High Life / A WEEKLY FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS : School Aims for AIDS Awareness

The student government of Katella High School in Anaheim is sponsoring AIDS Awareness Week through Friday.

The event includes noontime activities and dress-up days to promote spirit and interest in the issues surrounding the disease, as well as an assembly featuring a dramatic performance of “Secrets,” a play about a teen-ager who contracts AIDS through intravenous drug use.

An information table, staffed by members of the AIDS research project in Anaheim, was available to the students, according to Rebecca Gallegos, secretary of student affairs, who is in charge of the week’s events.

All proceeds from Friday’s dance and from donations throughout the week will be presented to the research project.

More than 200 Orange County students are expected to attend Orange Coast College’s eighth annual High School Dance Day on Wednesday.

The event, which is designed to encourage high school students to consider further study in the field of dance, will be hosted by the college’s dance department. Activities will run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Each student will take part in a series of three classes, taught by members of OCC’s dance department faculty. Students can select from a variety of classes, including ballet, jazz, modern, Afro-Caribbean, Middle-Eastern, flamenco, street dancing and conditioning for dance.

After the class sessions, OCC dance students will demonstrate short choreographic studies they are preparing for their classes.

Jannell Zicarelli, 15, of Irvine was recently crowned 1992 Orange County Miss TEEN. She was awarded a $500 scholarship and will represent Orange County at the state contest in July in Los Angeles.

Jannell, daughter of of Val and Brent J. Zicarelli of Irvine, is a cheerleader at Irvine High School and is a state baton champion.

She was recently appointed to the Juvenile Justice Commission, which acts as an advocate arm of the juvenile court.

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