And you thought the comedy battle between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey was entertaining. Apparently, a similar witty repartee is shaping up between WGHS’ principal Shannon McGee and and junior Charley Guptill.

Here’s the opening sortie from Charley at last year’s Thursdays at the Theater “Clean Comedy” festival:

Willow Glen High Junior Charley Guptill throws out a few 3-pointers toward Principal McGee at last year’s Thursday at the Theater Clean Comedy show. Here are the highlights:

Ms. McGee rebounds and says “Game On!” - Thursday Oct. 16th.

Clean Comedy — Thursday, Oct 16, 2008
Time: 7:00pm-8:00pm
Prices: $7 General Admission / $6 Students-Seniors / $25 Family
Tickets are sold at the door only
Where: Willow Glen Little Theater

In addition to McGee and Guptill, the official headliner is comedian Tim Lee. All three will be joined by two other local high school students. Proceeds benefit the Willow Glen Middle and High School music programs. Hilarity will undoubtedly ensue.

Well, not exactly 10,000 individuals … but it’s very impressive nonetheless:

SeniorNet Willows to Hit a Milestone

On Saturday, October 4, when SeniorNet Willows has computer class registration for the upcoming session, it will sign-up its 10,000th student for class. This Learning Center began in March, 1994 and since then has gone on to have 10,000 students take a class from the program.

To celebrate this event, we will give student number 10,000 a free SeniorNet membership and a year’s worth of free classes at SeniorNet Willows.

So, if you have been looking for a reason to take a computer class, here is another one.

SeniorNet’s Willow Glen “Cyberschool” sign-up for the next session will be held this Saturday, October 4, beginning at 9:00 am at the Willows Senior Center. Prospective students can enroll for all classes except the “Intro to Computers” classes (registration for the Intro class begins Saturday at 10:30 a.m)

Topics offered this session include primers on Photoshop Elements,word processing, genealogy searches, Windows XP, Google searches, email, file management, digital photography, and iPods & iTunes. They also offer something called the “Best of Internet” … which undoubtedly includes WGx, right?

One of the finest social events of the Fall Season is the annual Willow Glen Foundation Wine Tasting Fundraiser, the primary fund raising event for the WG Middle School & High School Foundation (Website by WGx).

This year’s version will be hosted on Sunday, November 2, benefiting the Foundation and the event’s host, the new Willow Glen Library.

Each year, local wine makers and merchants donate their products and services to raise funds to improve Willow Glen Middle and High School. This year, our goal is to raise $30,000 to be used directly to improve student literacy, including:

• Refresh and update books in both school libraries;
• Expand the individualized reading program in the middle school;
• Put more books in language arts and literature classrooms; and
• Fund 8th Grade literature circles.

The check you write today will help make these things a reality!

And new this year, you can buy your tickets — or make any donation — online from the Foundation’s website.

Left for dead just a few years ago, the WG Founder’s Day Celebration returns this year for another installment — and this one will be televised. Sort of.

Founder’s Day will again coincide with two-day Italian American Heritage Festival, which runs Saturday - Sunday, September 27-28, 2008.

The Parade starts on Saturday at 10:30, proceeding down Lincoln Avenue, from the corner of Lincoln & Coe:

If you can’t be in Willow Glen to catch the parade, we’ve got a special surprise for you. This year we’ll be webcasting a live video feed of the parade on our website.

OK … Technically, the broadcast will only be an online video stream, but who cares? It’s almost worth watching from your living room just to say you did!

Booksin’s 21st Annual Walkathon

WillowGlenExtra is pleased to bring another great “weblog” to the Willow Glen community … once again hosting and sponsoring the official website for Booksin School’s 21st Annual Walkathon.

Scheduled for Saturday, October 11, this year’s Walkathon promises to be more exciting than ever … with the standard array of fundraising activities, a Silent Auction, food booths, great music, and lots of fun!

Ever since Pierluigi Oliverio announced that the movie for his Second Annual District 6 Movie Night would be Disney’s Cars, WGx can’t help but notice there are quite a few “Mater” look-alikes around town.

You know Mater … the rusty but lovable tow truck from Radiator Springs, who takes Lightning McQueen tractor-tipping, and teaches him how to drive backwards, among other important life lessons.

Will the real ‘Mater’ please stand-up …

The movie night is this coming Friday, August 29, and Willow Street Park. … Maybe a guest appearance — or three — is in order. Anyone?

Hey, it’s a confusing headline … because traffic on Minnesota/Alma at Highway 87 could end up being equally snarled this Saturday.

The popular Assyrian Festival returns this year on Saturday, August 23, and … their neighbors at the Elks Lodge will be hosting an eWaste Drop-Off event on Saturday, too.

At least, that’s what all of the signs say. WGx scoured the Internet on your behalf, but couldn’t find any up-to-date online information for you. So, stay tuned … and stay clear if you don’t have any Assyrian-based eWaste to drop-off.

You might need a calendar program to keep track of all of the Classic Car shows in the neighborhood, but you can usually rely on the weekly get-together of car enthusiasts every Thursday at the corner of Bird & Minnesota.

Almost as soon as Mojo Burger opened it’s WG location, there’s been a matching car show on Thursday nights.

But this week, they take it up a notch … for their 2nd Annual Classic Car Show, hosted by Mojo Burger. They are once again combining with the Rockabilly Model agency for a Fashion Show at 6:30 pm, followed by a model photo shoot.

The last energetic installment of Music in the Glen plays out this Thursday, August 14, at Willow Glen Elementary. Don’t miss it!

In today’s post, WGx proudly presents pictures from this past week’s performance, featuring local band Sage, including a shot of the wondering horn section. Additional pictures of crazy dancing and other playground frivolity are available in the right-hand column further down the page.

Special Donation Request: As part of the season finale, organizers are asking for donations of new socks to be brought to the final concert. The Kiwanis Club of WG will donate collected socks to homeless shelters and others in need of warm clothes this winter.

No, it’s not a fancy new reminder service provided by WGx … unless your own library books actually are due back today.

Today is the day that the new collection is set to arrive at the brand new Willow Glen Branch Library! The official Grand Opening is still scheduled for Saturday, August 23, 2008.

If you can’t wait until August 23, you can make a donation in support of the library, and join others for a special Donor Preview Event on August 20. There is still time to support the new branch and have your name — or the name of a business or organization — added to the donor wall at the entrance of the library.

• Donors at $100 -$999 will be listed on the Community Wall
• Donors at $1000-$4999 will be listed on the Legacy Wall
• Donors at $5000+ will be on the Laureate Wall

There are also opportunities to have specific areas of the library sponsored by individuals or businesses with special plaques thanking them. Contributions of $1000 and above can be paid over a three year period.

Please visit www.sjplf.org/donationform.pdf for the pledge form.