The Agenda
for the cancelled meeting was to be:
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Fundraising for Next Year |
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Board of Education Reps |
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Cultural Arts |
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Family Nights |
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Reflections |
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Book Fair |
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Plant |
As for my
report:
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On
Dec 10th we received a mini-grant application from Mrs. Caivano in
the
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Instead of waiting till February for this request, let’s try
something new - an electronic vote on this item.
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I'm recommending that we approve this mini grant request, and would
like you to respond via email with a positive or negative vote.
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I'm
happy to report that we collected 185 pairs of shoes, 165 of which went to
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A
picture of a few L/R students holding the shoe chain, along with a brief
description of our program, was sent to the Roxbury Register, the Daily
Record and N-Geo Kids, hopefully one or all will publish.
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A
big THANK YOU to Debra Ward, Coordinator of Roxbury Clean Communities who
provided us the funds (approx $250) to ship the 9 boxes of shoes. We'd
like to keep this program going at L/R for next year and the future.
Maybe we can even expand it with RCC's help to other schools in the
district. Joanne and I will work on this.
Committee
Reports:
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2008-09
Fundraising: Kathy Schwab put together a 4 person committee that is currently
looking at possibilities for fundraising for next year. They will bring
their ideas to a future meeting so that we can discuss and make a
decision.
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Cultural
Arts: The next program is scheduled for March 4th and they are working on
trying to bring in a rocket program. Information will follow if/when
it gets scheduled.
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Family
Nights: the next family night is scheduled for Friday, Feb 15th at 7:00
pm. It's a hot chocolate/baked good social. Volunteers are being
called to make goodies and to help serve that evening. Yolanda is also
looking into sharing the Aspen Ice night with
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Reflections:
Please see your Jan/Feb newsletter for the names of L/R students who are going
onto NJ state judging.
According to Evelyn, out of 1040
Evelyn also wanted to pass on her sincere "THANK YOUs" to Mr.
Curtis and Mr. Deery - "the impact of Mr. Curtis asking all students to
consider the topic cannot be overstated! I know Mr. Curtis took some
heat from parents, but if one child saw a way to make a difference that he
didn't see before, or one person learns something from the display of the
childrens' works, consider the long term impact - and the "heat"
should be well worth it."
Also, a big thanks to the ladies in the office for all
their efforts, especially during the last week of the program deadline.
The display at L/R is up – thanks to Helen Kilgore, Debbie Steckler and Rakhi
Mandal. It will remain for many months
since there is SO much to see.
The display at Ledgewood Mall is going up on Monday, March 10th thru
Friday, April 4th. Lots of
volunteers will be needed. There will be
a “performance night” (date tbd) where film/video,
choreography and musical compositions will be shown on a big screen or played
on the loudspeakers.
If anyone has connections with
The district-wide ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, April 30th
at
NJ State winners will be announced in late March.
Next year’s theme is “WOW”
We’re going to be over budget this year since over 350 snack certificates were
distributed at $.75 each.
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Book
Fair: February 11th – 15th, with Family Night on the last
night with the store open. All proceeds
for this sale go to buying books for the library, books for the teacher’s
classrooms and for the summer reading program.
This is not the “buy-one-get-one” sale.
That will happen in the spring.
If anyone has any large urns that don’t smell like
coffee that we could use for hot water for the Family Night, please call Donna
or Yolanda. All the ones that the PTA
owns have only been used for coffee, and smell like it!
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Plant
Open Items:
I’m checking with Jill Grady to see if she can present at either our February
or March meetings. I will ask the office
to send out a mass email with her rescheduled date.