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e-Bulletin Septmeber 21, 2009

Sep. 21, 2009 Monday
"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile." - William Cullen Bryant


NEEDED! Someone with a food handlers card to attend the Chocolate Pancake Breakfast on 10/11/09 9am to 11am.
You don't even need to work! Please call Shannon Rojecki at 761-2010 if you can help out!

Things to do Now!

Turn in your order form form for the Back To School Night dinner!
Check out the 3rd grade Math Club!
 
September

28      Scrip Order Due
28-2   Book Fair
29      Back to School Night 5:30 to 8:00 PM
 
October
 
5         Family Skate Night at Wheelz 6PM
6-8      School Conferences
7         National Walk To School Day
9         No School-Waiver Day
10        Pancake Breakfast at Washington-Hoyt~part of the Proctor Chocolate Festival!
19           Scrip Order Due

November
 
24         Ram Takeover (Tentative Date)



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Math Club registration reminder for 3rd graders
There is still time to register for the 3rd Grade Math Club, due to start on September 28th.  If you are interested in participating, please contact as soon as possible Teodora Minkova at (253) 761-0688 or tedi_m@hotmail.com.
Brief description of the club:
Time: Six one-hour classes after school on Mondays 3.45-4.45 pm, September 28-November 2
Place: Washington School Building (room to be determined)
Fee: $ 50
Instructor: Dr. Elly Claus-McGahan
Curriculum summary: Math Club consists of 2-3 activities at each meeting: problem solving for prizes from the problem solving book, a variety of games that reinforce or teach number sense, strategy, logic, probability, hands on activities that require drawing, coloring, manipulatives, paper-folding or cutting with scissors to explore symmetry, area, perimeter, geometric transformation, spatial thinking in 2 dimensions and 3 dimensions.  Each day is different and the activities chosen are based on interest and ability of the club members. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please turn in your ticket order form for the Back To School Night as soon as possible!
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October's Cougar Tales comes out Friday October 2. Have something to say? Email it to the editor at rose_ponnekanti@yahoo.com as a Word document by Wed. September 23. Kids - enter your submission for the new Kids' Page!
Rosemary Ponnekanti (rose_ponnekanti@yahoo.com)

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Fall Gardening News: Some of the Washington classes are about to head out to the garden for fall harvesting, weeding and cover crop planting. Volunteer parents would be really appreciated! You would be asked to attend for an hour during school time to help kids garden, then help garden coordinator Rosemary Ponnekanti in chopping and prepping veggies in the classroom. Please let your teacher know if you can do this. Gardening is great for kids!
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Some warnings from the community...

added 9/21-elderly ADT customers being approached by another company who indicated they purchased ADT.

"My neighbor was robbed while the Comcast guy was talking with her...... someone came in the back while she was talking to him out front.."

" there is a level 2 registered sex offender (Joshua Brewer) living at N 21st and Union :http://www.icrimewatch.net/results.php?AgencyID=54483&whichaddr=&SubmitAddrSearch=1&AddrStreet=3412+N+22nd+St&AddrCity=Tacoma&AddrState=48&AddrZip=98406&AddrZipPlus="


"I have been notified by a Click! Network representative that individuals posing as Comcast employees (sometimes presenting forged, or stolen employee badges) are approaching Tacoma residences, claiming  (falsely) that Comcast has purchased Click!, and that Click! Network subscribers need to hurry up and take advantage of a special offer not being advertised to switch to Comcast before the announcement, at a very special price. 
 Comcast has been working with Click! to try and track down these frauds.  Individuals who are tricked into this are never signed up with Comcast. 
 Please have victims in your areas contact Tacoma Police to make a police report, and the Click! representative listed below.  If residents have seen or talked with these crooks but haven’t given them any money, please have them call Diane Lachel, at Click! Network Community and Government Relations, 253-502-8900, Click! is interested in talking with them to gather as much information as possible about where these criminals are operating.Thank you. Lisa Copp"

"An African-American woman actually came to our door today and when we would not cooperate, she got a bit testy and rang our doorbell a ton so we’d know she was displeased, she then went two doors down and actually starting screaming at our neighbor when he told her no, and no, and NO, she gets aggravated if you do not participate, she was drinking from a solo cup, so the whole thing is weird, weird, weird."
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Remember that every Friday is free dress day!

Deb Llewellyn
253-762-1494
pie.alamode@yahoo.com
washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com
For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org
 




e-Bulletin September 16, 2009

Sep. 16, 2009 Wednesday
“Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force.. never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
Winston Churchill


This Friday, September 18th is the first sweatshirt order deadline, with these shirts being delivered in the first half of October. The next delivery will be very late in October or early November. Find the link to order sweatshirts on our PTA website, www.wahoyt.org. If you have any questions about sweatshirt orders, please call Danielle Nease at 752-8769.
 


The Sally Foster and Entertainment Book sale is on NOW! It is our biggest fund raiser of the year! Participate anyway you can!!! The sale ends September 21st...still a few days to raise funds!

~Important! You DO NOT need to collect tax on the Sally Foster or Entertainment Book sale!

 
 
Things to do Now!
 
~Check out the September Cougar Tales at  www.Wahoyt.org
~ Sell Sally Foster AND Entertainment Books to help support  the PTA!
~Order School Sweatshirts
 
 

September
 
2-      School Sweatshirt Sale-through November 16.
4-21   Sally Foster/Entertainment Book Fundraiser!
28      Scrip Order Due
28-2   Book Fair
29      Back to School Night 5:30 to 8:00 PM
 
 
 
October
 
5         Family Skate Night at Wheelz 6PM
6-8      School Conferences
7         National Walk To School Day
9         No School-Waiver Day

November
 
24         Ram Takeover (Tentative Date)
 
Remember that every Friday is free dress day!
 
Deb Llewellyn
253-762-1494
pie.alamode@yahoo.com
washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com
For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org

e-Bulletin September 7, 2009

Sep. 07, 2009 Monday
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole France, "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard" 

 
~If you are concerned about the large class sizes, please let the school board members and Superintendent Jarvis know right away. 
 
http://www.tacoma.k12.wa.us/information/schoolboard/Pages/Leadership.aspx
 
Superintendent Arthur O. Jarvis, Ed.D. Central Administration Building, P.O. Box 1357, Tacoma, WA 98401-1357, 253.571.1000

~ Important! You DO NOT need to collect tax on the Sally Foster or Entertainment Book sale!

Things to do Now!
 
~Check out the September Cougar Tales at Wahoyt.org
~ Sell Sally Foster AND Entertainment Books to help support  the PTA!
~Order School Sweatshirts
 

September
 
2-      School Sweatshirt Sale-through November 16.
4-21   Sally Foster/Entertainment Book Fundraiser!
14      1st PTA Meeting 7PM
28      Scrip Order Due
28-2   Book Fair
29      Back to School Night 5:30 to 8:00
 
October
 
5         Family Skate Night at Wheelz 6PM
6-8      School Conferences
7         National Walk To School Day
9         No School-Waiver Day

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Those of us who live in the Proctor neighborhood have probably seen the results of the catastrophic house fire that took place on July 30th.  The Lysons had lived in the house at 1902 N. Proctor for 15 years.  The house and almost all its contents were destroyed.  Carl and Carolyn and their 11 year-old son, Andreas, are living with Carolyn's parents while they figure out their next move.  

An account has been set up in their name through the Proctor Farmers' Market at Rainier Pacific Bank.  All donations will be provided to the Lysons to help them buy the basic supplies they need.  If you would like to make a donation, please make it to:  "The Proctor Farmers' Market--Lyson Fire Fund."
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Remember that every Friday is free dress day!
 
 
 Deb Llewellyn
253-762-1494
pie.alamode@yahoo.com
washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com
For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org
 




e-Bulletin September 2, 2009

Sep. 02, 2009 Wednesday
Welcom back to Wa-Hoyt. I am excited to be managing the ebulletin this year. If you have anything you would like added I can do that for you! (if it is appropriate).
Email me at WashingtonHoytpta@hotmail.com. Thanks...DEB
 
“The school looks very good. The uniforms are a good thing. It will be easy for my wife. She won't have to fight about clothes." -  Benjamin Franklin
 

Things to do Now!
 
~Check out the September Cougar Tales at Wahoyt.org
~Look out for info on our biggest fundraiser of the year!
~Order School Sweatshirts
 
September
 
2-      School Sweatshirt Sale-through November 16.
4-21   Sally Foster/Entertainment Book Fundraiser!
7       No School-Labor Day
14      1st PTA Meeting 7PM
28      Scrip Order Due
28-2   Book Fair
29      Back to School Night 5:30 to 8:00
 
October
 
5         Family Skate Night at Wheelz 6PM
6-8      School Conferences
7         National Walk To School Day
9         No School-Waiver Day
 
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Those of us who live in the Proctor neighborhood have probably seen the results of the catastrophic house fire that took place on July 30th.  The Lysons had lived in the house at 1902 N. Proctor for 15 years.  The house and almost all its contents were destroyed.  Carl and Carolyn and their 11 year-old son, Andreas, are living with Carolyn's parents while they figure out their next move.  

An account has been set up in their name through the Proctor Farmers' Market at Rainier Pacific Bank.  All donations will be provided to the Lysons to help them buy the basic supplies they need.  If you would like to make a donation, please make it to:  "The Proctor Farmers' Market--Lyson Fire Fund."
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Remember that every Friday is free dress day!
 
 
 
Deb Llewellyn
253-762-1494
pie.alamode@yahoo.com
washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com
For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org