Preliminary reports show that our fall book fair was quite successful. It appears that this was our most successful book fair ever. I will not have a final account until all the paperwork is complete, but it looks like more than $2000.00 cash was earned for our school library program. Scholastic, our fair vendor, also provides "Scholastic Dollars" to be used to purchase library books directly from the fair. Again, I will have more information about this once the final paperwork is done, but I have already selected more than $300 of books from the fair.
Once again I am completely indebted to the wonderful people who have helped make this fair the success it was. Preschool and kindergarten aides Shawnee Murphy, Dreama Hewitt, Debbie Burns, Doretta Malone, Charlotte Hawkins and Bonnie Homchenko take on extra responsibility with each fair, as our littlest shoppers need the most help finding appropriate items. I appreciate their extra efforts as well as those of all our teachers who make extra time for their children to shop.
Josh Salisbury, our music teacher, helped with all the class previews. I know the children are particularly thankful for his technical expertise in getting our most popular item, the Top Secret UV Pens, to work. He also set the ground rules for behavior which made the preview days much more orderly.
I have always been very grateful for my parent and grandparent volunteers who have helped with the before-school shopping and class previews. This year I was blessed with a wealth of volunteers. They are, in order of appearance, Melissa Burns, Tracy Uphold, Angela Hanlin, Lauri Martin, Valerie Blosser, Eileen McCusker, Sherry Scarbro, Janna Lowery, Kathy Barr, Greg Rice, Devon Boyles, Beth Proctor, Shonet McClung, Christi Lyons, Tanya Bartley and Jessica Criser. Brian Henderson and Lisa Nair helped with evening shopping. Art teacher Charity Bolyard helped with sales after the Halloween parties.
I am particularly indebted to student volunteers Rylie Hollar and Katy Pasquarelli who helped set up displays before the fair. Tiffany Shannon, Taylor Keeling, and Shylar Hanlin helped with sales.
Finally, Christi Lyons and her daughters Taylor, Haleigh and Maddie, and third grade teacher Rhonda Hatfield helped break down the fair and rebox unsold merchandise.
I want to say thanks to all the parents for their support of our school library. It means a lot to me.
I'll have more details about the fair and plans for the revenue at a later date. Thanks again for everything!
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