Holiday Boutique will benefit high school Laguna...

Holiday Boutique will benefit high school

Laguna Beach High School will hold its annual Holiday Boutique

from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

A plethora of gifts from many vendors will be sold as a fundraiser

for the high school’s computer program. For information, call (949)

497-7750 Ext. 216.

High school dance company presents ‘The Next Step’

The Laguna Beach High School Dance Department and Company will

have its winter dance concert “The Next Step” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday

and Dec. 10 and 11.

The performance at The Artists’ Theatre, 625 Park Ave., includes

ballet, lyrical, tap and jazz. Tickets are $15 for reserved, $10

general and $8 students. For tickets, call (949) 497-7771.

Quest for Excellence

holds public meetings

Quest for Excellence committee invites the public to its regular

meetings at the district office, 550 Blumont St.

Today at the district office the Quest for Excellence full

committee will meet from 9 to 10 a.m., and the Social and Emotional

Education Development committee will meet from 10 a.m. to noon.

A “High Levels of Wellness” meeting will be from 3:15 to 4:45 p.m.

Tuesday at Laguna Beach High School, Room 72.

A “Research and Support” meeting is scheduled for 8 a.m. Dec. 10,

following at 9 to 10 a.m. is a Quest for Excellence steering

committee meeting at the district office.

An “Academic Depth Meeting” will be from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 13

at Laguna Beach High School, room 20.

For information, call the district at (949) 497-7700.

Community Learning

Center to hold concert

Students at the Community Learning Center, housed on Top of the

World Elementary School’s campus, have created a musical venue to

promote their vision of a peaceful world, “We are World Peacemakers.”

Community Learning Center students will perform at Top of the

World school, 21601 Tree Top Lane, for the school’s monthly flag

ceremony Dec. 17.

Red Ribbon Week fundraiser

at Top of the World

For the past several years, students at Top of the World

Elementary School have collected pounds of pennies during Red Ribbon

Week to start a scholarship fund.

The fund is donated to two college-bound Laguna Beach High

students who have remained drug, alcohol and tobacco free through

school. This year the students donated 400 pounds in pennies. Last

year the donation exceeded $1,200.

No December meeting

for Coffee Break

There will be not be a Coffee Break meeting in December due to the

holidays. The next Coffee Break will be from 8:15 to 10 a.m. Jan. 19

at the Surf and Sand Hotel, 1555 S. Coast Highway, featuring Richard

Du Four who is nationally acclaimed for creating learning

communities.