Holton parent, Liz Turner, in the news

Holton parent, Liz Turner, was interviewed by the Richmond Times Dispatch. Here is a link to the story.

Dandelion Garden & Hudson House in the News!

Click here to read a story in the Richmond Times Dispatch about Holton's new Dandelion Garden.

American Heart Association results are in!

Mr. Watkins received the following letter from the American Heart Association announcing the total money Holton raised this year! Go, Lions!

Cordell,

I wanted to send this email to you and to Mr. Hudson to let you know how proud I am of Linwood Holton this year!

Linwood Holton students, faculty/staff, and community raised $7923.94 to support the American Heart Association in 2009-10. These donations will allow us to continue to fund research in the areas of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. The research that you have helped us fund will save lives. In addition to research, your donations will allow us to continue our awareness campaigns such as Go Red for Women and also to allow us to advocate on Capitol Hill on topics like more Physical Education in schools.

Thank you Cordell for all of the hard work that you do make your event a success. I am so proud of the relationships that you build with your students—you connect with them on a level that is impressive and you go out of your way to demonstrate outstanding leadership qualities for them to emulate.

I wish you both a very relaxing summer and I look forward to working with Linwood Holton again next year.

Aleisha Hundley
Youth Market Director

Holton's Parent of the Year!

Congratulations to Ellen Sheperd!

Mr. Hudson named Ellen "Parent of the Year" at this morning's awards ceremony!

Holton PTA is grateful for everything you do to make Holton such a great place!

Thank you!

Urgent update to garden bed construction schedule

Due to the 30-60% change of rain and thunderstorms predicted for this weekend, we are going to do most of the garden bed construction Thursday and Friday after school. Sorry for those who had signed up for Saturday and will now not be able to participate. There will be plenty of work days in the future!!!
**Thursday 4-7 PM Cutting Wood and POSSIBLY beginning to assemble the beds (Need 3-4 people). NO CHILDREN ALLOWED. If you are willing, please bring any of the following tools that you have: Chop/mitre saw, Skill/Circular saw, Framing Square, Levels (4ft. or bigger), Pencils, Tape measures, Long extension cords, Cordless drills (bring chargers), Bits/drivers. Please label your tools.

**Friday 4-7 PM Assemble the garden beds. Majority of work will be using a level, hammering in stakes & assembling the beds. (Need 5-10 people). If you are willing, please bring any of the following tools that you have: Framing Square, Levels (4ft. or bigger), Pencils, Tape measures, Long extension cords, Cordless drills (bring chargers), Bits/drivers, Sledgehammers, Shovels, Wheelbarrows, Hard rakes. Please label your tools.

**Saturday 8-10am Majority of work will be shoveling dirt and compost. This work may happen on Friday night and will send out an email to all those who signed up to confirm or cancel this work.

Details about volunteering:

Construction will be led by Holton teacher Aaron Garber. All volunteers will be required to sign a waiver and due to safety issues raised by Richmond Public Schools, we ask that you do not bring your children Thursday night. When we are just moving dirt and compost there maybe some opportunities for children’s involvement but not when there are power tools and cords.
Please let me know what if you are available one of these days. Please email ellenshepard@yahoo.com or call 540-529-1595 if you have any questions.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!