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Hutchins Street Square and the city of Lodi's Parks and Recreation Department are both offering day camps for Lodi Unified children who are on spring break.

The Park and Recreation program is held at Legion Park for $110 per week ($220 for both weeks). Hours are 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to information released by the city of Lodi.

The "March Madness" two-week camp at Hutchins Street Square is $254 for Lodi residents and $260 for nonresidents. Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The city reports some parents have been dropping their children off at the wrong camp.

Episcopal diocese to reorganize in Lodi

The San Joaquin Diocese of the Episcopal Church, which has been in turmoil since it has split into two dioceses within the same geographical area over homosexuality and biblical interpretation, will have a major convention in Lodi on Saturday, when a new bishop will be appointed.

The convention will begin with a 9 a.m. organizational meeting, where Jerry Lamb is expected to be elected provisional bishop. The new bishop will be installed during a special Eucharist beginning at 2 p.m.

Several Episcopal churches in the diocese, which extends from Lodi south to Bakersfield and east to the Nevada state line, have split from the diocese and joined an Anglican diocese based in Argentina because of their opposition to openly gay priests and bishops.

The convention will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1055 S. Lower Sacramento Road, Lodi.

Lodi travelers wanted

Did you get out of Lodi for Spring Break? Take a cruise to Mexico or Alaska? Vacation in the desert? Even take a weekend trip to Tahoe?

If you have traveled recently, we want to include you in Snapshots, a weekly travel feature in Lodi Living.

Readers who submit Snapshots published in the Lodi Living receive a free Lodi News-Sentinel tote bag. Entries should include a quick description of your vacation (destination, highlights, would you return), a photograph, your name, address and phone number.

Snapshots may be dropped off at the Lodi News-Sentinel during regular business hours or sent to Lodi Living, Snapshots, 125 N. Church St., Lodi, CA 95240. You may also e-mail Snapshots and your vacation photo to Lodi Living editor Lauren Nelson at laurenn@lodinews.com.

Calling all poets!

If you're a poet, we want to publish your poem in Lodi Living's Poet of the Week section. Entries can include all types of poems, including love poems, religious poems, personal poems, children's poems and more.

Send your poem, along with a short autobiography, phone number and picture of yourself to laurenn@lodinews.com.

Forum to talk mosquitos and West Nile Virus

The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District will host a community forum on April 8 at the Littleton Community Center, 410 Civic Drive from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The public is invited to learn about the district, its services, mosquitoes, West Nile Virus, pest management and how people can protect themselves.

For more information, call (800) 429-1022 or visit http://www.FIGHTtheBITE.net

Delta College facing $1.2M in budget cuts

San Joaquin Delta College officials announced early this week that the college will likely have to trim $1.2 million from this year's budget.

The cut is a portion of the $84.4 million California community colleges are being asked to do without just three months before the current fiscal year ends.

"Budget cuts are always difficult, but this far into the year they can be disastrous. It severely limits our options," said Raul Rodriguez, superintendent and president of Delta College.

These cuts are on top of the $31 million the state cut from community colleges in February and are because of a decline in property tax revenue.

The funding reduction would affect summer school classes and other student services at community colleges, said officials at the Community College League of California.

"A cut of this magnitude so late in the year is unprecedented and has the potential to affect programs and services across the board," Interim Vice President of Instructional Services Kathy Hart said in a statement.

Man tosses drugs onto S.J. County Jail grounds

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office arrested a man this week for allegedly throwing drugs over a fence and onto the premises of the San Joaquin County Jail in French Camp.

The sheriff's department said Otis White, 23, was caught tossing items — identified as lightbulbs — over the jail's south fence.

But upon closer inspection, investigators found foil wraps with a green leafy substance suspected to be marijuana and a brown tar thought to be heroin, according to sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia.

White was arrested on suspicion of bringing drugs into a jail and on suspicion of being a non-inmate furnishing a "controlled substance" to a jail. Deputies booked him into the jail after his arrest.

Reader Feedback

robroy wrote on Mar 29, 2008 9:03 AM:

" Bishop Mark Lawrence and the standing committee of the diocese of South Carolina have this to say:

"The Diocese of South Carolina demonstrated our commitment to the proper observance of The Episcopal Church Canons with two election conventions and eighteen months of Standing Committee and Bishop confirmations. Because we feel so strongly that the Canons were not followed in the depositions of Bishops Schofield and Cox, we must respectfully refuse to recognize the depositions, and we will not recognize any new bishop who may be elected to replace Bishop Schofield, unless and until the canons are followed." "

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