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Frugal Family: Deals This Week in Los Altos, October 12-18

This week find great deals on cereal, candy, pasta, movies, an ice show, and chicken, pork, and salmon.

Whether we’re shopping with coupons, taking advantage of two-for-one offers or finding the best free programs in our towns, we're stretching our dollars by taking advantage of a variety of offers.

Each week, this column will highlight five local deals to help your family save money.

Tell us about the deals you've seen and we'll post it here on an upcoming week of Frugal Family Deals—so that other readers in our community can greatly benefit from what you share!

Reminder: This weekend is in San Francisco and free admission for kids.

The deals:


Deals: 

  • 39 cents Chocolate Halloween Pumpkin .88 to 1.25 oz. Nestle Butterfinger or Russell Stover, limit 5.
  • $5 for 2 Select General Mills Cereal: Count Chocola, Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, 10.4 to 14 oz.
  • $4.99 Miniatures, Fun or Snack Size Candy 16.3 to 24.44 oz. Nestle, Hershey’s or Mars.

Valid thru: October 15, 2011


Deals:
  • $9.49 (reg. $18.99) Pandoro—delicate “golden bread”
  • $11.99 (reg. $17.99) Pasta Sampler Sale

Valid onOngoing, see site for this deal.

BlueLight Cinemas, Cupertino
Deal: 

  • $2 Movies on Tuesdays
  • $5 Movies on other days

Valid on$2 on Tuesdays and $5 on other days 

Disney on Ice Treasure Trove/Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
Deal:
 

  • $35 for family/individual membership to the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy and receive 2 free ticket vouchers to the Disney on Ice Treasure Trove (reg. $30 to $90 each)
  • Good on these shows: October 19, 20, 21

Valid on: October 19, 20, 21, 2011

Deals: 

  • $8.99 Whole Petaluma Poultry roast chicken
  • $4.99 Chairman’s Reserve boneless pork loin roast
  • $4.99 Mary’s Free Range organic boneless/skinless chicken thighs
  • $5.99 Fresh, Farm Raised British Columbia Salmon Portions, 7 oz.

Valid to: October 17, 2011

 

Merchants, have some special offers coming up? 
Email the author by this weekend and we’ll try and post it for our readers next week.

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Michael Uhler May 25, 2013 at 10:48 am
These are the special education numbers for LASD and BCS for the 2011-2012 school year, the mostRead More recent year that has complete data: LASD had 462 special education students in a total enrollment of 4,486, or 10.3%. Total education expense was $7,319,175, or $15,842 per special education student. Of this expense, they received $3,549,684 from the SELPA, so their expense was about twice the amount they received. BCS had 29 special education students in a total enrollment of 465, or 6.2%. Total education expense was $221,149, or $7,626 per special education student. Of this expense, they were allocated $295,126 from the SELPA, so their expense was completely paid for by the amount they received (they did not keep the excess - it was returned to the SELPA). Sources: CDE DataQuest, SCCOE, LASD
Joan J. Strong May 22, 2013 at 11:21 am
Corrections: 1. Straw man attack: nobody is blaming BCS for district-wide growth. Nobody. 2. BCSRead More does not get "half the funding" of LASD. BCS gets about 6500 and LASD gets about 9500. The BCS program for typical children costs about twice as much as the comparable LASD program. BCS is simple an expensive hybrid public/private school, nothing more. 3. Mr. Roode pointed out that there are about 100 or so special ed. students at LASD (I cannot verify this but it seems very low). LASD calls out an annual expense of $7.5 million for special ed. meaning each of these students cost LASD $75,000, not $1,000 as he implied. 4. The law and the courts have ALREADY compelled LASD to give reasonably equivalent facilities and they have. BCS has a lower student/teacher ratio meaning that they have more classrooms for the same number of kids. This is not, legally speaking, LASD's problem. 5. Mr. Roode has yet to explain how the Covington campus could be 16 acres. Further, he continues to spread the fallacy that campuses ACREAGE is even remotely relevant to its student capacity. Campuses are limited by their location and traffic, not how many acres of grass there is in the back. 6. Were it not for BCS, we would have passed a bond in the last election, as the polling shows. BCS litigation has ripped our community apart and has left it with a mountain to climb when it comes to operating in a normal fashion.
L.A. Chung (Editor) May 22, 2013 at 10:37 am
@David R. I think Homestead uses EarthCare Recycling, based on its April 6 E-Waste collection dayRead More publicity (http://bit.ly/10mIV14) : www.earthcarerecycling.com "Recycle FREE your old electronic equipment - working or not! Anything with a plug or PC board inside. Also accepted are non-household batteries, VHS tapes and other media, and scrap metal. Visit www.earthcarerecycling.com for a list of accepted items. "
David R. May 21, 2013 at 10:26 pm
What kind of bins are there? Do you take used CDROMs? How about VHS tapes? Cables and wire?
David R. May 20, 2013 at 01:18 pm
I saw a public report that said most of the discussion related to carpooling and so forth, sinceRead More Blach is separated so much from the rest of the school. You know, things like dropping off both kids at Egan, and then a group of kids headed for Blach share a ride or vice versa. I don't see how any nonparents can really help with that.