The foundation has previously donated to Acacia and Hermosa elementary schools and to Ladera Vista, Nicolas, and Parks junior high schools. For the fourth year, the FSD Educational Foundation has made opportunities available to students who might otherwise not have them. The Beechwood staff got into the holiday spirit in December, adopting five Florence Crittenton Home teenagers, buying gifts and spending an evening with them decorating a tree and doing a craft project. Tammie Lees organized the function, which the staff hopes to make an annual event. The Yorba Linda basketball team that Jody coaches raised the money.
Students write and deliver speeches based on their own personal dreams for a better tomorrow.
This poem was written by 4th grader Christina Biggs, a student in Sandra Moonan's class at Pacific Drive. The class studied poetry by Diane Siebert as part of their 4th grade curriculum study of landforms and the majesty of California's Sierra Nevada mountains and Mojave desert. The Sun I am the sun, Hot and bright. And like a star, I have a flight. From east to west, I set and rise.