Dear School Families: We wanted to take this opportunity to explain the two upcoming fundraisers, as mentioned in last week's email, and the newsletter that Mrs. Cosh sent home last Friday. In lieu of a cocktail event (The Shamrock Ball), both the Home & School Board, as well as The Shamrock Committee, agreed that St. Patrick needs a family- and school-oriented fundraising event. A night out, a casual dinner, spending time with each other, and relaxing for an evening. To that end, we are presenting the Shamrock Social, which will be a casual event on Mar. 3, 2012, for our school families, our staff, and also honoring our Eighth Grade students. We look to have a casual evening, supporting school and family. The event will be held in Trinity Hall, and will have a casual, seated dinner, dessert, drinks, refreshments, and entertainment. In keeping with the family/school theme, we will have a limited amount of Silent Auction items - Express Pickup, Classic Gym, Preferred Pews at Christmas/Easter masses, preferred parking for Grandparents Day among them. We will include family-themed gift baskets, and will again seek donations from school families for these items. We will conduct the Shamrock Raffle at this event, as well. Invitations to the event, as well as raffle tickets to sell, and the sheets for donating Auction items, as well as sponsorship opportunities, will be sent out by Monday. However, links to all of these items can be found below. We are looking to this event to have limited sponsorship opportunities - the benefits being event and raffle tickets, or sponsoring staff tickets and 8th grade student tickets. Please feel free to view the links, to get a feel for the event. Any auction items will have scheduled drop off times on 2/8, 2/9 and 2/10, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you'd like to volunteer to collect auction items during these times, please email Barbra Stooksbury (bastooksbury13@gmail.com).
Invitation: http://www.stpatsparish.org/storage/ShamrockSocial_Invitation.pdf
RSVP: http://www.stpatsparish.org/storage/ShamrockSocial_InvitationRSVP.pdf
Sponsorship: http://www.stpatsparish.org/storage/ShamrockSocial_SponsorshipSheet.pdf
Donation Letter: http://www.stpatsparish.org/storage/Shamrock_FamilySolicitationForm2012.pdf
There will be opportunities to get profit hours for this event, as well as earning profit dollars for donations. Areas for volunteering include computer data entry, night of workers, packaging/assembling baskets, among others. We are looking to make this a nice evening out for school families and something that is long overdue: a casual dinner where our school community can get together and get to know each other in a relaxed setting. The Wine Tasting/Art Auction event to be held on April 14, 2012 is targeted as our more substantial fundraising event. Another letter regarding family donations for auction items will be sent out, and donations that are collected through February 15, 2012 for the Shamrock Social may actually be used for the Wine Tasting Event, based upon the value of the item donated. Another donation letter will be sent out, but please note that school families will also be able to donate items for a Silent Auction for the Wine Tasting Event, through March 15, 2012. A schedule of donation pick-up times for that event will be sent out within the next two weeks. The Wine Tasting event will provide for greater Sponsorship opportunities for school families and businesses, including the opportunity to be a "Presenting Sponsor". For information on this opportunity, you should contact either Lynda Schoberth (lschoberth@comcast.net) or Rene Martin (millerbeachbum@comcast.net). The event will consist of an early Wine Tasting, followed by a live Art Auction, as well as a higher-end Silent Auction. We are very excited about the Art Auction, and numerous paintings/pieces (framed/unframed) will be available for auction - ranging in price from $100 up to $10,000. It will make for a lovely evening of wine and food and art and good company. There are many opportunities for volunteer hours for this event; if you wish to volunteer, please contact Lynda Schoberth. Areas for volunteers include Set Up, Clean Up, Marketing and Graphic Design (including event Program), computer/data entry, packaging/assembling/naming auction baskets, among other things. We look forward to your questions and comments! Feel free to email any of the following with questions on either event: Shamrock SocialMarissa Rutkowski (marissa1950@comcast.net)Barbra Stooksbury (bastooksbury13@gmail.com) Wine Tasting/Art AuctionLynda Schoberth (lschoberth@comcast.net)Marissa Rutkowski (marissa1950@comcast.net) Carol McQuillen (mmcquillen@comcast.net) Thank you for your continued support this year!! The Home & School Board
Wed, February 8, 2012 at 10:48 AM