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Teens looking for work opportunities

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023
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Are you a teenager age 13-18 looking to babysit, pet sit, tutor, mow lawns, shovel snow, or offer a unique service to Castle Pines?  We are currently updating our free…

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Free meals for all DCSD students

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023
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Douglas County School District (DCSD), like all major school districts and most small/rural districts in Colorado, will offer free breakfasts and lunches to all students beginning this school year through…

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Park adventures

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023
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The DCS Montessori activities van stayed busy during the summer Parks Adventures camp.  Campers loaded up in the van to visit and play at nearby parks that included Coyote Ridge,…

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Driving to Disneyland, connecting along the way

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023
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  Summertime and road trips go hand in hand.  Remember all those miles logged and hours passed playing games or dozing off?  Summer seems somehow fuller when you hit the…

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National Parks pass for fourth graders

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023
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In 2015, President Barack Obama announced the Every Kid in a Park (EKP) program which provides all fourth-grade students with a free National Park pass for one year.  The program…

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AA drama students perform over summer

By CPC | Jul 27, 2023

  American Academy Performing Arts (AAPA) is a program of extracurricular instruction, activities and experiences to supplement and challenge students to excel in the performing arts.  As part of the…

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Mad Science

By CPC | Jul 1, 2023
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DCS Montessori (DCSM) lower elementary summer campers enjoyed slime, goop and glob during a four-day Mad Science camp.  Using real world science techniques, campers were able to touch, see, hear…

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80108 teens receive scholarship grants

By CPC | Jul 1, 2023
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Every year since 1988, CORE Electric Cooperative has selected 35 high school graduates (five teens from each of its seven districts) to each receive $2,000 for higher education.  The 2023…

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Take me out to the ball game

By CPC | Jul 1, 2023
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Timber Trail Elementary Before and After School Enterprise (BASE) sent nine staff members and 58 kids, grades kindergarten through sixth grade, to the Rockies vs. Giants home baseball game in…

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From Jag to cadet

By CPC | Jul 1, 2023
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It was at a Navy summer program for rising high school seniors that Nikki Flocco said she “absolutely fell in love with the military.”  Despite returning from the program in…

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