Can you help with the Teacher Appreciation Luncheon?

On Wednesday, May 2nd at 2:40 pm, during Teacher Appreciation Week (May 1-4 ), the PTA will host our annual Teacher Appreciation Luncheon in the Clinton School Library. Would you be willing to help by preparing a dish or donating money for supplies?

If you can bring a dish, please contact Patty O’Connell or Janet Trzaska and let us know what you will be bringing. All kinds of dishes are welcome, from appetizers to desserts to beverages. Monetary donations can be sent to school in care of the PTA. Please mark “for teacher luncheon.”

When you reply, please be sure to give us your email address so we can contact you about delivery instructions for that day. Also, let us know if you are free to volunteer to help set up and clean up the lunch that day (from approximately 1:30 until 4:30). Thanks in advance for your help!

Hello, Clinton Families,

If you plan to attend our hugely popular International Dinner next Thursday, April 26 at 6 pm in the cafeteria, PLEASE send in your pink RSVP form BY FRIDAY! We need to know how many people are coming and what delicious dishes you are bringing!

If you are a 4th grade parent who will be attending our Artist-in-Residence show (Remixing the Curriculum) on Friday, the 16th at 9am, would you be willing to use your camera to videotape the show and provide us with a few copies on DVD?

As part of our final report to the New Jersey Council for the Arts we have to document the residency and the culminating performance.

If you can do this, please contact Cecelia Cancellaro.

Thanks!

Parents -

Clinton Student Theatre desperately needs parent volunteers for the following:

Front of House duties. You can volunteer at one, two or all performances. Performance dates/times are Friday 3/23 7PM, Saturday 3/24 11AM and 3PM.

Cast Party help after the final show on Saturday 3/24.

If you can join us, or have questions about the duties involved, please email Kris Stringer or call her at 973-313-1970.

Thanks!

We are getting very close to our 9th Annual Tricky Tray and Auction. Reservation forms will be going home early this week and will also be posted on our website.

Please keep the prizes coming. We have many great ones, but need more!

We are also in the process of putting together our very popular Live Auction Dinner Party prizes. Would you be interested in hosting one this year? These dinners raise a good deal of money for Clinton School and they are always incredibly fun.

Here is how it works: You come up with a dinner idea, tell us the number of guests you can have, choose a date, and write up a description. We will then auction off seats to your dinner party during our Live Auction.

If you are willing to host a dinner, please contact Cecelia Cancellaro at ccancellaro@verizon.net as soon as possible. We are pasting in some descriptions of past years’ dinners below to give you a sense of what they entail.

We would like to have our list of dinners finalized by January 17th, so please get in touch soon.

Here is a list of last year’s amazing dinner parties:

Dinner Party #1: A Fabulous Italian Feast on Saturday. Hosted by Jackie LaFalce Lahey and Scott Lahey, this authentic Old-World dinner featuring a menu based on Grandma’s mouthwatering recipes, will include an antipasto platter, meatballs and sausage, pasta, and Italian pastries, with accompanying wines. Salud! 10 guests (must be at least 21 years old). Opening bid: $25 per seat

Dinner Party #2: North Carolina Style Barbecue Feast Hosted by the Janay family, Owners of “Woody’s Pig Roasts”, this North Carolina style barbecue feast will celebrate the great culinary offerings of the Old North State. Menu items include pulled pork, baby back ribs, beef brisket, and chicken, along with traditional barbecue sides. Come hungry and be ready to take home leftovers. 8 guests (adults only). Opening bid: $25 per seat

Dinner Party #3: An Elegant Cocktail Party, Saturday, hosted by Principal Patty O’Neill and Leah Gomberg. Wear cocktail attire to this elegant affair which will take place at the home of Leah and David Gomberg. Gourmet hors d’oeuvres and delectable desserts will be paired with wines chosen by Clinton parent and sommelier Scott Lahey. Tunes will be spun by Clinton parent and DJ Jeremy Moss. 10 guests (adults only). Opening bid: $25 per seat

Dinner Party #4: Traditional Seven-Fish Italian Christmas Eve-Style Dinner. Join Liz and Don Salituri at their home for an amazing menu of Italian holiday dishes, including cold seafood salad, mussels in garlic white wine sauce, clams oreganata, shrimp scampi, cod mariechara, and grilled salmon. And wine of course. 10 Guests (adults only). Opening Bid: $25 per seat

Dinner Party #5: Traditional Puerto Rican Dinner, hosted by Rose Rios and Bob Leto. Puerto Rican cuisine is similar to both Spanish, Cuban and Mexican cuisine, but with a unique tasty blend of Spanish, African, Taíno, and American influences. Come enjoy the labors of a true “cocina criolla” in Maplewood. Menu includes tasty appetizers of empanadas made of garlic and lime infused chicken as well as seared tuna on plantains with a micro cilantro salad and chipotle vinaigrette. Main course will consist of seafood paella and a traditional “lechon” (whole pig). Side dishes will include sweet plantains, and white rice with home grown pigeon peas straight from my uncle’s back yard in Puerto Rico. Avocado and “yuatia” salad with olive oil and caper dressing will also be served. Dessert will be a real island delight of caramel flan and guava bread pudding. We’ll also have a sangria fountain. (My white passion fruit sangria recipe is four generations old and is only handed down from mother to daughter!) Buen Provecho! 10 guests (adults only) Opening bid: $25 per seat

Dinner Party #6: A Belizean Dinner. Bring your appetite to the home of Rosanna and Dermal McCrear and enjoy the delicious cuisine of Belize. Menu items include panades, garanaces, relleno, ducunu, potato pone, coconut tart and Belikin Beer directly from Belize. 8 guests (adults only) Opening bid: $25 per seat

Dear Parents,

I’m sure you remember our spectacular Clinton Student Theatre program from last year and probably still have your copy. It took the efforts of not only our amazingly talented graphics team, but also our extremely dedicated advertising volunteers who went out to the community and asked local merchants and businesses to purchase ads so that we had the funds to produce such a wonderful keepsake program.

Maria Peralta is heading up the advertising group again this year and she is looking for volunteers who can help recruit advertisers for this year’s program. She is scheduling a planning meeting within the next week for all those who are interested in this worthwhile endeavor, so if you would like to join her, please get in touch with her as soon as possible at marluper1@gmail.com.

Thank You!