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Austin Chronicle - RONDA’S MONTESSORI GARDEN still has openings for girls ages 2-6. Students learn organic gardening, sign language, yoga, and more. Ronda’s Montessori Garden, 4300 Mount Vernon, 707-8635. rondasgarden@yahoo.com

EDUCATION: OTHS board approves deficit budget
Times-Press - Deb Niedzwecki, part-time clerical worker in student services; and Gordy Kirkman, assistant softball coach. Accepted the resignation of Diana Hight, sign language interpreter; and accepted the retirement of Rosemary Walter, library clerical position

Teach the world to sign
Biggleswade Chronicle - Well now you can! A new class has been set up in Shefford to teach babies sign language so that they are able to communicate with their parents. The new Tiny Talk classes, which began in Shefford last Thursday, are held weekly and incorporate singing

Looking back on the school’s past of love and war
Edinburgh News - haunted, and the 12-year-olds who were both deaf couldn’t contain their curiosity. “We didn’t ever see any ghosts but all of the children talked about them,” smiles Irene, now 63, as a communication support worker translates her rapid sign language

John Walsh: ‘When did the Burmese monks start talking about revolution
Belfast Telegraph - I remember David Bowie trying that routine onstage for about five minutes until someone told him it was internationally understood sign language for a prat. One shouldn’t, I know, blame an artist for the poor quality of his imitators, but

Out & About
Riverside Press Enterprise - Sign Language, 4:30 or 6 p.m. Wednesday; free story time and crafts, 10 a.m. today; most classes $9, 17032 Van Buren Blvd., Riverside, 951-789-5402. PERRIS RECREATION SERVICES, Teen Night, ages 13-17, 7-10 p.m. Fridays

Destination: Martha’s Vineyard
Salon - It s a place where, a century ago, an entire county knew sign language to accommodate a genetic deaf community. It’s got some of the oldest commercial fishing ports in America and also the still-thriving native tribe of “Moby-Dick’s” harpooner. It

Healing hearts
Salt Lake Tribune - Tongan, Samoan, Spanish, American Sign Language and other interpreters are available. “The goal of treatment is to integrate the experience into the tapestry of who they are, learn from and not have it define who they are,” says social worker

Titans want to copy Colts’ winning formula
Nashville Tennessean - You watch them and it is almost as if they have invisible sign language they are giving to each other. It is almost like John Stockton and Karl Malone out there. You always knew they had that pick-and-roll coming, but you couldn’t stop it.'’ The

Preschoolers learn about self-esteem at hair salon
Register-News - They offered more things, like coloring and teaching sign language and Spanish, he said. Student Crystal Herron, who will be graduating in April, said the beauty day allows the girls to dress up and play make-believe. I love it, Herron said

FSDB may pick interim president
St. Augustine Record - I just became fascinated with sign language, and everything fell into place,” he said. That early passion for working with the deaf has continued through his 38 years working in education. “I really enjoy my work. I’ve never seen it as as much of a job

Education fair offers a sampling
Huntington Herald-Press - They include first aid/cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), parenting, cake decorating, sign language, adult education, money management, and more. Several free break-out sessions will also be available. Those attending can learn about financial aid

First Session Kept Boylan Busy
pilot.com - A bill allowing schools to offer sign language with foreign language credit passed. Boylan supported a bill requiring the same disclosure of legal defense funds that currently applies to campaign funds. One disappointment was the failure of the

Jury: Thorngren guilty of murder
Idaho Statesman - BSU observed a moment of silence at a basketball game following Thorngren’s murder. A deeply religious man, he used sign language and volunteered with the deaf community. After his death, friends in the Boise Valley Deaf and Hard of Hearing Club set

Music provides some relief from sameness of second ‘Smoke
Tuscaloosa News - June s part in the family act again consists mostly of (largely invented) sign language interpretation of the others singing, an element that I quickly found tiresome the first time around. I was certain that the first show had already milked

Community Calendar
Carlsbad Current-Argus - Call: 885-2768 or 706-5640 for exact time & location. Tuesday 8 a.m., Board of Realtors, every Tues., CMC cafeteria. 9 a.m., Sign language classes, Boathouse at Lakeview on Canal St. Call: 628-1917. 9-10 a.m., Reading & Math Programs, every Tues

Unacceptable risks
Staunton News Leader - Most people who read the arrest report in Craig’s case needed a Rosetta Stone for homosexual cruising behavior to decipher the arcane sign language used by the senator to signal his wishes to the police officer who arrested him. But it all added up

Kalman Alan ‘Kal’ Lifson: Business consultant worked hard, played hard
Dallas Morning News - Lifson’s leisure activities tended to be adventurous, such as fishing from a remote village on the Amazon, where he communicated with sign language. “He always did stuff like that,” Mrs. Lifson said. “He went fishing in the Arctic, in Canada and

Turning a Deaf Ear: Spring Creek s Saddoris overcomes physical
Elko Daily Free Press - He s also learning sign language. But Saddoris rarely takes advantage of these things. In athletics, Saddoris tries to make his hearing loss a non-issue. It s not a problem in terms of his play, Jund said. Once in awhile, if we re doing

Autistic teen found wandering in dark
St. Petersburg Times - Investigators tried sign language. At one point, they tried speaking Spanish. “As a wild shot in the dark, we put the child in the back of the car hoping the child would point out something,” said Sgt. Jimmy Meier of Tampa police. “We were rolling

Deacons turn to Hodges for relief
Greensboro News & Record - Backup quarterbacks learn football sign language. It was a chance “I was willing to take because of this place,” said Hodges, a sophomore from Orlando, Fla. “It was Wake Forest. Overall, this place had everything — the degree, the coaching staff, the