Pennies for Peace

Some of you may have read the book, Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson. In 1993 Mortenson was descending from his failed attempt to reach the peak of K2. Exhausted and disoriented, he wandered away from his group into the most desolate reaches of northern Pakistan. Alone, without food, water, or shelter he eventually stumbled into an impoverished Pakistani village where he was nursed back to health.

While recovering he observed the village’s 84 children sitting outdoors, scratching their lessons in the dirt with sticks. The
village was so poor that it could not afford the $1-a-day salary to hire a teacher. When he left the village, he promised that he would return to build them a school.

Since then he has dedicated his life to promote community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Mortenson is also founder of Pennies For Peace www.penniesforpeace.org

Since K-Kids was created to teach students to help others, both locally and afar, they decided that this was a cause they wanted to be a part of.

From Wednesday March 28 to April 4, K-Kids is asking you and your class to collect as many PENNIES as you can. PENNIES ONLY. At the end of that week Hannaford will count our pennies and we will forward the amount to the Pennies for Peace organization.

A collection cup will be placed in your class and emptied throughout the week. We would like this to be an opportunity to educate our students about those less fortunate and help them in the process.

All we ask is you that you tell your class about the collection and what it's for, we'll do the rest. Thank you for your help.

-OTES K-Kids

Old Town's Birthday Party!!

Ms. Leighton and Mrs. R. St. Peter's 3rd grade classes celebrated the city of Old Town's birthday on Friday. Old Town is now 167 years young!!! Students invited friends and family members to attend the event which was held in LC4.

The celebration included a very comprehensive tour of old town including history of the schools, and industry. Students held a city council meeting earlier, and made a DVD for others to see. There was also several review games for students to check and see how well their guest paid attention to their tour. Students also had a laptop station set up on Google Earth, where they could see their homes in relation to the region.

OTHS Foreign Exchange Students

Two foreign exchange students currently attending Old Town High School gave presentations on their home countries to the students of LC4.

Anis Apriliawali, of Malong City, Indonesia; and, Thanyaluck Pinyowattanasilp (Mint) of Bangkok, Thailand used DVD clips, photographs, and posters to show their beautiful homelands. They even performed traditional dances, song, and music.

Anis danced and sang a song, while Mint played the "Sow-Douang"-- a two stringed instrument. Afterwards students were able to ask questions. They learned that children of that part of the world also like to hang out with friends, go to the movies, and play video games. What OTES students were shocked find out that students of Thailand and Indonesia attend school 6 days a week, starting at 6:30a.m. and lasting as long as 5:00p.m. Thank you very much Mint and Anis!!

A message from Fireman Dan!!!

"Hello everyone" Fireman Dan here!! I know that we all hate the junk mail...but this isn't one!! A few of you have asked of what you could do to help out the "FIRE/Life SAFETY" program. Here is our chance to get...I mean "WIN" all kinds of money to help these programs. If any of you know any parents that would like to drop a letter as well that would be a plus. So check out firedog.com/acrossamerica and lets see if we can boost our programs.
Thank you, Dan

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