The first phase of a two stage process has been completed at both Pole Green Park and Poor Farm Park. It has been a community coming together to reach out to others. If you haven't been to one of the parks, you're missing something - this truly exemplifies "people caring about people".

 

Cool Spring Elementary School Makes a Difference

This past school year Cool Spring Elementary School chose Operation Hope as a community project to which they would raise money to make the all accessible playgrounds a reality. In March they held a sale and auction of student art work. Each class made an item, they ranged from decorated frames to ceramic bird houses. The crowd of over 600, attending for dinner and the sale, was brought into fierce competitive bidding by parent auctioneer Charles Hines. This sale raised over $6,400.00. Skip Rowland, Herald Progress photographer, covered the event for his recognized and appreciated "In Our Backyard - a weekly look at life in Hanover County". Mr. Rowland has won two 1st place and two 2nd place awards in the Virginia Press Association competition this past year. In reflection on how he could give back, he feels that of all the programs he has covered that Operation Hope has struck him the most. Mr. Rowland will be donating money from his sales of reprints and calendars to Operation Hope.

Visit Skip Rowland at www.skippix.biz/IOB.

Cool Spring Elementary School has raised over $8,000.00 this year. The faculty, students, and their parents are truly reaching out to touch the lives of others and they have inspired others to make a difference in Hanover County.

View photos from the sale and auction.