If you already have a reservation, we’ll see you there on Saturday, March 13th at 6 pm. Tables of 10 or more will have the name of the person who reserved the table on the table, and other tables will be marked unreserved.

We will supply beer, wine, and desserts. You can bring your own food and snacks and if you need utensils, plates and napkins, please bring those too. As we did last year, we would like to use the evening as a drop off point for our ongoing Clinton School Food Pantry. The food we collect in the pantry is given to families in our school. If you’d like to bring a donation of non-perishable food, there will be a drop-off area near the front entrance way to the Woman’s Club.

If you haven’t perused our program yet, please do. It’s filled with amazing prizes.

The Clinton School teachers and staff have contributed an amazing iPod basket (with a Nano, a docking station, and many other cool iPod accessories) valued at more than $300 and they’ve also donates lots of great teacher lunches, parties, etc. and the ever popular Principal for a Day prize is back again this year. We are very grateful for their support and generosity.

And please look carefully at our Live Auction prizes especially our brand new live auction dinners. Check your calendar before you come (dates are in program) so you can bid on these yummy offerings. Lastly, many, many local businesses have supported our event by donating prizes. Please be sure to recognize these generous merchants by shopping in their establishments and thanking them for supporting Clinton School. We are looking forward to a very fun and successful evening!

– The Clinton PTA Tricky Tray Committee

The 2nd Annual Clinton School Readathon came to close on Tuesday, March 2.

We hope your child enjoyed the reading challenge.

You can now collect money from the sponsors who pledged and return payments, pledge sheet, and reading log to the Clinton PTA.
Don’t worry if you haven’t kept good track on the reading log, as long as you can give your sponsors the information they need to send payment.

Please be sure any checks are made out to the Clinton PTA and have a phone number on them.

Everyone who returns a pledge form (whether they collected money or not) will be entered in our raffle to win one of three gift certificates to a local bookstore. The raffle winners will be announced on Monday, March 22nd during morning announcements.

Please return pledge forms and check by Tuesday, March 16th.

Thanks for participating. Last year’s Readathon enabled us to purchase more than $2,500 worth of new books for our library. We’ll keep you posted on this year’s results.

The Clinton PTA

One more week to go in the Clinton School Readathon which ends on Tuesday, March 2nd.

After the 2nd, you can collect money from the sponsors who pledged and return payments, pledge sheet, and reading log to the Clinton PTA. Don’t worry if you haven’t kept good track on the reading log, as long as you can give your sponsors the information they need to send payment.

Please be sure any checks are made out to the Clinton PTA and have a phone number on them.

Everyone who returns a pledge form (whether they collected money or not) will be entered in our raffle to win one of three gift certificates to a local bookstore. The raffle winners will be announced on Monday, March 22nd during morning announcements.

Please return pledge forms and check by Tuesday, March 16th.

And don’t forget: this Friday, February 26th, the Clinton students will have a visit with Horrible Harry author Suzy Kline, sponsored by the Clinton PTA.

We are in the countdown phase…..

Almost every available seat for the 2010 Tricky Tray/Auction is taken. We can’t accommodate more than 230 guests and we are now over 200.

Additionally, our program/list of prizes is truly amazing this year!

Below you’ll find our list of Live Auction prizes for this year. We like to get the word out about these in advance since many of them might require a little calendar-checking before the actual evening of the event.

And in addition to our usual live auction fare, this year for the first time we are featuring dinner parties. Several families have graciously offered to host amazing dinners at their homes, the seats to which will be auctioned off during our live auction. Here is a brief description of how it works:

During the live auction, our emcee will announce each dinner party separately, the date it will take place, the number of seats available, and the opening bid per seat. If you’re interested in buying a seat, raise your program with your paddle number showing (it’s on the back of the program). Example: Chinese dinner, 8 seats, $20 per seat. Maybe 30 people show their paddle number. At that point, he will raise the bid per seat to $25. This time, only 15 people show their paddle number. He will keep raising the bid until only 8 people are still interested. Those 8 people each will win a seat. (If you’re interested in bidding for two seats, hold up two fingers.)
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Don’t forget that your orders for the David’s Cookies/Auntie Anne’s Pretzels fundraiser is due on Monday, February 22nd. You may return the envelopes with the order forms (white and yellow copy) to school with payment. Please remember to keep the pink copy for your records. We truly appreciate your efforts in helping to make this a great fundraiser for our school.

Delivery is scheduled for 3/26…just in time for spring break!

One of the most fun (adult) evenings of the school year is coming up fast. Have you made you reservations for the Seventh Annual Clinton Tricky Tray and Auction? We sold out last year and had to turn some people away, so if you’re interested in coming, please submit your form and check as soon as possible. We also want to thank everyone who has donated prizes to this event.

Thanks to past Tricky Trays we’ve been able to buy a climbing wall for our gym, brand new playground equipment, and subsidize a complete audio/visual renovation of our auditorium. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year and your support is greatly appreciated.

If you are donating a prize, but haven’t given it to us yet, please send it our way within the next week. We are busy putting together the program for the event and want to be sure all prizes are included.

Please contact Cecelia Cancellaro (ccancellaro@verizon.net) or Karen Betheil (kbetheil@verizon.net) and we can arrange for a pick-up or drop-off. The deadline for our program is next Wednesday, so let us know as soon as possible.

Lastly, we have lots and lots of great prizes and thought you might like a glimpse of just a sampling. Below you’ll find some excerpts from the Silent Auction portion of the evening. We’ll excerpt more in future emails and we’ll also treat you to a sneak preview of our live auction items, including our new live auction group dinners that are being offered for the first time.

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