What a joy to be together as a community at our annual spring festival! Families spread blankets across the lawn at Jacksonville Community Park and watched the children’s performances.
The spring festival is an opportunity for the children to share songs, rhythms, and dances from their music classes with their families. It is also an opportunity for our community to come together to share a meal and enjoy each other’s company. We were fortunate again this year to have some great music, and to do a little family-friendly dancing! The Ditch Lilies (Rosie Newton, Paul Martin, Lloyd and Valerie Graves) played traditional old-time string band music while Nancy Spero called some family-friendly dances. Special thanks to Jennifer Birnbaum for her work with the elementary children as their music teacher and to Valerie Graves for her work with the primary classes!
Namaste greatly values our community of families and all the positive energy and warmth they share. Events like the spring festival provide an opportunity to celebrate our community! Making food to share and joining hands to dance deepens our connections. Thank you to all our families for helping organize events such as these, and for prioritizing gathering with our community. There are so many activities calling to parents and children, we are happy to be one of the communities our families value in their lives as well.