You made so many teachers happy!
Newsletter September 3, 2024
Look at What You Did!
People Answering the Call for Help
Next Potluck
Help and Items Needed
Projects Updates
Look at What You Did!
The 2024 We Missed the Bus – Teachers’ School Supplies Drive
Here are some fabulous pictures from the collection and distribution of the school supplies. Read the story below.
School Supplies Collected 2024
Grover Beach Elementary School
Grover Heights and Nipomo Elementary Schools
The “We Missed the Bus” Teachers’ School Supplies Drive was a fantastic success. Lynette Roberts and her family sorted and sheeted all donated school supplies. The total value of new items was $5,630.38. This does not include a few hundred dollars of wonderful lightly used items which were donated to the Adult Transition Program. (see picture below).
Lisa Arakaki and her husband delivered all these wonderful supplies to Dana, Fairgrove, Grover Beach, Grover Heights, Lange, Nipomo, and Oceano Elementary Schools – the neediest schools in our district. All of them were so thrilled and grateful. Above are some pictures from some of the schools. Below is a picture of the Adult Transition Program.
Adult Transition Program
Thank you all who made this important project such a great success!
People Answering the Call for Help! Fabulous!
In our last newsletter we listed a number of ways that Womenaders could make a difference through activities we sponsor. Well, we weren’t just whistling in the wind this time because a number of people have offered to help.
Hosting a potluck and sites for organizing drives - A couple of people teamed up to host a potluck at Blacklake in late February!
Volunteering in a classroom – a few of people sent in “Interest forms”. We can always use more volunteers for the classrooms See description below if your are interested.
Leading and participating in a project e.g. Toiletries, school supplies, diapers, food, laundry pop-ups etc. – a couple of people volunteered to spearhead a second Laundry Pop-Up! Hooray
Participating in the Thanksgiving and Winter Break Food Basket Drives – a few people wrote to say they want to help out this year! Stay tuned for more as the season draws near
Making and delivering weekend lunch bags for food insecure students – a number of people stepped up to take on the six elementary schools we supplied last year -Nipomo, Dana, Oceano, Grover Beach, Shell Beach and Branch - plus one new one Dorothea Lange.The middle school “lunch buddy” program is an “energizer bunny” for all three middle schools. We would like to expand the program to Fairgrove, Grover Heights and Harloe Elementary Schools. If you are interested, please email us sslocwomenade@gmail.com and Ann McDowell will share how this works.
Yes! Look at What You Did!
Next Potluck – Mark your Calendars
Thursday, September 19th at 6PM at Lola Zybura’s home
It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!
2367 Brant St, Arroyo Grande in Cypress Ridge!
Mark your calendars!
The “Evites” have been sent out! If you didn’t receive one but would like to come, please email us (sslocwomenade@gmail.com). Spread the word to your friends, relatives and neighbors. Meet some great people and learn about and contribute to some great works in our South SLO County community.
Help Needed – contact us at sslocwomenade@gmail.com
Adopt an Elementary School for Weekend Food Bags – Each school ranges 5 to 11 bags per week per school last year. Expansion schools – Fairgrove, Grover Heights and Harloe Elementary Schools
A project leader for a diaper drive
Hosts for future Potluck meetings
Refrigerator and Freezer space for the holiday food baskets in November and December - if you have an extra fridge or freezer for a couple of weeks in mid November and early December please let us know.
Items needed
Toilet paper
Diapers
Pack n Plays
Cooking Oil
Laundry detergent
Projects Updates
We Love Educators Volunteers for Teachers - To provide LMUSD educators with hands-on volunteer help in the classroom.
Thank you to the people who have signed up to volunteer for teachers! School has started and once the teachers get to know their students, we will surely need more. Lisa Arakaki has develop the form below that you can fill out and send to her.
School Volunteer: Volunteers can fall into one of three categories, those being: single event, short-term, or long-term; and one of two student contact categories: limited contact or substantial contact.
You don’t have to be an educator (although that can be very helpful). We need both former educators and lay people to volunteer. You can specify what you’re comfortable doing. Teachers work with volunteers to get the best fit. Duties the past two years included:
Leading small learning groups – reading, writing and math
Helping with letters, numbers and phonics
Leading and supporting art lessons
Assisting with physical education units
Guiding individual students
Laundry Pop-Up – Belinda Benassi
The next Laundry Pop-Up will take place on September 21st at 119 S. 13th St., Grover Beach, CA 93433, Hours: 10 am - 12 pm. Each month we only need about 3 volunteers. Belinda Benassi leads this program and could use a few more volunteers.
Currently we only have one volunteer for September 21st! Please consider joining us.
To offer opportunities for volunteers to sign up in advance for the event site and dates of their choosing Belinda put together this Sign-Up Genius https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44AEA82DAAF9C52-50105745-2024.
Nipomo Food Distribution – Rosemary Cleaves, Sue McCutcheon, and Mary Anne Morgan - project leaders
The September Food Distribution at the Nipomo Elementary School (always the second Tuesday of the month) will be on Tuesday September 10th from 4:30 to 6:30 We work with the SLO FoodBank and Nipomo Elementary School to make the Food Distribution happen. Thank you SLO Foodbank and all our fabulous volunteers! Let us know if you want to be on the substitute list.
In Kind Receipt
Please complete and submit the in-kind receipt to help us track how much you are contributing in donor offered items: This is a jpeg that you can copy, paste and print.
HOW TO DONATE:
To make a donation write a check to South SLO County Womenade and mail to:
Our bank asked that checks be made out with the full legal name on the account.
South SLO County Womenade, 1793 Farroll Rd., Grover Beach, CA 93433. We encourage you to become one of our monthly or regular donors. This can be easily done through your bank or charitable foundation. Please remember that if your company has a matching grants program to include us. As you make or update your wills, please consider adding a legacy gift to us for our future sustainability.
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