This is a reminder... come and ive even moral support for an hour,
sign up and help them with future grant etc. support...
it should be a really major event.Forwarded message: >
>From vtn Fri May 31 12:03:19 2002 >
Subject: Exciting Events, City Year June 8th, Saturday next... 9-3! >
> > A group part of Americorps, Service for
Communities, called City Year, > which is HS graduates who spend a year
doing community service, is having > their national convention here in
Philadelphia...
As part of it, on JUNE > 8, they are coming to various
schools..
200 or so young graduates will > descend on Lea School at 47th
and Spruce-Locust to:
> ***build, with engineers, two playgrounds (!!!!
needed for 25 years > or more)
> ***paint two murals for the K-2 grades,inside they have started and it
will alter the entire wing, children's drawings writ large and the
alphabet... COME ANY PAINTERS!!>
***scrape and paint the awful looking fence!!!!! some 50 on that
job > ***fix the tree guards and do some plantings.... > ***clean up the
alley behind the school and fix the table in the > school garden... > some
other jobs... > > THEY WOULD LOVE TO HAVE SOME COMMUNITY SUPPORT, AS THIS
HELPS > THEM GET GRANT MONEY, BESIDES ADULTS HAVE GOOD JUDGEMENT, USUALLY,
AND > MAY HAVE EXPERTISE... > PLEASE THINK ABOUT COMING FOR AN HOUR ANY
TIME FROM 9 TO 1... IT > WILL END ABOUT 3... REGISTRATION IN LEA
PLAYGROUND STARTS AT 9... REMARKS > BY MIKE SILVERMAN, THE NEW AND
VISIONARY PRINCIPAL WHO TALKS LOW KEY BUT > THINGS LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR
MIXED WITH A POET AND A BIT OF A PSYCHOLOGIST > PLUS LIKES CHILDREN...
WILL BE ABOUT 9:30.... > > YOU CAN CALL ME IF YOU WANT TO: Vivianne
Nachmias > 215-748-4689 or email and I will put you down, you don't have
to > but they do want names if possible.... > This is a once in 20 years
event....
>
>
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