Summerlin students to be honored

Students, teachers and parents representing 17 schools within the Summerlin master-planned community will be honored at the seventh annual Summerlin Children's Forum Evening of Excellence tonight.

More than 50 individuals will be recognized, including Michelle Cole and Vaneh Movessian, recipients of Summerlin Children's Forum $5,000 scholarships funded by The Howard Hughes Corp., The Rouse Co. Foundation, The Goolsby Family Trust, G.C. Wallace Inc. Engineering, and Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

Cole, a senior at Palo Verde High School, ranks first in her class and is a candidate for valedictorian. She plans to attend Arizona State University, where she will study broadcast journalism.

"The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications is nationally ranked. I feel it is where I belong, and I am looking forward to working towards my career while participating in the college's extracurricular activities," Cole said.

Movessian, also a senior at Palo Verde, is undecided on which college she will attend this fall, "but there is no doubt concerning my major or future career. I will be majoring in communications with an emphasis on journalism," she said.

"After working on the yearbook staff since eighth grade and having the honor of being editor-in-chief for two years during high school, my passion for journalism has only intensified."

The Forum was established in 1997 by community leaders and The Howard Hughes Corp., developer of Summerlin, to improve the quality of education for Summerlin children and families.

Summerlin has ranked as the nation's best-selling master-planned community 10 of the past 11 years, according to independent surveys.

Situated along the western rim of the Las Vegas Valley, the community is being developed in villages and is home to eight golf courses, 105 parks, more than 100 miles of trails, houses of worship, shopping centers, medical facilities, cultural facilities and business parks.

Nearly 150 models showcase the single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums available within the community. Homes are priced from the mid-$100,000s to more than $700,000.

To visit the community's home finding center, travel west on Sahara Avenue past Hualapai Way to Town Center Drive and turn north. Or, take Interstate 215 to Sahara, head east to Town Center and go north.

The center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday. Community maps are available outside the center on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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