South Orange County residents can purchase low-cost, high-quality food options once a month at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church through its new partnership with Angel Food Ministries. A variety of predesigned boxes of healthy and nutritious food, ranging from the Signature Box including meats, dairy, vegetables, fruits and pasta, for a family of four for a [...]

By Ashley Short, Grade 11
Read more about Lemon Fest and view a photo gallery.
Read The Orange County Register article about Lemon Fest.
Lemon-Fest grew out of as discussion about the possibility of a talent show to raise funds to assist the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. I don’t think anyone knew how influential the event [...]

By Darla Magaña, Director of the Library and Media Center
Last week the St. Margaret’s community donated just under 5,000 books! Wow!
This is a great benefit to others as well as to the environment: Every one of the donated books will stay out of landfills and will be used for the greater good of our [...]

Soon after the Haiti Earthquake, the Lower School Student Council created a plan to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. The plan included a two-week strategy of selling lemonade during lunch, selling Valentine Grams for Valentine’s Day, T-shirt sales, and Friday bake sales after school. Proceeds have exceeded $4,000 to date.
To [...]

As part of an outreach program providing service and leadership opportunities, St. Margaret’s wrestling team members shared their wrestling expertise with local Middle School students through the San Juan Capistrano Boys & Girls Club. In February, led by Head Varsity Wrestling Coach Jason Leneau, 10 Upper School wrestling team members volunteered to instruct local boys [...]

“Lemon Aid,” St. Margaret’s relief effort for Haiti, is going strong in all divisions, with on-campus and off-campus bake sales, lemonade stands, and other events to earn funds to contribute to the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund.
A Preschool lemonade sale contributed $866, with an additional $470 from other on-campus and off-campus Lemon Aid effots. Recently, [...]

Project Angel Food is a nationwide, nonprofit food distribution program for all that provides quality food on a monthly basis to help supplement monthly grocery expenses. St. Margaret’s is becoming part of this ministry, with a first food distribution date of Saturday, February 27. This provides numerous ongoing volunteer opportunities that we need your help [...]

St. Margaret’s parent Margarita Solazzo is profiled in The Orange County Register for her dedicated service to Acres of Love, a rescue and care organization for children in South Africa who have been orphaned or abandoned as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Click here for the story.

We are all deeply concerned by the situation in Haiti, and many members of our community have asked how and what our St. Margaret’s Episcopal School community will do to support the vast and increasing needs of the Haitian people in this terrible tragedy.
In the urgency of the situation and massive failure of infrastructure, we’ve [...]

Disney recently unveiled a new program that provides a voucher for a free admission to one of the Disney theme parks (or a credit if you are an Annual Pass holder), when you perform a day of community service with a designated nonprofit organization. This concept goes hand-in-hand with our focus on service here at [...]