PAL - Positive Adult Leadership

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ORTEGA’S  PAL  PROGRAM  AT  VENETIA  ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The PAL (Positive Adult Leadership) program is a group who mentors at Venetia Elementary. The only requirement is a love for children.  Here’s what one of our mentors had to say:

           If I had not joined the PAL program here at Ortega Methodist, I would have never known little Kyara. I became her mentor (or she became mine) when she was in kindergarten at Venetia. She’s in the third grade now at another school because her family moved to another area; but I see her from time to time, and she still brightens my life. Sometimes when school is not in session, she and her little sister and I go to exciting places like Chick-Fil-A and McDonald’s and  the Dollar Store.  Kyara drew a number of pictures in our book, Please Don’t Tell the Bishop, and so I recently gave her a copy and enclosed this note:

 To Kyara---

It was a joy to mentor you when you were in kindergarten and first grade at Venetia School. I wanted you to have some of the artwork that you did for me during those years. Your pictures are included in this little book I wrote for my church. At the bottom of page 17 you will find flowers you drew. (You loved to draw flowers.) On page 20 you drew a little girl all dressed up for a party. On page 22 you drew the train and cars on Roosevelt Boulevard with my house in the background. On page 24 you drew a teacher standing at the board and teaching a class of rabbits!  I hope you will continue to use your artistic talent. I also hope you will keep this book to remind you of our happy times together.

Your friend,  Anne Killebrew