Volunteers Sought for Campus Spruce-Up

Fountain Valley High School's PTSA is calling out for volunteers to help support the community by joining students, parents and staff in celebrating school pride by renovating the FVHS campus Saturday morning. 

“This is a great opportunity for us to enhance the school,” said event chair Jo-An Verstraete. “Everything is to make the school more beautiful.”

From 8 a.m. to noon, FVHS will be honoring Pride Day by helping to maintain the quality of the campus through various activities, including planting a new organic garden, mulching existing rose gardens and planters, re-landscaping the front of the 300 building and bringing fresh paint to “The Bowl” benches. All the while, the senior class will also be installing new planters by the football field, spelling out “FVHS” in small bushes.

Pride Day activities are focused on the renovations that have been overlooked for several years, tasks that maintance workers are not responsible for on a regular schedule. 

“Our benches have so many colors,” said Verstraete in reference to the much needed attention the campus has yet to receive. And with budget cuts, it is hard for the few campus maintenance workers to cover all bases, she added.

More than 15o volunteers are expected to support Pride Day, but more volunteers are always welcomed, Verstraete said. “With all the things that will be going on, it would be really helpful if we could get more adults to help supervise each activity.”

Volunteers will report in front of the campus cafeteria at 8 a.m., where teams will be assigned and tasks will be given.