Each year, our school celebrates the return of light to our lives with a Solstice ceremony. This year, we’re happy to return to the Temple Emek Shalom for this event. It’s an off-campus location that allows the use of candles indoors in a beautiful, dark space.
It’s a school community event the involves all students, grades K through 8, staff and interested families. Traditionally, Jim’s class has “sponsored” this event.
We’ll be cutting boughs at Earth Teach for the creation of a spiral labyrinth on the day of the event, Friday, December 16.
To make this event possible, we need:
- A parent to meet our group at Earth Teach around noon on Friday, December 9, with a pickup truck to haul down cut boughs to the Temple Emek Shalom on East Main Street near our campus. Students would load the truck with cut boughs and would unload it at around 2:15 at the temple.
- Candles – we’re looking for donations of small candles to use in the celebration. If you’ve got some old candles laying around (especially with glass cradles), please consider donating or loaning them for the event. They can be sent to Jim in the coming weeks.
- Parents to help set up the bough labyrinth in the early morning of Friday, December 16 at the Temple Emek Shalom. Josh McGrath has offered to help out and has been our resident “spiral master” for a few years now. We need approximately 4 or 5 parents for this task, beginning around 7:00 am.
- Parents to help with clean up following the event. This would be from around 10:00 to 10:45 am.
- A parent to haul away boughs following the event. They could all be yours! Imagine the possibilities. Students will load your vehicle.
Please let Jim know if you’re willing to help with any of the items above. James.Bowers@Ashland.k12.or.us
