[BrownsvilleOnline] APRIL 29, 2009

[Sally Cushing]

BrownsvilleOnline    April 29,2009

  IS MUSIC IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION?  SIGN THE  
PETITION!  PASS IT ON!

In a blink, your children will be heading to Henley and WAHS.  What  
kind of quality performing arts opportunities will be available to  
them when they get there?  Do you know?  A group of citizens has  
growing concerns and started a grassroots advocacy group, Music  
Matters, that supports and campaigns for outstanding programs for  
band, choir, and orchestra in our schools.  Please see this petition  
to be presented to the School Board in June, and consider signing and  
passing it on to others:
http://www.gopetition.com/online/27032.html
To receive updates on Music Matters' activities, please contact:  musicmatters.westernalbemarle at gmail.com

DON’T MAKE US BEG!  ONLY FOUR PTO COMMITTEE SPOTS LEFT TO FILL!

Stretch those leadership skills and flex your people power!  We need  
leaders!  Will you do it?

Evening Event:  Will likely happen in February.  A big spring  
fundraiser.  Will be held off-site, requires coordination of food/ 
drink/a few large raffle items, karaoke?, ticket selling, promotion,  
etc.  Good for an event planner personality.

Family Game Night:  Usually held in February, same night as the Chili  
Supper.  Format is up to the planner, but can include games from  
Teacher’s Edition and Bingo is fun too!  This is a fun, well- 
attended, low stress event.

Fun Fair:  Happens end of May/early June.  A big spring fundraiser.   
There’s lots of documentation of past events, which helps in the next  
year’s planning.  Involves gathering sponsorships and coordination of  
volunteers and games.  Can be run by one highly motivated individual  
or by a small team of friends.

Science Day:  Help coordinate the school wide Science Day, usually in  
the spring.  Each grade highlights their curriculum’s science  
projects, and presentations are made within classrooms.  Involves  
collaborating with Brownsville teacher and organizing volunteers.  No  
science experience/knowledge needed to coordinate this event.

Two other ways you can help:

Our Welcome Back Picnic!  Johannah Dottori and Kelly Gobble are  
already planning a fun school wide welcome back picnic for Friday,  
August 28.  Help them plan the event this summer and carry out this  
terrific way to start the school year!  PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FLYER  
YOU RECEIVED VIA BACKPACK EXPRESS!!!
Are you computer savvy and detail oriented?  Every fall the PTO needs  
help entering information into our system for the BEE Program and for  
the School Directory.  You can do this work at home on your computer.
If you are willing to help, please contact Joanne Meier at jmeier at ericmeier.net


TAKE TIME FOR BIRDING & STARGAZING!

This Saturday, May 2, the Rockfish Valley Foundation ( (www.rockfishvalley.org 
) is offering an early morning BIRD WALK with Tim Hodge from 7:30 to  
9:30 AM.  Come see the baby bluebirds!  In the evening, gather at 7:30  
PM with your own picnic.  From dusk until 10 PM, there will be several  
enormous and powerful telescopes set up for SPRING STAR WATCHING with  
Charlottesville Astronomical Society members on hand to explain the  
night sky.  Meet at the Rockfish River Trail on Route 151, about .25  
miles before Route 664 (the turn by the corner ski shop towards  
Wintergreen).  Park at the Hurricane Camille marker.  Rain date is  
Sunday, May 3.  For more information and weather decision, call  
434.361.2251.


FUN FAIR SLATED FOR FRIDAY, MAY 29!

This year’s theme is It’s Tike Time.  We need many people to make  
this year’s event a success.  PLEASE RESPOND TO THE FLYER RECENTLY  
SENT HOME VIA BACKPACK EXPRESS!

A BIG THANK YOU to Charlottesville Oral Surgery & Dental Implant  
Center, for being a Fun Fair sponsor!



  FREE RECYCLING ON SATURDAYS IN MAY!


Spring-cleaning?  You can properly recycle items--from household  
appliances, hazardous household waste to old tires--FREE during  
Amnesty Days at Ivy Materials Utilization Center!  http://avenue.org/rswa/materialuctr.htm

May 2                  Hazardous Household Waste
   NOTE: Hours of Operation are 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
May                    Furniture and Mattresses
May 16                  Appliances (Refrigerators, Freezers, Washers,  
Dryers, Stoves, Furnaces, Water Heaters)
May 23                  Tires (on & off rim, truck or car).  Limit 25  
Tires per vehicle.  No oversized tires will be accepted.
As a service to Albemarle County and City of Charlottesville  
residents, there will be no charge to bring these Bulky Waste Items to  
the Ivy Materials Utilization Center.  Questions?  Contact Mark  
Brownlee, Operations Manager Rivanna Solid Waste Authority at mbrownlee at rivanna.org


LOST & FOUND RACKS?  STILL BULGING…

…with jackets, vests, sweatshirts, sweaters, hats, mittens, and other  
kid “stuff”!  Everything will be donated to charity in early June,  
so if you don’t always remember to label your children’s  
“stuff”, it’s time to check Brownsville’s Lost & Found area, in  
the hallway near the drop off entrance.  A special thanks to Aurora  
Warren for getting “losts” ready to be “found!”


Submission prepared by Brownsville parent and list moderator Sally  
Cushing.

Brownsville Elementary School website:  http://www.k12albemarle.org/Brownsville

ACPS Parent Council website: http://www.acpsparentcouncil.org/

School Division website:  http://www.k12albemarle.org/

**Click here for a PDF version of Albemarle County's 2008-09 school  
year calendar**

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