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COUNTYWIDE

Student Actors Win Awards

The drama department of University High School in Irvine won the Wynn Pearce Award for outstanding overall performance at the 1995 Saddleback College High School Theatre Festival.

More than 150 students from nine Orange County high schools competed in the daylong event. High school drama instructor Daniel Trevino won the top award for the presentation of a scene from Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” which featured student Nicole Parker, who was named best actress.

Carlo Odicino of Estancia High School in Costa Mesa was voted best actor.

Carrie Gifford of Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo was named best supporting actress, and Chet Wilson of Laguna Beach High School won best supporting actor.

Judges were from the theater department of Cal State Fullerton and the Children’s Theatre at the Laguna Playhouse.

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FOUNTAIN VALLEY

From Cookies to Computers

Brownie Troop 1191 has turned cookie profits into a sweet donation to the members’ school.

After raising funds in the recent Girl Scout Cookie sale, the troop of first-graders decided to donate $2,000 in computer CD-ROM software to James H. Cox Elementary School.

With the new math and reading software, Cox school hopes to expand its one-on-one computer training program.

The program, which has been very popular with students, is led by parent volunteers.

The troop also will donate food to a local organization that helps low-income families.

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HUNTINGTON BEACH

Grant Funds Will Help Save Energy

Huntington Beach City School District will install energy-efficient lighting and make other energy improvements at two elementary schools, thanks to a California Energy Commission grant.

School officials recently announced matching grants totaling more than $123,000.

The district won the grant money with the help of Assemblywoman Doris Allen (R-Cypress).

Allen said grants supply school districts with as much as 50% of an energy project’s cost. The school district has to find the rest of the funding on its own.

The proposed energy projects are at William E. Kettler and S.A. Moffett elementary schools.

The total cost of the energy-efficient project is about $246,000.

--COMPILED BY BERT ELJERA, WITH RUSS LOAR, DEBRA CANO AND JEFF BEAN