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In Russia, the winter holidays signify the arrival of a festive duo: Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden. The grandfather and granddaughter arrive on New Year’s Eve, having traveled through the forests from their home in the nearby Russian town, Veliky Ustyug. Some legends depict Grandfather Frost riding a troika, a type of traditional Russian sled with three horses. Other sources insist that he travels by foot, carrying his large sack of presents.

Grandfather Frost, or Ded Moroz as he’s called in Russia, wears a heavily embroidered blue or red fur-trimmed coat. He also carries a staff and dons a rounded, furry hat. The

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SAN FRANCISCO – The University of California, one of the country’s largest and most respected higher education systems, raised tuition Thursday by another 9.6 percent for the upcoming school year in response to a sharp reduction in government support.

The $1,068 hike passed by the Board of Regents came on top of a previously approved 8 percent hike for 2011-2012.

Incoming UCLA junior Alex Jreisat, who is transferring from a community college, said the latest increase will force him and other students to borrow more money and go deeper into debt.

“It’s already putting me in an uncomfortable situation financially,” said Jreisat, a 21-year-old anthropology major who traveled to San Francisco to speak at the board meeting.

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The current Sacramento County Teachers of the Year have now earned statewide recognition. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell has selected Shannan Brown and Kadhir Rajagopal as two of the five California Teachers of the Year for 2011.

Brown teaches 5th grade at Edison Elementary School in the San Juan Unified District and Rajagopal teaches mathematics at Grant Union High School in the Twin Rivers Unified School District. Both were selected in September as the 2011 Sacramento County Teachers of the Year. As California Teachers of the Year, they will be honored at a special recognition event to be held in the spring.

“I see it as my job to find ways to not only tap into students’ potential, but to guide them in seeing it in themselves,” Brown said.

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It’s the end of June – and the end of another high school sports year.

No shortage of highlights, be they individual or team accomplishments and how about the pile of championships, especially the titles that have been a long time coming?

There were many contentious matters, controversial if you prefer that word, and some decisions made by OFSAA that drew criticism in more ways than one. Some that even involved the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Even a few bizarre moments that left people scratching their heads and muttering frivolous things.

With apologies to those I may have missed, here are some highlights from my world of high school sports in the past 10 months.

Let’s start with the individual highlights.

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