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First-ever Community College AlumniFest skates into town
If you're one of the vast numbers of community college alum in San Diego and Imper ial counties, mark your calendar for an event tailor-made for you: the first-ever Community College AlumniFest set for Friday, March 11, featuring Gulls hockey and a pre-game bash for just $10.
Even if you've taken just a single class, you're a community college alum in our book, so join this celebration at Valley View Casino Center - located at 3500 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110.
Have fun connecting with community college friends at a pre-game party at 5 p.m. in the north entry parking lot that will feature giveaways and prizes, including a chance to ride a Zamboni; face-painting; balloon artists; mascots and more.
Salt + Lime, a food truck featuring modern Mexican cuisine will roll into the parking lot, selling food like tostadas with marinated ahi tuna and wontons, and build-your-own chicken, shrimp or steak bowls. Feel free to bring along the kids and family, friends, co-workers -- everyone is welcome!
The pre-game party is free. Admission to the 7:05 p.m. hockey game is the $10 ticket - nearly half the cost of a regular game - and can be purchased online at www.alumnifest.org. Parking is $15, cash only.
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Free Cuyamaca College concert by
college and high school bands
The Grossmont College Concert Band and the El Capitan High School Band under the direction of conductors Russ Sperling and Chris Nowlin will perform a free Pre-Festival Concert from 7:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, at the Cuyamaca College Performing Arts Theater.
Sperling, Grossmont College's band director, arranges for a
collaborative concert with one of the East County high school bands each year as part of an outreach effort to interest high-schoolers in continuing with band at the college level. Always held in March, the event is called a "Pre-Frestival Concert" because it is an opportunity for high school bands to prepare for their competition season, which runs from March through April. The high school bands are able to perform in a low-key setting at the Cuyamaca College event and also are given feedback from Sperling on ways to better their competition scores.
The El Capitan Band will perform Gustav Holst's "First Suite in E Flat," and the Grossmoont College Concert Band will perform John Williams' "Star Wars" theme, arranged by Stephen Bulla; "O Magnum Mysterium" by composer Morten Lauridsen and arranged by H. Robert Reynolds; and "Armenian Dances," a concert band piece written by Alfred Reed.
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'Lucky Stiff' takes the stage at Grossmont College Stagehouse Theatre
The Grossmont College Theatre Arts department's production of the musical farce, "Lucky Stiff," takes the stage 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays March 10-12, and March 17-19, and at 2 p.m. Saturdays, March 12 and 19. at the Stagehouse Theatre.
With book and lyrics by Tony Award-winning Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty (Rocky, Seussical, Ragtime), and directed by Geno Carr, the production is about unassuming English shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon, forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo if he hopes to inherit $6 million. If he is unable to pass off his uncle as alive, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn! "Lucky Stiff" is a zany, offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce with a tuneful score, a well-oiled plot, diamond thieves and budding romance.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by phone, online, or at the box office. For online tickets, visit www.grossmont.edu/theatrebrochure. To order by phone, call (619) 644-7234. The box office is at Grossmont College, Building 22A/Room 200A1 (Back of Parking Lot #1) The box office opens one hour prior to each production.
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Value of landscape focus of Sustainable Turf & Landscape Seminar
Sustainable Turf & Landscape Seminar at Cuyamaca College is just a few days away, so register now and don't miss out on Southern California's premier sustainable landscaping event.
Registration for this eighth annual event is $75 by March 1 and $85 afterward, and includes the trade show, continental breakfast and lunch. Individuals can now register up to 20 attendees. On-line and mail registration is available.
The keynote speaker is landscape architect Glen Schmidt of the San Diego-based Schmidt Design Group, who will give a presentation on the value of landscapes.
For further information, conctact Don Schultz, coordinator of the college's Ornamental Horticulture program at 619-660-4023, or at [email protected] .
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