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Hero and Zero

HERO: On May 17 at the Mill Valley Community Center, a group of Marin and San Francisco Jewish teenagers will give away $35,000 in grants to seven agencies serving at-risk youth in the Bay Area, including $5,000 each to the Art of Yoga Project, the Bread Project, Canal Alliance, Real Options for City Kids and Trips for Kids. Fresh Lifelines for Youth and Life Learning Academy each will receive $5,285 from the Jewish Teen Foundation, whose members are taught to be strategic philanthropists and spend a year learning to run their own nonprofit foundation, while also raising funds to support various causes in their community. For info, visit www.jewishteenfoundation.org .

ZERO: One of our readers wants to belly-flop one south-central Marin community center for not allowing a winning high-school swim team to swim in its pool. The students were heading into championships and needed a pool to practice—especially since all organized practices had been put on hold due to the swine flu closure of their school. Naturally, they turned to the community center, where they were greeted with, "Sorry, no lap swimming for under 16-year-olds, unless they are tested by the director [who was not there] for swimming capability." After swim-team representatives explained that these young adults were quite capable of swimming, the front desk then replied, "We don't want them swimming here." And the team was left out of the water.—Samantha Campos