Patsy Bailey

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH:

I live in the Rosa Parks Elementary School District. The photo that I have reflects Middie Pride as we are a group of us, women, local women, from a local church in area churches, and we prepare peanut butter and jelly sandwiches twice a week for the Middletown Middies’ football team. That is displaying Middie Pride for me. 

The football team members enjoy the sandwiches and the chocolate milk weekly. And I don't have to bother and take them in there. When I pull up or if someone else is delivering, we pop the truck open and they automatically come and pick up their sandwiches. 

All three of us were born and raised through Middletown City School District; our children have gone through Middletown City School District; and some of our children have come back after graduating high school and college and worked here and are working here within the Middletown City School District and Middletown city as well. 

This story here is basically just the joy that we have. Even after we've prepared the sandwiches, we're still not eager to go home. We're just sitting there enjoying each other's company. It is a ministry.