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The Mustang Messenger...
is an online newsletter published by the Moorlands Elementary PTA. Have you attended a PTA sponsored event or school activity lately? What did you think? What did your family think? Share your experience with our Moorlands community with a short article. Encourage your children to write about it too and send your comments/articles to articles@moorlandspta.org for editing and publishing here in the Messenger.

Important Articles:

Community Serve Day, August 2010

On August 21st my family and I loaded up our car with gardening tools and work gloves to participate in the Community SERVE Day sponsored by several area churches and civic groups. We drove to Moorlands and met up with other volunteers, individuals and families, to clean and ready the grounds and some classrooms prior to the first day. Our lead organizer for the day Pastor Jonathon Alexander of Northshore Baptist Church helped us get going on our projects. I was very impressed by the number of people who showed up at our little school. Some I knew from our Moorlands School family but many others came to just lend a hand because they lived nearby or attended NSBC. I noticed several scouts were there too.

Some of us weeded and pruned some of the gardens around campus while others powerwashed the courtyard and area outside the main office. I noticed others painting the railings and cleaning up the overgrown ivy too. Other groups worked with a few teachers in their classrooms helping them move, paint and put decorations and other instructional material on the walls. My first grader really enjoyed helping her mom sort, cut, staple and paint while my fourth grader helped me out pulling weeds, hacking back the shrubs and hauling debris to the growing pile of yard waste. He even had time to observe a few random insects (but I got him back on task).

Mr. Santos was clearly impressed and very thankful for all the help in getting the school ready as was our facility manager Mr. Parks who was there the entire time making sure we had access to all the various rooms and supplies. He mentioned all the hours of tedious work this effort saved him and was also clearly appreciative of the assistance. One teacher commented it "looked like an episode of Total Home Makeover: Schools Addition!"

What a difference just 4 hours of work and many hands together can make! The school looked ready for the first day. It was fun to see my neighbors, friends, and total strangers come together to make a positive impact on our community. My family and I look forward to doing this again next year!

Submitted by Rich Bennett

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