Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some

Festival Ana Barraza 1-1-1-1 Creatures of the Corn Barely Bewitching For Some Family Fun at the Harvest Festival is Far From Frightening Haunted Happenings At Pierce Fall was definitely in the air on a chilly Friday night at Pierce College, where the bright lights and banjo music coming from the corner of De Soto Avenue and Victory Boulevard were a sure sign that the third annual Halloween Harvest Festival had commenced.

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Mothering and Mathematics semantics

Sheri Lehavi is happy to spend her mornings teaching math at Pierce College. It is now 6:40 a.m. The grass outside is soaked with a cool morning dew as the sun yawns and stretches its arms to the sky, still groggy from yet another good night’s sleep. Inside the Math Building, in Room 1416, Lehavi and her Elementary Algebra students are solving algebraic inequalities and graphing x and y axes.

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Day of the Child draws smiles

Approximately 1,500 Los Angeles County foster children and their volunteer mentors attended the ninth annual Day of the Child for a day of fun on Sunday at Pierce College. Day of the Child is an event designed to bring awareness and support for the needs of children who are living in foster care, residential facilities and homeless shelters.

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