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Welcome to the Rings of Saturn
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 The Rings of Saturn are delighted to announce that Saturn Street Elementary School has won a 2010 Give Back to Gro grant from Keep America Beautiful and Scott's Miracle Gro Company. Finally, it's time to build the garden!!
Please join us on Saturday, March 20, 8:30am - 12:30pm for the official groundbreaking! The event will start at 8:30am with Mayor Villaraigosa's presentation of a Give Back to Gro proclamation and the Youth Gardener Award, followed by activities for the whole family:
- Help build planter boxes and plant seeds and plants
- Paint garden signs and create flower headbands
- Walk the Saturn Master Plan to 'experience' how the
- Saturn playground will be transformed into a community park
- Enjoy lunch with your neighbors after a great morning of service!
 We're also proud to announce that produce from the new
garden will be donated to the First Presbyterian Church food pantry in partnership with Plant a Row for the Hungry.
Watch a video of the groundbreaking at 2009 grant winner Roy Romer Middle School to see how much fun we'll have!
To keep up with all the events at Saturn, join the Rings of Saturn Facebook group! |
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 Join Saturn's volunteer Master Gardener, George Pessin, at the new Saturn "Give Back to Gro" garden for victory garden workshops as part of the Grow LA Victory Garden Initiative, sponsored by the UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program.
Sundays, April 11, 18, 25th, and May 2nd, noon-3pm.
Cost: $10 per workshop, $35 for 4 class series
Registration: contact George Pessin (310-652-4642,
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), or register via Pay Pal
Join Your Neighborhood Victory Garden Circle!
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The Rings of Saturn are helping to recruit volunteers for a variety of critical roles:
CATCH Mentors
CATCH stands for Caring Adults Teaching Children How. This program, developed at Community Magnet Elementary School, pairs a volunteer adult with a student to meet for one hour every week. Saturn has participated for several years, and the results are powerful! Following a helpful volunteer orientation, CATCH mentors and mentees spend their time together reading, working on homework, and getting to know each other. Saturn teachers choose mentees who are likely to benefit from one-on-one time with a native English speaker or a consistent, engaged adult figure. If you have just one hour per week, you can make an enormous difference! If you know you can commit the time, but you're not sure it can always be the same day and time, please join the program. We're happy to work with you. Extracurricular Programs
Are you an enthusiastic coach? A retired piano teacher? A devoted gardener? Then Saturn wants YOU! We welcome volunteers who can help us expand the extracurricular programming we offer to our students, including physical fitness and athletics, arts, and a whole range of science and art programming for the school garden we hope to build. Days of Service
We sponsor several service days throughout the year where community volunteers make a huge impact on our school. |
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 Please join us on Saturday, May 1, for our second annual participation in Big Sunday weekend! We'll continue our work in the new Saturn 'Give Back to Gro' Garden (kickoff on March 20), and curb appeal by re-landscaping the exterior. Stay tuned for more information as plans develop...
PROJECT CO-CAPTAINS NEEDED!
If you'd like to help put together this amazing community-building event, please contact Melissa Patrick. The Big Sunday organization makes it really easy, and the more organizers we have...it will be easier still! |
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Congratulations to Saturn students, teachers and staff for an amazing 57-point jump in Academic Performance Index (API) score! From 723 to 780 in one year is an amazing accomplishment, and a great affirmation that all your hard work is paying off - keep up the great work!  |
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