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FALL FESTIVAL! Friday, October 22 · 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. In the gym, the cafeteria and out on the playground (weather permitting!) Games · Cake Walk · Haunted Hallway · Silent Auction · Chili Supper · Pie the Principal!

Hi Cougar families! I'm Shelly Vandenberg, this year's Fall Festival chairman (mom of a 4th grader and a 1st grader). Our PTA President asked me to put the Festival information on the Internet this year, since so many of you have computers at home now and the paper flyers tend to end up in the bottom of the backpack under a banana. Please check back here, I'll update the volunteer list every few days. This year's goal is $4,500 for new playground equipment to replace the old metal slide (you know the one, it's been hot enough to fry an egg on since about 1975). Last year's Festival raised $3,812 and bought six new computers for the computer lab, so we know you can do it!

Tickets Tickets are 25 cents each or 5 for $1. Most games are 1 or 2 tickets. Unlimited game wristbands are $8 at the door or $6 pre-sale. The pre-sale order form is coming home in the Tuesday folders on Oct. 5. Wristbands do not include food, the cake walk or the silent auction. Chili supper in the cafeteria from 5:30 to 7:30, served by the PTA Dads: chili or a hot dog, chips, a drink and a cookie, $3 for grown-ups and $2 for kids.

The Booths Each grade runs a booth. Room parents, your teachers have the details! Booth Where Run by Fish Pond Gym Kindergarten Ring Toss (pop bottles) Gym 1st grade Face Painting Art room 2nd grade Bean Bag Toss & Duck Pond Gym 3rd grade Cougar Jail (send a friend for 1 ticket, bail is 2!) Front hall 4th grade Haunted Hallway 5th grade hall 5th grade Cake Walk Music room PTA Bingo Cafeteria, after supper PTA Silent Auction Library PTA Popcorn & Sno-Cones Outside the gym Teachers! About the Haunted Hallway: From 5:30 to 6:30 the lights stay ON and it's "not-so-spooky" for our littlest Cougars. After 6:30 the 5th graders turn the lights off and do their worst. Mrs. Pelletier has approved every scare, so nothing too gross, promise. PIE THE PRINCIPAL! The classroom that sells the most pre-sale tickets gets to pick one student to hit Mr. Hadley with a whipped cream pie at 8:00 in the gym. He says he's been practicing ducking. Silent Auction: every classroom is putting together a theme basket (so far we have a movie night basket, a Beanie Babies basket, a car care basket and a "teacher for a day" basket from Mrs. Ortiz). Local businesses are also donating. Bidding closes at 8:00 sharp!

HELP WANTED!! We need grown-ups to work one-hour shifts: 5:30, 6:30 and 7:30. Work one shift and you still have two to enjoy the Festival with your kids! E-mail me with the booth and the shift you want. Still needed as of Thursday: Cake Walk: 2 people at 6:30, 2 at 7:30 Bingo callers: 1 at 6:30, 2 at 7:30 (you need a loud voice) Ticket table: 3 at 5:30 (the busiest shift!) Chili supper servers: 2 at 5:30 Clean-up crew after 8:30: as many as possible. Many hands! Donations needed: Cakes! We need 60 for the cake walk. Homemade or store-bought, cupcakes too. Drop off in the music room Friday after 3:00. Empty 2-liter pop bottles for the ring toss (rinsed, please). Small prizes: pencils, erasers, stickers, bouncy balls, the stuff at the dollar store.

Other PTA News PTA meetings are the second Monday of the month at 7:00 in the library. Free babysitting in the kindergarten room! Next meetings: Monday, Oct. 11 (Festival final plans) and Monday, Nov. 8. Box Tops and soup labels: keep clipping! Send them in a baggie with your child's name and room number. The classroom with the most by Thanksgiving gets an extra recess. Right now Mrs. Koenig's 3rd grade is winning by a mile, I think somebody's grandma has a system. Reflections: the PTA arts contest is open to every grade (art, photography, writing, music). Entries are due to the office by Friday, Nov. 5. Forms are in the office. Poster contest winner: Congratulations to Madison in 2nd grade, whose Fall Festival poster (a cougar eating a sno-cone) is hanging in the front hall! 1999-2000 PTA Officers: President Lori Esterline, Vice President Gina Tran, Secretary Pam Wiebe, Treasurer Kurt Halvorsen, Festival Chairman Shelly Vandenberg (me)

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