Trick or Treat on Greek Street Set for Oct. 31

Trick or Treat on Greek Street, the annual community carnival presented by the sororities and fraternities of Occidental College, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 31 around the fountain at the Alumni Avenue (main) entrance to the Occidental campus. A dozen booths with everything from face painting and balloon animals to a fortune teller and a dinosaur dig will be open to children and families from the surrounding community. Occidental Theater presents “One Flea Spare” and “Tonight We Improvise”

The Occidental Theater Department will present two main stage productions in Keck Theater this fall, Naomi Wallace’s “One Flea Spare,” a searching examination of class, privilege and other issues set in London during the plague-ridden summer of 1665, and Luigi Pirandello’s “Tonight We Improvise,” which shocked its 1930 audience by challenging theatrical conventions and testing the boundaries between fiction and reality.

“One Flea Spare,” directed by Jamie Angell, will be presented in Keck on Nov. 1-4 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 2 p.m. “Tonight We Improvise,” directed by Laural Meade, will be presented in Keck on Nov. 15- 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($8 for senior citizens and $5 for students.) For more information, call the Theater Department Box Office at (323) 259-2922.

Occidental honored for community service

Occidental College has been named to the first- ever President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, a new federal effort to recognize colleges that have provided outstanding service to their communities.

Occidental was one of 99 colleges and universities honored “with distinction” by the Corporation for National and Community Service for their outreach efforts over the past year, including service to areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. More than 500 institutions of higher education applied for the honor.

From July 2005 through June 2006, some 1,200 Occidental students – almost two-thirds of the entire student body -- participated in a wide variety of community service projects, many of them focused on local schools in Northeast Los Angeles. Examples of community-based learning at Occidental include:

A new collaborative venture between the mathematics departments at Occidental and nearby Franklin High School that involves using Occidental students to explore ways to increase the number of Franklin students who pass algebra – one of the keys to increasing high school graduation rates.

Spanish classes whose students provide tutoring to pupils in local elementary and middle schools, many of whom come from Spanish-speaking households. The children benefit from the tutoring, and Occidental students get an excellent opportunity to hone their verbal language skills in a real-life setting.

Improving access to college has long been a focus of Occidental’s outreach efforts. The college’s Upward Bound program celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. One of California’s largest and most successful programs, it serves more than 200 low-income first generation college-bound students from five local high schools each year. Last year, Occidental’s GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District served more than 1,500 low-income middle and high school students from Eagle Rock Junior/Senior High School, Marshall High School and Nightingale Middle School.

First Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar

If you are researching any imaginable subject concerning Los Angeles, you cannot afford to miss the “First Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar” at the Huntington Library from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4. Co-sponsored by the LA as Subject Archives Forum, the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and the Los Angeles History Research Group, this major event will feature booths representing Occidental College Special Collections and more than 40 other regional archives specializing in materials relating to Los Angeles.

Researchers will be able to browse a wide array of subject matter, talk to archivists about their holdings, and make appointments to visit and research in the many archives represented. Information also will be available to introduce researchers to more than 200 archives that are members of the LA as Subject Archives Forum. Throughout the event, a series of speakers will also discuss the holdings of their archives, which range from the very large to less-visible community-based archives scattered throughout the metropolis. Parking and admission to the Bazaar is free; no registration is required (Admission to the Huntington Gardens is not included). Light lunch and refreshments also will be provided free of charge. For more information, visit http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archive s/arc/lasubject/forum.html

“A GHOSTLY EVENING IN EAGLE ROCK” ANNOUNCED BY EAGLE ROCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Please mark you calendars for "A Ghostly Evening in Eagle Rock" – a Halloween costume dinner and party fundraiser for the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce. This is an annual event -- always a fun and well attended! This year, the proceeds are earmarked for the Community Security Cameras that will help the local police with surveillance and public safety issues. 250 tickets are available, and the event sells out, so get yours now! The entire Eagle Rock community and Northeast LA are encouraged to support this fun event. Saturday, October 28th. 6 -7:30 p.m. - Reception and Silent Auction 7:30 p.m - Dine with Dracula (dinner catered by Columbo's Restaurant)

8 - 11:00 - Dancing and Costume Contest Tickets $30.00 - proceeds go towards Community Security Cameras

2154 Hill Drive, Eagle Rock (home of Michael and Eugenie Nogueira - )

THIS IS A COSTUME EVENT - wear those fantastic Halloween costumes – There will be a prize for the best costume! Silent Auction items will be available for bid. We have had some fantastic items for bidding in the past such as Limo Rides, Estate Planning Packages, Ride on the LAPD Fire Truck, Clothing, Original Artwork, Dinner Packages and much more. If you would like to donate any items with a value of $50.00 or more, please contact Lucy at (323) 254.3725. For tickets, call Kaye at (323) 254-9163 or e-mail Erccwebguy@aol.com.