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• Two area schools expect playground additions soon
By Wayne Parham
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School children in McDuffie County will continue to see a focus on health and fitness as schools continue to benefit from a nearly $1.5 million grant. The next major items to be installed are new playgrounds at Dearing Elementary and Thomson Elementary.
McDuffie County elementary schools and the local Boys & Girls Club are now in the second year of a three-year implementation of the grant from the Carol M. White Physical Education Program.
Stacee Leslie, a teacher wrote the grant application after attending a grant-writing workshop about three years ago. Her principal sent her to the session because at that time Thomson Elementary School needed playground equipment.
When Leslie heard of the grant during the workshop and found out that the Boys& Girls Club in Statesboro, where she had attended college, had been a recipient. so she gave them a call to ask how they obtained the grant.
From there she was told to call the director of the Boys & Girls Club in Augusta, which is Kam Kyzer. She also oversees the operation of the Boys & Girls Club in Thomson.
Leslie said many McDuffie County students attend Boys & Girls Club in the afternoon after school is dismissed. So, a partnership sprang up between the club and the local schools. The Boys & Girls Club is the fiscal agent when it comes to handling the grant funds.
Over a three-year period the funds will go to all McDuffie County elementary schools — Maxwell, Dearing, Thomson, and Norris — and the Boys and Girls Club.
To read more on this story, see the Wed., Jan. 25, edition of The McDuffie Progress.
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