The “Banners” project for the 2008/2009 school year will be handled by each grade level at Vernon Elementary. Helping Hand volunteers (a subsidiary of our parent foundation) recruited sponsors during the 2007/2008 school year and the money went into purchasing all five sets of banners (30 total). This year the teachers will handle all sales of sponsorship and the money will go back into that grade level for them...
We have bought tables and chairs for students in two classrooms at Vernon Elementary. Value about $4,000 These were paid for with donations from Mike Thompson and Tommy Mayfield.
23 tables were donated by Summer Classics with the goal of helping some desperate need. We found a huge need in providing tables for computer stations in the computer labs that had been set up by a government grant. The labs had not been utilized because the school system could not afford the computer station tables. South Lamar and Vernon High School received 10 tables each to set up for their new ACCESS labs that they will...
Dry erase boards were donated by Pizitz Middle School in Vestavia for Vernon Elementary, Sulligent Elementary, South Lamar school, and Aliceville High value $13,500. Lamar County and Pickens County.