My dearest PTA members,
Thank you so much for a fantastic year! As a board we want to express our appreciation for all the volunteer hours and donations of your food, your time, and your talents. We have had a very successful year and we simply could not do it without your support. We have made some major accomplishments this year so we would like to thank, again, those that made this year so wonderful!
Beverly Serynek and Vanessa Schmidt did a fantastic job with our Storytelling Festival. They spent countless hours collecting donations for our baskets and organizing the event. Because of their amazing efforts we were able to raise the money that became our operating budget for the year. These two ladies pulled double duty this year and made the food portions of our SEPs and teacher appreciation gourmet events. The teachers were wowed and loved it. Thank you.
Thank you to all our storytelling festival people who volunteered by assembling baskets, running the food booth, picking up supplies, and all other tasks associated with making the event a resounding success.
We are grateful for our amazing Emy Porter, who was the Scholastic book fair chairperson and ran three very successful events. Her flexibility with the veggie project rewards book fair was much appreciated and contributed to helping all our kids redeem their tokens for books and the many, many erasers that the children earned. We would also like to thank all the parent volunteers that staffed each book fair.
Thank you to Michelle Charles for running our Spaghetti dinner giveaway with our red ribbon week celebration. So many families benefitted from this program by having many meaningful and fun conversations at dinner. Thanks for making that a great experience.
A very special thank you goes out to Amanda Edwards who was our room mom chairperson. She was essential to making sure our room moms had the direction our room moms needed to assist our teachers in making learning fun for our kids.
We are so appreciative of our fabulous room moms who spent time in the classrooms, at home, and on the phone organizing our holiday parties and other events. You did such an amazing job making our teachers feel supported and valued. Thank you.
A big thanks goes out to Heidi Maloy who helped with the presentation of the gift portion of teacher appreciation. Her vision made this a spectacular display. You had no idea what you signed up for, huh?!
Thank you to Heidi Maloy and Shannon Flippen for help with the "PTA is Sweet" theme idea and prints. Your genius helped us win the outstanding Membership campaign award.
Thank you to all our Veggie Project volunteers. Your assistance in collecting data was essential to the success we enjoyed from the project. Because of your time and efforts, the children earned over $1,000 in free books from BYU and hundreds of scholastic dollars in books from the PTA. Each time we collected data the PTA earned $25 for a grand total of $700.
We want to Thank Kepi Heimuli for running our All Pro Dads program this entire year. The dads enjoyed spending time with their kids and were able to benefit from guest speakers like firemen, policemen, EMTs, dentists, dads, and even our mayor. We know the kids and their dads loved these breakfasts and looked forward to them all month long.
Thank you to Chantelle Elmer who donated over a dozen board games to our board game drive. Her games have given our children something to do for the many indoor recess days to come for years.
A very warm thank you to my husband, Keeth Ward, who's daily encouragement and support made me feel like this year was possible and worth every second.
There are so many to thank and though you might not be mentioned by name we are aware of your efforts and give you many thanks.
Have a fantastic summer and we look forward to working with you again next year!
Sincerely,
Heidi Ward
PTA President 2012-2013