OK bakers, here is a super scrumptious recipe contributed by parent Karen Merchant. The dates and oats in the mixture should fix you right up!
Date Oatmeal Bars
1 1/2 cups Regular oats -- uncooked
1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon Baking soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup butter
2 (8-ounce) packages whole pitted dates
1 cup Water
1/2 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla or maple extract
Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl. Cut in shortening with pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Reserve 1 cup crumb mixture for topping.Press remaining mixture into an ungreased 13- x 9- x 2-inch pan.Chop dates. Combine dates, water, and sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add vanilla or maple extract. Spread date mixture over crumb mixture. Sprinkle with reserved 1 cup crumb mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool and cut into squares. Makes about 4 dozen date bars.
June 3, 2010
May 7, 2010
Pasadena's Urban Homesteaders in "It ain't easy being green"
The show "It Ain't Easy Being Green" airs tonight at 7PM on the Food Network and features the Dervaes family farm in Pasadena. Watch as chefs take over the homestead to create a memorable meal for local food writers and critics. It's amazing to see what the Dervaes family grows especially the 8 foot long Tromboncino squash.
Family Sundays at LACMA
Parent Paula Solano wants to remind everyone that LACMA is free for families this month. Thank you Arts Committee!
Andell Family Sundays are on May 9, 16, 23, 30join LACMA for hands on, artist led activities for families. To register for this free program go to the Family Sundays Table on the museum plaza and get your *NexGen pass. This is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd.LA 90036 or call NexGen at LACMA at 323-857-4737
*The NexGen Pass admits the child and one adult to LACMA free anytime!
Andell Family Sundays are on May 9, 16, 23, 30join LACMA for hands on, artist led activities for families. To register for this free program go to the Family Sundays Table on the museum plaza and get your *NexGen pass. This is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd.LA 90036 or call NexGen at LACMA at 323-857-4737
*The NexGen Pass admits the child and one adult to LACMA free anytime!
April 27, 2010
Museums of the Arroyo
Save the Date: MOTA Day Happens on May 16, 2010
http://www.museumso fthearroyo. com/
It's fun, it's festive and it's only one day a year!
Join us for the 21st anniversary of Museums of the Arroyo Day, where five museums located along the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles and Pasadena open their doors free of charge from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 16, 2010.
Each year, thousands of Angelinos have experienced the diverse mix of art, architecture and history of the Arroyo Seco area found in the six unique history-based museums that preserve and perpetuate early Los Angeles life.
The public can visit the MOTA museums during the day at no charge.
It's local, it's interesting and it's FREE!
http://www.museumso fthearroyo. com/
It's fun, it's festive and it's only one day a year!
Join us for the 21st anniversary of Museums of the Arroyo Day, where five museums located along the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles and Pasadena open their doors free of charge from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 16, 2010.
Each year, thousands of Angelinos have experienced the diverse mix of art, architecture and history of the Arroyo Seco area found in the six unique history-based museums that preserve and perpetuate early Los Angeles life.
The public can visit the MOTA museums during the day at no charge.
It's local, it's interesting and it's FREE!
This year promises to bring bigger crowds, so visitors are advised to arrive early. We've added additional parking and you can easily use the Gold Line to get to MOTA Day, so click here for more information. Free and continuous shuttle service will also be available between museums.
We look forward to seeing you.
Visit MOTA museums FREE from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 16, 2010!
THE GAMBLE HOUSE
HERITAGE SQUARE
THE LOS ANGELES POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
LUMMIS HOME AND GARDEN
PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
We look forward to seeing you.
Visit MOTA museums FREE from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 16, 2010!
THE GAMBLE HOUSE
HERITAGE SQUARE
THE LOS ANGELES POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
LUMMIS HOME AND GARDEN
PASADENA MUSEUM OF HISTORY
Viva Poetry!
Join us for afternoons of poetry at the Lummis Day Library Series! Hear live poetry from Los Angeles poets and learn to write or improve your own poetry. All events are free and open to the public.
Saturday, May 8,
Special Start Time 3-5PM
@ The Eagle Rock Library
5027 Caspar Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Featuring Chiwan Choi and Candace Pearson with
special guest Mehnaz Turner
Saturday May 15, 2-4PM
@ The Arroyo Seco Regional Branch
6145 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042
liz gonzález, UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor, will
lead a free poetry workshop for beginning and published
writers of all ages! Come tap into your imagination and begin a
new poem!
Chiwan Choi's first major collection of poems The Flood will be published by Tía Chucha Press this April and his work has appeared in ONTHEBUS, Esquire, Circa and American Book Jam.
Candace Pearson's manuscript Hour of Unfolding won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Borderlands and Texas Poetry Review.
liz gonzález' poetry and fiction have been in many publications and anthologies, including Women on the Edge: Fiction by L.A. Women Writers, Open Windows, and So Luminous the Wild Flowers.
Don't miss the wrap-up Open Reading
and 7 minute lecture "Poetry in a Golden Nutshell"
by John Brantingham of Mount San Antonio College
Autry Museum 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
on Saturday, May 22, at 2-4PM! Sign up @ 1:30PM to read.
All are welcome! Readings will be limited to 5 minutes or three
www.lummisday. org for more info short poems.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc., with a grant it received from the James Irvine Foundation.
Saturday, May 8,
Special Start Time 3-5PM
@ The Eagle Rock Library
5027 Caspar Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Featuring Chiwan Choi and Candace Pearson with
special guest Mehnaz Turner
Saturday May 15, 2-4PM
@ The Arroyo Seco Regional Branch
6145 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90042
liz gonzález, UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor, will
lead a free poetry workshop for beginning and published
writers of all ages! Come tap into your imagination and begin a
new poem!
Chiwan Choi's first major collection of poems The Flood will be published by Tía Chucha Press this April and his work has appeared in ONTHEBUS, Esquire, Circa and American Book Jam.
Candace Pearson's manuscript Hour of Unfolding won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, Borderlands and Texas Poetry Review.
liz gonzález' poetry and fiction have been in many publications and anthologies, including Women on the Edge: Fiction by L.A. Women Writers, Open Windows, and So Luminous the Wild Flowers.
Don't miss the wrap-up Open Reading
and 7 minute lecture "Poetry in a Golden Nutshell"
by John Brantingham of Mount San Antonio College
Autry Museum 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
on Saturday, May 22, at 2-4PM! Sign up @ 1:30PM to read.
All are welcome! Readings will be limited to 5 minutes or three
www.lummisday. org for more info short poems.
This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc., with a grant it received from the James Irvine Foundation.
April 23, 2010
Wonderful pics from our Earth Day Celebration
Earth Day is such a special day at OCS. Here are some pics from yesterday's activities, including building and planting beds in the courtyard and planting trees throughout the property. Students -- thank you for all your help! Parents -- hope there aren't too many backaches this morning!
April 15, 2010
Earth Day April 22nd
Big happenings at OCS this April 22nd. The school will be celebrating Earth Day and we need your help! Students, staff and volunteers will be creating a sheet mulch garden, a terraced garden, holding an Earth Day groceries art project, creating compostable pots, trash sorting, a water relay race and (hopefully) inviting a guest speaker.
There will also be a plant sale managed by one of the 7/8 advisory groups. The students will be selling the following 'garden ready' seedlings: radishes, beans, bottle gourds, squash, sunflowers, herbs, collards, onions and more.
With the efforts of parents Ilse Ackerman and Laura Cooper, the school has secured the donation of 9 15-gallon trees which will be planted throughout the campus.
So we definitely need parent volunteers! Middle school students will be running many of the stations along with their teachers; however it’s always good to have adults around to smooth the process. Half day volunteers can be brought on board but nothing beats a full day volunteer! We would need you from 10am – 2:30pm.
Material Donations
shovels** for soil and mulch transport and tree planting
wheel barrels** for soil and mulch transport
river rock for making the boarder to a new garden
large sheets of cardboard that are brown/unbleached, free of tape and ready to compost
lumber 2x8 planks of pine or redwood
**Please put your name on any tools that you want returned to you.
Monetary donations are also welcome. It allows us to buy anything that is not donated.
Please contact Daryl Bilandzija (Darylb@ocsmail.org) or Aaron Bergmann (AaronB@ocsmail.org) for more information.
There will also be a plant sale managed by one of the 7/8 advisory groups. The students will be selling the following 'garden ready' seedlings: radishes, beans, bottle gourds, squash, sunflowers, herbs, collards, onions and more.
With the efforts of parents Ilse Ackerman and Laura Cooper, the school has secured the donation of 9 15-gallon trees which will be planted throughout the campus.
So we definitely need parent volunteers! Middle school students will be running many of the stations along with their teachers; however it’s always good to have adults around to smooth the process. Half day volunteers can be brought on board but nothing beats a full day volunteer! We would need you from 10am – 2:30pm.
Material Donations
shovels** for soil and mulch transport and tree planting
wheel barrels** for soil and mulch transport
river rock for making the boarder to a new garden
large sheets of cardboard that are brown/unbleached, free of tape and ready to compost
lumber 2x8 planks of pine or redwood
**Please put your name on any tools that you want returned to you.
Monetary donations are also welcome. It allows us to buy anything that is not donated.
Please contact Daryl Bilandzija (Darylb@ocsmail.org) or Aaron Bergmann (AaronB@ocsmail.org) for more information.
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