Incline Village Schools

As parents of preschoolers look ahead to the next school year and begin thinking about their child starting kindergarten, they are usually filled with mixed emotions. There is the excitement of starting the path to graduation, but also the trepidation that these youngsters are "growing up." Regardless, the entire process begins with getting registered for school.

Most elementary schools in the Washoe County School District will begin kindergarten registration for the 2010-11 school year on Monday, May 3. Some schools on a multi-track year round calendar may begin earlier. Parents are advised to check with their school for the exact dates and times.

Registration is done at the school the child will attend. Parents who are unsure of which school they are zoned for can check the school district website. Parents can see which school their child is zoned for by going to this section of the WCSD website http://www.washoe.k12.nv.us/schools/school-zoning-search

Students must be five years old on or before September 30, 2010 to be eligible for kindergarten. When parents come to the school, they will need to bring the following documents:

• An original birth certificate
• A current immunization record
• Social Security Number for the child (optional)
• Proof of residency, such as a power or telephone bill or a rental agreement

For more information, call WCSD at 861-1200 or Incline Elementary School at 832-4250.

About Washoe County School District: The Washoe County School District includes the Reno/Sparks metropolitan area, Incline Village, Gerlach, Empire and Wadsworth, Nevada. The District provides each of its 63,000 students with a superior education in a safe and challenging environment and is committed to graduate every child career and college ready. For more information visit: www.washoecountyschools.org. Follow us on Twitter at WCSDTweet.

See attached for information on the Mike Simon Soccer Camp 2010.

Reno Aces introduces children's reading program

The Reno Aces Baseball Club introduced a new reading program aimed at local children in preschool through middle school. This incentive-based initiative encourages students to expand their frame of reference and enhance their knowledge of sports by reading.

Students participating are asked to read three books this summer and write a short essay after completing each. Once the student completes the three-book requirement, he or she will be awarded with a ticket to a Reno Aces game and recognition on the Aces Ballpark video board.

Additional details, rules and registration forms are available at www.RenoAces.com or by calling 775-334-4700.

POSTER CONTEST WINNERS GET WILD ISLAND PASSES

Truckee Meadows Water Authority holds its ninth annual Responsible Water Use Poster Art Contest for children in eighth grade and younger through May 14. This year's theme is responsible water use being as easy as 1-2-3. Judging will be divided into three categories: kindergarten through third grade, fourth through sixth grades and seventh and eighth grades.

Top finishers get savings bonds and season passes to Wild Island Family Adventure Park, 250 Wild Island Court, Sparks. For a list of rules, visit www.tmwaacademy.com  or call 775-829-2810.

COMPETE FOR TOP ANTI-LITTER PSA

Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful is holding an anti-litter public service announcement contest for students in six categories through Friday. Categories are as follows: Kindergarten through third-grade poster, fourth- through sixth-grade poster, seventh- and eighth-grade poster, high school poster, 30-second high school/college video and 30-second radio spot high school/college.

Prizes include items from Patagonia and concert/golf packages. For more information and list of rules, visit www.ktmb.org or call 775-851-5185.

ART EXHIBIT ENTRIES SOUGHT

The Holland Project is seeking entries through May 26 from teen artists for the "Out for Summer" exhibition scheduled this summer at the gallery, 30 Cheney St. Artwork of any media that is in good taste must be in ready-to-hang condition can be dropped off at the gallery between noon and 6 p.m. May 24-26. Cost: Free to enter. Details: 775-742-1858 or http://hollandreno.blogspot.com.

• Walls and display cases: paintings by Catherine Ball.
• All Washoe County Library System branches will be closed on Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day.
• Free Tutoring at Incline Village Library: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. through May, 2010
  • Elementary, middle and high school students: come to the library for after-school tutoring with a certified teacher. Sign-ups are not required and all students needing homework help are encouraged to attend. This program is a collaboration between the Washoe County Library, Washoe County School District and Children in Transition.
• After School Story Time:  Wednesdays, 4:00 – 4:45 p.m.
  • There will be no story time on May 26.

Friday, May 1 – Saturday, August 1

Summer Reading Programs: “Make a Splash @ Your Library” and “Make Waves @ Your Library”. Children and teens may earn a free book when they participate in this reading incentive program. Special free events will be featured at Washoe County Library branches in May, June and July and children are welcome to participate at multiple libraries.

• Wednesday, May 5
  • 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.  Mother’s Day Story Time. Join us for this special story time as we read stories and make a unique craft to celebrate Mother’s Day.
• Friday, May 7
  • 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Lifescapes.   Lifescapes is a guided writing program for seniors who wish to record their memories on paper.  Drop-ins are welcome. Seniors.
• Saturday, May 15
  • 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. How I Got into College. Do you have questions about the college application process? Listen to a panel of college-bound high school seniors tell about their experiences applying to and selecting admission offers from public and private colleges and universities around the country. Teens and parents.
• Friday, May 21
  • 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Lifescapes.   Lifescapes is a guided writing program for seniors who wish to record their memories on paper.  Drop-ins are welcome. Seniors.
• Saturday, May 22 through Friday, June 4. During open library hours (noon – 6 p.m., Tuesday – Saturday). 
  • Early Voting.

Contact:  Amy Levy
Incline Village Library
845 Alder Avenue
Incline Village, NV  89451
Phone: (775) 832-4130
alevy@washoecounty.us
Website: www.washoecountylibrary.us

Ready for an entertaining evening of fabulous music - and it is right here in Incline Village?  You won't want to miss the SNC Choir presenting songs from Broadway.

Back by popular demand, the SNC Choir will once again be performing classic songs from some of Broadway’s best-loved shows, this time to the tunes of the current long-running musical Wicked, Paint Your Wagon—which famously featured crooners Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin in the film version—and the iconic South Pacific, generally considered one of the greatest musicals of all time, with a number of its songs going on to become worldwide standards.

Wicked tells the story of the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Galinda, the Good Witch of the North. The show was nominated for ten 2004 Tony Awards, winning for Best Actress, Scenic Design, and Costume Design. Paint Your Wagon, the 1951 Broadway musical comedy set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California, inspired the later film version in 1969, which ended up bearing little resemblance to the musical on which it is ostensibly based. South Pacific is a 1949 musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950 for its sensitive and candid depiction of racial prejudice at that time, drawing from James A. Michener's 1948 novel Tales of the South Pacific (which also won a Pulitzer Prize).

The concert, which will be performed under the direction of Donna Roberts Axton, SNC program chair of music, is scheduled for Wednesday, May 12, at 7pm in Patterson Hall on the SNC campus in Incline Village. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door; kids are free.

Donna Axton teaches classes in music theory, music history, humanities, voice, and piano at Sierra Nevada College. For more information on the concert, please call her at 775.881.7586 or email her at daxton@sierranevada.edu.

See attached flyer for more information.

All the dirty laundry younger people seem to air on social networks these days might lead older Americans to conclude that today's tech-savvy generation doesn't care about privacy.

Such an assumption fits happily with declarations that privacy is dead, as online marketers and social sites such as Facebook try to persuade people to share even more about who they are, what they are thinking and where they are at any given time.

But it's not quite true, a new study finds.
Despite mounds of anecdotes about college students sharing booze-chugging party photos, posting raunchy messages and badmouthing potential employers online, young adults generally care as much about privacy as older Americans.

The report, from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania, is among the first quantitative studies looking at young people's attitudes toward privacy as government officials and corporate executives alike increasingly grapple with such issues.

"It is going to counter a lot of assumptions that have been made about young adults and their attitudes toward privacy," said Mary Madden, senior researcher at the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

She was not part of the study but reviewed the report for the Associated Press ahead of Thursday's release.

The numbers

The survey, based on a 2009 telephone survey of 1,000 Americans 18 and older, did find some areas with generational differences in attitudes.

For example, while 69 percent of all respondents said a company should be fined more than $2,500 for privacy violations, only 54 percent of those 18 to 24 years old thought the fine should be that steep.

Even so, the majority of young people generally agreed with their older counterparts in wanting more privacy, not less.

"Yes, there are some young people who are posting racy photographs and personal information.

But those anecdotes might not represent what the average young person is doing online," said Chris Hoofnagle, co-author of the study and director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.

Knowledge of the law

Although they grew up in the digital age, young people know surprisingly little about their rights to online privacy, the study found. They seem more confident than older adults that the government would protect them, even though U.S. privacy laws offer few such safeguards.

The lack of knowledge about the law, coupled with an online environment that encourages people to share personal information, might be one reason young people can seem careless about privacy, according to the study, which was conducted in July 2009 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

There also is some evidence that, by virtue of their age, adolescents and young adults' brains are hard-wired toward risky behavior, the report said, citing past psychological studies.

The researchers suggest that lawmakers and educators should not assume that young adults do not care about privacy and therefore don't need protections.

Rather, they say, "policy discussions should acknowledge that the current business environment ... sometimes encourages young adults to release personal data in order to enjoy social inclusion even while in their most rational moments they may espouse more conservative norms."

Yet that doesn't mean you shouldn't believe all the stories about younger people prolifically posting photos of their beer-guzzling, scantily clad selves.

"But there is not enough research to find out (whether) older people do the same thing," said Joseph Turow, professor at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication. "Older adults, they may not show up naked, but they may be releasing other kinds of (personal) information."

Among the findings

• Eighty-eight percent of people of all ages said they have refused to give out information to a business because they thought it was too personal or unnecessary. Among young adults, 82 percent have refused, compared with 85 percent of those older than 65.
• Most people, 86 percent, believe that anyone who posts a photo or video of them on the Internet should get their permission first, even if that photo was taken in public. Among young adults 18 to 24, 84 percent agreed "” not far from the 90 percent among those 45 to 54.
• Forty percent of adults ages 18 to 24 believe executives should face jail time if their company uses someone's personal information illegally "” the same as the response among those 35 to 44 years old.

On the Web

Study: http://bit.ly/9O6Mkv