AREA SCHOOLS TO GET QUICK MAKE-OVERS : VOLUNTEERS TO SPRUCE UP SCHOOLS.Byline: Kimberly Kindy kindy, kindie Noun pl -dies Austral & NZ informal a kindergarten Daily News Staff Writer Faded and peeling classroom walls will receive a fresh cost of paint, weed-choked school gardens will be cleared and filled with spring flowers spring flowers a token of Christ’s resurrection. [Christian Tradition: Jobes, 487] See : Easter - and even an outdoor theater stage will be built this weekend for public school students. The renovation and spruce-up projects will take place at nine San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. schools beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, and all will be done with volunteer labor and donated supplies and funding. Volunteers are needed both for San Fernando High School San Fernando High School, located in San Fernando, California, is a secondary school that is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school colors are black and gold. All girl teams are referred to as Lady Tigers, all boy teams simply as Tigers. , undergoing a weekend-long $250,000 renovation, and for L.A. Works' fourth annual Help-A-Thon in which eight Valley campuses will get half-day spruce-ups. ``This is a golden opportunity for parents, students and the community to get involved in their local school,'' said Dan Austin, an L.A. Unified administrator who has coordinated the district's efforts with L.A. Works' joint project. ``We are trying to make a difference, . . . to give students and staff a reason to be proud of their school community,'' he said. With a $600 million maintenance backlog, and a recent projection that L.A. Unified schools will be painted only every 100 years at the current pace, volunteers have begun stepping in to do the repairs. As many debate why schools have fallen into disrepair, some accuse the district of mismanaging funds, and the district blames the state for not providing sufficient funding. Nevertheless, volunteer organizations are not looking at the reasons why schools need the help, but just gathering tools and heading out to fix the problems themselves. The largest volunteer project will take place between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at San Fernando High School. On-site child care will be provided. The school is one of 19 selected nationwide by the Oakland-based International Community Service Day Foundation in a competitive videotaped application process. The $250,000 project is the 10-year-old foundation's largest ever and has been in the planning stages for more than six months. ``This is our first high school, and it's the biggest school we've ever done,'' said Terry DiStefano, a Valley resident and volunteer spokesperson for the organization. ``We've never encountered such big-scale problems.'' DiStefano said one of the most grueling tasks that await the group is repairing the bathrooms which she said are filthy, graffiti-filled and virtually unusable. ``If the kids live nearby they go home to use the restroom; they refuse to go in there,'' she said. ``The stalls on the doors are missing, and the plumbing needs to be replaced.'' Volunteers will use 300 gallons of paint to give a fresh look to the gymnasium and 14 bathrooms. Washable wash·a·ble adj. Capable of being washed without fading or other injury: washable wool. wash colors were purchased to paint murals on walls that traditionally have been targets for graffiti. The citywide Help-a-Thon project will benefit 27 other Los Angeles schools The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. , including eight in the Valley. Monroe High School For other uses, see James Monroe High School. Monroe High School may refer to:
L.A. Works has worked with each school to determine what can be accomplished over a four- to five-hour period. Buses will return the volunteers to Monroe for lunch at 1 p.m. The major projects will include: Granada Hills High School Granada Hills Charter High School (Granada Hills High School) is a public, charter, co-educational, secondary school consisting of students in grades 9-12. The school colors are green, black, and white. - Rejuvenating the agricultural area. Monroe High School - Repainting its handball handball Any of a variety games in which a small rubber ball is struck against a wall with the hand or fist. It can be played in a three- or four-walled court or against a single wall by two or four players (in singles or doubles games, respectively). and tennis backboards. Haddon Elementary School elementary school: see school. - Finishing an exterior wall with brick and tile work. Pinewood Elementary School Pinewood Elementary School may refer to: In Canada:
Fullbright Elementary School - Planting trees. Bassett Elementary School- Reseeding lawns. Cohasset Elementary - Painting bungalows. Colfax - Painting a new mural. Steve Ustin, president of Van Nuys-based Western Bagel Baking Corp., will arrive at Monroe High School with his crews just after dawn with 250 dozen bagels to feed the Valley volunteers. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO The senior gardener at San Fernando High School, Gary Cates Gary Cates is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 4th District since 2005. Previously he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1999 until 2006. In 2004, Cates successfully ran for a seat in the Ohio Senate to succeed Republican state Sen. , left, and volunteer Jose Vasquez prepare a site for an outdoor stage to be built. David Sprague/Daily News |
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