WOW! Thanks so much to the JM community!! This year’s Yard Sale was a huge success! The Yard Sale and Spring Fair shared the day, the weather was beautiful, and the JM community showed up in force! Our wonderful Dad’s Club provided delicious food, and the Spring Fair Coordinators and volunteers created a memory-filled day for the kids.

Thank you to Ms. Smith for making the MPR available, thank you to Mel Evans for relocating all the Enrichment classes, thank you to Mr. Jackson for set-up and takedown. Thank you to the JM Dad’s Club for arriving early to make sure our shoppers and volunteers had quality sustenance! Thank you to the Spring Fair Coordinators for working so easily with us, this was such fun, we hope to do it together next year!

And finally, a huge shout out to our wonderful volunteers. You were not only immensely helpful, but such fun to work with! Big Thanks to Patty Scanlon, Nancy Caton, Jackie Oberly, Mika Max, Karen Bloom, Natalie Potter, Karen Loughran, Paul Boitano, Christine So, Ruth Soderback, Chris Christ, Meri Soll, Lynn Mladjov, Jo Ann Cooper-Campbell, Jodie Ruland, Nancy Schneidinger, Tony and Kelly Jonick, Keith Bizzack, Louisa Waldner, Rebecca Petty, Kristen Nicholas, Sujata Neurgaonker, and Michele Tiernan.

Last but not least, a big thank you to JM Alumni Julia Gullikson, Emma Bizzack, and Anya Ku as well as current JM students Blythe Rinehart-Pimentel, Georgie Pease, Ryan Christ, Rudy Byles, and Margarita Ku.

All your hard work helped raise $4300 for your school! Congratulations!

Big thanks from the whole yard sale team!
Anna Bizzack, Arlene Pimentel, and Liz Wardman

Please step forward to help with the Auction
Maybe you missed our plea but the auction needs your help!

The school year is coming to an end, we can all be thrilled with the successful year Joaquin Miller has had, but we need to start thinking about next year. As of this writing, the auction has NO Event Planner Co-Chair (that means nobody is coordinating the venue, booking the auctioneer, etc). In addition, the auction needs shadows who will take the role on in 2011-12 for the Business & Operations Co-Chair and the Solicitations Co-Chair.

In case you have not heard it before, The Joaquin Miller Fall Auction is the BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR. Please do not be scared, these roles are not as daunting as they sound. Parents have done a phenomenal job in the past putting in place processes and gathering help. There are many parents who will help support these roles but we need a few parents to step forward to lead the auction.

Event Planner Co-Chair position.
Currently this position is vacant, eeek! The Event Planner is responsible for planning the menu and interacting with the event planner at Sequoia Country Club. They are responsible for the floor plan and work with the volunteer(s) who recruit and staff the auction. He/She is responsible for making sure the sound system is properly set up and running, they book the Entertainment, Auctioneer, & Table Closer.

Business & Operations Co-Chair Shadow-
Currently Ruth Soderback is in this role. She is the mom of a 2nd grader and an in-coming Kindergartner, along with a few other smaller tasks, is the person running the business aspects (database, etc.) Ruth can give lots of details to the job to anyone interested. She must have a shadow this year who will take over the job in Fall 2011.

Solicitations Coordinator Co-Chair Shadow-
Currently, Melissa Evans is in this role. She is the mom of a 1st grader and her job is to manage a team of parents who solicit businesses for donations (this is easy we have a huge database of companies who give), keep her eyes on the donations that come in, and ensures that they get entered into the database. She delegates soliciting and entering donations. The key team that brings in parties and events from within the school is already in place. She must have a shadow this year to take over the job in Fall 2011.

We really wanted these positions filled by mid-May so please step forward if you can help out. Ruth or Mel are available to chat about the positions. Please help out our school and step forward to help with the auction. Remember all these positions are rewarding because you get to see first-hand just how generous people are with our kids’ school!

Melissa Evans melmevans@comcast.net
510- 712-0844
Ruth Soderback euwdoggie@yahoo.com
510-846-4746

Spring Fair – Saturday, June 5th. 11am – 2:00pm

Come have fun with the whole family at the JM Spring Fair on Saturday, June 5th! We’re combining the event with the garage sale so you get in some shopping earlier. The Spring Fair will run from from 11am to 2pm in the big yard. We’ll have the usual carnival games like the 5th grade Sponge Toss and the cakewalk along with and some new games thanks to the help from the Boy Scouts at JM. Our own DJTJ aka Tony Jonick will be spinning tunes on his IPOD and the Dad’s Club will be grilling up lunch. Look for signups in the hallway in the next week. We’d love to have some help putting this fun event together so please let Cynthia Frenz (cynthia_frenz@yahoo.com) know if you’d like to help. You can also contact Dawn Loretz, Christy Simons or Karen Fee.

Overwhelmed with where to stash all those unwanted gifts? Do you feel as though your home could double as a toy store? Now is the time to clean out your closets and make a tax deductible donation to our June 5th Yard Sale. You can drop off your gently used clothing, toys, books, jewelry, collectibles, kitchenware and household items from Wednesday 2nd June – Friday 4th June from 8:00am – 5:00pm in the Multi-Purpose Room.

We need volunteers to sort and price during this collection period and also to help on the day of the Yard Sale. Half an hour or half a day… your help will be much appreciated. It’s a fun and easy way to support this annual school fundraiser. Questions, ideas, want to help? Contact: Anna Bizzack, abizzack@yahoo.com Arlene Pimentel, arlenepim@aol.com Liz Wardman, emsw@yahoo.com