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Volunteers to help refurbish school

Fontana (October 4, 2007) - Volunteers will gather Saturday to refurbish North Tamarind Elementary School as part of Hands On Schools, a national program that aims to reestablish schools as focal points of communities.
Thanks to a $3 million grant from founding sponsor Home Depot, North Tamarind Elementary is one of 100 schools chosen to receive financial and volunteer assistance and demonstrate that communities can bring about positive change in their schools, a news release said Tuesday.

Inland Empire United Way's Hands On Initiative will lead 250 volunteers from Home Depot, the school and surrounding community as they paint murals throughout the campus, landscape school grounds, paint new play and learning spaces and set up the school's new library.

North Tamarind Elementary School, one of 29 elementary schools in the Fontana Unified School District, is a single-track school with about 573 students from preschool through the sixth grade.

Volunteers are still needed. Register at www.handsoninlandempire.org.

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