Anne writes in…

Change for Haiti at Oakhurst Elementary a Huge Success!

The final total for the Change for Haiti collection is $2,320! We can purchase TEN Schools-in-a-Box to help set up temporary schools for 800 kids in Haiti. At Community Circle on Friday, March 12th, Oakhurst Elementary will present a check to a UNICEF representative. The UNICEF representative will bring a School-in-a-Box to show the kids exactly what they raised money for. Great job and tremendous thanks to all the kids and parents of Oakhurst Elementary for their generosity!

June writes in…

Oakhurst PTA Spring into Summer Raffle The Oakhurst PTA is selling tickets for our annual Spring into Summer Raffle! Purchase tickets for $5 each or trade one bottle of wine or 12 pack of beer in exchage for a ticket (donations support the annual live auction event at Agnes Scott College, www.oakhurstauction.com).   We have two raffles:

1. Buddy International 50cc Scooter provided by ScooterSuperstore in Midtown (www.sstam.com). Worth $2200.
   ScooterSuperstore
   Vespa Midtown
   www.vespamidtown.com
   741 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA 30308
   404-350-8388
2. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Subscription provided by Riverview Farms. With CSA, pick up fresh organic produce weekly at the Oakhurst Community Garden. Worth $760.
   Riverview Farms
   www.grassfedcow.com
   White Graves Road, Ranger, GA 30734
   770-334-2926

The raffle drawing will be held at the Live Auction April 23rd but you do not need to be present to win.

For more information, contact info@oakhurstauction.com.

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Anne writes in…

The students of Oakhurst Elementary are presently holding a change drive entitled “Change for Haiti” in which the funds collected will go towards UNICEF’S “School-in-a-Box” Program providing temporary schools for children in disaster zones. Each “School-in-a-Box”, which costs $232, contains enough school supplies for 80 children.

This idea grew from 2 of Oakhurst’s very own students who were wanting to do something for the children of Haiti following the devastating earthquake. The third graders are collecting and counting/rolling the change and using their knowledge of estimation, multiplication and money as they make real life connections all while raising money for a good cause. It also draws close a real world example of Empathy and Caring, one of the design principles of Expeditionary Learning. By last Friday, the end of the first week, Oakhurst had collected well over $1000!

“Change for Haiti” will continue until this Friday, February 12th.

Get on over to Agnes Scott’s Dalton Gallery right now!  Emily sends in this email…

Tonight in the Dalton Gallery

5-7 p.m.

AN EXHIBITION OF FISH

By Oakhurst Elementary’s First Graders

Stop in to experience the fish swimming around the gallery! Professors Nell Ruby and Lock Rogers designed and taught a project to 100 first graders inspired by by William Nixon’s “Salmon Run.”

The young students first visited the “Still Water” exhibition where they were given a tour by ASC students

• Victoria Campbell ‘12
• Arianne Kahn ‘10
• Olivia White ‘09
• & Lauren Whitton ‘10.

Then, at the elementary school, Professors Ruby and Rogers focused their program on the form and function of fish bodies.  With the Oakhurst Elementary art teacher, Amy Evans, the students made their own fish, who are now swimming around the Dalton Gallery!

On November 15th, the Solarium will host “Junktique”, an “upscale community yard sale” that benefits Oakhurst Elementary School.  Part yard sale, part artist market, part entertainment, Junktique sounds a lot like some sort of Decaturite nirvana.  (Buy stuff, drink, AND support a local school!?  So this is what Aristotle’s fourth level of happiness feels like!)

For $35, you can be amongst other vintage sellers on the Solarium lawn.  However, be warned…the word “vintage” is only open to so much interpretation.

From Junktique’s website…

Vintage is…

furniture that you would buy yourself, cool home furnishings, jewelery & accessories, other cool stuff!

Vintage is not…

items the Salvation Army won’t take, moldy paperbacks from the basement, boutique products you sell (see Artists’s Market page).

I guess the moldy paperback sellers will have to create their own festival that supports local education.