The Fillmore Ebell Club has made a donation of $250 to the Pride In America program at Fillmore Middle School. Science teacher, Laurie Merrill, who organizes the Pride In America Day Program each year, was very grateful for the Ebell Club’s donation and said that it would be used for supplies for the program and to help provide lunches for the veterans after the assembly.

Pride in America Day at Fillmore Middle School is a day entirely devoted to celebrating America with the whole school participating. It is held on the Friday before Memorial Day in order to enforce its message. Students begin the day by focusing on important aspects of America’s history and traditions in their classrooms. They are given a list of pertinent questions and teachers help with ideas and answers. The students then attend an assembly that is opened with a formal posting of colors by a military honor guard. Awards for patriotic poetry are presented to deserving students. The assembly ends with a tribute to veterans. It is followed by an American style picnic. Fillmore Middle School is proud to have inspired thousands of students to be patriotic Americans because of this special program.

Fillmore Middle School invites the public, especially veterans, to attend this celebration of America. It will be held Friday, May 25. The assembly is at 10:00 in the school’s gym. The theme for this year’s program is “Freedom For All: Freedom to learn, Freedom to serve, Freedom to dream”. Mrs. Merrill would like to include any veterans in the school’s “Tribute to Veterans” and lunch. Please call the school at 524-6055 if you are a vet and would like to be included.