About Hemet's East Hemet

While running thru my workout this morning at my Curves, I saw they had posted a notice on on of the boards for all of us to see.

Ramona Elementary School in Hemet, CA is asking for donations of the following items:

500 boxes of #2 pencils (1box=144 pencils)

2200 boxes of Crayola Crayons (16 crayons per box)

150 packages of dry erase markers (10 per pkg)

175 packages of dry erase markers (6 per pkg)

500 reams of notebook paper

I think it is a great thing to get the community involved, but what happened, first of all, to giving parents a list of items for their child to bring to school.

Second of all, where is all the federal school funding. Oh, wait! I remember.....we are giving it all to the politicians. In fact, for those of you outside California, we are having quite a debacle over the city of Bell, CA where the city manager of a city of 37,000 population (yep--that's all) was making a fat handsome salary of over $800K per year, and his assistant was making over $400K, and the list goes on.

Bet those kids in Bell have NO money for school supplies.

So, in the interest of making sure our children are educated, I am going to do my part and donate what I can on this list and hopefully through the goodness of the hearts of others, Ramona Elementary School in Hemet California will have all the supplies they need for the 2010-11 school year.

According to an article I just read on the website for Bautista Creek Elementary School, here in sunny Hemet California, they will be offering a savings program for their students (approximately 950 to be almost exact).

The program, sponsored by Altura Credit Union, will be called My Money -- My School Savings. What a cool thing. I remember, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I was in elementary school, we used to take a nickel for milk, and we also took money each week for our savings account. We had the same type of program, I believe, with the local bank. It was great. We got our own little green passbook, (wow, am I dating myself or what?). And we watched our savings grow.

Altura Credit Union, in conjuction with the administration at Bautista Creek Elementary School, will hold a meeting for the parents and students in the first month of school, and then each month, will come to the school and rally with the students to save money. They may make their deposits directly at any branch of Altura Credit Union, OR, make their deposits on the day the folks from Altura Credit Union come to school.

This is a great program for our kids. Learning how to save money is NOT a bad thing.

Yippee, Hurray, Another school year begins soon, and the children will be in school, and the moms/dads/grandparents/babysitter/etc. will not have to hear " I'm bored, there's nothing to do" any longer.

Here in Hemet, Bautista Creek will be starting the first day of school on Monday, August 23 promptly at 7:40 a.m.. Bautista Creek is a California Distinguished School. To learn more about Bautista Creek Elementary, click on the link below....

http://www.hemetusd.k12.ca.us/sites/bautista/

I received this photo taken by the NASA Terra satellite on August 30, 2009. Here you can see all of Southern California and get a pretty good idea of just how much was on fire at the time. If you look to the South East - you'll see a small lake that is pretty much surrounded by burnt area - well, that fire, known as the 2400 acre COTTONWOOD FIRE came within a mile of my home in Hemet, Fortunately the winds were blowing the other way and there were no evacuations or injuries/casualties.

Follow this link if you want to see a series of 41 photos - mostly taken from the deadly STATION FIRE.