StreetScenes
2010
Fall Fair 2009
After the cotton candy, cookies!
Bank Street Fall Fair Deemed Best Ever!
The annual Bank Street School for Children Fall Fair, an event for families and children produced by School for Children parent volunteers, and chaired this year by SFC parent Bonnie Scarborough, shined through the rain on Saturday, October 24th. A community-building event that is open to the public, the Fair was vivid with color and music and a variety of activities for children.
Face painter, paint thyself!
It also raised over $46,000 for the School for Children to help provide financial aid for families.
The Fair performed a valuable community service by donating leftover children's clothing, toys, and adult and children's books that had been donated by families for the Fair's flea market and book stall to a variety of deserving educational and social service programs:
- Newark Educator's Community Charter School: Four large boxes of books for children in grades K - 3 for this new charter school that just opened in September with support from Bank Street staff developers in the Bank Street Continuing Education division.
- St. John the Divine Clothes Closet: 4 large boxes of adult clothing in good condition.
- Belrose Elementary School in Queens: Books and educational games (math cards, etc.) for special education students.
- New Orleans public schools: Three boxes of educational games.
- Goodwill Industries: Fifty boxes of clothing, forty boxes of books, and five large boxes of toys.
- Wearable Collections: This year, instead of throwing out old clothes that were too worn to sell, the Fair coordinators donated about 225 pounds of worn garments to this textile recycling company.
- Bank Street Library: 50 -75 books were culled for the Bank Street Children's Library.
Skee Ball is back!
