Suzanne Seymour Palos Verdes School Board Member

The new board of education was sworn in on Wed., Dec. 14, 2022. Ami Gandhi 4 PVPUSD is the president, Linda Reid is the Vice President and Linda Kurt For Palos Verdes School Board 2022 is the Clerk. It has been a pleasure advocating and working on behalf of our students, parents, staff and the entire Palos Verdes community. Retirement from my volunteer job - take 2! Thank you for the ❤️ 🦚

So fun to run into Megan Crawford , now married and an elementary school principal! Great day to walk and raise $ for our students! SKECHERS Friendship Walk Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi Peninsula Education Foundation

The League of Women’s Voters is hosting a Zoom Candidate Forum this evening at 7pm. This will be the second opportunity for all the candidates to answer questions directly from members of the community. Use this link to join, watch, and submit your questions:

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Friday Night Lights on both sides of the hill! Hopefully this becomes a yearly tradition! 🐾🏈🔱

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Some fun graduation photos. Congrats to our graduates!

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2022/06/10/graduation-2022-redondo-union-palos-verdes-and-peninsula-high-school-celebrate-seniors/

Graduation 2022: Redondo Union, Palos Verdes and Peninsula high school celebrate seniors Redondo Union High, Palos Verdes High and Peninsula High all held graduations on Thursday, June 9.

All gifts are welcome - any amount helps. If we all give, we will get there together!

This Wed, March 9, 2022 is PEF's 100K, a 24-hour online fundraising campaign. Our Palos Verdes students need your help! Our schools are towards the bottom in state funding, but yet they are still top-performing. And in order to keep our schools strong, we continue to need community support. Please consider a donation of any amount. Go to bit.ly/2TSpDHf and click on your school to help reach its goal. Thank you!

Want to dine at Terranea Resort every month for a whole year? And invite 3 friends with you? Enter our Main Event Terranea Raffle and maybe you will WIN! Drawing takes place at Main Event on April 22. Winner need not be present to win. Tickets are $100 each. Download tickets at bit.ly/3pFeTuv or call PEF at 310-378-2278 to purchase over the phone.

Expiration dates are extended for the rapid tests that were distributed at MIS today.

Drive thru - test pick up at MIS tomorrow (Sunday)

I hope to wave to many of you at MIS on Sunday as we hand out the test packs!

Sunday, January 2nd, Free Test Kit Pickup: The district will be offering free at-home Covid tests to current district students and staff only, to be picked up on Sunday, January 2nd at Miraleste Intermediate School (29323 Palos Verdes Dr. E. Rancho Palos Verdes) from 9am to 1pm.There is a limited supply, and the kits will be distributed on a first-come-first-served basis.

Families may schedule their own COVID testing at a variety of local medical providers including CVS, Walgreens, local urgent care facilities and pharmacies, and your personal health care provider. At 449 Silver Spur Road, a drive through free PCR testing option is available Jan. 2 10-3, with results available 24-48 hours (may not work for families planning to return in person on Monday).

Another resource is https://covid19.lacounty.gov/testing/.

At-home COVID tests are also available at local pharmacies and online.

Families can order free tests from the county as well at covid19.lacounty.gov/hometest. These county test kits require swab collection to be mailed back for PCR test results, which may take a few days; thus they will work for future weeks but not for January 3.

PVPUSD in-person testing sites will remain open through June 2022. Visit the district website for days and hours of operation and locations.

COVID-19: Testing For LA County Residents, there are now three types of testing sites. Testing is by appointment only.

For the Sunday, PVPUSD on-site testing, at the District Warehouse (38 Crest Road West, Rolling Hills), you need:

1. An appt (as of now they are full)
2. To be registered (by Sat. evening if possible)
3. Employee Badge or student ID - screenshot of Aeries homepage is fine for each student.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Jumping out of retirement for a new term of 14 months.

I was appointed by the board of education to serve out the remainder of Megan Crawford's term, which ends with an election in Nov. '22. Ms. Crawford resigned the position because she moved out of the area. The next opportunity for an election to fill this seat would have been April '22 at a cost of $900,000. As always, I will do my best to represent our community with my focus on our students and staff. There are no do-overs in education.

For anyone interested in running in the Nov. '22 election, I am happy to provide my insight.