Auditorium

Officials are planning a new-student orientation at Dunsmore Elementary School at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 29 in the auditorium. This is a wonderful chance to meet the principal and kindergarten teachers as well as take a tour of the school. The Class Posting and Popsicle Party will be at 5 p.m. Aug. 29 outside the auditorium. Find out who your teacher will be, catch up with friends and cool off with a refreshing Popsicle. The first day of school is Sept. 2. The PTA will host a Welcome Coffee and PTA Assn.

Tunes the Tinkers played onstage at Fremont Elementary School on Friday were the same ones that used to signal Scottish and Irish armies to charge into battle hundreds of years ago. While the Tinkers didn’t rush into battle, they did charge into the audience while playing their instruments, showing the students a bass drum covered in goat skin, a Bronze Age Irish horn modeled after those used in Ireland 3,000 years ago, and the bagpipes....

Armenians from the La Crescenta and La Cañada area gathered in Lanterman Auditorium (which serves as the site of the Armenian Apostolic Church every Sunday) on Easter Sunday to celebrate the glorious resurrection of Christ. The service commenced at 10:30 a.m. and ended at 1:30 p.m. and was led by Archpriest Hovsep Hagopian. He also led a special prayer at the end of the service blessing the four corners of the Earth. After his sermon, the archpriest read Archbishop Hovnan Derderian’s Easter message, preaching, “the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ our Lord offers the vision to embrace the Gospel of the Lord with its message of salvation, which enlightens our mind and soul with divine love.

It was the night before the last day of school, and all through the auditorium at Lincoln Elementary School, many students could be heard stirring. Santa Claus was on his way — the school’s Parent Teacher Assn. had arranged for him to be there — and the Lincoln students ran in circles and munched on homemade baked goods as they waited for him to arrive. Santa usually makes an annual appearance at the school, PTA President Sarah Kauffman said, but this was the first year the school had invited St. Nick to come in the evening, rather than at a before-school breakfast event.

Ian Camner, 7, made a Christmas list and was checking it twice at Dunsmore Elementary School on Wednesday as he shopped for holiday gifts for family and friends during the school’s annual “Hollydays.” During this year’s Hollydays festivities, students in each class took a turn shopping for presents in the school’s auditorium. The gifts, many of which are handmade crafts that parents have created, or trinkets that parents have purchased for bargain prices, are marked with low prices so children can buy gifts for a few bucks.