Parkade Elementary to host Spring Festival

SCHOOLS: PARKADE ELEMENTARY

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Elementary is hosting its annual Spring Festival from noon to 3 p.m. May 21.

The school has been hosting the Festival for more than 10  years as a way for teachers and students to have fun together.

“As teachers, it’s fun to have the students see us in a more fun environment, and it’s fun for us to see them in that environment,” said Emily Noelker, learning specialist and PTA member at Parkade Elementary.

The festival is opent to students, families and community members.

Parkade Elementary to host Field Day

SCHOOLS: PARKADE ELEMENTARY

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Elementary is hosting its annual Field Day from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, on the school’s playground and fields.

Parkade Elementary held Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea

SCHOOLS: PARKADE ELEMENTARY

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Elementary’s fourth annual Kindergarten Mother’s Tea was held Friday, May 6, at 2:40 p.m. The celebration began in the gym and then moved to the cafeteria.

“Kindergarten Mother’s Tea originally started as a music program for kindergarteners, but now is combined with mother’s day,” kindergarten teacher Brenda Sieber said.

The boys and girls sang songs they learned with their mothers in the gym. Then they moved to the cafeteria where they had cookies and punch or lemonade the children shared with their moms.

The kindergartners made gifts for their mothers including stories, drawings and potted plants.

Sieber said Parkade Elementary had several businesses donate materials for the event. Walmart donated a $25 gift card, Kaldi’s Coffee, Hy-Vee and Gerbes Supermarket donated cookies, and The Home Depot donated flowerpots and plants.

Parkade Baptist to perform annual Easter musical

PARKADE

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Baptist Church is holding its annual Easter musical, “See What a Morning,” at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at the church, 2102 N. Garth Ave.

The musical will include a variety of songs to be performed by a 35- to 40-voice choir accompanied by a band. The performance will combine music with narration to tell Jesus Christ’s story, beginning with Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem through the Resurrection. The musical will also cover Passover.

Parkade Baptist Church holds movie for deaf community

PARKADE

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Baptist Church showed an Easter movie designed specifically for the deaf on Saturday, April 16, in the church’s Fellowship Hall. The film told the story of Easter and was translated into American Sign Language by Parkade Baptist’s deaf ministry.

Parkade Elementary recognizes volunteers with breakfast

SCHOOLS: PARKADE ELEMENTARY  

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Parkade Elementary’s third annual volunteer breakfast was held from 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday, April 14, in one of the school’s classrooms. The school hosted the breakfast to pay tribute to its 65 volunteers — some parents and others volunteers from different organizations.

Traffic signal work to begin at Providence and Vandiver

PARKADE

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

The traffic division of the Columbia Public Works Department will be working on the traffic signal at Providence Road and Vandiver Drive beginning Monday, April 18.

Neighborhood churches make plans for Easter

BLUE RIDGE-OAKLAND

By CAMILLE PHILLIPS

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

The Blue Ridge-Oakland neighborhoods are home to eight different churches, and many of them are making special plans with Easter coming up on Sunday, April 24. Below is an overview of the churches in the area with their service times, location and Easter arrangements.

Columbia Mother Singers carry on tradition

SCHOOLS: PARKADE ELEMENTARY

By SARA JOHNSON

neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com

Columbia Mother Singers might be one of kind. Mother Singers groups were formed all over the country through the national PTA decades ago, but Sally Stucker, president of the Columbia Mother Singers, said that to her knowledge the Columbia group is the only one left.

Columbia Mother Singers are a group of 45 women and was formed 65 years ago. The group was scheduled to perform at Parkade Elementary School on Thursday morning, March 10.

Stucker said the purpose of Columbia Mother Singers is “to share a love of music and to entertain and educate the kids on different kinds of music.”

Columbia Mother Singers tour all Columbia elementary schools over 10 weeks. They perform at two schools per week singing a wide array of music including folk and patriotic songs.

T/F film ‘The Barber of Birmingham’ shows at Hickman

Marcus James, at right in the purple shirt and tie, and his African-American history class at Hickman High School pose in front of a projected photo of James Armstrong, the main character of the True/False film “The Barber of Birmingham.”

James’ two classes watched and discussed the film on Monday, March 7.

Judith Helfand, one of the film’s producers, attended the showings, which were intended to emphasize voting and other issues important to Hickman students.

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— Natalie Devlin