Weekly Media Roundup - October 17, 2012

Afterschool students at Meadow Lane Elementary School’s Project SHARE afterschool program in Anderson are getting outside and marching to show their support for afterschool programs. Students in the K through 12 program are celebrating Lights On Afterschool by marching to the Anderson Teen Center, younger students will march around the Meadow Lane Campus for safety reasons. Meadow Lane Elementary School Principal Genevera Williamson told the Anderson Valley Post the afterschool program is “outstanding.”

 

In Farmington, afterschool students, parents, business and community leaders will rally inside the Farmington Public Library to celebrate Lights On Afterschool. Afterschool Ambassador Flo Trujillo told The Daily Times that they’ll read Lights On Afterschool Proclamations at the rally and then have parents and community leaders sign them to show their support. 

 

Wayne County Board of Education members learned about Monticello’s 21st Century CARE Center’s Lights On Afterschool Spotlight on Literacy by touring the literacy showcase on the first floor of Wayne County Middle School at their monthly board meeting last week. The showcase included afterschool students’ work and decorations highlighting the virtues of literacy. Afterschool students also dressed in costume portraying their favorite book characters ranging from Mary Poppins to Scarlett O'Hara to Anne of Green Gables, The Wayne County Outlook reports.

 

Afterschool programs in Durham, Chapel Hill and Carrboro will celebrate Lights On Afterschool with Hispanic heritage celebrations, talent shows and fall festivals. Mary Roberts, director of community of schools for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools told The Herald-Sun, “The most important thing we want to do is let people know the need that families have for safe, enriching, educational and fun environments for kids to be in after school. We have lots of working parents in the Triangle who need places for children to go with supervised experience where they can spend and enjoy their afternoons.”