| Bulletin Board for week of Aug. 30
Itemsfor the Bulletin Board are printed as space allows. The deadline for submission is the Friday before publication. All items submitted must have a contact telephone number. To place your announcement call 979-244-1330, fax to 979-244-1708 or e-mail matadbulletin@vicad.com. What do Catholics really believe? Holy Cross Catholic church will be holding a series of informal presentations that will cover the teaching of the church. The series is known as RCIA and will begin Wednesday, Sept. 19, from 7-8:30 p.m. in Martin Hall. There will be an open house on Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 7 p.m. for anyone wanting to find out more about the series. For more information call 979-245-6379, Monday – Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nature Club The Bay City Nature Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Bay City Service Center.
IRVING SCHOOL BRIEFS
The Irving Schools Foundation and the Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber will host the foundation's annual Education Luncheon at noon Sept. 17 at the Four Seasons Resort and Club at Las Colinas. Tom Luce, a former U.S. assistant secretary of education, will be the keynote speaker. The cost is $50, and sponsorships range from $500 to $700. Call Elizabeth Philipp at 972-215-5018. .
On Angels Peak, camp offers a chance at redemption
One by one, the 40 or so juvenile offenders stepped forward as their names were announced to hearty applause. From the voltage of their bright smiles, it appeared that receiving public praise was a new experience for many. They were graduating from the forestry program at the Spring Mountain Youth Camp, on Angels Peak near Mount Charleston. The camp is populated by delinquent boys ages 12 to 18, including armed robbers, drug dealers, gang members and sex offenders. They are sentenced by Clark County Family Court judges and hearing masters to the camp as a first step in their probation sentence, before being released back to their home environment. For six - month stays, the camp becomes their home. Administrators say the goal is to provide a place where these offenders - selected because they are seen as not-yet-hardened and still socially redeemable - can go to receive schooling, therapy and rigid structure.
Indian schools asked to ban junk food
India's children are getting increasingly overweight and unhealthy and the government is asking schools to ban junk food, officials said Thursday. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, a government advisory body, has drawn up healthy eating guidelines for both government and privately run schools to follow, said Sandhya Bajaj, a commission member. "The number of overweight children in schools is growing," Bajaj said in a telephone interview. She said that the commission was getting complaints from parents who said that their children were buying unhealthy food from school cafeterias. Obesity is emerging as a serious health problem in urban India, a paradox in a country where nearly half the children are malnourished and underweight.
Paying tuition can pay off in keeping your best staff
With the start of the school year not far off, employees of small businesses might have a hankering to take some courses. And company owners might want to think about paying for them to take some classes: The learning may help their careers and in turn, help the business retain its best workers. Many companies are willing to pay for courses that will help employees upgrade their skills or learn new ones. Others go further, making tuition reimbursement an employee benefit that even covers courses not directly related to the job. .
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