Paula Poundstone Performs AND Agano With Kenya Provides

Comedian Paula Poundstone talks about her comedic origins in kindergarten; her special brand of audience for which other comics yearn; her own lively math texts prepared with her high school math teacher (The Sticky Problem of Parallelogram Pancakes: Venn Can We Be Friends); and the value of pubic libraries in Santa Monica and throughout the country. She returns to perform at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, at 8 pm on October 27th. More details available at: http://www.thecoachhouse.com/ or www.paulapoundstone.com/ Founder and executive director of Agano With Kenya, Newport Beach resident Jene Meece talks about her execptional collaboration with Kenyan Father Henry Samaro to arrange for orphaned or deeply impoverished young women to get college educations. Her project, first launched in September 2010, is built around an agreement/pact known in Swahili as "agano." The guiding principle of the project is that the benefitting students maintain an agreement that as they are enriched, in turn further enrich, their peers, their villages of origin, and their society with the educations that they receive in any of the 30 universities around Kenya. 10 students were enrolled in the Spring of 2011, and will be joined by the next new cohort of 10 students within the year. Details about this organization can be followed on Facebook or on www.aganowithkenya.org/ On the evening of November 5th, the Gala for AGANO, presented at the Shady Canyon Country Club in Irvine, CA, includes cocktails, dinner, and a silent auction, to support the students in Kenya.