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2008 Fall semester will begin on Sep. 7 2008 All current CLSC families should do online registration at CLCS web between 8-15 to 8-30. Please check school website for details around August. All families are required to have family ID to finished online registration. Please check school directory for your family ID. If you need help, please contact Mrs. Kate Appel registrar.clsc@yahoo.com.

2)  2008 STARTALK Summer Language Program in Howard County at Burleigh Manor Middle School for non-Chinese speaking middle school students. 06/30 – 07/25
We need your help to spread the words of this program to current 5th grade and middle school students. If you can ask the school to post the program abstract on school newsletter, it will be very helpful. Please let me know if you can help.

3)  2008 Association of Chinese School annual conference will be held in Marriot hotel in Gaithersburg on 05/24 and 05/25. Please see school web site for all information and activities.

4)  You must have heard that a major (7.9 scale) earthquake struck Sichuan Province in China. By the latest account, over 50,000 people are perished and tens and thousands more people are still buried under the rubbles. The devastation is immeasurable. As oversea Chinese, we must do our part to assist the victims.

The Tzu Chi Foundation (慈濟) already sent over 100 tons of supplies to the earthquake victims. Beginning May 17, Tzu Chi Foundation starts a donation drive all over the US. These two fliers, one in Chinese and one in English, contain information on how to make a donation through Tzu Chi Foundation. Because Tzu Chi Foundation is an IRS-registered 503(c)(3) tax exempt charity organization, your donation is fully tax deductible. Furthermore, your donation is used to help the victim without overhead charges. The overhead is being covered by a separate set of donations. Please visit http://www.us.tzuchi.org/usa/home.nsf/homeC/index for details and daily updates.

Make check payable to: Tzu Chi Memo: Sichuan Earthquake Relief
Address:Tzu Chi Foundation, U.S.A.
1100 S. Valley Center Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773

Credit Card Donation Hotline(9 am – 6 pm PST):1.888.989.8244(1.888.9TZUCHI)

Other than Tzu Chi Foundation, you also may send a check to World Journal, 141-07 20 Ave. Whitestone, NY 11357. The check should be payable to: World Journal LLC For Sichuan Earthquake Relief.

If you prefer to donate online, The following websites accept online donations:
- China Earthquake Relief www.WorldVision.org
- UNICEF www.unicefusa.org

Have a great Summer!!!

CLSC Principal, Richard Kuan 校長 管士彥
CLSC Assistant Principal, Emily Lee 副校長 張郁梅