Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Open Officer Positions

The positions of President, Treasurer and Secretary will be open at the end of the school year. President and Secretary are two year positions. Regina Longenhagen, current treasurer, will be stepping down at the end of this year so the position will only be one year. Elections will take place in the spring. If you are interested in running for 0ne of these positions please contact a HART officer.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

December 2009 Newsletter

Reminders of upcoming events:
December 10 – Pajama Day
December 11 - RIF Book Distribution
December 15 – Scrip Sale Order Distribution
December 23 – Red and Green Day
December 24-January 3 – No School
January 5 – HART Meeting 6:30 p.m. Elementary Library
January 20 – Spring Fundraiser Kickoff

Students may purchase bottles of water at lunch for an extra $.50. The water does not take the place of milk.

HART donated four t-shirts to the district’s Angel Network.

The spring fundraiser kickoff will be January 20, 2010. We will be selling Gertrude Hawk candy and t-shirt and gift items from Uncle Jerry’s.

Please join us on January 5th at 6:30 p.m. for our next HART meeting.

H.A.R.T. officers for this year are:
President – Laurie Morris - 799-0272 or lon24@msn.com
Vice President – Karen Wojtowicz – 799-5720 or klwojtowicz@yahoo.com
Secretary – Stephanie Mayernick - 356-2411 or catz1117@yahoo.com
Treasurer – Regina Longenhagen - 356-2283 or mrmml@ptd.net

Stephanie Mayernick, HART Secretary

December 2009 Meeting Minutes

President Laurie Morris brought the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m.

In attendance were: Officers: President-Laurie Morris, Vice-President-Karen Wojtowicz, Secretary-Stephanie Mayernick and Treasurer-Regina Longenhagen, Advisor-Mr. Shirvinski, Teacher Rep.-Sue Stone and Erin Snyder and Parents: Diane Wolfgang, Eric Adams, Brenda Cook, Kim Levan, Sue Griscavage, Cheryl Roadarmel, Gloria Seroskie, Diane Mack, Salena Sabo, Sue Kuijpers, and Amy Billig.

November’s minutes were approved by a motion from Kim Levan and second by Diane Mack.

Regina Longenahgen, H.A.R.T.’s treasurer, gave the treasurers report for November. The treasurer’s report was approved by a motion from Sue Griscavage and a second by Salena Sabo. The class funds are as follows:
Kindergarten $100.00 1st grade $1,097.99 2nd grade $559.32
3rd grade $2,765.63 4th grade $614.54

December 10 – Pajama Day
December 11 – RIF Day
December 23 – Red and Green Day
December 24 – January 3 – No School
January 5 – HART meeting 6:30 p.m. elementary library

The speaker for the night was principal, Joe Shirvinski. He spoke about the school’s new spelling and phonics program.

The Book Fair made $6234.72 by taking all of our profit as Scholastic dollars plus another $1396.94 in sales volume bonus. Of the profit $4120.27 was used by offering the 25% discount and $180.86 was used by the library. The remaining balance of $3330.00 will be used to buy items for the school from the Scholastic catalog. The fall book fair supplies the library and guided reading room with books and the spring book fair supplies books to classroom libraries.

A parent warned of a Judy Bloom book that is not appropriate for elementary reading. Judy Bloom is a famous children’s book author.

The winter RIF Day is December 11 from 8 am – 2 pm. The spring RIF Day will have an assembly entitled Weird, Wild and Wonderful by the Box of Light Theatre about storytelling. The cost of the assembly is $650/day and will be for two assemblies. A check for 50% deposit was signed.

Pajama day is December 10. Parents signed up to be helpers. The schedule is 8:30-9 second grade, 9-9:30 first grade, 9:30-10 fourth grade, 10-10:30 kindergarten, and 10:30-11 third grade. High school students will be guest readers and all students will be treated to milk and cookies.

Mr. Shirvinski handed out flyers to anyone interested in a program sponsored by Geisinger regarding childhood obesity. Extra ROAR t-shirts are being sold for $7.00 each. Water is being sold in the cafeteria for an extra $.50. It does not take the place of milk. Mrs. Holleran will be presenting two new food samples at the next lunch bunch meeting.

Dana Lucas will be the guest speaker at the Jan 5, 2010 HART meeting. She will speak about grants.
HART donated four t-shirts to the Angel Network. Movie night is scheduled for Feb 19, 2010 from 7-9 p.m. We will be showing Up. Popcorn and water will be available. Admission to the movie will be a non-expired canned good.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:07 p.m. by Diane Mack and Sue Griscavage.