Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas in D'Hanis School

What a joy to be part of this community at Christmas time. The Lone Star Corral, the SKP park where we are, does something special for the local elementary school children each year. It's a poor, rural area. Usually we arrive after it's all over, but this year we are fortunate to be able to take part. Last Monday the children came to the club house and performed A Bug's Christmas for us. What a wonderful group of well behaved children. For the last few weeks, the collection of gifts for the 154 children has been growing. The members here baked large quantities of cookies, bought candy, made crayon boxes, jewelry boxes, and pencil boxes and donated small toys and much needed school supplies. Thursday we packaged the gift bags and stockings and made the delivery on Friday.

The children who came to the park for the concert.

Bagging cookies


Candy


Goodies ready for our Kindergarten class.


Filling bags for the older grades.


Stuffing stockings for the Kindergarten classes.


The 12 stockings ready to go for our class.


Some of our fellow elves, with our head elf in the center. Thanks Shari!


Making the delivery was the best. It was awesome to be representing the many wonderful people in our park. Thanks Kay for sharing your pictures.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Veterans Day 2010

We had a wonderful celebration on Veterans Day this year. There are many veterans in our park and others were invited from the local community. The D'Hanis High School Band played for us, and the local Ford dealership provided lunch for all those in attendance.

A small group of the many veterans here for the ceremony.


Some of the park residents and visitors, dressed in their red, white and blue, preparing for the singing of the patriotic songs.


The high school band volunteered to perform for us on a day off from school.


The band members had very colorful shirts.


These three army reserves were on hand for the raising of the flag.




The flag burning ceremony




The local Commemorative Air Force did a fly by for us with some of their vintage planes.

America, home of the free, because of the brave.