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Gorman Fort Banks School PTO 2010 Fall Fundraiser

The Gorman Fort Banks PTO is partnering with a program from Creative Fundraising Solutions
to raise much needed funds through the sale of Crazy About Cookies 2lb
Pail Gourmet Cookie Dough. Parents please support this fund raiser by helping
your student sell quality products from our brochure encouraging yourto friends,
family and your coworkers to purchase quality products from our brochure.
Teachers are welcome to join in the sale, too. Our success will depends upon
your participation-- we are hoping that each family will try to sell 10 or more
itemspails. We The PTO will earn 50% on the entire orderof all sales which will
be put towards enrichment, programming and other needs within the school!.

***Important Dates***

November 15, 2010-------Brochures will be sent home
November 15 - 29, 2010-------Sale will take place
November 29, 2010-------Return money and order forms
Week of December 13th------Expected delivery & distribution

Students will earn prizes for their participation through the Prizes - Extreme Prize
Program--Sell 1 item, get a prize. Sell 5, get 2 prizes. The more you students sell, the
more your childthey will receive in prizes.

Just a reminder:
Pre-Collect collect the moneyall payments for your orders as you sell. Make
money orders or checks payable to Gorman Fort Banks SchoolPTO. Cash
is accepted. Please enclose the correct amount of money in the envelope
provided. All money and order forms must be turned in on November 29, 2010.
We cannot extend the sale.

If you have any questions please feel free to call Shannon Girard at
781-979-2260.

Volunteers Needed on Tuesday, November 9

Help! We need volunteers for Tuesday morning November 9th from 8:30 am - 10 am to man the classrooms while there is a teacher training. Don't worry! The teachers will give you activities to do while they're away.
Please contact Carolyn Gagnon gagnon46[at symbol]comcast[dot symbol]net or leave your contact information in the comments and we'll be sure they get to her.

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) 

Library

Our library is volunteer-run. If you would like to volunteer or help with other school activities, please contact us with you name and e-mail in the comments.



Please click here to view the class library schedule.

Spooky Bingo is SOLD OUT!

We had an overwhelming response to our Spooky Bingo pre-sale. We are SOLD OUT! We will not be selling tickets at the door. We hope you understand and appreciate your overwhelming support.