Friday
February 16
Tour 9:15am
Spirit/Pizza Day
Monday - Friday
February 19-23
Mid-Winter Break
No school.
No Childcare.
Thursday
March 1
Re-enrollment contracts due
WPO Meeting
Topic: Sex Education
6pm
Friday
March 17
Spirit and Pizza Day
Wednesday
March 21
Board Meeting
6:30pm
Saturday
March 24
Westside’s 18th Annual Auction
Toast of the Town
February 15, 2006
Auction Item of the Week
Congratulations Ovio Certificate Winners
Auction Procurement Info
Alumni News
50/50 Cash Raffle
Dessert Auction Volunteers Needed
New Things at the Library
Second Grade Honesty
Auction Item of the Week
On-Track Race Experience
Do you have a need for speed? Strap into a 600 horse-power race car and experience the ride of your life! The winning bidder will soar around the famed half-mile Yakima Speedway in a Tidrick Sundberg Racing owned Late-Model Stock Car. Learn race techniques such as braking, passing, qualifying, green flag starts, and setting up a pass and completing it. End the day with a multi-car heat race!
To further enhance your racing experience, you are invited to experience life in the pits as a crew member of the TSR race team and call the action atop the pit box as an honorary crew chief for the Saturday night race. Experience short track racing at its best with one of the Northwest’s top late-model race teams!
Package includes:
- On-track/in-car experience on Friday
- Lunch, soft drinks and snacks
- Use of all necessary safety gear, including helmet and fire suit
- 1 TSR crew shirt and hat
- 1 night (Friday) in a hotel room in Yakima
- 1 race ticket and pit pass for the Saturday night race in Yakima
- 4 additional race tickets for the Saturday night race for family/friends
Congratulations to Eleanor & Stephen Haskell for turning in their procurement forms and winning the $100 Ovio gift certificate!
Procurement Update
We have some fabulous auction items! It’s still not too late to turn in a donation. The drop dead deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 27th.
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Alumni News
Syd S., graduate of 2006, stopped by Westside for a visit. She attends Denny Middle School. She says her favorite activity is the steel drum class. They performed at Sealth High School as well as at Denny. She is also playing saxophone in the school band.
Syd anticipates being in the Spectrum Program as soon as a spot opens up for her.
She says her school is “huge” but “pretty cool.” Thanks for stopping by Syd.
50/50 Cash Raffle
By Tracy Sundberg, 2007 Raffle Coordinator
Today’s the day we launch the 50/50 Auction Raffle. 50% of the gross proceeds of this raffle will be awarded to a single winner (drawn at the auction) and the other 50% will directly benefit Westside School. Tickets and information are in your take-home folders.
We’re sending each Westside family ten 50/50 raffle tickets, but you certainly don’t have to stop selling there. This is a great, inexpensive raffle ticket to sell to family, friends, and neighbors. Maybe buy a few as gifts for your babysitter, manicurist, or the garage attendant where you work. The winner does not have to be present at the auction and the prize is CASH!
Let’s do the math… If each Westside family can sell at least the 10 tickets that are in your take-home folders today, the payout to the winning ticket holder will be OVER $5,000. WOW! While the deadline for turning in all sold tickets and receipts is March 23rd, the sooner you can sell your tickets and turn in the payments, the more often we’ll be able to update you with the prize amount for the winner!
Thank you in advance for supporting your Westside community and making sure the 18th annual auction is resounding success!
Dessert Auction Volunteers needed!
The Westside 25, Toast of the Town, Auction is right around the corner, and this year’s event will feature the ever-popular “Dessert Dash.” This tasty annual tradition takes place after dinner, and features a luscious assortment of delectable treats provided by Westside parents.
Tables are ranked based on the total contributions made on the bid ticket in the dessert auction envelope. The highest bidding table is called first to pick their dessert from the bounteous display. Five seconds later the announcer calls out another table number and the “runner” grabs a dessert from the table, and so on, and so on…until all tables have selected a dessert.
You have to be generous…
You have to be quick…
And you can’t wear those 3-inch stilettos you were considering, or it could be dangerous!
This activity is fast-paced, fun, and always a nice money-maker for Westside. But, it can’t happen without you. Please sign up in the office to provide a dessert. Your donation can be homemade or from your favorite restaurant or bakery.
Need some inspiration or have other questions?
Check out the packet attached to the sign-up sheet. It is filled with popular ideas from past dessert auctions. Or feel free to call or email Theresa Schaefer, Dessert Auction Chair, (206) 355-3751. theresa.schaefer@swissarmy.com.
Thanks for supporting Westside School.
New Things at the Library
By Sarah Wildflower, Librarian
This week, you may have noticed that your child brought home not only a book from the library, but also a receipt. This should help you find missing books, and assist your children to bring books back on time (and to know what books to look for).
The other thing new in the library is me – I’m happy to be back from maternity leave. I’m so pleased with the parents who kept the library open while I was gone and continue to help in the library now – thank you Janet Somero, Pam Snider, Shelley O’Clair, and Taryn Call!
Every so often, your child may bring home a slip of paper with a book title and author written on it. While the supply of books in our library continues to increase, there are some books that we still don’t have. I hope having a recommended book title and author will encourage your family to go to the public library to find books to read together.
Another piece of paper your child may bring home is a list of books which have not been returned to the library – this is because I know that it helps to have a title when you are searching the house for a book. If you get this slip after a book has been sent back to school, please let me know – sometimes books stay in backpacks or get put in a classroom bookshelf. The more you can tell me about where a book went, the better equipped I am to search for it.
Right now in the library I am reading out loud books that have been nominated for the Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award. Each child will vote for their favorite book at the end of March. It has been a lot of fun to think about why we enjoy certain books and discuss the relative merits of competing books. We will find out Westside School’s favorite book at the beginning of April, but will have to wait a bit longer to find out Washington State’s favorite book. So far we have read Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems, Honey, Honey,Lion by Jan Brett, Don’t Be Silly, Mrs. Millie by Judy Cox, and Animal Snackers by Betsy Lewin. You may enjoy reading these books again at home!
Second Grade Honesty
Recently, the second grade class studied honesty, and answered the following statement.
Abe Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He was known as “Honest Abe.” Why is it important to be honest?
Here are some of the responses:
“It is good to be honest because you don’t always get what you want when you lie. Sometimes you don’t get what you want when you don’t lie, but that is different.” Alena
“Abraham Lincoln was honest. It is important to be honest like him. If you tell the truth everyone will trust you. If you lie, nobody will. So don’t try to.” Kellen
“Telling the truth is a good thing. When you tell the truth, people can trust you. When you lie, people can’t trust you. The truth is the best thing to say. The truth is a very, very good thing.” Madeleine
“Abraham Lincoln is a nice man. He tells the truth. He wants people to be free. He wants people to be peaceful. He respected others.” Angelina