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TOP STORY - AUGUST 7, 2008
Return Your Library Materials During Fine-Free Week |
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The County of Los Angeles Public Library is offering borrowers a chance to return overdue library materials and clear their library accounts during the Public Library’s Fine-Free Week, August 11-17, 2008. The County Library is holding Fine-Free Week to allow patrons to return books, DVDs, magazines and other library materials without paying a fine.
“The purpose of fine free days is to encourage borrowers to return library property, and receive a fresh start,” said County Librarian, Margaret Donnellan Todd. “We want to ensure that children and families can read and use the library.”
In addition, library patrons who have already returned their library materials, but still have unpaid fines on record, can visit any of the County Library’s 84 locations to receive a 50% reduction on fines owed if paid in full during this week. Charges for lost or damaged materials will not be waived.
The purpose of Fine-Free Week is to promote the return of needed library materials, heighten awareness of the importance of reading and literacy and encourage families to use the County Library.
The County Library’s Fine Free Week will end 5:00 p.m. on August 17. For County library listings or additional information, please visit the County Library Web site at www.colapublib.org or call (562) 940-8415.
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Supervisor Knabe welcomes guests to the 2007 "Art of Rancho", which is an annual art show held at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. |
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Don Knabe. Working for you.
Arts and Education
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Advancing the Arts
23 arts organizations from the Fourth District receive competitive funding awards from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission to create visual and performing arts projects and provide access to the arts for children and adults. Over $4.5 million in arts grants were distributed to 155 nonprofit arts groups across the County in 2008.
Providing Opera for Children at Libraries
The highly-acclaimed Opera Tales program returned to Fourth District County Libraries. Opera Tales is a LA Opera program that introduces children and families to the world of opera at local libraries. Supervisor Knabe established the partnership between the LA Opera and the County of Los Angeles Public Library, and provided funding to bring Opera Tales to libraries in the Fourth District.
Funding Summer Arts Internships
Los Angeles County, through its Arts Commission, has given grants totaling $496,000 to 87 performing, literary, media and municipal arts organizations throughout the County to support paid internships for college undergraduates in the summer. Through the program, interns gain a deeper understanding of the work involved in nonprofit arts administration and the role of the arts in a community, and develop business skills that can be put to use in their future careers. |
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County Concert Features Local Performers
Five talent groups from across the Fourth District performed in the 47th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration, a free performance that is a gift to the community from Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The local groups included Inspirational Voices of Free! of San Pedro, Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers of Hermosa Beach, Golden State Pops Orchestra and Sheridan Singers of San Pedro, Grupo Folklorico Sabor de Mexico from Torrance and Khmer Arts Academy from Long Beach.
Funding Summer Arts Internships
Los Angeles County, through its Arts Commission, has given grants totaling $530,000 to 90 performing, literary, media and municipal arts organizations throughout the County to support paid internships for college undergraduates in the summer. Through the program, interns gain a deeper understanding of the work involved in nonprofit arts administration and the role of the arts in a community, and develop business skills that can be put to use in their future careers.
Providing Funds to Fourth District Arts Education Programs
More than three dozen arts education programs were awarded grants from the 2007 Knabe Arts Education Partnership Program. Any Fourth District school or non-profit organization that offers a program relating to arts youth education was eligible to apply, and the organizations must also currently work in the Fourth District.
Upgrading the Library at Palm Elementary in Hacienda Heights
Supervisor Knabe worked to ensure that recently renovated Wonder of Reading Library at Palm Elementary School in Hacienda Heights would receive new tables, chairs and books. The furniture and books were funded by a $10,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDGB) allocated to the Fourth District.
Overhauling Education in the County Juvenile Justice System
Schools designed to teach children incarcerated in the Los Angeles County juvenile justice system may be seriously underserving students, according to a report by the Children’s Planning Council. As a result, Supervisor Knabe called for a top-to-bottom reform of the education system in the County’s juvenile halls and probation camps, including the possible use of charter schools. |
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Advancing the Arts
26 arts organizations from the Fourth District receive competitive funding awards from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission to create visual and performing arts projects and provide access to the arts for children and adults. Over $4.5 million in arts grants were distributed to 250 nonprofit arts groups across the County in 2006.
Improving Access to Libraries
After learning of the limited access students in the County’s probation halls and camps have to libraries, Supervisor Knabe formed a partnership between several agencies to create new access to books and reading materials for these students. The result was a program that provides library cards to all probation students, access to reading skills lessons and specialized reading lists.
LA Phil for Free
The Los Angeles Philharmonic returns to the Fourth District for a special community concert in the South Bay. The free concert was the first in the District in over five years.
New Facilities for Homeless Students
Community leaders dedicate the Mary McLeod Bethune Transitional Center, a school that provides mainstream educational and health services to children of homeless families. The new 6,000 square foot campus helps many of the 800 homeless children enrolled in the Long Beach Unified School District receive the same academic opportunities that students in other local schools receive. Supervisor Knabe secured $1 million in Federal Community Development Block Grant money to help fund construction of the Bethune Center.
MoLAA Expansion Campaign
Expansion of the Museum of Latin-American Art (MoLAA) in Long Beach is helped, in part, with Supervisor Knabe’s financial assistance. Once complete, the expansion project will more than double the existing gallery and exhibition space at the Museum.
Opera Opportunities Opera Tales is a new LA Opera program that introduces children and families to the world of opera. Supervisor Knabe established a partnership between the LA Opera and the County of Los Angeles Public Library, and provided funding to bring Opera Tales to library branches across the Fourth District.
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Financial support to keep the Little Red School House at the Catalina Island Isthmus from closing. This allows eight to ten children to go to school at the Isthmus, instead of traveling more than one hour each way to Avalon.
Funded $18,400 for four new computers and workstations at the Diamond Bar Library.
5,000 high school and middle school students from schools across the Fourth District participate in Supervisor Knabe’s annual Operation Read program.
Created partnership between the County Librarian and the Los Angeles Opera to create and fund a children’s opera program in local Fourth District County libraries.
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500 elementary school students participate in Supervisor Knabe’s annual Operation Read program.
Annual financial support of the Early Education Symposium, presented by the Long Beach Early Care and Education Committee.
Coordinated the Friends of Cerritos Library effort to send reading books to impoverished children in Taiwan.
Funded the Children’s Corner at the Lomita Library in memory of Deone Colbary.
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Provided lead funding for the relocation and permanent location of the Artesia Historical Society Museum.
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Friends of Lomita Library honors Supervisor Knabe with the dedication of the “Don Knabe Golf Book Collection.”
Creation of the Fourth District Arts Education Grants program, which funds arts programs in the Fourth Supervisorial District. This program has continued annually and has provided dozens of arts agencies with financial support.
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Supervisor Knabe took a leadership role in the establishment of “Arts for All” from the launching of the program to the present day and has continued to encourage school districts in the Fourth District to adopt the Arts for All Blueprint.
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Created a partnership with the Palos Verdes Art Center and the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District to provide an arts program to all sixth grade students.
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