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Kelly Acres ‘inches’ toward celebration

By PHIL BUCHHEIT
“On October 22nd, 1982, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed October as Head Start Awareness month. Twenty-seven years after the proclamation, his words still inspire us to celebrate this great program”
—National Head Start Association.
And celebrate is just what Kelly Acres Head Start did last Wednesday as parents came to eat lunch with their children and watch them participate in a number of activities that matched their theme “inch by inch and mile by mile”.
All head start programs were asked to come up with a theme for National Head Start Awareness month and we decided that our theme would be ‘inch by inch and mile by mile’,“ said Deborah Rodgers, Director of Kelly Acres Head Start.
Bad weather couldn’t damper the spirits of the nearly twenty 2 to 3-year-olds who enjoyed having several stories read to them and spent much of the afternoon drawing and coloring pictures that related to their theme. Their theme, which was developed by Deborah Rodgers, is intended to teach students the importance of paying attention to detail and also promote community support for Kelly Acres Head Start program.
KAHS has been fortunate to obtain community partnerships with a number of businesses and organizations. These include: The Woodruff Library, New Bethel Baptist Church, M Ferguson Mortuary, Small Smiles of Spartanburg, and the Woodruff Police Department, all of which have been generous in donating their time and various resources to the children of KAHS.
“Children and families need Head Start. I can’t emphasize it enough how important a head start program can be to a kid, and both parents and the Community of Woodruff need to be aware of this,” Rodgers added.
Liberty Sanders, the aunt of KAHS Joshua Smith attended Wednesday’s celebration.
“Head Starts are definitely beneficial programs. I still remember when I was 3-years-old and in Head Start out in California. It taught me how to play well with others but more impressively I could read at the age of three,” Sanders said.
KAHS was one of two Head Start programs recently chosen from the Upstate to participate in a national day of celebration on October 22nd in Columbia. The celebration will be held at Columbia’s Finley Park, and students will enjoy a picnic and numerous speakers and outdoor activities.
“It is really an honor to be one of the two head start programs from the Upstate to be chosen to participate in this day of celebration and we are looking forward to it for sure,” said Kathy Brown, Assistant Director of Kelly Acres Head Start.

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