To me, it has always felt like a fresh beginning with the clean backpacks, unmarked book covers, stacks of notebooks and binders waiting to be filled and lunchboxes not yet stained with leaking applesauce or pudding cups. Whether you walked your kindergartner to class for the first time, dropped off your high school freshman to a new campus or, like me, helped your college-age daughter pack for dorm living, it is a time for transition and a change from the bright green leaves of summer to the multitude of autumn.

Senior Nutrition Program: sterling silver small ballet shoe stud earring component, priced per pair, ballet jewelry, gift for her, stud earring component, Hot meals served along with camaraderie, Must be 55 years or older and a resident of Santa Clara County, Monday-Friday; live dance music at 9:30 a.m.; lunch at 11 a.m, First United Methodist Church, 535 Old San Francisco Road, Sunnyvale, sunnyvaleumc.org/mission/seniornutri tion.html, “Every Body’s Beautiful” Essay Contest: Eating Disorders Resource Center is accepting entries for its fifth annual student essay contest, Students in grades six to 12 are invited to write about the meaning of beauty and to answer questions about how the media and society can affect self-esteem and body image, Cash prizes in each age category, and winners will be recognized on May 3 at the Strong Girls, Strong Women Leadership Conference, Essays will be accepted through March 14, For more information, visit edrcsv.org or call 408-356-1212..

The best moment of the night was the double-shot of “Ladytron” and “If There Is Something,” two experimental-rock tracks from the first Roxy album that offered up more twists than a pretzel factory. Although the four-song run that closed the show — the early disco-dance number “Love Is the Drug,” the art-pop classic “Virginia Plain” and the classic-rockers “Both Ends Burning” and “Editions of You” — was nearly as phenomenal.

Several auditions are on the horizon for those of you who prefer to be on the stage rather than in front of it, Alameda’s Altarena Playhouse holds auditions for “Little Shop of Horrors” on Aug, 24 and 25 beginning at 7 p.m, Fred Chacon directs the show which plays Oct, 10-Nov, 23, Performers should prepare a legato Broadway or rock song and be prepared to do a dance combination and a cold read from the script, Pianist provided, For more information, go to www.altarena.org, Contra Costa Civic Theatre will sterling silver small ballet shoe stud earring component, priced per pair, ballet jewelry, gift for her, stud earring component, audition for “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Sept, 7 from 1 to 5 p.m, and on Sept, 8 from 6 to 9 p.m, Directed by David Bogdonoff, the show runs Nov, 21-Dec, 14 at the company’s El Cerrito Theater..

“They laid out 12 options for finding more space, and they are going to narrow them down,” Day said. “All we are saying is don’t think you can just do whatever you want in our neighborhood.”. Day said neighbors who have been around a long time are still sensitive to the way the school district handled the transition of an elementary school to the adult school nine years ago. More recently, in 2011, the school district backed down on a proposal to combine an Alameda County school for juvenile criminal offenders with the adult school after neighbors opposed the move.