School notes: CHS Moped to Memphis

Clover High plans Moped to Memphis pageants

The annual Moped to Memphis Womanless Beauty Pageant and Children’s Little Miss Moped Pageant for St. Jude Children’s Hospital will be March 14 at the Blue Eagle Academy.

The children’s pageant will be at 9:45 a.m. and the womanless pageant will at 7 p.m. Moped to Memphis is an organization started in 2008 by Frank Falls, an economics teacher at Clover High School.

Falls challenged his students to raise money for an organization of their choice, and they overwhelmingly chose St. Jude. Moped to Memphis raises money by selling T-shirts, setting up at craft shows and festivals, hosting a themed second-chance prom for adults, getting local sponsors, doing a Shoot for the Loot contest during the High School basketball games and by holding the annual Miss Moped Womanless Pageant.

Moped to Memphis delivers a check for all the money raised each year to St. Jude in Memphis Tennessee, by driving a moped donated by Carolina Fun Machines from Clover during spring break.

Year to date, Moped to Memphis has raised $304,000 with a goal of $1 million by 2020.

The Womanless Pageant is a family event in which male contestants dress at women and compete in a variety of ways including evening gown, talent, and question and answer portions. All of the contestants represent different facets of the community, including: high school students, teachers, administrators, government employees, coaches, fire and rescue and business owners. There is also a silent auction.

The Children’s Little Miss Moped Pageant is for ages newborn to age 18, who compete for the title of Moped to Memphis Ambassadors.

Tickets are $7 in advance and $8 at the door. For information, find the group on Facebook or email Frank Falls at Frank.Falls@clover.k12.sc.us.

Master gardeners offer scholarship

April 3 is the application deadline for the Lannie Love Educational Scholarship, from the Master Gardeners of York County.

The application for the $500 scholarship is open to any senior graduating from high school in York, Chester or Lancaster counties, who intends to pursue higher education in any of the following or related fields: horticulture, agriculture, landscape design, turf management, botany, greenhouse management or land management.

The application form is available in PDF form only and may be downloaded at york.mg.org/scholarship.

The scholarship is in honor of the late Lannie Love of Clover, a retired educator, avid gardener and former president of MGYC.

Questions regarding the scholarship should be directed to Jed Bryan, chairman of the YCMG Scholarship Committee, at jedbryan64@yahoo.com or 803-327-2281.

Choraliers plan spring show

Members of the Clover High School Choraliers will present their spring show, “The Music Man,” at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 and Saturday, May 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $7 each.

The box office in the lobby of the Clover School District Auditorium opens for ticket sales from 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 23 and 24 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 25, and will be open two hours before each show time. There is usually a long line at the box office, but tickets can be obtained in advance for those who join the CHS choral Booster Club.

For more information, email the Choraliers at choraliers@gmail.com or visit www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/1604.

This story was originally published March 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM with the headline "School notes: CHS Moped to Memphis."