Editor’s note: Today is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the flag of the United States. We fly “Old Glory” at our house — and the Iowa State Cyclones flag when our football-playing nephew is home, or during the football season. I once joked to him that the British do something similar when the Queen is home at Buckingham Palace. One of my favorite local traditions is the flags that fly in downtown Grass Valley:
The Grass Valley Schools Foundation for Arts and Science will be displaying two hundred flags along the streets of downtown Grass Valley in honor of Flag Day through their Flags over the Foothills fundraiser.
As the flag has made a stand for opportunity in the United States, the community is invited to join the Foundation in making a stand for quality education in the Grass Valley schools by sponsoring a flag. Flags can be sponsored for as little as $40 a year for one flag that will be flown four times a year.
The flags are displayed on Memorial Day, Flag Day, The Fourth of July and Veteran’s Day. “Flags Over the Foothills is our biggest fundraiser each year. Without the generous support of the community through flag sponsorships we wouldn’t be able to fund the grants requests from the teachers to help enhance the curriculum,” said board president Nicole Schug.
The Grass Valley Schools Foundation for Arts & Science is a local non-profit that was started in 2003 by five moms from the Grass Valley schools hoping to raise funds to support and enhance the curriculum of the Grass Valley schools. The Foundation is now made up of parents, current teachers and retired teachers.
In the past few years, the Foundation has raised and donated over $16,000 for science and art enrichment to the Grass Valley schools. Money raised from flag sponsorships goes into the classrooms of the Grass Valley Schools to support and enhance the curriculum in Visual & Performing Arts, Science, History, Social Science, Technology, Physical Education, Literacy, and Library Science.
Some of the recent grants awarded were to teachers Gilmore News Network (GNN) upgraded TV broadcasting equipment, funding for the dance floor at Lyman Gilmore. 6th Grade Science Camp Scholarships, theater classes, Exploring CA Gold 3 day trip, Magic School Bus Videos, The Scotten Launch Pad, wireless base stations & Printopia app for iPad2 & for iPod, Ballet Lessons for Nutcracker, Challenger learning center voyage to Mars @ Discovery Museum field trip.
The Grass Schools Foundation also provides the port-a-potty for public use at the P.L.A.Y playground at Hennessy School. Most recently $500 was awarded to Scotten to help fund Wild Things to come and give a presentation to the students. Wild Things is a non-profit organization that provides homes for displaced wildlife that are unable to survive in the wild. They then share these animals as wildlife ambassadors in public education.
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So very nice to be in downtown Gras Valley today with all the American flags up and flying in the breeze. Well done Grass Valley Schools Foundation, well done!
Happy flag day!
Missed downtown, but caught part of Little League baseball, doing a few motions studies. http://www.macdougalearth.com/2012_06_14_Little_League/
Keachie, please, I beg of you…give us some context!
Hey, Keachie, those are some great shots — do you mind if I share them with the Nevada City Little League team that’s featured?
For context, I’m your guy — those are the NCLL Major Angels, battling the Bear River Dodgers. They needed to win that game and one more to edge out the NCLL Red Sox for NCLL’s final spot in the Tournament of Champions.
Unfortunately, they lost, but there’s a pretty cool side story — this game was originally scheduled for Bear River, but their field was double-booked. So, we moved the game to our field, with BR playing as the “home” team in Nevada City. This means that BR was responsible for bringing umpires, too. Well, they only managed a plate umpire, meaning we needed to pull someone out of the stands to ump the bases. Fortunately for us, we had a qualified ump in the stands — the Manager of the NCLL Red Sox, the very team that the Angels were trying to catch! I think it says a lot about our league and our managers that one would trust the other’s sense of fair play and sportsmanship to do the job right when self-interest could come into play. Very cool, Dennis and Danny!
- Sid Heaton
NCLL President, 2012
Thank-you, it was a chance event that I shot because I happened to find a parking spot while casing the area for the soapbox derby this Saturday. Glad you like the images, and yes, you may use whatever you like, gratis, contact me for non watermarked images, and credit along side the image as follows: “©Douglas Keachie, (530) 277-foto”
You can create the “©” by holding down the ALT key and typing in 0169 and then releasing the ALT key.
Great story, Sid. NCLL rocks. And if anyone wants to see just how much NCLL rocks, come to Pioneer Park this evening at 5:30 pm and watch the Closing Ceremonies. Keachie, hope to see you there w/ your cameras.
This is one of four special days that the Grass Valley’s Schools Foundation does. Special thanks for their efforts. There is an opportunity for all of those who fell so very special as these flags wave to and fro, to support the School Foundation and adopt a flag for a year. http://www.gvschoolsfoundation.org/ is the website.