| MATAMOROS — While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
MATAMOROS � While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary school in Matamoros, moms are brought to the school to make students meals. �Who better to make them lunch,� reasoned Principal Maria de Los Angeles Galvan Tapia. �They�re cooking for their kids, so obviously they want to feed them well.� Out of necessity more than careful planning, moms at Franklin, as the school is known across the city, take turns cooking lunch for 550 hungry children. Without government funding for a school lunch program, schools in Mexico employ a variety of low cost alternatives, usually on the parents� dime. At Franklin, parents have taken up the cause of organizing meals for their students. Responsibilities for the week rotate among parents, mostly mothers.
Aug. 2 — Ideas shape new school
While students of the Sumner School District enjoy their summer break, the Lakeridge Middle School planning committee is hard at work shaping the future of a new facility, with construction to begin as early as 2008. Voters approved the construction of a new Lakeridge Middle School in May as part of a $114 million capital facilities bond. The construction budget for the new school is $37 million, with $7.8 million paid for with state matching funds and $29.3 million paid for by district tax payers. The committee met for the fourth time to discuss the design of the new school on July 26 at the current Lakeridge school. �This team is very excited,� said Steve Fulkerson, Lakeridge principal. They want to plan a school that will be able to support learning well for the next 40 years, he said.
Best Bets for Aug. 30 through Sept. 5
Debbie Henning, director of the Homespun Ringers, will hold a free open house for the music group from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Westminster Church of the Brethren.The open house allows the curious to come and experience handbells as a musical instrument. The ensemble is open to children 7 to 17 and there will be at least four public performances by the group this year. The deadline for registering for the open house is Tuesday.Westminster Church of the Brethren is at Park and Bond streets. For more information, call 410-848-5482.Weekend antiquingMore than 550 international dealers from around the world are featured at the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show today through Sunday at the Baltimore Convention Center.The show, now in its 27th year, features fine art, jewelry, silver and textiles, among other items, dating from the antiquities to the 20th century.
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