Breaks my little heart...

I know that fate will bring me back to my hometown (that I left at 150 mph in 1995). It's stuff like this that reminds me of the importance of "where you are from":
Dear Butte Falls Alumni,
I am writing you today for your help. Your high school, my high school, needs you now more than ever. We all know that right now is not a real positive time in many lives, at home, at work and at school. Financially, people everywhere are just too strapped to make it. As far as our country goes, schools are not quite a priority. So many things have changed since we all went to school. Traditions that we had are no longer. Kids now days can’t even imagine the times that we had. To be quite honest, boys don’t dress up in cheerleading outfits anymore to put on pep assemblies (that is if we have cheerleaders), spirit week has no meaning, there is no initiation, juniors have no clue what to do at prom, they don’t know what prophecies and wills are about. To me this is very sad. Somewhere we forgot to teach our kids about spirit because the world beyond the cattle guards got to busy (you can’t even mention lighting the cattle guards on fire, that’s a felony now for goodness sake). It feels like some of our own history is being lost.I now have my own child in Butte Falls High School, along with some of my fellow classmate’s children, and have had the privilege of either coaching or helping them at school. As aides at the high school we reminisce about our own past. Of course, you understand I have to let all the kids know that “yes, we did take state in football! In ‘86” and that Fred was better than Chub” (just kidding).
For many years in Butte Falls, we have had the existence of a “Booster Club” filled with many volunteers who really did make a difference and made an impact on many of our own lives, my mother and father being two of them (Sherri and Neal Ellis). We seem to be hitting bottom. Many people are too busy to donate time anymore and as I said donating money, right now is not even an option for some of us. This is where you come in. There was a time when Butte Falls threw an annual Sports Awards Banquet, do you remember? And it was a big event. Last year the Mac Field Boosters brought it back. We are hoping to do the same this year on May 29th. The way I figure it is that if every one who receives this email donates just a little bit, we could throw these kids a great sports banquet and show them what spirit is all about.
-Angie Ellis