The Monroe-Woodbury Varsity Cheerleaders are spreading the Holiday spirit!

For the past six years the team has been visiting the residents of The Promenade Senior living home in Tuxedo.  They bring wrapping paper and bows to decorate all the residents’ doors for the Holidays. The girls enjoy seeing some of the familiar faces from the year before.  It’s a tradition that we all look forward to each year. After decorating they all gather and sing Christmas carols.

The Holidays’ are a time for giving; a small gesture can make the world of difference for someone else.  These girls share their love with the very special men and women at The Promenade. A Christmas gift for all.

The Carle Place Middle School Builders Club and High School Key Club recently ran a Thanksgiving Food Drive to collect donations for families in need this holiday season. The middle school alone collected more than 300 non-perishable food items from student donations as well as more than 500 non-perishable items from their food drive at North Shore Farms.

Students collected donations for six hours on Saturday, Nov. 17 for this worthy cause. The food collected will help more than 100 families enjoy a holiday meal.

The Key Club followed up their effort by organizing and hosting a blood drive in conjunction with Long Island Blood Services on Nov. 20. By the end of the day, 72 pints of blood were collected from staff, students and community members. According to Long Island Blood Services, one pint of blood can save up to three lives. 

Carle Place MS/HS will host the next blood drive on Feb. 26 in the multipurpose room. 

 

Photo Caption 1: The Carle Place MS Builders Club collected over 500 non-perishable items during a recent food drive held at North Shore Farms.

Photo Caption 2: The Carle Place HS Key Club recently organized a blood drive at the school, where 72 pints of blood were collected for Long Island Blood Services.

 

Photos courtesy of the Carle Place School District

More than 700 members of the West Islip School District community joined in the fantastic fun at the second annual West Islip Health and Wellness Alliance Color Run. The Color Run helps the Alliance fulfill its goal to reduce substance abuse among local youth, to create a strong collaboration within the community and to cultivate healthy attitudes and behaviors.  

“This year’s Color Run was another success story,” said Tim Horan, the district’s director of health, physical education, athletics, recreation, and family and consumer science. “Students, children, parents, families, community groups, teachers and administrators braved the winds and had a blast. My special thanks go out to all the volunteers for their efforts, as it couldn’t happen without their help.”

 

Photos courtesy of the West Islip School District

 

 

Sharing and caring were in the air as district students and members of the community gathered once again to show support for those in need during the Elmont Dad’s Club annual Thanksgiving Food Drive on Nov. 17 at Gotham Avenue School.

Elmont School District Superintendent Al Harper greeted the very spirited crowd of volunteers and expressed his appreciation to all those who came together to help the less fortunate. Brownie troops, soccer players, teachers and administrators were all on hand to lend their support and help box up meals. After the meals were lovingly assembled, volunteers proudly carried them out to waiting school buses for distribution to the local community.

Mr. Harper commented how profound it was to him to think that the annual food drive began 14 years ago with only a handful of volunteers and has now grown into a huge event for the community, with hundreds of people getting involved in this wonderful show of caring. In all, 60 local families received turkeys and all the trimmings before Thanksgiving.  

 

Photo Captions:

1. Clara H. Carlson School Principal Stacia Walfall (left) and Assistant Principal Richard Mansfield (back row, center) are pictured with teachers, staff and student-volunteers, who lent a hand sorting and packing food donations.
2. Elmont School District Board of Education trustee Karen Taylor-Bass (back row, left) is pictured with volunteers from Alden Terrace School, including Principal Shawnée Warfield (front, left).
3. Girls Scouts from Troop #1335 carried boxes of food to the school buses for delivery.
4. Gotham Avenue School Principal Marshall Zucker (back row, third right) and Assistant Principals William Mingo (back row, second right) and Pamela Stamidis (fourth, left) joined teachers and staff to lend a helping hand.
5. More than 100 volunteers helped out the Elmont Dad’s Club at its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive.

 

Photos courtesy of the Elmont School District

Turkey trots at East Meadow School District’s Meadowbrook and McVey elementary schools helped to promote family fitness while boosting excitement for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Due to inclement weather on Nov. 20, the Meadowbrook Elementary School physical education department moved its second annual turkey trot indoors to the building’s gymnasium. Students accumulated a great number of laps around the basketball court to the sound of holiday music. The event demonstrated the community pride and generosity of students and parents as nonperishable food items were collected and donated to Island Harvest for the holiday season.

McVey Elementary School was fortunate to have the cooperation of the weather on Nov. 21, when students were able to welcome special guests to join them for laps on the school’s back lawn. The physical education department set up a quarter-mile lap that participants enthusiastically walked or ran around. Each grade participated at designated times during the day with the goal of completing at least two individual laps.

The district congratulates and thanks the students and special guests for their involvement in the turkey trots and for giving back to the community.

 

 Photo captions: 

1. Students at McVey Elementary School stretched and warmed up prior to running laps as part of the school’s turkey trot on Nov. 21.
2. Students at Meadowbrook Elementary School showcased the collected non-perishable food items that were donated to Island Harvest for the holidays.
3. McVey Elementary School set up a quarter-mile circle that students ran laps around during a turkey trot on Nov. 21.
4. Despite being moved inside due to inclement weather, students at Meadowbrook Elementary School still managed to get their turkey trot laps in on Nov. 20 in the building’s gymnasium.

 

Photos courtesy of the East Meadow School District

 

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