Today the school held its end of the year awards assembly and, as always, our community had very good attendance.  I would have appreciated their interest and support a little more had I had the time to remember to change pants when I was home for lunch.  As it was I hurried through lunch and did not get my pants changed so I got to present the awards for the middle school and high school wearing pants with a light coat of mud from the dump.  The village works hard to keep the dump clean and neat, but our windy days encourage some of the garbage to stray away from home in search of new residences.  Thus, at the beginning of each summer, the borough has the area surrounding the dump cleaned and this year the students were able to do it to raise funds for the athletic programs.  Since Mike has been sick and absent all week, I got to help chaperon the kids with the basketball coach and had muddy pants to prove it.  Fortunately I did remember to grab my shoes on my way out the door so I wasn't wearing yucky mud boots for the awards assembly.

I always enjoy the awards assemblies, mostly to watch the members of the community and the kids.  With everyone in the village being related, the community is very close knit.  On top of blood relation, everyone also has godparents who take their responsibilities very seriously so people not closely related by blood spend a lot of time together and are very close.  It's nice to watch the community members interact and listen to all of the parents applaud and cheer for all of the students when they receive their awards.