The culmination of a long and hard fought season for the Beach Futbol Clubs Girl U10 team ended on March 12, 2011 where they became the Sports Authority State Cup Soccer Tournament Champions in the President's Division. The tournament started with a 41 team bracket playing over the course of several weeks. The team, coached by Richard Perez, played eight games, scoring 15 goals, giving up only five goals, with a total of five shut outs. Go Beach!!!Pictured from left to right: Front row: Natalie Almeida, Sara Rubinelli, Faith Ells, Analisa Gjonovich, Saige Simean; Back row: Biffy Tosti, Amaya Gonzalez, Coach Richard Perez, Kara Buono, Lauren Garcia, Rebecca Didonato, Lindsey Kellog, Skylar Herrera
Submitted Jill Rubinelli
Good news, good kids! "United for Others": United Water Polo Club of Los Alamitos held a shoe drive to help the victims of the Japan disasters in March. The players gathered about 400 pair of shoes which Sport Chalet Corporation will ship directly to Japan. The club conducts a quarterly "United for Others" campaign with a focus on giving back to our local and global community.
Submitted by Susan Shey Dvonch
Cub Scout Pack 208 of Lakewood, enjoying a day of Space travel on a trip to the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey.
At the "Art of All Ages" fundraising event on May 5, in addition to "grownup" artists lending their talents to support quality early childhood education programs at Comprehensive Child Development (CCD), many "emerging talents" were included in the art making for a good cause. Funds raised from the sales of artworks will directly support needed classroom supplies and the fresh food served to children each day for breakfast and lunch.Children, as young as 3, diligently worked over several weeks to create nearly forty paintings, sculptures, and imaginative abstract art. With gentle guidance from teachers the boys and girls later worked in their own way, inspired by the artwork they'd seen in books and on the walls of their Centers. Using "found" and recycled materials such as twigs, cardboard tubes, pieces of foam they brought to life a variety of objects of all sizes, shapes, colors and textures, even three-dimensional scenes. It was a creative lesson in recycling and giving new purpose to everyday objects.
Pictured here is 4-year-old Juan Cerritos, who said he wanted to paint a picture of the ocean after seeing one in a book. That is how he learned to hold his paints "like an artist in a picture." He attends preschool at CCD's New Harbor Vista Child Development Center in Wilmington. In addition, CCD has three centers in Long Beach, and one in San Pedro, serving more than 500 children of low-income working parents.
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