FRIDAY FOLDER: July 3, 2009

PPCC to host college seminar
Launch to Success, a seminar for high school and homeschooled students and their parents, will be held Thursday and Friday at Pikes Peak Community College's Rampart campus, 11195 Highway 83.
The Launch to Success Seminar, sponsored by PPCC and SUMMIT Coaching Solutions, focuses on ways to lay the foundation for college success and entrance into adult life.
The program for parents is 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday and will provide information on how to help their children face the many challenges of adulthood.
The Friday seminar is 8 a.m. to noon and is geared toward students.
Lunch is included.
The cost of the two-day event is $39 per family, and $19 for each additional sibling.
To sign up, call 651-8794, or go to www.collegeboundcoaching.org.

New prep school enrolling students
Registration for the new Atlas Preparatory School in Harrison School District 2 is taking place through the month of July for students going into fifth grade.
Registration can be done by phone from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays by calling 358-7196.
Atlas Prep will offer a college-prep education, free school supplies, and a free after-school program.
The school opens Aug. 3.
For information, go to atlasprep.org.

Petition group seeks signatures
A community group trying to recall two members of the Falcon School District 49 school board will make a final push this weekend to gather signatures.
Monday is the deadline for the group to turn in the petitions, and they hope to gather more than the required 3,400 signatures for each candidate.
Group members will canvas the Claremont Ranch, Cimarron Hills and Constitution Hills areas Friday evening, and will also have a table set up by the fireworks tents at the corner of Palmer Park and Powers boulevards today and Saturday.
Petitions will also be available to sign at the annual neighborhood bike parade from 4 to 5 p.m. Saturday on Duffield Drive in Cimarron Hills.
The group wants to recall Dave Martin and Kent Clawson, as well as field candidates to run in November against three other  board members, should they decide to run again.

Forensic student receives award
Danielle Camous of St. Mary's High School has been named the 2009 National Forensic League National Student of the Year.
The league has 92,000 active members and singles out one each year to recognize for best demonstrating the tenets of its code of honor: integrity, humility, respect, leadership and service.
To be eligible for the award, the student must win the competition at the district level.
Six nominees are then selected as finalists and participate in interviews.

CAROL McGRAW, The Gazette