Page 12 - Martin Downs Bulletin - September '21

Page 12, Martin Downs

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Steps For School Success

Benefits MC Students

By Jackie Holfelder
More than 250
students and their
families visited
the Stuart Police
Department on Aug.
7 to get backpacks,
underwear, panties,
uniform shirts, car
seats, bike helmets,
shoe vouchers, and at-
home school supplies.
Steps for School
Success saw several
businesses, nonprofits
and organizations Thelma Washington, executive
collaborating to ensure director of GWCCC and Joseph Volunteers included representatives from Gertrude Walden Child Care Center, Stuart Police Department, United Way of
the day was a triumph. Tumminelli, chief, City of Stuart Martin County, and other nonprofits, organizations and businesses.
Lunch was provided Police
by the Stuart Police
Department and the
Salvation Army was on
hand with popcorn and
snow cones.
T h e Fl o ri d a
Department of Health
offered a choice of
Pfizer, Moderna or
Johnson and Johnson
vaccines and 54
of the attendees got
vaccinated, including
22 between ages 12 to
18 years.
Sponsors included
Stuart Police Volunteer Melanie Escobar
Department, Stuart distributes helmets and car seats.
Pol i c e Of fi c e rs Taunya Bryant and Stuart City Ethan deVriend of GWCCC signs up Phyllis Gillespie, GWCCC board
Association, Gertrude Walden Child Care Center (GWCCC), Commissioner Eula Clarke people receiving COVID vaccinations. member
City of Stuart Fire Rescue, Caring Children Clothing
Children, NAACP, St. Paul AME Church, The Law Firm of
Gary, Williams, Parenti, Watson & Gary, PLLC, Attorney Dyscalculia: A Math If your child doesn’t understand the basics about how
Phyllis Gillespie, Esq., Joyce Ferguson, Trequiela Carter, numbers work, learning math and using it every day can
Jerry and Brenda Matheny, Jimmy and Thelma Washington, Learning Disability be very frustrating.
Dr. Claire Nash, Stanley Campbell, Dr. Charmayne Davis, Dyscalculia warning signs include difficulty seeing
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Visa gift cards to all vaccinated persons and $10 gift cards Dyscalculia than,” telling left from right, reading an analog clock,
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Photos provided by Gertrude Walden Child Care Center math learning disability. dyscalculia believe they are not good at math and
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