Friday, August 24, 2007
Back to School Blues and Gold
The Los Angeles Mission is looking forward this Saturday (August 25) to our annual End of Summer Block Party where the children of Skid Row and their families can enjoy a time of fun and receive backpacks and school supplies.
The kids are feeling the blues about going back to school – so we want to encourage them. Education is so critical the children of this neighborhood. We support every effort to get and keep kids in good schools with all the support needed to help them graduate from High School. We salute all the efforts of our elected officials and those involved in education as together we find ways to create a better future for the children.
Parents, on the other hand, are thinking about parting with the gold needed to buy all the stuff needed to keep kids in school and ready to learn. Most of us parents complain about the cost of education but are fortune that we have resources to provide adequately for our kids. Not so most of the population of Skid Row and some other parts of the city.
So, Saturday because of the generosity of the people of Los Angeles we will share good times, backpacks and school supplies to all the kids who attend (even parents can have a tasty lunch). The Los Angeles Mission is pleased to provide hope for the future to children and their families.
For more about the End of Summer Block Party go to: www.losangelesmission.org.
--Herb Smith, President
The kids are feeling the blues about going back to school – so we want to encourage them. Education is so critical the children of this neighborhood. We support every effort to get and keep kids in good schools with all the support needed to help them graduate from High School. We salute all the efforts of our elected officials and those involved in education as together we find ways to create a better future for the children.
Parents, on the other hand, are thinking about parting with the gold needed to buy all the stuff needed to keep kids in school and ready to learn. Most of us parents complain about the cost of education but are fortune that we have resources to provide adequately for our kids. Not so most of the population of Skid Row and some other parts of the city.
So, Saturday because of the generosity of the people of Los Angeles we will share good times, backpacks and school supplies to all the kids who attend (even parents can have a tasty lunch). The Los Angeles Mission is pleased to provide hope for the future to children and their families.
For more about the End of Summer Block Party go to: www.losangelesmission.org.
--Herb Smith, President
