize winners in each category — grades […]
1. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” 2. “Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters” 3. “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” 4. “Addams Family” 5. “Corpse Bride” Source: http://www.wired.com
Davis High School senior William Liu was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from Nordstrom in a surprise ceremony at Davis High last month. Liu’s parents, Taotao Hu and Sean Liu, were on hand when Nordstrom’s diversity affairs director, Leslie Aoyama, delivered a giant check and a MacBook computer to Liu in one of his classrooms. Nordstrom […]
Join Thomas Dental Care in Davis for its first Candy Buy Back program. Children and their families can bring in Halloween candy and receive $1 per pound. The candy will be donated to Operation Gratitude, which sends the sweets to U.S. military personnel serving overseas. The candy buy-back takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at […]
What would you say are the “Seven Wonders of Davis”? Nine-year-old Gavin Pinnow recently set out to determine just that after his class at Birch Lane Elementary School finished reading the book “The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs,” by Betty Birney. In the book, 12-year-old Eben McAllister reads about the seven wonders of the world, and wishes […]
The Amigos de las Americas program has room for more local high school students interested in volunteering in Latin America next summer. Prospective volunteers can learn more at the main Amigos website, http://www.amigoslink.org or the Sacramento-Davis chapter’s website, http://www.amigoslink.org/chapter/sacramento-davis-chapter. Amigos is an international, voluntary, not-for-profit organization that sends young people from the United States to […]
Local author Sally Springer will discuss college admissions during a talk at Davis High School on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Springer, author of “Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting Into College,” will offer information on how to build a college list, what colleges look for in […]
On Halloween night, children throughout Davis will once again be trick-or-treating not just for candy, but also for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, which since 1946 has provided everything from food and clothing to health care and education to children around the world.
The Davis City Council recognized those efforts at its meeting Tuesday, acknowledging the outstanding contributions of Davis children and proclaiming the week of Oct. 24-31 “Support UNICEF Week.”
Davis schoolchildren already have been recognized repeatedly by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, being proclaimed both UNICEF emissaries and heroes for their contributions to the cause.
Just weeks before Hope Vogt’s arrival in the world, her grandmother, Joyce Tusan-Dalton, departed it — the victim of an accidental drowning while kayaking on the American River.
And now Hope, in turn, gives just what her name implies to a still-grieving family.
Tusan-Dalton, a longtime Davis resident who taught art at Vanden High School in Fairfield, had been there for her first grandchild’s birth and had every intention of being there for the second.
And in the circumstances of Hope’s birth, her family felt her grandmother’s presence.
The 2011 Street Smarts Traffic Safety poster contest is under way. Students in grades K-6 have until Thursday, Nov. 10, to produce a poster about one of four themes: safe helmet use, safe bicycle riding, safe driving or safe street crossing. Grand prize winners in each category — grades K-3 and 4-6 — will win […]
Details What: Davis Community Idol competition When: 7 p.m. Saturday Where: Brunelle Performance Hall at Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St. Tickets: $6 in advance, available at Watermelon Music, 207 E St., or $8 at the door Members of the Davis High Advanced Treble Choir were pulling double duty this week, both preparing for […]
