Local schoolteacher is state title nominee
SOUTHWEST GLENDALE -- Glendale Unified School District officials
nominated Kim Labinger, a fourth-grade teacher at Edison Elementary
School, as their choice for the 2005 California Teacher of the Year.
Labinger has been with the district for 19 years. She teaches at
Edison Elementary and serves as consultant and presenter for the UCLA
Writing Project.
The nomination was submitted to the Los Angeles County Office of
Education. Twenty nominees among the county's school districts will
be chosen to write additional essays and be interviewed. From that
process, about 12 teachers will represent Los Angeles in a statewide
competition in Sacramento.
Conference happenings to be reported tonight
NORTHEAST GLENDALE -- A few artists and a professor will recap
tonight what happened during the recent Second Conference of Armenian
Writers.
Poets Grish Davtian and Juliet Grigorian, composer and conductor
Henrik Anasian and professor Oshin Keshishian will talk about the
conference, which was in Armenia from June 28 through July 5. The
talk will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Glendale Central Library's
auditorium, 222 E. Harvard St.
The Armenian Writers Assn. of California and the Glendale Central
Library cosponsor the program. For more information, call 500-1532 or
e-mail grishdavtian@yahoo.com.
Compiled by
Darleene Barrientos
