Four for the Month
      It was Maya Angelou who once said: "When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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Skateboard season takes flight
     Photos by IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers WHEELS IN MOTION- Clockwise, from top left, Royal High student Kenny Krupnick flies down the stairs during Event 1 of the National High School Skateboard Association season last weekend at SkateLab. Jeff Russo of Simi Valley High does a kickflip over the rail. Roy Canright, also of SVHS, balances his board on the ramp's edge. The second of four NHSSA events will take place Saturday, April 26 at Borchard Skatepark in Newbury Park.
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Basketball squad wins O.C. tourney
     LOCAL TALENT SCORES BIG WIN- Team Concept Basketball won the 17-and-under Open Division of the 2008 California Classic girls' club basketball tournament. The event, which took place at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana and other Orange County gyms, was hosted by the Cal Sparks basketball club and sponsored by the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. Pictured, from left, are Katie Brooks, coach Conley Oliver, Sasha Borenstein, Nicole Packard, Julia Violano, Lauren Varney, Mary Kate Jankowski, Chelsea Jacoby, Taylor Ignoto, coach Dimitri Hodgkinson, coach Christine Connor and an L.A. Sparks representative.
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Press Box Prattle
      The Marmonte League baseball schedule reached its midway point last week, so, like I've done in past seasons, now seems like the appropriate time to name a first-half All-Star squad.
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Royal Invitational draws top swimmers
      The 28th annual Royal Swim Invitational/Josh Mlakar Memorial Meet will take place Saturday at the Rancho Simi Community Park pool. The event, one of the most prestigious and largest meets in all of Southern California, begins at 9 a.m. and runs throughout the day. It's free to attend.
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