Lily in the News!

PROP (People Reaching Out to other People) is a charitable organization here in Eden Prairie. They provide services for people during time of need including being a food bank. The Eden Prairie News is a small local paper that comes out weekly. They ran a story a while ago stating the need for food donations. It seems they are seeing fewer donations since the economy has taken a turn. The month of October was Neighborhood Heroes month at Ella and Lily's preschool. Their teachers asked the parents to bring in nonperishable items for the kids to play with in their classroom "dramatic play area". They had a pretend grocery store set up. At the end of the unit, the kids donated all the food to PROP. The newspaper came and took photos of Lily's class playing. The next day, Ella's class loaded up the food into wagons and walked it over to the PROP office to drop it off (the preschool is attached to the city center building where PROP is located). The kids were celebrating PROP as a neighborhood hero and the kids became neighorhood heroes themselves!

Lily's picture made it into the newspaper along with Bear! Here is the photo: