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Gates Millenium
Scholar
Zahara Jones, a resident of Emeryville
and a senior at St. Elizabeth High School in Oakland, has received
notification that she is a 2011 Gates Millenium Scholar. The GMS program,
founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1999, selects 1,000 talented
minority students across the country each year to receive good-through-graduation
scholarships. If the students maintain their academic standing and
participate in the GMS leadership development program, they are also
eligible to receive full funding for graduate school. As Zahara is
graduating, her brother Cameron is a St. Elizabeth freshman.
Zahara will attend UCLA and her goal is to be a pediatrician. Zahara
is happy the scholarship will relieve a burden for her mother: “Now
she doesn’t have to worry.” To younger students she says,
“It’s important to stay focused. Don’t be discouraged.
There are a lot of different things that can throw you off. Continue
to try, even if you’re not too sure of how it’s going
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Living Stations of the Cross
The eighth-grade
class of 2011 at St. Felicitas School in San Leandro performed the “living”
Stations of the Cross on Good Friday for the school and parish community.
Around
the Parishes
A new teen club that advocates for the pro-life cause
has sprung up at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Brentwood.
The club meets every Saturday afternoon, and some of the activities listed
in the parish bulletin include praying the Rosary, discussions on breaking
political news and apologetic topic discussions. Members must be between
12 years and college age.
St. Agnes Parish in Concord has been helping the Contra Costa Blue
Star Moms gather supplies for care packages that will be sent to U.S.
troops and military dogs posted overseas. This past weekend (May 21 –
22) the parish brought supplies such as cotton crew socks and small packages
of corn nuts and other snack items for the July 4 campaign and wrote letters
to service men and women.
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Around
the Schools
Jared Alokozai, a senior at St. Joseph Notre
Dame High School in Alameda, received the outstanding senior in French
award from the American Association of Teachers of French. The award is
given annually to a graduating senior who has demonstrated excellence
in the study of French as well as exceptional commitment to the French
language. Recipients must be non-native speakers of French and have completed
three years of French study.
Speaking of SJND: The men’s golf team placed second
in the Bay Shore Athletic League Championship on April 25 at Chuck Corica
North Course in Alameda. The course is a par 71. John McCord, a
junior, came in third, with a score of 79. Three other SJND golfers, Brendan
Chai, Matt Cerio and Luis Feliciano, placed among the top 15
golfers in the championship.
Brendan Keane, the senior center on the SJND men’s basketball
team, was named California Player of the Year for Division V by ESPN’s
Cal-Hi Sports. He also was named the Northern California Player of the
Year in Division V by NorCal Preps. Keane averaged a double-double of
18 points and 10 rebounds and was named second team, All East Bay, by
the Bay Area News Group and third team, All-Metro, by the San Francisco
Chronicle.
Three seniors at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland —
Elise Zarri, Mary Clapp and Annie Dupont — recently
received their Gold Awards, the highest award in Girl Scouts. To complete
the award, the members of Troop 31187 did two years of prerequisites and
a major project within the community.
During March, sophomore students at Saint Mary’s College High
School in Berkeley created Comfort Cards that were taken to Haiti
by Margaret Trost, a school parent, author and founder of the What If?
Foundation. Trost reported that the cards brought great happiness to the
youngsters in Haiti, who were delighted to know that young people in faraway
Berkeley were thinking of them and praying for them. The laminated cards
contain personalized messages and can be used as bookmarks and keepsakes.
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Names, News,
Notes
If you or someone you love is hurting after abortion,
an eight-week post-abortion healing and Bible study group will offer hope,
help and healing in a loving, supportive environment through Project
Rachel in the Diocese of Oakland, All inquiries are completely confidential.
The group begins early June, and sign-ups are happening now. For more
information: www.oakdiocese.org/pastoral/SocialJustice/
or contact Christine at (415) 260-4406, or christine4faith@gmail.com.
WHAT’S ON EWTN? The Eternal Word Television Network will
provide blanket coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Croatia,
June 4-5. Highlights of the trip include a prayer vigil with the youth
in one of Zagreb’s squares and Mass at the Zagreb Hippodrome for
National Croatian Catholic Families Day. When available, broadcast times
may accessed by visiting http://www.ewtn.com/tv/NA_2011_Jun_Generic.asp.
EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast
Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 116, DISH Satellite
Channel 261 and DirecTV Channel 370. In Alameda, Comcast airs EWTN on
Channel 30.
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