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School Trips to Opal Coast

A school trip to the Opal Coast in northern France offers an exciting blend of cultural exploration and language learning. Students will have the chance to visit traditional French bakeries and snail farms, explore coastal towns like Bray-Dunes and historical landmarks in Ambleteuse to really immerse themselves in French culture. They’ll also have opportunities to practice their language skills in real-life situations, helping them become more fluent while also improving their confidence.

Select one of our Opal Coast school trips below to see an example itinerary, recommended activities, sample accommodation options, and related learning links.

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Opal Lee travels to Japan to share story of Juneteenth

FORT WORTH, Texas - Civil rights advocate Opal Lee is traveling abroad to share the story of how she helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday .

The Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient from Fort Worth arrived in Japan on Tuesday.

She'll be there for about a week.

Lee is set to visit a U.S. Navy Base to participate in a Juneteenth Walk of Freedom.

The visit is part of her ongoing push to educate people about the emancipation of African Americans after the Civil War.

"This is just the new leg of educating the globe of what Juneteenth means, because its more than just past slavery. It's about the relevance of freedom for everybody," said Dione Sims, Opal Lee's granddaughter.

The 97-year-old advocate will also visit a middle school in Japan.

She's set to return to North Texas just before Memorial Day Weekend.

Former San Diego travel agent sentenced in school-trip embezzlement case

Marie colette martin, 53, was charged with spending funds she received on personal expenses rather than refunding parents after the trips were canceled due to covid.

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A former San Diego-based travel agent who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by more than 150 parents for school trips that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention and six months of probation.

Marie Colette Martin, 53, was charged with spending funds she received on personal expenses rather than refunding parents after the trips were canceled.

According to the California Attorney General’s Office, Martin solicited the travel funds from parents at nine schools in Los Angeles and Orange counties. The trips would have sent eighth-grade students from those schools to Washington, D.C., and other East Coast locations in 2020, but the pandemic prevented the trips from happening.

When parents sought refunds, Martin declined, and the money instead went toward personal uses, including credit card purchases, rent and artwork, according to the Attorney General’s Office.

Prosecutors say she was unable to refund the parents because she had already been “experiencing cash flow problems and commingling client funds” and had used the parents’ funds for personal expenses.

Martin, who was jointly prosecuted by the California Attorney General’s Office and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, pleaded guilty to one felony count of failure to return funds as a seller of travel. She may later petition to have the count reduced to a misdemeanor.

The crime bars her from registering as a seller of travel for seven years, according to prosecutors.

Martin had already paid around $256,000 in restitution as of Monday’s sentencing hearing.

Prosecutors say some of that money will go to victims, while other victims have already been refunded through the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation, which assists consumers who suffer losses for a variety of reasons, including failure to provide services.

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Travel Agent Sentenced for Embezzling Hundreds of Thousands From Canceled School Trips

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A former travel agent convicted of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars paid by more than 150 parents for school trips that were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced Monday to six months of home detention and six months of probation.

Marie Colette Martin, 53, was charged with spending funds she received on “personal expenses” instead of refunding parents after the trips were canceled.

The California Attorney General’s Office says Martin, who was based in San Diego, solicited travel funds from parents at nine different schools in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

The trips would have sent eighth-grade students from those schools to Washington D.C. and other East Coast locations in 2020, but the pandemic prevented the trips from happening.

Martin reportedly spent the money on personal costs instead, including credit card purchases, rent and artwork.

Prosecutors say she was unable to refund the parents because she had already been “experiencing cash flow problems and commingling client funds” and had used the parents’ funds for personal expenses.

Martin, who was jointly prosecuted by the California Attorney General’s Office and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, pleaded guilty to one felony count of failure to return funds as a seller of travel.

She may later petition to have the count reduced to a misdemeanor.

The crime bars her from registering as a seller of travel for seven years, according to prosecutors.

Martin had already paid around $256,000 in restitution as of Monday’s sentencing hearing.

Prosecutors say some of that money will go to victims, while other victims have already been refunded through the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation, which assists consumers who suffer losses for a variety of reasons, including failure of sellers to travel to provide services.

City News Service contributed to this report.

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Of the 16 regional sites played Friday-Sunday, May 17-19, four teams will compete at fourteen regional sites and two teams will compete at two regional sites. The four-team regionals will use a double-elimination format and the two-team regionals will play a best-of-five series. Thirty-nine conference champions qualified automatically.

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