18 Ocean View Jr. High School Students Volunteered at the 5th Annual Children’s Reading Celebration and Young Author’s Fair at CSUCI

As part of their service, the students directed attendees around CSUCI’s John Spoor Broome Library, passed out stickers, and met the author, Alexis O’Neill, who wrote The Recess Queen as well as The Worst Best Friend. (AVID – Advancement Via Individual Determination, is an elective student program to educate and encourage low-income, and/or first generation college attending students, to prepare themselves for the college application process, acceptance and success in college.) For more information on the AVID program at our middle school, please contact Mrs. Evelyn Lelonek Cruz (math teacher and AVID coordinator):

805-488-6421 (phone)

ecruz@oceanviewsd.org

Bill Garcia Solis runs the Ocean View middle school library and admires the work of Canine Adoption and Rescue League:

http://www.carlvc.org/

Internet Links:

AVID:

http://www.avid.org/

John Spoor Broome Library:

http://www.library.csuci.edu/index.html

Related Reading Celebration CSUCI Press Release:

http://www.csuci.edu/news/releases/20...

Ocean View School District - Oxnard, California:

www.oceanviewsd.org