Press Release
The King’s Academy Helped For Immediate Release
Make Christmas Store Event A Success
January 11th, 2010
Contact:
Tina Tutwiler
(561) 686-4244 ext 354
The King’s Academy Helped Make Christmas Store Event A Success
WEST PALM BEACH – Monday, January 11th, 2010 – Secondary students at The King’s Academy partnered with Urban Youth Impact during the month of December by collecting new and unwrapped toys. Since 1997, Urban Youth Impact has hosted an annual event, Christmas Store, which provides new toys for inner city families living in the West Palm Beach area. The King’s Academy’s efforts resulted in the donation of 705 toys.
The King’s Academy also took 70 students and faculty on Friday, December 18th to assist Urban Youth by helping them to set up for their Christmas Store event.
They helped to transport the 5,000 toys that had been collected from Urba’s Dream Center to the Roosevelt Full Service Center where the event would be held. They helped to unpack and set up for this special event.
They returned on Saturday, December 19th to volunteer at the actual event. (Christmas Store) They volunteered in areas such as: packing and distributing groceries, assisting as personal shoppers, helping to care for the babies and toddlers while their parents shopped, running the concession stand, walking families back to their vehicles with the Christmas gifts for their children, playing basketball and four square with children and students. The King’s Academy Tri-M National Honor Society provided an area where children could come and play musical chairs.
The event result in a total of 5000 toys being given away to 500 inner-city families on this day.
The King’s Academy is a nationally recognized private Christian school serving approximately 1,200 students from preschool through twelfth grade and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Association of Christian Schools International, and the Florida Association of Christian Schools. The King’s Academy serves students and their families across Palm Beach County at its main campus at Belvedere Road and Sansbury Way in West Palm Beach and its satellite preschool campuses in Greenacres, Palm Beach Gardens, and Royal Palm Beach.
8401 Belvedere Rd.
West Palm Beach, Florida 33411
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