Community Notebook: New Year's Eve on the air Community Notebook: New Year's Eve on the air (December 28, 2005)

The Paul Price Society Orchestra will play tunes from the 1920s through the 1940s at a "New Year's Eve on the Air" gala dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. New Year's Eve at the Masonic Center Ballroom in downtown Palo Alto.

The event, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of California, will be aired live on KCEA (89.1 FM), a radio station based at Menlo-Atherton High School. It will be streamed live on the Web at kcea.org.

KCEA's Mike Thompson and Craig Roberts will emcee the event, which will feature dancing, a light buffet and beverages, and midnight champagne.

Evening dress and period attire are "admired" but not required, say the sponsors.

The Masonic Center is at 461 Florence St. near University Avenue. For tickets, at $35 in advance and $45 at the door, call 279-3598.

For more information, go online to PaulPriceOrchestra.com.
Girls invited to sign up for Alpine-M-A softball

All girls, ages 7-14, are invited to sign up to play Alpine/Menlo-Atherton Little League softball in the spring by registering online, said AMA commissioner Lisa Hennefarth.

To sign up, enter "Alpine/Menlo-Atherton softball" in Google.

After January 15, late fees apply.

Beginners are welcome. Winter clinics will be held to learn or tune up skills and to evaluate girls for team placement. Each player must attend at least one clinic. Details will be announced on the Web site.

Practices will start in March. Games run from April until the first part of June.

Typically, 7- and 8-year-olds practice and play one game a week. Older age groups practice two times a week and play two games: one midweek, the other on the weekend.
Swimmers raise money for Katrina relief

Swimmers in the Alpine Hills Tennis & Swimming Club in Portola Valley used their skills as swimmers to raise $5,800 during an October 8 swim-a-thon to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.

The 24 swimmers, ranging in age from 5 to 13, asked family members, neighbors, and friends to pledge money toward the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund for each lap they completed in the swim-a-thon.

The coaching staff of Bruce Smith (head coach), Kyle Snell, Barbara O'Connell and Stefanie Simoni set goal distances for their swimmers, ranging from four laps for the 5 to 6- year-olds, to 120 laps for the most senior swimmers.

The Alpine Hills swimmers are: Gabrielle Anderson, Elise Rust, Cady Hoffmann, Ben Krausz, Megan O'Neill, Roger Romani, Patrick Ross, James Carter, Kellan Draeger, Haley Ebert, Ben Godfrey, Serena Houghton, John Howard, Eugenia Jernick, Christopher Sauer, Nico Carrino, Elizabeth Draeger, Sarah Ebner, Eliza Henderson, Katie Howard, Kristie Howard, John Jernick, Lizzie Moore and Alex Swart.
News of local college students

Jennifer F. Harris of Menlo Park, is participating in the Bates College Junior Semester Abroad program. An English major, she is studying through Arcadia University in Perugia, Italy, and is the daughter of Leonie and Robert Harris.

Charlotte Carnevale and Mark Hendrickson, both of Menlo Park, were recently designated Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholars for their excellence in scholarship at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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