Giving feels better than receiving – that’s the notion the Los Alamitos High School choirs are relying on as they collect donations this season.
The Note-ables Booster Club and the choir students themselves hope for enough money for a new classroom by the end of summer 2012. Their current room, which is adjoined with the Performing Arts Center, isn’t much more than beat-up risers and scratched cement floors.
“The whole room is a safety hazard,” said Note-ables president Lynette McMahon. “Mirrors are taped into place on the walls, and students’ belongings just lie around on the floor because we don’t have enough storage space. And we’d like better ventilation – if you walk into that room after more than seventy boys have been dancing in it, you’ll know what I mean. The room works for now, but we’d like to reach its full potential.”
Right now, it seems there’s nothing the choir students would like more.
“We took out the carpet in the choir room a while ago,” commented choir member Aliyah Smith. “So the floors are just hard cement, which doesn’t feel very good when you’re dancing for an hour. It’s kind of a pain to have so many people in one little beat-up room. We need space.”
Right now the ideal “Extreme Makeover: Choir Edition” goal is to gain space, better risers, more comfortable flooring, safer mirrors, and ventilation. In order to start the project, the choir program needs to collect over $20,000.
A special fundraising campaign was held at the four “Holiday Memories” winter 2011 shows, when dressed-up students passed buckets to the audience, wishing for donations. This campaign certainly helped, but the choir program hopes to collect more money by sending out donation invitations and launching a fundraising/recycling program with rePLANET. With this course, Los Alamitos High School students will collect recyclable materials and turn them in for a check made out to the LAHS choir program.
The renovated choir room will benefit 260 kids once it’s finished. If you’re interested in donating, you can visit www.lahschoir.org or mail a check to the Note-ables Booster Club. It’s tax deductible, and no donation is too small.
The Note-ables Booster Club and the choir students themselves hope for enough money for a new classroom by the end of summer 2012. Their current room, which is adjoined with the Performing Arts Center, isn’t much more than beat-up risers and scratched cement floors.
“The whole room is a safety hazard,” said Note-ables president Lynette McMahon. “Mirrors are taped into place on the walls, and students’ belongings just lie around on the floor because we don’t have enough storage space. And we’d like better ventilation – if you walk into that room after more than seventy boys have been dancing in it, you’ll know what I mean. The room works for now, but we’d like to reach its full potential.”
Right now, it seems there’s nothing the choir students would like more.
“We took out the carpet in the choir room a while ago,” commented choir member Aliyah Smith. “So the floors are just hard cement, which doesn’t feel very good when you’re dancing for an hour. It’s kind of a pain to have so many people in one little beat-up room. We need space.”
Right now the ideal “Extreme Makeover: Choir Edition” goal is to gain space, better risers, more comfortable flooring, safer mirrors, and ventilation. In order to start the project, the choir program needs to collect over $20,000.
A special fundraising campaign was held at the four “Holiday Memories” winter 2011 shows, when dressed-up students passed buckets to the audience, wishing for donations. This campaign certainly helped, but the choir program hopes to collect more money by sending out donation invitations and launching a fundraising/recycling program with rePLANET. With this course, Los Alamitos High School students will collect recyclable materials and turn them in for a check made out to the LAHS choir program.
The renovated choir room will benefit 260 kids once it’s finished. If you’re interested in donating, you can visit www.lahschoir.org or mail a check to the Note-ables Booster Club. It’s tax deductible, and no donation is too small.
The Los Alamitos Unified School District serves nearly 10,000 students in Seal Beach, Rossmoor, and Los Alamitos. The district includes Los Alamitos High School, a full service high school, Laurel High School, a continuation high school, McAuliffe Middle School, Oak Middle School, and six elementary schools. Mrs. Karen Russell is the current President of the Board of Education. Dr. Sherry Kropp is the Superintendant of the Los Alamitos Unified School District.
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