ST. HELENA – Are you interested in a culinary career? Applications are now being accepted for Napa Valley College’s Napa Valley Cooking School. It offers a 14-month program (nine months of classes and 600 to 800 hours of externship) starting Sept. 2.
The program is located at the Upper Valley Campus in St. Helena.
It will run through May 15, with a six-week optional pastry program at the end. Uniforms, knives, tuition and books are all included in the cost of $15,500. The cost of the course will increase next year.
The instructors are qualified, executive-level chefs with a student/teacher ratio of only 18 students to two chef instructors.
Barbara Alexander is executive chef and director of Culinary Operations. Externships are at the best restaurants across the US, Canada and Europe with a 100-percent placement following graduation.
The course covers all aspects of professional culinary training, basic skills (knife skills and product identification), soups, stocks and sauces, nutrition and food science, butchery and charcuterie, basic pastry and basic to advanced bread baking, food and beverage cost control, classical cuisines of Italy, France, Asia, the Mediterranean and North Africa.
Applications for fall are being accepted. Financial aid is available through the Napa Valley College main campus.
For applications, call the Upper Valley Campus at 967-2901 or 967-2902.
Tours of the school can be arranged through Chef Barbara Alexander at 967-2930.
Mendocino College Foundation announces fall scholarship awards ceremony
Written by Editor
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
UKIAH – This year the Mendocino College Foundation will host a special awards ceremony dedicated to its scholarship recipients on Aug. 15 at Mendocino College.
“We will be acknowledging 75 students with a total of $124,000 in scholarships,” announced Channing Cornell, Foundation vice president and scholarship committee chair.
“These significant financial awards, ranging from $1,700 to $2,500 each, are designed to cover the majority of a student’s educational expenses for one year,” states Tom Herman, Foundation president. “Through the Foundation’s scholarship program, we endeavor to alleviate the financial stress faced by some students, enabling them to give focus to their academic studies and career goals.”
Honoring student academic achievement and dedication to education goals is central to the mission of the Mendocino College Foundation.
“One of the Foundation’s significant annual fundraising events is the Gala on the Green, held last month at Fetzer Vineyards Valley Oaks,” declares Rhonada Clausen, Foundation special events committee chair.
“Thanks to the generosity of individuals and businesses in the Mendocino-Lake College District, this year’s Gala raised an estimated $30,000 in support of student scholarships and education programs at the College,” said Clausen. “That’s a 20-percent increase over last year!”
“Since it was founded in 1984, the Mendocino College Foundation has honored hundreds of students through its scholarship program. In total it has distributed over $675,000 in student scholarships, while also supporting other educational programs and district-wide projects,” observes Kathy Lehner, Mendocino College Superintendent/President. “The Foundation’s scholarship program is a wonderful example of how the generosity of individuals and communities can come together to realize the common goal of student success.”
For information about scholarship donations and planned giving, contact Mark DeMeulenaere, director of development for the College Foundation at 467-1018.
LAKEPORT – The Lakeport Unified School District Board of Trustees will discuss its initial proposal to the teachers union in the coming year at its Thursday meeting.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the district office, 2508 Howard Ave.
Board members are President Dennis Darling, Clerk Tom Powers, and members Robyn Stevenson, Bob Weiss and Phil Kirby.
The board's lengthy agenda will begin by recognizing classified staff members Peggy Browning, Dawn Buchholz, Diane Garrison, Roger Kelsay on their retirement.
Items presented for information/discussion include a first reading of a use of school facilities policy and presentation of initial proposal of the Lakeport Unified Teachers’ Association for 2008-09 negotiations.
Regular agenda items include second readings of policies on charter schools, head lice and conflicts of interest.
The board will consider approval of a Declaration of Need for Fully Qualified Educators for the 2008-09 school year certifying that there is an insufficient number of certificated persons who meet the district’s specified employment criteria for positions in the area of English Learner authorization.
Members also will consider approval of Resolution No. 07-08-01 Adoption of Alternative Materials for English Language Arts in Grades K-3 and approval of the continued use of the Success For all Reading Program as a State Standards-aligned curriculum; approval of the revised administrative salary schedule adding a new column for intern; and a resolution on the Lower-Emission School Bus Program; the contract between Community Matters and Terrace School for implementation of the Safe School Ambassadors Program; and textbook adoption.
Konocti Christian Academy students visit Rodman Preserve
Written by Editor
Friday, 27 June 2008
Konocti Christian Academy students visit Rodman Slough. Courtesy photo.
LAKE COUNTY – The seventh and eighth grade students of Konocti Christian Academy recently spent a morning at the Rodman Slough Preserve learning about Lake County’s wildlife.
Brad Barnwell guided the tour and showed the students many species of birds and animals which included deer, skunk, squirrels, garter snake, lizards, bittern, osprey, turkeys, sparrows, grebes, herons, killdeer, quail, acorn woodpeckers, red-tailed hawks and red-winged blackbirds.
Barnwell instructed the students on how to use binoculars, which gave them an up-close view of many species.
It was such a pleasure to step away from the busyness and experience the sights, sounds and smells of the outdoors without the interrupts of the electronic world.
Lake County Land Trust’s Rodman Slough Preserve gives free tours each Saturday morning at 8 a.m., located at the Rodman House at West Lake Road and the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
