(L-R) JA President, Jayme Hayes; Avery Hall Employees & JA volunteers–Pearl Lasley; Angie Strouth; Susan Brown; Michelle Howard; Walter Richardson
(February 28 — Salisbury, MD) All second-grade students at Beaver Run Elementary School will participate in a special version of Junior Achievement’s (JA) Our Community® program on April 24, sponsored by a $2,500 donation from Avery Hall Insurance Group. This “Leadership Day,” will include honored guests such as Comptroller Peter Franchot and Mayor Jake Day, who will enrich the lessons with their own insights into community roles and leadership.
In addition to the funding to sponsor Leadership Day, Avery Hall Insurance Group will be providing several volunteers to teach the JA Our Community Lessons to the students. “We have several employees that volunteer their time to teach in the classroom and lend hands to special events to help ensure that Junior Achievement is around for many, many years to come,” said Joseph Gast, President, Avery W. Hall Insurance Agency, Inc.
Avery Hall Insurance Group provides individuals, families, organizations and businesses of all sizes throughout Delmarva with insurance solutions for today’s world. Avery Hall is headquartered in Salisbury, with offices in Easton, Seaford, Bridgeville, and Milton.
Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship education to K-12 students throughout public and private school classrooms in six counties across Maryland’s Eastern Shore. To volunteer, donate, or learn more about Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore, email information@easternshoreja.org, or log on to http://www.easternshoreja.org.
Students and teachers from Pocomoke High School
(February 26, 2018 — Salisbury, MD) On February 22, Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore (JA) hosted its annual Worcester Adopt-a-School Dinner, an evening to celebrate the donors throughout the year who have sponsored grade levels and classrooms in schools throughout the county, as well as raise money to provide JA programming to students not yet funded. The event was held at Sunset Grille in West Ocean City, a sponsor of the event. While attendees dined and bid on auction items, guest speakers discussed the impact of Junior Achievement’s three pillars of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship on the community.
Speakers during the event included Michael Franklin, CEO of Atlantic General Hospital; Laura Bren of Atlantic/Smith, Cropper & Deeley; Brad Hoffman of Live Wire Media & Events; and Stephanie Hearn of Pocomoke High School and the lessons taught in Junior Achievement Finance Park® helped her students, who shared their JA experiences.
Lanie, a freshman at Pocomoke High School, acknowledged that her aspirations of military service would likely not garner her a high paycheck starting out in life. She noted her initial dread at being forced to take a financial literacy class, and her quick realization that she had a lot to learn about budgeting and investing. “As (with) every young person it is easy to pay attention to the short-term luxuries, but now I understand the full potential of my knowledge.”
Fellow student Jeremiah, spoke about applying for his first job for the summer, and how JA Finance Park helped him. “I think this will really help me with the process of saving to a goal instead of spending it on something.”
The live video recording failed after that and classmate Tamari’s remarks were lost, but he later summed up the reason for the evening’s event via email with a perfect, succinct sentence, “So many adults have missed the opportunity to have this class, and so many adults are financially unstable because of that.”
Adopt-a-School sponsors are: Atlantic/Smith, Cropper & Deeley; Sysco; Faw Casson; Esham Family Ltd. Partnership; Snowden Lane Partners; Castle in the Sand; Bank of America; Bank of Delmarva; Richard Holland; Humphreys Foundation, Inc.; Taylor Bank; Bank of Ocean City; Ocean City/Berlin Optimist Club; Hershey Family Fund; Delmarva Power; Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore; PNC Bank; Vernon Powell Shoes; Courtesy of Salisbury; Whiting Turner Contracting Co.; Pohanka of Salisbury
Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship education to K-12 students throughout public and private school classrooms in six counties across Maryland’s Eastern Shore. With the help of respected local volunteers, Junior Achievement delivers to young people in all communities the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. Through its hands-on, age-appropriate programs Junior Achievement inspires our youth to live within their means, prepare for the world of work, and understand the free enterprise system. In its 2017 fiscal year, Junior Achievement reached over 7,000 students across the Shore. To volunteer, donate, or learn more about Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore, email information@easternshoreja.org, or log on to http://www.easternshoreja.org.
Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore 