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e-Bulletin October 20, 2008
Oct. 20, 2008 Monday
“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.” - Author: Elizabeth II
Things to do now! We are looking for volunteers to assist us in distributing the Sally Foster orders on Friday, October 24th. Most likely the order will arrive in the morning and it will take 1-2 hours to separate the boxes & delivery the orders to the classrooms depending on the number of volunteers. Call Jeanne Sacks (761-8474) or Shirley Phillips (759-9429) if you are interested in helping out. October 21-22 Rick Hartman Big Toys Assemblies 21 5th Grade Camp Info Night 6-7 PM 29 ASB elections 31 No School-Waiver Day
November 1-19 Sweatshirt Sale 3 Scrip Order Due 7 Coffee w/ the Principal 11 No School-Veterans Day 14 Chess Potluck 12-14 5th Grade Camp 17-21 ASB/PTA Food Drive 17 Scrip Order Due 18 PTA Meeting 20 Johnny Moses Assembly 1-3:30 24 Ram Takeover! 26 12:15 Release-Thanksgiving 27-28 No School-Thanksgiving
_____________________________________________________________ Visit our website for information and enrollment form for the after-school art program! _____________________________________________________________ Take part in Crime Prevention Month
The City of Tacoma is joining with the National Crime Prevention Council to observe Crime Prevention Month during October.
Crime prevention and safety takes a community to be successful; it is being aware that a crime can occur, anticipating how, when, where and who might be the victim, and taking action to reduce the chances of it happening. Crime prevention is using instinct, common sense, and action to eliminate or greatly reduce the criminal's opportunity.
As part of a citywide Safe and Clean initiative, the City would like to encourage you to join your community in the effort to reduce crime in Tacoma by 50 percent, within 14 months, and to clean up the city. The Tacoma City Council and city staff are working hard to make Tacoma safe, clean and attractive, and your contributions to the effort will make the difference.
You can get started now by:
Turning on your front porch light
Picking up litter around the block where you live
Together we can have safer and cleaner neighborhoods. Read more about the Safe and Clean effort and find out how to get involved at www.cityoftacoma.org/safeandclean or by calling 591-5130. For more information about National Crime Prevention Month, visit www.ncpc.org.
______________________________________________________________ Don't forget to sign up for electronic Cougar Tales _______________________________________________________________ OOPS…there’s some confusion about the scrip due dates. Unfortunately incorrect dates were printed on the “What is Scrip” form that some of you received. The correct scrip dates for the 2008-2009 school year are: October 13th, November 3rd and 17th, December 1st and 15th, January 12th, February 2nd and 23rd, March 16th, April 13th, May 4th and 18th, and June 8th. Questions?? Liz Walle ____________________________________________________________ For those who missed their copy of the Cougar Tales, you can now view it on our website http://www.wahoyt.org/page14/page14.html
Also, on the front page of the website you will find a "Volunteers Needed" section. If you'd like to get involved or are looking for a way to meet a few more folks at the school contact the Committee Chair listed, they can always use a few more helping hands. Go to www.wahoyt.org ______________________________________________________
David Greenberg is an ordinary twelve-year-old trying to fit in. He knows that his father, Jack, is a civil rights lawyer, but Duvy lives worlds away from Dorothy Milton, a black woman struggling to become a registered voter in Selma, Alabama. When Dorothy reaches out to Martin Luther King Jr. for help, she sets in motion a series of events that—with Jack Greenberg’s help—will open Duvy’s eyes to the reality of racial inequality and forever change the course of history. Blending facts, speeches, memories, and conjecture, this novel portrays the emotions and events surrounding the Selma-Montgomery Voting Rights March.
About the Author David T. Greenberg is the author of Slugs and many other books for children. He lives in Portland, Oregon. ___________________________________________________________
Deb Llewellyn
253-762-1494
washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com
For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org