Kudos to: Alexia Vargas and Lupita Ramos
Accomplishment: The two Colusa High School musicians were invited to play Sunday at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Details: Vargas (trumpet) and Ramos (oboe) were to play at the hall after being accepted to the American High School Honors Performance Series for young musicians in the United States, Canada and Europe, the Colusa Unified School District announced.
Kudos to: Dr. Brian Rubinstein
Accomplishment: A volunteer medical team led by Rubinstein is one of 15 national recipients of Kaiser Permanente's 2011 David Lawrence Community Service Award.
Details: Rubinstein, chief for pediatric otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, is the founder of Faces of Tomorrow, a Davis-based nonprofit organization that provides free surgeries to children and adults with facial deformities in Ecuador and the Philippines.
Kudos to: Bella Vista High School
Accomplishment: Winners of the 2012 Sacramento County Academic Decathlon.
Details: Twenty-five high schools in Sacramento County sent teams to compete last weekend in written and oral exams at Inderkum High School. Students competed for awards in 10 academic events. Bella Vista High School advances to state finals, scheduled March 15-18 in Sacramento.
Kudos to: L. Stuart List
Accomplishment: The Sacramento Region Community Foundation named List, an attorney with Boutin Jones Inc., a Sacramento law firm, as the recipient of its Don Poole Award for contributions to the foundation's mission to grow philanthropy in the region.
Details: List is the first person to receive the foundation's annual award, named in honor of Don Poole, a former foundation board member and estate-planning attorney who died in 2009.
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