Santa Claus Is Coming to Chester Community Charter School (CCCS) Kindergarten-through-First-Grade Students

Chester, PA, Dec. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At 9 a.m., on Wednesday, December 20, 2017, Santa Claus will hand-deliver gifts to students, in grades kindergarten through first, at Chester Community Charter School (CCCS), as part of the school’s annual “Santa Brigade.” The event will take place at CCCS’s East campus, 225 E. 5^th Street, in Chester, PA.

The Gureghian Foundation, founded by Vahan Gureghian, CEO of CSMI, the school’s management company, and his wife, Danielle, CSMI’s General Counsel, donated the funds that purchased this year’s gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Gureghian have donated more than $480,000 for Santa Brigade gifts, for the charter school’s students, since the program’s inception.

The Santa Brigade program was established to ensure that each CCCS student in the participating grades would receive a gift for the holiday, regardless of his or her family’s financial standing.

About Chester Community Charter School

Chester Community Charter School opened its doors on September 9, 1998, serving 97 students from its modest, four, meeting rooms, in the lobby of the Howard Johnson Hotel, in Chester, PA. Since that time, the school has steadily grown to include more than 4,200 students in 12 state-of-the-art-buildings, spanning four campuses. Through collaboration with the Gureghian Charitable Foundation, and CCCS' High School Search and Selection Program, more than $9.5 million in scholarships and financial assistance to prestigious private secondary schools has been awarded to 350 of the school's graduates, since 2016.

http://chestercommunitycharter.org

WHAT:                 Chester Community Charter School

                            2017 Santa Brigade

WHO:                   Principal: Jahnia Robinson

                             CEO: David Clark

                             Participants: K through 1^st grade students

                             Special Guest: Santa Claus

WHEN:                 Wednesday, December 20, 2017

                             9 a.m.

Where:                 Chester Community Charter School

                             East Campus, Building A

                             225 E. 5^th Street

                             Chester, PA 19013

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