Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center

One of the things we love most about our Summer Enrichment Program is that kids learn by DOING.

This summer our students will work together to:
🧱 design structures
🧱 solve engineering challenges
🧱 practice teamwork
🧱 communicate ideas clearly
🧱 build, fail, rebuild, and try again

Lego are going to be a huge part of that learning this year.

And while we’ve gathered what we can, we still need more building materials to make these activities possible for all age groups.

If your family has extra Lego you’d be willing to donate, we would be incredibly grateful.

Even small donations help.

Please message us here on Facebook or email:
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Thank you for always helping us create meaningful experiences for our kids and community. ❤️

🌞 ¡Última llamada para algunos de nuestros espacios restantes de verano! 🌞

El Programa de Enriquecimiento de Verano de Pigeon comienza pronto y todavía tenemos algunos lugares disponibles.

Si su hijo necesita un verano con:
🧱 actividades divertidas y educativas
📚 apoyo académico
🎨 creatividad
🤝 comunidad
🌎 excursiones
💙 adultos que realmente se preocupan

…nos encantaría que formara parte de nuestro programa.

Comparta esta publicación con amigos, familia y vecinos. También pueden comunicarse directamente con nosotros para más información.

📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

¡Esperamos conocer a nuevas familias este verano!

Listen. We got the meats. 🔥🍔🌭

But this is COMMUNITY community.

So if you’ve got:
🥗 potato salad
🍉 watermelon
🍓 desserts
🫘 baked beans
🥤 drinks
🌽 cookout classics
🍰 that one thing your family always makes

…bring it on.

Juneteenth celebrations have long centered around shared meals, gathering together, and making space for joy in community.

Some of the earliest celebrations happened around picnic tables, church grounds, family reunions, and neighborhood cookouts.

That spirit still matters.

So come eat.
Come laugh.
Come sit awhile.
Bring your people.

🧱 “Fuimos Diseñados Para Importar.” 🧱

En Pigeon creemos que cada niño merece un verano lleno de aprendizaje, creatividad, comunidad y alegría.

Todavía tenemos algunos espacios disponibles para nuestro Programa de Enriquecimiento de Verano 2026. 🌞

Durante el verano, los estudiantes participarán en:
✨ proyectos de construcción e ingeniería
✨ lectura y escritura
✨ arte y actividades creativas
✨ juegos y trabajo en equipo
✨ excursiones y actividades al aire libre
✨ experiencias que fortalecen la confianza y la curiosidad

Estamos especialmente emocionados de conectar con más familias hispanohablantes este verano. 💙

📧 Para información o aplicaciones:
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

BREAKING NEWS:

PCMDC is now accepting:
🧱 Lego donations
🧱 Lego trades
🧱 Lego bartering
🧱 Lego emotional support
🧱 Possibly ancient Lego artifacts discovered under couches

Our Summer Enrichment Program children are preparing to become:
✨ bridge engineers
✨ architects
✨ communication experts
✨ tiny chaos goblins with structural integrity

…and we need MORE BRICKS.

Honestly, Lego prices are currently somewhere between:
“luxury good”
and
“small down payment on a vehicle.”

So if your family has extra Lego hanging around, we would LOVE to put them to good use this summer.

Message us on Facebook or email:
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Your old Lego bucket is somebody else’s future engineering breakthrough. ❤️

What is Juneteenth? ❤️

Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally informed that they were free.

The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed two years earlier.

That delay matters.

Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is still injustice, and that truth, liberation, and community have always traveled person to person, family to family, church to church.

Early Juneteenth celebrations were often small and intimate:
family gatherings,
church meals,
music,
prayer,
storytelling,
and shared food in safe spaces.

Today, Juneteenth has grown into a nationwide celebration of Black history, Black resilience, Black culture, and Black joy.

At PCMDC, we celebrate because history deserves to be remembered AND because joy belongs to us too.

✨ ¡Todavía tenemos algunos espacios disponibles para el Programa de Enriquecimiento de Verano 2026! ✨

Este verano en Pigeon estaremos construyendo, creando, leyendo, explorando, haciendo proyectos STEM, arte, excursiones, trabajo en equipo y mucho más. 🧱📚🌎💙

Nuestro programa incluye:
☀️ desayuno, almuerzo y merienda
☀️ actividades prácticas y creativas
☀️ excursiones
☀️ apoyo académico
☀️ amistades y comunidad
☀️ un ambiente seguro y lleno de cariño

Los espacios restantes son limitados y se llenan rápido.

📍 Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Si está interesado(a), por favor comuníquese con nosotros lo antes posible.
¡Nos encantaría tener a su familia con nosotros este verano!

PCMDC’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration is coming back Friday, June 19 from 11 AM–4 PM! ❤️🖤💚

We’re spending the day together with:
🔥 grilling
🎶 music
🎨 crafts
🎲 games
🍉 food
❤️ community

We’ll have burgers and hotdogs on the grill, and if you’ve got something you want to throw on the fire, bring it along!

This is a community-style gathering, so we’d also love for folks to bring a side dish, dessert, fruit, drinks, or something special to share.

Juneteenth celebrates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

For generations, Black families celebrated with church gatherings, cookouts, music, storytelling, games, and shared meals long before Juneteenth became a federal holiday.

So we’re honoring that tradition the best way we know how:
together.

Families, elders, neighbors, summer program students, alumni, and community members are all welcome.

Because what’s a celebration without your people?

🚨 LEGO SOS 🚨

Friends… we need your Lego. 😭🧱

Our 2026 Summer Enrichment Program curriculum is HEAVY on engineering, building, teamwork, communication, bridge design, problem-solving, and STEM projects this summer, and while we already have a decent Lego collection…

…it is NOWHERE near the amount we need for all these brilliant little builders.

So I am humbly asking:

👉 Are you spring cleaning?
👉 Cleaning out toy bins?
👉 Stepping on Legos at 2am and seeing the face of God?
👉 Do your kids have tubs they’ve outgrown?
👉 Did somebody leave you a rare Lego inheritance in their will?

WE WILL TAKE THEM. 😂

Big sets.
Tiny bricks.
Mixed tubs.
Random wheels.
Base plates.
Mini figures.
That weird mystery bucket that has lived in your closet since 2014.

We can use all of it.

Drop-offs can be arranged through Facebook Messenger or by emailing:

📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Help us build an incredible summer for our students one brick at a time. ❤️

SPRING CLEANING TIME = LEGO DONATION TIME 🧱✨

Okay friends, real talk:

Are you cleaning out closets?
Rotating toys?
Getting ready for summer?
Stepping on LEGO in the middle of the night and reconsidering all your life choices? 😭

WE NEED YOUR LEGO.

This summer’s Summer Enrichment Program curriculum is SUPER STEM-heavy and includes LEGO projects and engineering activities almost every single week.

And while we already have a decent LEGO collection… we absolutely do not have ENOUGH enough. Not for the number of students we serve and not for the giant ideas we’re trying to build this summer.

So if your children have outgrown their LEGO, if you have tubs collecting dust, random bins, partial sets, weird pieces, colorful bricks, wheels, people, ramps, or mystery bags of chaos… we want them ALL. 😂

Please drop donations off at:
📍 The Pigeon Center
450 Pigeon Street
Waynesville, NC

No sorting necessary.
No matching sets necessary.
We will happily take your beautiful little plastic floor hazards. 🫶🏽

Help us build a summer full of creativity, engineering, teamwork, and imagination for Haywood County youth.

Community first. Always.