Meeting today covers Pilot Cup specificsAn organizational meeting for the eighth annual Pilot Cup will be held today in the Kaiser Elementary School multi-purpose room.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will cover the tournament rules, player registration forms, selection of school colors, scholarships, referees, and bracketing for the tournament. Representatives of every Newport-Mesa school are encouraged to attend.
The Pilot Cup will begin May 29, with the finals taking place Sunday, June 3, at the Costa Mesa Farm Complex.
Local schools administrator honoredJohn Caldecott, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District's executive director of classified personnel, has been honored by the Assn. of California School Administrators as one of the top school leaders in Orange County.
Caldecott, who served in five other districts before coming to Newport-Mesa, received the 2007 award for personnel or human resources administrator of the year in Orange County. Later this year, he will represent the county in the association's state competition.
Elizabeth Novack, Newport-Mesa's assistant superintendent of human resources, announced Caldecott's award at the districtwide PTA meeting on Monday.
"We see you as someone who's extremely compassionate and extremely bright and articulate," she told him.
Caldecott previously held posts in San Ramon Valley, Stockton, Glendale and Los Angeles. In a short speech Monday, he said working in Newport-Mesa had been the high point of his career.
"Newport-Mesa is unique, and what I think is unique is the connection to students," he said. "That's not always present."
Concert to cap Irish, environment festivalOrange Coast College's 2007 Green Festival, a series of on-campus events dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and Irish culture, is set to wrap up tonight with a concert in the Robert B. Moore Theatre.
