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Weather conditions couldn’t have been better this Wednesday, October 26, 2022, for the field trip to Bonham’s Willow Wild Cemetery taken by the 6th grade class of Levine Academy in Dallas. Under cool clear skies, with the goal of cleaning previously neglected gravestones of deceased Jewish residents from the early days of Bonham (whose graves
lie in that section of Willow Wild known simply as the Jewish cemetery), eighteen well behaved girls and boys arrived with teachers Marco Rodriguez, Rachelle and Lauren, at the cemetery around 9:30 a.m. ready to go to work. After facing East and reciting prayers handed to them by Mr. Rodriguez, the sixth graders attentively listened to instruction given to them by the cemetery’s caretaker Lou
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to Bonham in search of where they could “do good”, continued fulfilling community hours by pulling weeds outside of Isaiah’s Closet new location and putting up shelves inside to assist with the work of helping children in need in Fannin County. It was a real pleasure to meet Marco, Rachelle, Lauren and the sixth-grade class of Levine Academy as well as visiting with Sally Drayer, Lou Ashemore and Randy McBroom (members of the Willow Wild Cemetery Board.) And I think the most memorable answer to questions posed occurred when the kids were having lunch at the First Baptist Church of Bonham. In response to my complimenting them on the good work they did on the gravestones and asking why they obviously thought it necessary to be so diligent in the work of cleaning off those old stones, I received a chorus of answers, but one stood above the rest; “because there are
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part of the curriculum of the school includes community service hours with their being a minimum of ten hours required and how special recognition is given for more than ten hours. Archivist/Historian with the Texas Jewish Historical Society, Sally Drayer explained how Malinda Allison had arranged for the children to go to the First Baptist Church for lunch where they would afterwards be boxing donated food, they had brought, for a local food pantry and would then be spending time working on a garden at the Foster Village (also known as Isaiah’s Closet.) Unable to stay with the Levine Academy group past lunch, I later learned from Kasie Holly with Isaiah’s Closet that her organization, which provides many different resources for any child impacted by child welfare, has been affiliated with Foster Village since 2018 and are in the process of relocating to their new location at 302 S. Main. The kids who traveled from Dallas early Wednesday morning
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Ashemore. They then donned rubber gloves and goggles; gathered the bottles of cleaning solution and tools needed for the job; and went to work. The children worked seamlessly together as they meticulously and gently removed years of grime from the gravestones. While walking along one of the young ladies who went to retrieve water bottles, I mentioned how it was a nice day to be out of school and she promptly and very sincerely responded, “I like that we’re doing good.” And good they did, as letters written in Hebrew and English began to be more legible due to their attention. As the job of cleaning the gravestones began to wind down, Marco explained how
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