PTA & Alumni Group Spruce Up a Virginia School Message Center Sign
PTA & Alumni Group Spruce Up a Virginia School Message Center Sign
I was passing our local high school campus today which fronts Main Street and noticed a buzz of activity; so I stopped by to see what was going on around their main identification sign.
I saw a parking sign that told me not to park in the spot I had picked because it was reserved for teachers, but since I left my motor running and lights on, I was exempt from that rule, right? At least that’s one of the things I didn’t learn in driving school, but accept as Scripture because that’s just what people do. I got out of my Jeep and walked up to investigate all the activity.
Turned out it was a science class doing meteorological science experiments around the base of the sign. While observing all the students and their gadgets and containers, I spoke with the teacher a little bit. He told me the Class of 1964, who originally provided the main school sign, had made a gift to rehabilitate the landscaping around the marquee and clean the two brick columns that supported it. With help from the PTA, we helped renovate the school message center about 18 months ago by replacing the acrylic reader board with one made of polycarbonate material, and we also replaced the changeable letters, brightened up the graphics, and repaired the locking hardware on the clear security cover on the front of the sign. But the previous aged landscaping and weathered brick detracted from any sign improvements.
Wow! What a difference cleaning the brick and providing the new landscaping made on the school image! Some neat benches were added to the mix and they provided a warm, welcoming, student-friendly environment at the main entrance to the high school. Lots of times schools will start out with the standard, manual changeable message signs and then upgrade to electronic message centers down the road. Maybe the science class was doing some R&D around the sign to calculate just what type of exterior digital message center the alumni group could purchase as another special gift in the future to withstand the atmospheric conditions at their Virginia site!
Mark Hackley is an Account Executive at Holiday Signs, and he works from a satellite office in Waynesboro.
Contact Information:
Mark Hackley
PO Box 519
Waynesboro, VA 22980
mhackley@holidaysigns.com
(540)416-3154
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