Plainfield Community Middle School
$1,000.00
Brownsburg West Middle School
$605.20
Plainfield High School
$1,000.00
Avon Middle School
$750.00
Brownsburg High School
$630.00
Brown Elementary School
$941.09
Tri West High School
$674.10
Calvary Chapel of Danville
$445.00
Cascade High School
$1,000.00
Danville Community High School
$1,000.00
This Brownsburg Library Teen Council group will
conduct a week-long reading program project
with youth by one-on-one reading, which follows
the Library's summer program theme of American
History. They will also provide activities snacks,
and skits for local youth in grades 1-3. Their
award was $ 591.20.
This group of North Salem Elementary fifth graders
will purchase books with their grant of $470.47
for the school library, and read once a week
to the students of Kindergarten through first
grade.
The $ 1,000.00 grant will be used by the Cadet
mentors of Cascade High School to host a freshman
orientation with games and team activities.
They will go through schedules, rules, and activities
of the coming year, and continue mentoring throughout
the year.
With the $ 284.65 members of the Discovery 4-H
club will make monthly visits to residents at
Lakeview Place Apartments, an assisted living
facility. They will prepare dessert; serve,
visit, and eat with the residents; and play
their musical instruments or provide crafts.
They will also provide residents with workday
Saturdays to do seasonal chores.
An Eagle Scout candidate and the members of
Boy Scout Troop 305 was awarded $ 946.76 to
rebuild a storm- damaged dugout and replace
pieces of the damaged fence at the historical
Cascade Summer Baseball League Field.
Spanish and German Club students at Plainfield
High School will purchase and present foreign
language books to 3-6 year- olds to expose them
to foreign vocabulary. They will do this at
the Plainfield Public Library on Fridays during
the summer. During the school year, they will
go to Central Elementary and Plainfield Middle
School language classes to read the foreign
language books to younger students. Awarded
$ 946.76
outh who have been through the Hope Haven Horse
Farm program will give back to others by conducting
a monthly program for other "at risk"
youth. The
$1,000.00 grant monies will provide for four
stations of activities that will include horse
farm education, such as: grooming, tack, riding,
and crafts and games.
Students in PJCF's Carlton Jr. / Sr. High School
building trade classes will build a patio outside
the Vocational Arts Building with their $ 750.00
award. These students are trying to learn a
trade, and this project will give the students
hands- on experience.
(People Reaching Out To Each Community Together)
Granted an award of $ 750.00 the students at
PJCF will help landscape Hope's Way, a Therapeutic
Riding Farm for disabled and special needs children.
They will mulch trails and plant flowers. They
will also assemble playground equipment and
do other chores that the facility needs.
With the award of $ 680.00 the Student Council
will host an evening for school children of
Danville community and surrounding areas to
refute the idea that Halloween is destructive
and dangerous. They will collaborate with other
clubs to have games, cotton candy, a theatrical
production with a haunted zoo, face painting,
and a "Moon Walk".
(Tutoring For Kids in Need)
A group of fifth graders from North Salem Elementary
have $ 325.88 in grant monies to purchase supplies
to tutor K-3 students who are in need of help
with a variety of subjects. The subjects that
they will help the students with are: English,
Spelling, Math, Social Studies, and Science.
Students at the YMCA After-School Program at
Plainfield's Van Buren Elementary will build
a fenced-in area for cats at the Hendricks County
Humane Society. The area will include climbing
and scratching posts. It will have a roof and
houses for the animals to sleep in. They will
provide benches for people to sit and get acquainted
with the animals. They were awarded $ 770.15
Students at PJCF will install a small pond at
Park Manor, a retirement facility. They will
also provide two swings and a bench, as well
as a bird feeder to attract birds, to go along
with an assortment of flowers. Their award,
$ 745.00
Members of the YMCA After-School Program at
Central Elementary in Plainfield were awarded
$612.98 to clean up the creek at Plainfield's
Hummel Park. They have been in summer programs
at the Park and have observed the dirty, unsafe
creek that is cluttered with glass and trash.
Their concern for the environment has prompted
them to clean up the creek and provide trash
receptacles to help keep the area clean.
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