I hope everyone is enjoying their summer! September is coming quickly! eeek! In June we talked about having a welcome back BBQ and combining it with a drive one for your school fundraiser. If we still want to go ahead with this, we should start to slowly think about getting organized. I'm thinking if we start brainstorming/communicating through email now, then when we meet in September we will be ready to go....ish. Some ideas we threw around in June were: -drive one for your school -BBQ....simple...hotdogs? drinks -start early....around 4:30 or 5....families can come for dinner -various activity stations....maybe a bouncy house? -invite teachers/staff so we can combine it with an open house as well....not sure how this would work yet....will need some planning and interest from staff -aim for the 3rd week of September...I think we should avoid the 18th. The 19th is a PD day and families might leave town on the 18th. That's all I remember, anyone else have any ideas? Lynda - Could you please contact Ford and get some info for us? I was also thinking maybe we could set something up in the front foyer for opening day conferences about PAC....try to get more parents involved. Perhaps we could also have a sign up for parents that are interested in volunteering but not necessarily with meetings and organizing. We could make a list of people to call when we need help. thoughts? Thanks! Jen