Science Center offers scholarships
Limited number available for summer camp program
The California Science Center hosts its annual summer camp for youth in preschool through grade eight June 18 to Aug. 17, and there are a limited number of scholarships available for eligible families.
Consequently, only one scholarship will be awarded per child. Children in Pre-K to sixth grade can apply for one half-day scholarship. There are a limited number of full-day scholarships for children in seventh and eighth grades. All scholarships are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis.
Those eligible to apply must show proof of:
* EBT Card
* 2011 tax return form (1040, 1040EZ, 1040A, etc.)
* Healthy Families Qualification Letter or Medi-Cal card
* Provide proof that a child is receiving free or reduced-price lunch, including a lunch approval form, lunch ticket, or lunch card.
Interested parents can obtain an application from www.californiasciencecenter.org/camp. It should be submitted as soon as possible along with the $15 processing fee. Limited to two scholarships per household.
The California Science Center became the official owner of the space shuttle Endeavour Tuesday at a title-transfer signing ceremony attended by the astronauts who were aboard the shuttle on its final mission this summer.
The center will become the retirement home of the shuttle, which traveled 115 million miles during 25 flights.
“Please don’t scratch it,” shuttle Cmdr. Mark Kelly joked to the crowd attending the ceremony at the Science Center.
Great Beginnings for Black Babies’ Black Infant Health (BIH) is a program that provides pregnant women in their first trimester and beyond with prenatal health education, parenting classes, social support, empowerment groups and referrals for free pregnancy testing, doctors, Medi-Cal/Healthy Families, WIC, community and social services, day care resources and more.
The program will host a free health resource fair, “Celebrating Healthy Babies—Past, Present and Future,” beginning at 10 a.m., Saturday in Rancho Cienega Park, 5001 Rodeo Road.
Today it amazes me how my generation has such a negative attitude towards hard work (and sometimes any work at all). With unemployment nearing the heights that it was during the Great Depression, and with it being especially detrimental in the African American community one has to wonder how much of this is because of our attitude towards doing the jobs that are probably the easiest to get.
In addition to her full time job as a mother, Holly Mitchell is also the CEO of Crystal Stairs, the largest childcare development non-profit organization in California, and sits as a member of the board of directors of the Liberty Hill Foundation, Verbum Dei High School in Watts, and the national advisory council of Breast Cancer Action.
Mitchell has dedicated her life to helping working families in California and hopes to do more of that as the 47th District Assembly representative. Following are her views on key issues in the state.
