Student letters lead to $4,000 donation

Student letters lead to $4,000 donation

Published 9:16pm Wednesday, Sep 28, 2011

By NEAL WAGNER / City Editor

When Thompson High School youth Joe Grice schooled state appropriation cuts had brought his propagandize library’s register enlargement to a standstill, he knew he and his classmates would have to take action.

“The library has left 3 years though appropriation now,” Grice said. “I consider a final updated autobiography was Bill Clinton.”

Grice, who customarily spends time with his friends during a THS library, motionless to interest to a supervision organisation most closer than Montgomery. After vocalization with his friends during a school, he and 6 other students penned letters to Alabaster Mayor David Frings and members of a City Council.

“I suspicion that if they had tyro submit and not only adult input, it might assistance things out,” Grice said. “I theory it worked out.”

Three weeks after a students sent a letters to a city’s supervision officials, Frings and several members of a City Council met with a students and propagandize employees to present a $4,000 check to a THS library.

“I consider your letters were really certain and on a mark, and we consider they voiced a needs we have,” Frings pronounced during a Sept. 28 presentation. “I know this doesn’t equal a state appropriation you’re used to receiving, though we wanted to assistance in any approach we could.

“I don’t consider anyone on a legislature even batted an eyelash when this ($4,000 donation) fortitude came before them for a vote,” Frings added.

Greg Stone, a librarian during a school, pronounced a library staff will use half of a concession income to squeeze several new books and reserve this fall, and will use a remaining $2,000 to squeeze books and reserve in a spring.

“These kids took a beginning to strech out to their county leaders,” Stone said. “We are really happy we’ve got students like this during Thompson High School.”

THS Principal Danny Steele pronounced ancillary a propagandize library will be critical to students’ success in a future.

“The media core will play a most larger purpose in a future. Success for we (students) is how we implement a resources accessible to you,” Steele said. “Adding to those resources is critical for a future.”

Stone and Frings pronounced a library shortly could emanate a “wish list” registry during Books-A-Million during a Colonial Promenade. Through a registry, that Stone pronounced could come in a subsequent few months, shoppers could squeeze a book as a present to a THS library.

“We’ve already mailed a ask to Books-A-Million, so we are only watchful to get the response now,” Stone said.