At the end of my photo shoot with LACES, I stumbled upon SCHOOL PRIDE Headquarters in the cafeteria - "Brain Central" of LACES renovations. In just 5 hours and 6 minutes, the Count Down Clock will be set and start to tick away. GREAT NEWS! We made it to 1000 volunteers! What a FANTASTIC group of people you all are! Hope you don't mind but I will be snapping photos for the blog. I promise to also be working for the next 7 days.Now it's time for some SPECIAL THANK YOUS on the eve of this amazing project:
Contractors, sub-contractors and employees;
NBC-Universal;
LACES parents who participated in all the prep work;
Dr. Kim and her Administrative Team;
LACES Teachers and Staff;
Parents & Students who networked with School Pride Producers;
Parents who refused to take NO for an answer and advocated for this opportunity; when School Pride was turned down by district;
Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times Writer/Editor;
My blackberry (photos);
My kids for waiting in the car for me while I wander around LACES taking photos;
and yes, Superintendant Ramon Cortines for giving School Pride the GREEN LIGHT;
My apologies for any groups or persons I've left out. I also retract my thank you to my 3 kids. I think they wait in the car because they're afraid of getting stuck working at LACES when they're supposed to be on their way to a summer outing.
