By Daily Press staff
The John Muir Elementary School PTA will host a walk to benefit the small Ocean Park neighborhood school.
By walking one mile from the school, which is located on the corner of Ocean Park Boulevard and Sixth Street, to the Pacific Ocean, participants can help raise money for everything from school supplies to teacher’s aides salaries.
Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the walk will start about an hour later. After the participants return, the school is hosting a health and safety fair, along with a silent auction.
Admission to the fair is free and there will be food, peace games, and a live DJ. The silent auction items will be on everything from hotel rooms and restaurants to massage therapy sessions.
Principal Patty Flynn and several teachers have volunteered to sit in a dunk booth and let their students take shots at sending them into the water-filled tank. Students will be selling T-shirts and hats at the fair to raise money as well.
Muir Elementary is a title one school, which is where more than 50 percent of the students receive free lunch because they live on a low income. The PTA has had a difficult time raising money this year, and has decided to hold one large fundraiser instead of two separate events, said Muir PTA President Christine Barot.
For more information on the event, please contact Barot at (310) 899-0435
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 6, 2002. Read the original PDF.