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Community Center elects businessman Ara Aslanian as president
Having dismissed its executive director and announced a search for her replacement, the board of the Community Center of La Caņada Flintridge has also put a new president in place. The board last week announced it had asked Megan Nordvedt to step down...Tags: Politics, Youth Organizations, Elections, Science and Technology, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Students win top awards at L.A. County Science Fair
Several budding scientists from La Caņada Flintridge and La Crescenta stood out from the crowd of 1,100 participants in the Los Angeles County Science Fair last weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center. Christopher Sercel, a St. Francis High School...
Tags: Science and Technology, Engineering, Schools, High Schools, Science
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Pasadena City College gets $5 million science grant
Pasadena City College has received a $5-million grant from the federal Department of Education to put low-income high school students on the path toward environmental sciences degrees. The college’s Natural Sciences Division will use the money to...Tags: Global Expansion, Engineering, Adam Schiff, Colleges and Universities, Science
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School Board Election Q & A with the Candidates
A diverse field of four candidates — including a 20-year-old Princeton University student and a La Caņada Unified matriarch — has made the 2011 school board election the most exciting in recent memory.
The campaign has been fueled by hot-...Tags: Adult Education, Budgets and Budgeting, Research, Students, School Examinations
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Our Readers Write: School board election
One candidate a positive force After attending the presentation of school board candidates at La Caņada High School, we decided to have a coffee in our home for Ernest Koeppen, and were more convinced than ever that he would be an excellent school...Tags: Politics, Engineering, Students, Religion and Belief, Realty
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Mother Nature is her lab partner
The vehicle for all of life’s variety and complexity has found a new driver in La Caņada’s Frances Arnold. In her laboratories at Caltech, Arnold is harnessing the evolutionary process to create new proteins and enzymes that have the...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Human Body, DNA, University of California, Berkeley, Research
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Around Town: Who says learning can't be fun?
In the midst of La Caņada’s up-and-down summer school programs (See Valley Sun, 1/12/2011, “Summer-school class hour measure tabled” and 1/27/2011, “Foundation continues with summer school program”), there’s another...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, United States Naval Academy, Crimes, Science and Technology
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Robert Richter
Don’t accuse Robert Richter of failing to speak his mind. A retired scientist and engineer who developed advanced technology for JPL, Xerox and General Electric, Richter emerged as perhaps the council’s harshest critic in the run-up to...Tags: Politics, U.S. Army, Korean War (1950-1953), General Electric Company, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Tour focuses on the future
A NASA official on Wednesday outlined an aggressive, multi-decade space technology and exploration development plan that includes sending humans into deep space by 2025, sending humans to orbit Mars by 2035 and landing a human on the surface of Mars...Tags: Barack Obama, NASA, Government, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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Eleven make their bows to society
For nearly 60 years, The La Caņada Thursday Club has sponsored young women from our community in the "Bal Blanc de Noel" presentation of Les Fleurettes debutantes.
This year, the Thursday Club will present 11 young women to society at a black-tie gala...Tags: Politics, Clubs and Associations, Andrew Jackson, Health and Medical Professionals, Heads of State
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Amazon trek opens teen's eyes
While most of his friends were spending their summers on the beach, Amir Mojarradi, a senior at La Caņada High, did something just a bit more exotic: He trekked the Amazonian jungle. Last year, Mojarradi won a Los Angeles County science fair for his...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Research, Engineering, Education, Health and Medical Professionals
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Girl Scouts robotics team goes to D.C.
After spending years going door-to-door selling cookies, a group of Girl Scouts ended up at a house where most people can't even reach the door bell — the White House. One of the 11 Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles' robotics teams, the Rock N'...Tags: Politics, Los Angeles, Lakewood, White House, Engineering
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