Hacienda Heights Community News
PUBLISHED: May 26, 2011 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 5:11 a.m.
New community center
County officials will hold a community presentation on the Hacienda Heights Community and Recreation Center being built on the Hillgrove site at 6:30 p.m. today, May 26, at the Steinmetz Senior Center, 1545 S. Stimson Ave.
Officials will display the building design and site plan. The Hacienda La Puente Unified School District is providing the seven-acre former elementary-school site for the project to be built.
Construction for the $21.2 million, 19,300-square-foot multipurpose center is expected to begin in 2012 and be completed in 2013
Los Altos senior projects
Los Altos High School students are holding their senior project presentations on May 31 and June 1 in the high school's media center at 15325 Los Robles Ave.
Residents are invited to be guest panelists for the project, which is a graduation requirement for all high school seniors.
Judging is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
For more information about participating, call senior project coordinator Nicole Meylor at 562-754-0102 or e-mail her at nmeylor@hlpusd.k12.ca.us.
Summer outreach
The Youth Science Center, which operates a hands-on science center at Wedgeworth Elementary School, 16949 Wedgeworth Drive, is partnering with the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District to run a series of summer outreach programs made possible by Title I funding.
The four-week science classes, starting June 20, will be offered to students at Bixby, California, Cedarlane, Del Valle, Fairgrove, Kwis, Lassalette, Palm, Sparks Middle and Workman elementary schools.
Registration for the 2011 Summer Program at Wedgeworth Elementary is available at www.youthsciencecenter.org. The summer program will be held from June 27 to July 29.