September 20, 2007

SCHOOL SCENEin Almaden Valley

Valley Christian Theater presents ‘Twelfth Night’

Valley Christian Theatre will present William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” in October.
This comedy’s plot centers on mistaken identity, romance, deception and insanity. It is a hilarious production guaranteed to provide chuckles.

Dates and show times are Oct. 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 with two performances on Oct. 27. The play begins at 7:29 p.m. for evening shows, except for Oct.19, which will begins at 6 p.m. The Oct. 27 matinee starts at 2 p.m.

For tickets call Cathy McFall at (408) 513-2438 or contact the Valley Christian box office at vctboxoffice@valleychristian.net.

Bellarmine to hold model, dancer, actor auditions

Bellarmine College Preparatory recently announced that modeling, dancing and acting auditions for professionally choreographed roles in the upcoming 53rd Annual Mothers' Guild Fashion Show for Financial Aid, “The Boys are Back in Town!” are Sept. 23 and 25 on the Bellarmine campus.

Senior girls from local high schools and senior Bellarmine boys will model fashions provided by stores from Santana Row and Westfield Shoppingtown Valley Fair that include Eli Thomas, Macy’s, Jessica McClintock and Club Monaco for the fashion show fund-raiser this year scheduled for Nov. 30.

Senior girls are invited to audition for modeling roles on Sunday, Sept. 23 from noon to 3 p.m. in the Liccardo Center on Bellarmine’s campus. High school girls of any grade level are invited to audition as actors and dancers for character portrayals and professionally choreographed dancing roles on Tuesday, Sept. 25 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. and 6-9:30 p.m., respectively, in West Liccardo.

Al Bacosa of Bacosa Photography will provide photography and the Dustin David Salon will style hair styling with make-up by Benefit Cosmetics. San Jose Magazine is the print media sponsor for the Bellarmine Fashion Show.
Proceeds from the 2007 Mothers' Guild Fashion Show will benefit the financial aid program for qualified Bellarmine students. This year, women's, men's and teen's fashions will be presented in two shows on Nov. 30 at The Fairmont San Jose, first in a luncheon setting and later during a black-tie dinner dance.

The annual Bellarmine Fashion Show is traditionally a sold-out event. For more information, including donation prize drawings and to purchase lunch or dinner tickets, visit the Bellarmine Mothers’ Guild Web site at http://www.bcp.org/parents/mg_fashion.aspx or call the Bellarmine Mothers’ Guild at 294-9224, ext. 209.

Guadalupe Elementary student wins contest

When Samantha Wong, a student at Guadalupe Elementary School last year, begged her mom to purchase a FunCake™ from the school fund-raising catalog, her mother, Jaylene Wong, agreed that they would add another item to their order. Samantha wanted the FunCake™ because it came with frosting and decorations, which allow people to decorate the cake in any way they like.

Samantha’s sister, Madelyne, a student at Leigh High School, loves art and when she heard that there was a nationwide contest for the best decorated FunCake™, she asked her sister if she would mind if she gave it a try!

Out of the FunCake™ box spilled the decorating ingredients including a large package of white frosting, two small tubes of icing in red and blue and four small bags containing colored sugars and sprinkles. Using just these decorations she transformed the plain top of the cake into a beautiful scene of a red Cardinal bird resting on a tree branch in the clouds. The sisters then quickly snapped a picture of the cake before it was eaten and sent it to the fund-raising company.

A few months later, the Wong family received a telephone call from Victoria Ladd, owner of San Jose-based, Successful Fundraisers, letting them know Madelyne’s cake had been selected as a winner. As a result, Madelyne and Guadalupe Elementary School each received a check for $500.

The checks were presented to Madelyne and Guadalupe Principal Martha Lux on Sept. 12 at a ceremony at the school.

“I’m so proud of her,” said her mother, “her artistic ability also shows up in her sidewalk chalk art!” Madelyne was ecstatic and is looking forward to taking her younger sister to Baskin Robbins to celebrate!
Lux was also very excited to hear the good news of the unexpected gift.

“The Guadalupe Home and School Club’s Science Camp fund-raiser raised nearly $5,300 to offset science camp fees and thanks to the Wong family’s participation in the contest, our school gets $500. We can definitely use the extra funds right now,” Lux said.

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