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TEACHER APPRECIATION LUNCH, Friday, June 12

Parents of both schools are providing lunch for the entire staff (45 people!), and tables will be decorated with donated flowers. Teachers and staff will be working on Friday, though there is no school for kids. Thanks to all of you who have offered to help feed and create a festive atmosphere for our teachers!

Donations of food are still being accepted. We are serving main dish salads (such as pasta salads, bean salads, potato salads, rice salads, etc., of any kind), a green salad bar with fixings (see following suggestions), and desserts. Thanks to Deb Holland for providing home-baked bread! Please contact Judy Shaw at 434-2462 or judy_a_shaw@hotmail.com for more information.

Food and flowers should be delivered to the school cafeteria between 9 and 11:30 a.m. on Friday morning. However, for those of you who need to deliver your food on Thursday, June 11, we have the capacity to refrigerate a limited number of items. Flowers and food delivered in advance can be brought to the office. Flowers will be displayed in the office and the teachers' lounge until Friday. Be sure to let Theresa know whether your food needs to be refrigerated, and she will take care of it.

We will have index cards in the cafeteria (in the office for you earlybirds) for you to describe your food, or you can fill one out in advance. It should have the name of your dish; if it's vegetarian, vegan, or contains meat; and if it contains any of these most common allergens: dairy, eggs, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, or wheat. Some of our teachers have dietary sensitivities and will appreciate your sensitivity to what they can safely eat. There's no need to change your recipes; it's enough to let people know what's there so they avoid it if necessary.

Please put your name on any serving dishes you leave with us. We'll have a roll of masking tape and a sharpie if you need to use them on Friday morning.

And again, thanks for your creativity and generosity!

Suggested salad "fixings":

Sliced mushrooms or radishes
Marinated artichoke hearts, legumes
Snap or snow peas
Lightly steamed vegetables, such as green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.
Grated or sliced zucchini
Shredded cabbage
Hard-boiled eggs
Croutons
Carrot, celery, jicama sticks
Dips for veggie sticks -- french onion, guacamole
Tomatoes -- halved grapes, quartered cherries, chopped sandwich tomatoes
Grated or sliced cheeses
Salad dressing -- Italian, ranch, or your personal favorite
Dried cranberries, sliced dried apricots
Marinated/grilled strips of tofu or chicken or eggplant
Bacon

Bake-Off Results!

Judging by the reaction on peoples’ faces as they tasted the goodies, the bake-off was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who baked, served and cleaned. We had 17 entries, with 9 adults and 8 students and some of those actually being a collaborative effort. Since there wasn’t a good time to announce the winners during Excellent Evening, below is the list of winning entries. It was a close contest. All the entries were delicious!

Kids:
1st Place: Skylar Ginsberg ; Earth Cake
2nd Place: Lillian Barwood ; Carousel Cake
3rd Place: Olin Barwood; Blast Off! Black Forest Cake

Adults:
1st Place: Ellie Dominguez ; Ellie’s Deliciously Smooth Lime Almond Cheesecake
2nd Place: Richard Lathrop; Banana Pancake Muffins with icing
3rd Place: Ravitej Khalsa ; Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Cake

**Note to participants: If you haven’t already, please pick up your prize or participant gift and ribbon in the office.

LAST PARENT MEETING OF THE YEAR

THIS Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:30pm in the cafeteria

AGENDA:

1. Camas Ridge Community School Program (Wally)
-- most recent updates on what next year's program will look like
-- the daily schedule/how subjects are broken out, etc

2. 2009-10 School Budget (Wally)

3. Positions for the new PTO Executive Board for 2009-10 (Bev/Carol)

4. Summer playdates

5. School Safety-Traffic Zones (Wally)

We are still collecting the BOX TOPS for Education! Parents, send them in with the kids and put them in the marked cans in each room.

Just by saving labels and boxtops you might normally throw away, you can provide money for our school programs. This is a great way to earn extra money for out school. It really is FREE MONEY! Information about Box Tops for Education, including what labels and box tops to save, is at www.boxtops4education.com

There are cans available for Box Tops for Education in seven classrooms. Please have your kids bring them in and drop them in the cans. We will collect them periodically.To see a full list of participating products check out www.boxtops4education.com

If you have labels, such as Campbell's, Pepperidge Farm, etc., they can be dropped off in the cafeteria where there are large receptacles. A list of those products can be found at: www.labelsforeducation.com

Please bring your baked goods to the cafeteria on Friday morning, 5/29 between 8:15am and 9am. If that does not work for you, please contact Karen via email (kluks@comcast.net) or phone (684-9970) and we’ll figure out another time. Feel free to contact, Karen Luks (kluks@comcast.net) with any questions.

Harris/Eastside To Become Camas Ridge Community School

Harris and Eastside elementary schools, located at E. 29th and Harris, are merging to create a new elementary school with a new name for 2009–10. After reviewing suggestions from the students, staff and community members, the Eugene School Board on May 6 voted to formally close Harris and Eastside Elementary Schools and establish the new school, Camas Ridge Community School. The new school's name refers to the native camas lily and is designed to honor the neighborhood’s wildlife, geography and community.

Harris, Eastside Alternative win board’s OK on merger - 3/4/09

The elementary school hybrid is scheduled to open in the fall

Story Posted on the Eugene Register Guard web site

By Anne Williams

The Register-Guard

Posted to Web: Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009 10:47PM
Appeared in print: Thursday, Mar 5, 2009, page B2

Harris and Eastside Alternative elementary schools will have their chance to build a new school together.

In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the Eugene School Board gave the much-debated merger a green light, with the caveat that the new hybrid — to open this fall — will not be shielded from consideration for closure should declining enrollment and the dire budget outlook in the next biennium necessitate it.

Nor will the school have any additional resources after this year to help with the transition.

But staff members and parents from both schools have voiced optimism about the likelihood of success, having worked in tandem since October on a proposal.

The two schools have been sharing the Harris campus this year following Eastside’s move from nearby Parker Elementary. Superintendent George Russell last winter had recommended closing Harris, where enrollment had slipped in recent years, but the board balked when teachers from the two schools suggested a merger.

The school will emphasize project-based learning, arts integration and mixed-grade advisee classes for social problem-solving and decision-making.

Scrip and Box Tops for Education: It's Free, It's Easy, and It Helps our School Raise Money!

To use Scrip, just register your debit, credit and grocery cards online, and, without spending a single additional cent, you will contribute money each and every time you shop at a participating mechant. For more information, contact Kimberly Harding at 484-0256, email BeingKnown@comcast.net. For more details about how to sign up, see the Scrip section of the Fundraising page, or the September 25 newsletter.

Box Tops for Education

Just by saving labels and boxtops you might normally throw away, you can provide money for our school programs. This is a great way to earn extra money for out school. It really is FREE MONEY! Information about Box Tops for Education, including what labels and box tops to save, is at www.boxtops4education.com

There are cans available for Box Tops for Education in seven classrooms. Please have your kids bring them in and drop them in the cans. We will collect them periodically.To see a full list of participating products check out www.boxtops4education.com

If you have labels, such as Campbell's, Pepperidge Farm, etc., they can be dropped off in the cafeteria where there are large receptacles. A list of those products can be found at: www.labelsforeducation.com

Feel free to contact, Karen Luks (kluks@comcast.net) with any questions.

Harris Eastside Parent Survey results (PDF file format version)

At the parent meeting Wed. Sept. 17, Wally presented us with a sheet showing the results of 110 parent survey responses. Click here or on the smaller image below to open a page with a larger image, OR click here to view, download, and/or print a PDF FILE OF THE SURVEY RESULTS.

STAYING CONNECTED > PARENT COMMUNICATION AT EASTSIDE.

> See the Parent Group Web site at www.eastside-parents.com for an event calendar, breaking news, parent group and site council meeting agendas and notes, the weekly newsletter, contact information for staff and parent group leaders, and much more!

> To update your contact information in the directory, or to post an event or news item on the web site, send it to Nancy West (nlwest@comcast.net). Clickable link at the bottom of every page on the web site. Please provide address, phone, and email changes to both the main school office and the parent group.

> To send out an email to the parent group email list, or change your email address for parent group emails, contact Marina Ormes (marina@efn.org)

> To find out more about how you can help out at school, contact Mieke Stevens, volunteer coordinator at 338-0366 (miekeandpatrick@msn.com).

> Questions? Suggestions? Contact the Parent Group Communications Team: Marina Ormes (marina@efn.org), Nancy West (nlwest@comcast.net), Tim Jordan (tjordan@uoregon.edu), Tony Kaperick (TonyK@INXi.com), and Mike Jones (mrjonz@comcast.net)

Click here for pdf flyer about submitting information to the new parent web site. The best way to submit is to E-MAIL US! The CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT link at the bottom of every web page will put all three web team e-mail addresses in your mail client, to make submitting easy for you!

Please include event name, date, location, and contact name, phone and/or e-mail (if there are parent questions).

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