Sharefest 2010
On July 31st a group of community minded families will converge on Thomas Jefferson High School to show their support for their community high school. Members of the New City Church plan to paint and clean their way through TJ in an effort to further our ongoing work and to show pride in their community. This second annual event, called Sharefest, is done also to encourage members of the TJ community to give some of their time to make TJ a better place for students to attend school.
The focus for this year is to paint the pillars in the front of the building to match the guard rail that was painted at last year’s Sharefest, and to scrub out as many lockers as possible. There are 18 pillars to paint and 1100 lockers to clean, so we can use all the help we can get.
If you would like to support Sharefest please contact Scott Lessard at Scott_Lessard@dpsk12.org and let him know you are coming. Last year we had nearly 100 students, parents and community members show up to help out. We would like to see even more folks participate this year. If you have a project that you would like to see addressed please include that information with your communication. Groups that want to focus on a specific job are highly encouraged to participate (for example, the softball team replacing the wind screen around the dug outs).
As a side note, TJ is implementing a community service requirement for students this year, and hours spent at Sharefest will be counted towards a student’s annual hours needed.
Thank you in advance for helping TJ be the best it can be, and we look forward to seeing you there.
