[clayton high school]
Clayton High School senior Bry Rechan and classmates are doing their part to help the Ferguson community heal. She and Zoe Bowman collaborated on a charity art project, Hands Out, a grassroots effort coordinated by the high school seniors and their friends to provide Ferguson grade-schoolers age 6 to 10 with hands-on art activities. The first event, a pizza art party, took place Aug. 30 at First Baptist Church in Ferguson. The teens and their families have raised $5,000 for the program, which aims to empower children affected by the tragedy through the healing benefits of art. (Pictured above).
[kirkwood hi
gh school]
Kirkwood School District put a unique spin on the traditional groundbreaking festivities with a ‘splashbreaking’ for the new Walker Natatorium at the high school, to be completed in 2015. Dignitaries and students threw buckets of water onto the site where the competitive pool will be built, and the theme continued with a water balloon launch, dunking booth, beach ball toss and snow cones. The Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Foundation established a $10 million grant for construction of the facility.
[john burroughs school]
Registration is open for St. Louis World Food Day, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at John Burroughs School. Thousands of volunteers, ages 7 and up, will package meals for local distribution through the St. Louis Area Foodbank and for international distribution to Tanzania through Outreach Program Inc. The annual international event aims to increase understanding about global hunger issues. Register online at stlwfd.org; fees are $10 for students/educators and $20 for adults.
[reed elementary]
Reed Elementary School, an iconic fixture in the Ladue community, is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Formerly called Ladue School, it opened in 1939 and is the oldest elementary school in the district. In 1969, it was renamed for former principal Mamie Reed. The school is celebrating with a community-wide birthday party, themed ‘Party Like It’s 1939.’ Festivities will include food trucks, a band, games and crafts, and highlights from the year the school opened its doors.
[parkway west high school]
Parkway West senior Rachel Brown recently earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, which requires completing an innovative project (with a suggested 80 hours of planning!) that has a lasting impact on the target community, engages others and has an emphasis on sustainability. Brown, an ambassador in Troop 1089, assembled a team to reorganize the school’s choral music library by creating a spreadsheet for the music and placing it on new shelving. Fewer than 1 percent of all Girl Scouts earn the honor, which is the highest national award in scouting.
