Notre Dame Academy Helps 3 Area Charities During The Holidays

Notre Dame Academy students and faculty recently adopted three local charities. High school students purchased holiday food, including a turkey, for 15 low-income North Philadelphia families. Junior school students raised $360 for a food distribution center in Norristown, and students of all ages helped prepare turkey dinners for women residing at a homeless shelter.

The private Catholic school is in Villanova.

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA * The Radnor High School Scholarship Fund organization will host Breakfast with Santa from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Radnor Middle School Activity Center, 135 S. Wayne Ave. Admission is $3 for children, $5 for adults. The event also will feature storytelling and a poinsettia and gingerbread house sale.

RECYCLING LESSON * St. Margaret School, a Philadelphia Archdiocese elementary school in Narberth, recently welcomed volunteers from Arco Chemical's Speaker's Bureau. The speakers discussed recycling and the role of chemists in the workplace.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION * Notre Dame de Lourdes School, a Philadelphia Archdiocese elementary school in Ridley Township, recently hosted an educators conference on teaching students how to develop peaceful conflict resolutions.

PARENTING CLASSES * Upper Merion Area School District's Parenting Center is beginning a new series of classes at 9:30 a.m. Monday in Room 8 of the Belmont School, Anderson Rd., King of Prussia. For further information and registration, call 610-337-8130.

LESSONS OF THE HEART * The Kiwanis Club of the Main Line has provided HeartPower, the American Heart Association's new preschool through middle school information kits to Lower Merion School District. The kits provide information on how the heart works, nutrition, fitness and resisting tobacco.

20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY * Stratford Friends School, a private Quaker elementary school for children with learning disabilities, yesterday celebrated its 20th anniversary with a party at Blue Cross RiverRink, an outdoor skating rink at Penn's Landing. Use of the rink and skates were donated by RiverRink and friends of the school.

STUDENT ART EXHIBIT * Episcopal Academy, a private school with campuses in Merion and Devon, will host a student art exhibit from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, now through Dec. 20 at the main building, 376 N. Latches Lane, Merion.

STUDENTS VISIT FARM * Gladwyne Montessori School kindergarten students recently spent a day learning about farm animals during a visit to Sandy Hill Farms in Plymouth Meeting. The private school serves students ages 2 to 12.

PRE-KWANZAA CELEBRATION * Widener University plans to host a pre-Kwanzaa celebration for children from Wetherill and Stetser Elementary Schools and Smedley Middle School, in the Chester Upland School District, and Blessed Katharine Drexel School, a Philadelphia Archdiocese school in Chester, on Dec. 13. The program will feature ceremonial drumming, a candle-lighting ceremony, and entertainment.

CANNED-FOOD COLLECTION * The Strath Haven Middle School Student Council recently collected more than 1,500 cans of food for Chester East Side Ministries. The school is part of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District.