Gratefully Yours

I've let too much lapse since my last blog so now I'm going to overwhelm with news! First of all, in case you didn't read the minutes yet, at the auction meeting last Friday evening we found the new chair of our auction fundraiser -- Clara, Maggie B's mom. Yay, Clara!! She has at least two enthusiastic and savvy sidekicks -- Michele and Melissa, former PhMS parents, who ran the auction last year and are back to elevate to a new level again!

You now also know that Audrey, Charlotte's mom, is our new Solicitation chair, Kerry, Clare and Ben's mom, is the Children's Program chair and Janelle, Raine and Mica's mom, will be taking care of our auction booklet. Thank you so much for taking on these big ones!

Lots of great ideas came out of the meeting Friday and we all left feeling jazzed about the possibilities! Please come to the next one!!

Please put on your calendar another event that Clara is organizing -- a wine tasting at Magenta's. It will be Saturday, November 6th from 4:30 - 6:30. Clara did one last year and we hope to have an even bigger crowd this year!

We had a couple of very nice surprises today. Seeing our new gift list this morning Rory, Dhabih's dad, signed up to purchase a new world map for our classroom! Doni and I were ecstatic -- not having such a key material has been exasperating. Well, about an hour later, I see Alleck poring over the geography pictures and then suddenly he's at my chair holding South America in his hand -- the piece that's been missing from our world map!! He found it in the geography folders. Tomorrow the world map will be back in the classroom... complete. Thanks, Rory and Alleck!

Our recruitment committee is meeting tomorrow evening at Mel's home -- also Alleck's abode. It will start at 7:30pm. If you'd like to join us, we'd love it.

Thank you for your support. We are very gratefully yours,

Pauline