ReWIND: Community Effort at Saturn Street Elementary

This past Saturday marked the first time that Saturn Street School participated in Big Sunday, "the largest regional community service event in America" [from the Big Sunday website]. About 50 volunteers were expected, yet over 100 pitched-in to give the school a makeover, which included intense cleaning, landscaping, and painting. The Pico Neighborhood Council sponsored a delicious lunch and at the end of the day Carmen from La Maison du Pain bakery brought by some yummy treats.

Saturn Street School still needs volunteers to help maintain the landscaping. If you like to play in the dirt, contact organizers Melissa Patrick at mhrpatrick@gmail.com or Rayna Saslove at rsaslove@earthlink.net.

IMAGES (top-bottom; left-right): Saturn Street School; Principle Tracie Bryant, Pico Neighborhood Council VP Claudia Bayard, & Pico Life LA's M. Frank Emanuel; volunteers uprooting a bush; Pico Neighborhood Council's Ron Smith, Rayna Saslove, & Melissa Patrick; volunteers cleaning and re-painting the blacktop mural of the U.S.A.; volunteers gather.