This is a reminder that Mother’s Day is coming up in a few months, and a good gift is flowers. That’s why Windham High School’s Project Graduation for the Class of 2025 has got you covered with their Mother’s Day Flower Sale that is now open runs through April 12.
Options include a 12-inch Hanging Flower Basket that comes in a variety of colors from Blue Ridge to Summer Sparkler, a Daisy Tub that comes in a 10-inch Pantera pot of three Sassy Rose Pink or Beauty Yellow daisy plants that grow in a mounded shape, and a Thunbergia on a Trellis that comes as a two-gallon pot with an orange, yellow, or white thunbergia coupled with a bamboo trellis for the vines to climb.
It is a first-come first-serve event for pick-up in terms of how colors go, so show up early if the plant must match your Mum’s other décor. Flower pick-up will take place at Petals Farm and Garden in Windham from May 8 to May 10. The flower options are $35 each and 100 percent of the proceeds goes to WHS Project Graduation.
The flower sale will be the final of many fundraising events held this year for Project Graduation Class of 2025.
With a goal to raise $40,000 to go toward hosting a fun and safe graduation evening for roughly 260 graduating seniors, parents have been holding meetings, planning the evening, and organizing fundraising events since April 2024.
According to Robyn Campbell, President of the WHS Project Graduation Committee, they have just about reached their goal.
For those that are unfamiliar, Project Graduation is not affiliated with the high school but is a group of parents of graduating seniors who volunteer to form a non-profit and all earnings go toward hosting a fun and safe graduation evening. Over the school year, surveys are sent out to the graduating seniors to get a better idea of what they want to do, what activities they would take part in, and what type of prizes they would like to receive.
On the day of graduation, students and parents will meet at Windham High School at 6 p.m. About four buses will take the group out for an all-night long event with dancing, prizes and fun.
The graduates will receive a bag to bring a small handful of items such as their phone, sweatshirt and a water bottle. Everything else will be provided.
“The goal is to keep everyone together, have a fun time, hangout as a group for one last time, and make it a really special, safe night,” says Lyndsay Stretch, the Treasurer of 2025 WHS Project Graduation.
Most fundraising events are held in the fall. The project’s biggest fundraiser was the Golf Tournament held at Point Sebago that raised about $21,000. In addition, they also sell Mum flowers each year from Cozy Acres, sell raffles at football and basketball games, work at the Snack Shack at the Gambo soccer fields, conducted a bottle drive, and had a pie sale at the Windham Craft Fair in November.
Project Graduation meetings are about once a month during the spring and summer. Their busiest season is fall and that’s when they meet bi-weekly to make sure everyone is on board with the plans, volunteers are coordinated, events are put together and the checklist has been gone over.
The parents volunteer to chair a fundraiser event. If there’s no volunteers, it usually falls on a board member such as Stretch or Campbell.
“It’s a lot of work for parents,” says Stretch. “Like many things there’s only a handful of people that help out, but many parents who can’t offer time will give donations for prizes and the project and its great. It’s a lot of work, but it’s all worth it to make a safe night for our kids.”
Stretch says her oldest son is graduating this year, making this her first year working on Project Graduation. She also has a daughter in eighth grade, and her youngest son is in sixth grade.
Campbell says her oldest son graduated in the Class of 2022 and her youngest will be graduating this year. Stretch said that Campbell’s experience from working on Project Graduation in 2022 has made her the perfect leader for this year’s planning.
The mission of Project Graduation is to keep kids safe on the night of graduation.
There is a binder that gets passed down from each class onto the next. The next committee meeting that will be held on the first weekend of April will meet with the class of 2026 parents to start planning their own Project Graduation for the next year. <
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