SVEC lineworkers wear pink hard hats in October to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Fall has been a whirlwind of local activities focused on life and health. To usher in October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Well Women welcomed more than 220 people to its inaugural awareness event at Live Oak’s Heritage Park & Gardens on Sept. 29, raising money to provide mammograms and cancer care.
On Sept. 27, The Arc of North Florida held its 27th annual Lawn Mower Race to fund its programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. And on Oct. 4, the First Federal Sportsplex was the site for Pregnancy Care Center’s 5K Walk/Run 4 Life, a fundraiser that event partner First Baptist Church calls a way “to support life and hope.”
Operation Round Up® Spotlight
Sara Warner, a first-grade teacher at Suwannee Pineview Elementary, uses recordable voice buttons to create an interactive activity that is a big hit with her students. Each button makes a letter sound and challenges students to blend the sounds together to decipher a mystery word. The activity fosters excitement about reading and encourages independence and problem-solving.
Sara changes the sound buttons frequently to make new mystery words, and the quest to solve them has become an exciting part of her classroom routine. She has taken it a step further by placing the buttons in the hallway outside her classroom so that anyone can join in the fun.
SVEC loves to see the work teachers like Sara are doing to energize student learning with the help of tools bought with funds provided by our consumermembers through Operation Round Up®.
Blood Donations Needed
Lawn Mower Race helps fund programs for The Arc of North Florida.
SVEC urges the community to join us in rolling up our sleeves to help save lives as we host a blood drive on Monday, December 1, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at our main office, 11340 100th Street, Live Oak. In an October email sent to SVEC, LifeSouth Community Blood Centers reported dire shortages across the country and said it had less than a 1-day supply of blood on the shelves, so please take part if you can.
