VALDOSTA —
“Don’t Run With Scissors” will help two local schools deal with budget cuts to art programs.
S.L. Mason Elementary and Sallas-Mahone Elementary host “Don’t Run With Scissors” 5K and one mile run/walk Saturday. The 5K begins 8 a.m. at Sallas-Mahone, and the one mile begins at 9 a.m. All proceeds will benefit the visual-arts programs at both schools, providing students with various types of art materials as well as continuing proper art instruction by art teachers.
The arts have been especially hard hit by the state’s recent proposed and on-going educational budget cuts.
To supplement the expected shortfalls, publicly funded programs and agencies across the state may have to seek alternative methods to raise money or face the possibility of lost services or diminished capabilities. Leave it to the arts community to seek a creative alternative to hopefully not only survive in the face of budget cuts but to thrive.
S.L. Mason Elementary School art teacher Paul Brown developed the idea and organized it. He hopes “Don’t Run With Scissors” will be successful enough to become an annual event.
We do, too.
For if this event is successful, state agencies may learn a lesson as essential as the old caution Don’t Run With Scissors.
Registration can be completed at www.gocats.org. The cost to enter is $12 for the one mile run/walk and $20 for the 5K. More information: Call Paul Brown, (229) 333-8530.
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