ShoreCorps/PALS Hosts Gimme Five Youth Day Saturday, October 22
SALISBURY, MD---ShoreCorps/Partnership for Adolescents on the Lower Shore (PALS), the AmeriCorps program at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, partners with the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥’s Promise Alliance and Pinehurst Elementary School PTA to sponsor the seventh annual “Gimme Five Youth Day” at Pinehurst from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, October 22.
Gimme Five is a free, fun-filled day designed to provide opportunities for children to learn the five promises that make up the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥’s Promise Alliance: caring adults, safe places, healthy starts, effective education and opportunities to help others, while having fun in the process. Those attending participate in a service project to support the Wicomico County Board of Education’s “20/20” reading initiative: 20 minutes at home and 20 minutes at school.
Highlights include free food, games, crafts such as pumpkin painting, and live entertainment. MacGruff, the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Police mascot, also makes an appearance.
This event is partially funded by a grant from the Governor’s Office of Service and Volunteerism.
Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information contact Dr. George Whitehead at giwhitehead@salisbury.edu or Dave Harris at iharris@wcboe.org.