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It has been
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"PAL is the best kept secret"
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just a well kept secret!
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Fall Festival at the Eddie Best Hall in Keyes
On Saturday
October 31st, the Stanislaus County PAL staff
put on the First Annual Fall Festival and
Haunted House at the Eddie Best Hall in Keyes
from 6:00-10:00pm. Laughter and music filled the
air of the downstairs area of the Hall while
screams came from above.
The main floor was transformed into a carnival
with hay over the floor and art work from the
Keyes Hall and Empire Elementary sites covering
the walls. Tables were set up with carnival
games including: Ball Toss, Pin the Nose on the
Jack-O-Lantern, Spider Ring Toss, Face Painting
and Cake Walk. There were also booths where
participants could make small spiders, dirt cups
with worms, paint pumpkins or take a picture
with a scarecrow. Each booth gave out candy to
fill the young participants trick or-treat bags.
It was estimated that approximately 200 parents
and children participated in this event.
The Brave made
the trip around the building and up the
backstairs to our Haunted House. Black sheets
were used to cover the windows and make a
pathway with twists and turns upstairs.
Participants didn't know what to expect around
each corner when they saw "BEWARE" and "DANGER"
glowing on the black sheets under the black
lights. There was a life size Frankenstein, real
people jumping and crawling out from behind the
sheets, a cemetery, and many other spooky
details. Many participants walked through more
then once and some said they were even more
scared the second trip.
The PAL staff: Russell Stroud, Danny Monoz,
Sammy Saldate, German Gaytan, Alma Sloan, Chris
Sequeira, Laura Cardenas, Casey Vega, and Amy
Kline
Volunteers: Bret Silveira, Jeff Reed, Dalton
Gonzalez, Alex Vega, Alexa Tijerino, Keyes PAL
participants: Charlie Brown, Billy Gonzalez,
Justin Brown, Reinholdt Heck, Alex Heck, Paul
Heyden and Victoria Gonzalez.
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Oregon Park
The kids at Oregon Park spent the month of
October making fall crafts, playing soccer
and marbles, picking up the trash around the
park, and removing graffiti with the help of
Recreation Leader Daniel Monoz.
On Friday,
October 30th they had a pizza party and painted
pumpkins. Many children in the Oregon Park area
would not have been able to have pumpkins this
year if it wasn't for the help of Bret Silveira.
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WEST COUNTY
Patterson PAL put on a
small Haunted House for the Patterson participants
and families. Ruby Esparza, Community Aide, put a
lot of time and effort into organizing the Patterson
kids so that they could decorate and put on their
own Haunted House. They made tombstones for our
Field Supervisors: Chris Sequeira and Laura Cardenas
and life sized dolls of Casey Vega and Amy Kline.
Ruby did a great job helping the PAL kids use their
imagination to create this Haunted House. Very few
items used in the house were bought from the store
most of the items were painted or constructed by
Ruby and her PAL kids. Every month Ruby works with
the children to decorate the center that
incorporates the theme for the month.
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Keyes Community Clean Up
On Saturday, November 7th Keyes Recreation
Leader Russell Stroud along with five Keyes
Community Center PAL participants, Jamie
Jones, Cassady Jones, Alex Castro, Chris
Reed and Justin Brown helped in a community
clean up.
They met in the parking lot in front of Keyes
Elementary School at 8:00 and picked up trash in
the downtown area of Keyes:
7th Street from Nunes
to Motsinger
9th Street from Keyes
Road to Lizzie Avenue
8th Street from Maud
Avenue to Lizzie Avenue
Nunes Road from 7th
Street to Keyes Road
Side streets in this area
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Soccer in Salida
Salida Park has started hosting a 3-on-3 soccer
tournament every Wednesday. Soccer is a popular
sport in the area and Salida's Recreation
Leader, Sammy Saldate, decided to use the love
of soccer to bring the older kids back to the
park to help the younger ones. He has a goal
that all the Salida kids will benefit from
spending time with the other age group. Many of
the older kids that come to play on Wednesday
are past PAL participants and are coming to play
soccer and act as a positive influence on the
Salida youth. The teams are changed every week
so that the children learn to work and get along
with others. There are approximately 20
participants.
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Whats going on at School Programs
Glick Middle School and Empire Elementary
has started their Dance Program
after school on Monday's and Friday's. Twice a
week, dance instructor Johnathon Esparza teaches
the students at the two Empire sites Hip-Hop
dance. This physical activity is helping to keep
them physically fit and teaching them ways to
stay healthy other than sports/running.
Stanislaus Union Elementary Schools: Food
4 Thought is designed to address the nutritional
needs of hungry school-aged children while
offering them an incentive to improve their
academic performance. The program helps students
and their families maintain a healthy diet and
stretch limited food budgets while improving
children's self-esteem by providing tangible
rewards for their hard work. For the past 13
years, the Second Harvest Food Bank has run a
Food 4 Thought program and has served students
in San Joaquin County through funding by grants
and individual fundraisers. The program has been
so successful it now serves 2,700 students at 38
school sites. Foster Farms is underwriting the
pilot program in Stanislaus County, which will
initially serve students at Agnes M. Baptist
Elementary, Josephine Chrysler Elementary and
George Eisenhut Elementary in Modesto.
Foster Farms hopes its move will encourage other
businesses and individuals to get involved so
even more students can benefit. "As a
family-owned company, Foster Farms is committed
to the future of our children and we've become
particularly concerned about at-risk youth in
our communities," said Ira Brill, Director of
Marketing and Advertising Services for Foster
Farms and a Second Harvest board member.
Stanislaus Union School District
officials agree, "This program couldn't have
come at a better time," said Michelle Bell,
District Coordinator of After School Programs
for the district. "Funding gets cut and the kids
suffer the consequences. We're grateful that
Foster Farms is stepping in to bring Food 4
Thought to our schools. Schools and students can
use all the help they can get."
Burbank Elementary:
Is
are having a Parent Appreciation Dessert on
Tuesday, Nov. 24th from 4:30 to 5:30. The
students were given the opportunity to choose a
Club to focus on preparing for this event.The
clubs are:
Arts/Crafts
Club- These students are designing the
table decorations, an art exhibit and a gift for
each parent,
Recycling Club-These students learned
about the importance of recycling, decorated
recycling boxes and collect from them each day,
Scrapbook Club-These
students take pictures of ASP activities and are
decoratively using their creativity to develop a
Burbank After School Program Scrapbook,
Video Club
-These students are filming appreciation
statements from all our students which will
honor their parents,
Drama Club-These students are performing
a First Thanksgiving PlayPlanning
Club-These students are assisting each of
the above clubs to make sure our focus is on
showing the Parents that they are appreciated
and remembering all we are THANKFUL for. These
students will be the greeters and servers and
are finalizing plans to make this a special
event for Burbank After School Program Parents.
They are also Raffling a Thanksgiving Dinner
and a couple of Turkeys!
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2009 Flag
Football
Are you
ready for some football?
Modesto
City PAL has joined up with Stanislaus County
PAL for a flag football league for our youth,
games started October 17th. For the families
that want their children to participate in
football, but are not wanting them to play full
contact tackle football this has been the
perfect solution. Many parents signed their
children up for the Flag Football league to give
their children a chance to learn how to play
football without the chance of them getting hurt
as in tackle football. Along with safety,
parents are choosing this league due to its
reasonable cost. For $40 the participants get a
jersey and get to play football for 7 Saturdays.
This season there are 190 participants in the
league.
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Upcoming Events/ Sports
Thursday, December 17, 2009
SCPAL 13th Annual Christmas Show
at Modesto Center Plaza
If you'd like to help wrap
presents please call the PAL office
209-529-9121 or if you'd like to make a
donation to our Christmas Program please
send a check to the PAL office at 1325
Beverly Drive, Modesto, 95351.
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Annual Charity
Golf Classic
APRIL 2010
WANT TO BE A
SPONSOR? Please call the Stanislaus County PAL
office for more information on how to become a
sponsor.
Want to be
play golf? Call us and we will send you more
information on our successful & fun tournament.
In 2009, we had over 144 players who had a great
time. Don't be left out, join us!
Stanislaus
County PAL Office: (209) 529-9121 x10 or x16
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For inquires:
Stanislaus County Police Activities League
1325 Beverly Drive Modesto, CA 95351
Tel (209) 529-9121
Fax (209) 529-8794
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