The Avalon Lions Club has completed the installation of three new sun-rain shades, a new garden box and new toy shelves for Catalina Kid Ventures Preschool.
The sun-rain shades are wonderful to keep the little ones from getting sunburned and wet as they play outside. Each shade is 12 feet wide and 20 feet long on a steel frame bolted to the cement.
The Avalon Lions Club has completed the installation of three new sun-rain shades, a new garden box and new toy shelves for Catalina Kid Ventures Preschool.
The sun-rain shades are wonderful to keep the little ones from getting sunburned and wet as they play outside. Each shade is 12 feet wide and 20 feet long on a steel frame bolted to the cement.
The garden box is four feet wide and eight feet long. There is 64 cubic feet of special potting soil in the box for growing plants. As a part of the preschool learning experience the children plant, water, and care for garden vegetables and sunflowers.
Shelves were needed in the classroom to find a home for blocks and other building materials. The creative minds of the students are always building and creating new objects from their imagination.
The Catalina Kid Venture Preschool is a nonprofit organization with a seven member Board of Directors made up of Avalon Citizens with Annie Marshall as Chairman.
Elizabeth Stewart-Madden is the Catalina Kid Ventures director. Currently there are 40 children enrolled at Kid Ventures, ages 18 months to 6 years of age. Avalon Kid Ventures Preschool has a wonderful and talented teaching staff including Carol Ann Burcombe, Gloria Alvarez, Sylvia Silva, Linda Gonzalez directed by Elizabeth Stewart-Madden. Give them your thanks when you see them.
March 17, Saint Patrick’s Day, there will be a fund raising dinner for the Catalina Kid Ventures Preschool at the M Restaurant. Corned beef and cabbage is on the menu. The first seating is at 5:50 p.m. with a second seating at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for children. Seating is limited to only 250 people for the evening.
Tickets must be purchased in advance at the preschool or at the Chamber office or in the Arcade or from a preschool parent.
Age-appropriate beverages will be available from the bar. There will be a fund raising raffle so bring something special to raffled off.
Burney Ramming is the Avalon Lions Club president.
