Partnership with the schools
RIVAHFEST - Art display
Rivahfest is held before Memorial Day. The whole of downtown
is closed off. The chamber decided to devote the whole event
to children and made it child-centric.
Each merchant displayed copies of student art from Lancaster
Primary School and Lancaster Middle School. This covered the
students who did not place in the Art Contest held in May, where
the top places were displayed in the Lancaster Community Library.
Children up to age 12 annotated cards when they found the art work
at the merchant site. The local radio station, WKWI, drew six names
every hour from the completed cards for free ice cream at the
Rivah Shoppe.
At the end of the event, the chamber issued certificates to the
schools for the participants. The partnership was extremely sucessful.
The community loved not only the precious works of art, but the
fact that the chamber cared about encouraging the artistic expression
and development of the community's youth.
The Key Club hopes to build an educational addition to this page under
the mentorship of Mrs. Manning, the art teacher in the middle school.
We hope to feature various aspects of art education in Lancaster County
Public Schools.
RIVAHFEST - Clothesline sale
In partnership with the Rappahannock Art League, the chamber arranged a
clothesline art sale for the student of Lancaster High School. This
initiative was to expose students to the commercialization aspect of art
and to help them raise money for college education beyond high school.
RIVAHFEST - Lancaster High School Track Team
From left to right: Allison Patton, Coach David Vogel, Michelle Alga, Rachel Ruit,
Charlotte Forrester, Warren Ruit, Sarah Wineland, and Russ Miller.
Dave Vogel is a top-notch math teacher at the high school, and he is the Key Club
Faculty Advisor. The community is very fortunate to have dedicated and capable
teachers like him to mentor and guide our children.
Believing in furthering and fostering the work ethic, rather than giving the
track team the money for a tent, the chamber invited them to vallet crafters by
helping them set up at 5 am in the morning for tips. Above is a picture of the
team at 5 am in the morning. Alive? Yes.
Ah, later in the day! Charlotte manned the mini putt-putt golf course. There
were games for all of the children of the community to play.
Russ manned the moon walk tent all day.
.
.
