As part of the Kids Cafe cooking class at the Center for a Healthy Lifestyle, 11 children ages 5 to 12 put on a four-course meal, start to finish, for nearly 50 people — mainly their parents and friends — and they called their one-night cafe the “Moustache Freshtaurant.”
The Grand Del Mar, the Forbes Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond resort located in Carmel Valley, has added to its growing list of accolades with a nod from the City of San Diego for its ambitious recycling program.
Girl Scout and Rancho Santa Fe resident Veronica (Roni) Nelson was is this year’s Operation Thin Mint’s top cookie seller, clocking in at a whopping 4,082 boxes
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest just celebrated its anniversary — and received a very generous gift. Seven donors — six of them local residents — contributed a combined $350,000 for the organization’s annual fundraising dinner on May 3 at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, according to Keith Limberg, vice president of development. (About 1,500 people attended the event, which raised more than $1 million.)
San Diego residents joined men and women all around the country recently in a show of solidarity to defend women’s rights and tell legislators, “Enough is enough.” Organized by UnitedWomen.org — a national nonpartisan grassroots founded to protect and advance women’s rights — rallies and marches took place in cities in every one of the 50 states.
The 13th Annual Sheila McDonnell’s Women in Business Symposium will be held on Thursday, May 17, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Activity Center. The event is a “motivational, educational, powerful, spiritual, networking and shop ‘till you drop day for women!”
Canyon Crest Academy’s LitMag Club, publisher of the school’s literary magazine, recently announced the First Annual Canyon Crest Academy/Torrey Pines Writers Conference. At this unique free event, local published authors and writing professionals will provide workshops to help students bring their writing to the next level.
Attending school in a traveling circus is much the same as normal school. Yet at the same time it’s as different as night and day.
The community is invited to participate in the 36th annual Ice Cream Social fundraiser for the Cardiff School District from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, at Cardiff Elementary School, 1888 Montgomery Ave.
Although perceived as sheer fantasy by many, the magic depicted in the Harry Potter novels by author J.K. Rowling can be traced to Renaissance traditions that played a pivotal role in the development of modern science and medicine.
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