Glenside students held a walk-athon, raising $2,500 to benefit Escuela Glen Side. Shivy will help decide how the money should be used. The Ecuadorans have indicated a need for desks, a water pump and latrines, a signboard identifying the school, science laboratory equipment and vegetable seeds.
At Glenside Elementary, the students are learning about the country, people and customs of Ecuador. A display case includes photographs taken when the school was built.
"We want our children to realize that they are part of a global world and have shared responsibilities to others," said Principal Paul Kilrain.
ON THE AGENDA
* Education meetings scheduled this week: The Souderton Area School District will hold a hearing on additions and renovations to Indian Valley Middle School, Harleysville, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Monthly school board meetings include Hatboro-Horsham, Monday at 7:30 p.m.; Jenkintown, Monday at 7:45 p.m.; Perkiomen Valley, Monday at 7:30 p.m.; North Penn, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.; Lower Moreland, work session, Tuesday at 8 p.m.; Upper Moreland, committees, Tuesday at 8 p.m.; Springfield, Tuesday at 8 p.m.; Cheltenham, agenda meeting, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., and Souderton, planning session, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
* Cartoonist and satirist Daniel Sean Kaye will open his KomicArt Show at Pennsylvania State University's Ogontz Campus in Abington March 12. The opening, which is free, will be from 2 to 5 p.m. in Woodland Library. The public is invited.
The show features Kaye's pen-and-ink comic creations, which reflect his ideas on the political and social state of the world. It closes April 2. Kaye is an Abington resident and former Ogontz student. His comic strip Abyssburg is published in the Mainliner and the Delaware Valley Recovery News.
Anyone who intends to go to the opening is asked to call 215-881-7368 by tomorrow.
