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'Pox parties': Coming to a mailbox near you?
![This week, press reports emerged that some parents, hoping to avoid giving their kids the chickenpox vaccine, were arranging through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Find-A-Pox-Party-Near-You/191922217552208?sk=wall" target="_blank">Facebook</a> to pay strangers to send them "[licked] lollipops, spit or other items" from kids with the illness.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/305308980-07110030.jpg "This week, press reports emerged that some parents, hoping to avoid giving their kids the chickenpox vaccine, were arranging through <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Find-A-Pox-Party-Near-You/191922217552208?sk=wall\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a> to pay strangers to send them \"[licked] lollipops, spit or other items\" from kids with the illness.")
Los Angeles Times/ Booster Shots blogThis week, press reports emerged that some parents, hoping to avoid giving their kids the chickenpox vaccine, were arranging through Facebook to pay strangers to send them "[licked] lollipops, spit or other items" from kids with the illness. The idea...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Drugs and Medicines, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Health
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Harry Pachon dies at 66; Latino scholar and activist
Harry Pachon, a scholar-activist who helped focus national attention on the needs and traits of a growing Latino population, particularly in politics and education, has died. He was 66.
Pachon, the longtime president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute,...Tags: Michigan State University, National or Ethnic Minorities, City University of New York, Arts and Culture, Elections
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Demands of war take toll on troops, families
Lucas Wallek was toiling at the family farm in Alice, Texas, when he decided to enlist in the Marine Corps, partly out of patriotism, partly from a desire to leave the familiar terrain of sagebrush and oil fields.
Through two tours of duty in Iraq,...Tags: Human Interest, Government, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan
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Calendar
YOUR WEEKEND FRIDAY: The Craft Fair and Farmers Market is from 1 to 5 p.m. Fridays at Pier Plaza. Call the Craft Fair at (714) 846-5509 and Farmers Market at (714) 573-0374 for more information. SATURDAY: The California Celts (pictured) perform from 9...Tags: Entertainment, Dance, Clubs and Associations, Golf, Sports
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Community: Thursday Club to host college admission workshop
In the award-winning documentary, “In 500 Words or Less,” cameras follow four high school seniors and their families as they spend their final year together navigating the college admission process. The La Caņada Thursday Club will screen this...Tags: Entertainment, Human Interest, Peppermint, Teaching and Learning, Aromatherapy
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Vaught's Views: It's the people, not facilities, which makes Uk appealing to recruits
larry@amnews.comKentucky has one of its higher rated recruiting classes on campus now, and already had 12 scholarship commitments in its 2012 class, including four offensive linemen. Yet many Kentucky fans are worried — or even disturbed — about UK’s...Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, United Kingdom
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Republican top-tier contenders face-off in first debate
ReutersMANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- Republican White House contenders focused their attacks on President Barack Obama and refrained from attacking each other on Monday in their first major debate of the 2012 nominating race. The seven Republican hopefuls...Tags: Tim Pawlenty, Tea Party Movement, Government, Los Angeles, Elections
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She's taking aim at reading scores
Selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, La Caņada native Monica Mello joins Teach For America's corps this fall with the goal of seeing each of her 10th-grade students pass the California exit exam. Mello will be one of 290 corps members...Tags: Personal Income, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, Education, Colleges and Universities
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WORKSHOPS
The Aberdeen Catholic Schools will host the Play Like A Champion Today educational workshop on Monday. The workshop, led by PLC founder and Notre Dame professor Clark Power, addresses issues such as winning-at-all-cost coaching, sports specialization,...Tags: Religious Education, Human Interest, Fractured Rib, Benjamin Franklin, Contracts
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Dr. Val Clark
Dr. Val Clark, 79, of La Canada and Newport Beach, California, passed peacefully surrounded by the love of his family on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Val was born in St. George, Utah on March 30, 1932 to Earl B. and Iva Knell Clark. His youth was spent...Tags: Windsurfing, Elections, Surfing, Sports, Dentistry and Dental Health
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Taking a look at college admission
The La Caņada Thursday Club on Sunday screened “In 500 Words or Less,” an award-winning documentary on the college application process, to a packed room of parents and high school juniors and seniors.
Applying to college is a rite of...Tags: Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, School Examinations, Dominican Republic
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Reel China: Political maneuvers drive 'Beginning of the Great Revival's' success
— Political films can be a tough sell in many countries, to say the least. But director Huang Jianxin is confident that he's sitting on a blockbuster with "Beginning of the Great Revival," a historical epic detailing the founding of China's...Tags: Andy Lau, Human Interest, Television Industry, Wars and Interventions, John Woo
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