Clothing and Recycling Drive

Greetings to PTO, Gorman Ft. Banks Recycling Committee and other interested parties, 

These flyers (clothing drive and recycling) announce recycling drives taking place in the next couple of weeks to benefit the Gorman Ft. Banks School PTO.   Two clothing drives including one that is a combination of clothing, cans, bottles and other collections are outlined in these documents.  FYI, the Middle School PTO is also holding their annual clothing drive at the polls on election day, November 2.    

Please help to get the word out by passing along these flyers via email and hard copy.  Also, please consider printing these and posting them in yours or your friends' businesses, or just around town.  A good turnout will be the result of good networking and will result in more revenue for our schools.  

Additionally, we're asking that you reach out to a couple of businesses or venues to coordinate your own arrangements for delivery of cans, bottles, clothes, cartridges et al, to the Saturday, Nov 6th  drive.  If we each take a few establishments, we can get more folks involved and ultimately raise more money. 

Here is a suggestion:  Think recycling whenever you are out and about doing errands, whether its official business at town hall, shopping, grabbing coffee or sitting down for dinner somewhere.  Contacting restaurants, yacht clubs, bars, banks, church groups and any other private or public entities are all good venues.  FYI, I've already spoken to Nick's Pizza and will get to Crest Ave Pizza, both of these businesses routinely support our recycling efforts.  

Here is an interesting note- Christine Bernstein was at Citizens Bank today speaking to a bank representative on behalf of our schools.  While the bank employee wasn't able to provide any traditional business donations, she did support us with an offer to give us the bank's ink cartridges as well as some volunteers to help at our Saturday drive.  Bravo Christine!   Building rapport with local businesses will help in future endeavors like this.  

Last item - we need volunteers to help Friday morning Nov 5th at the Gorman and Saturday, Nov 6th at Woodside Hardware.  Please see flyers for times and let one us know if you are available.    

Feel free to respond with any feedback and thanks in advance to all you green-minded parents and teachers! 

Sincerely, 

Georgeane Coleman

Cindy Silva 

(co- chairs, Gorman Fort Banks Recycling Committee)