Backpacks for Malawi

Musician Leslie Feist and the organization Dignitas need our help to help children in Malawi.

Kids and teens living with HIV/AIDS walk for miles to get to Dignitas clubs to get their medicine for the following month, and learn about how to lead long and healthy lives despite their illness. But there is a lot of stigma against people with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, and most of the children have no backpacks to carry their medicine, so it gets lost. Some children try to hide their medicine outside so no one will see it.

Dignitas is looking for a variety of backpacks - each one different - so the kids aren't all carrying the same "medicine bag."

So bring in your old backpacks! There will be a donation box set up at McMurrich until Friday October 9. Big or small, old or new, for kids or adults, every backpack helps!

Annual Potluck coming up on Thursday October 1st

The Annual McMurrich Community Potluck is on Thursday October 1st from 6-8pm in the school gym. Bring your tasty treats/dishes to share and reacquaint yourselves with your McM Community friends and get to know new ones as well. Do not miss out on this great opportunity to meet you children's friends and classmates. Love Mother Earth and bring your own dishes and utensils.

Please remember that all food MUST be NUT-FREE.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

School Council Meeting Thursday September 24th

Please come out to our first School Council meeting of the year, Thursday, September 24, at 7 o'clock, in the McMurrich Library.

Agenda items include Council elections, Committee updates and sign-ups, and an update from Principal Nicole Lee.

There will be refreshments available, and free childcare provided across the hall in Room 103.