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Hood River News, Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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PARKDALE NEWS
Come one, come all to the
Parkdale carnival this Friday
By TAMARA EMLER BALL
When the students reach
their goal of selling 4,000 raffle
Parkdale correspondent
It’s time to take the family tickets in advance of the car-
over to Parkdale Elementary nival, they get to watch their
School this Friday, March 13, principal, Mr. Hedburg, dress
to enjoy all the fun and games, up like Elsa from the movie
not to mention good food, at Frozen and lip synch to the
the annual carnival fundrais- song “Let it Go” at a date to be
er sponsored by the Parkdale announced.
If you or your busi-
PTO.
ness would still like to
“Join us for a fun
donate to the raffle, do-
evening for the whole
nations are still being
family,” said Principal
gladly accepted at the
Gus Hedberg. “Activi-
school office this week.
ties will include great
Proceeds from the
games, carnival food,
carnival each year
and a raffle drawing
benefit students by
for some very nice
Tamara Emler providing the funds for
prizes!”
Ball
supplementary music,
The evening of fun
PE, and art programs,
starts off with dinner
from 5 to 7 p.m., followed by as well as school assemblies
game booths open from 5:30 to and field trips.
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7:30 p.m., followed by the final
Before the fun each year a
raffle prizes being awarded
lot of work goes into the Park-
until 8 p.m.
Be sure to come hungry be- dale School Carnival to make
cause dinner, donated by the event happen.
If you have any time avail-
McIsaac’s Store and cooked by
Apple Valley BBQ, will be able to help, The Parkdale PTO
available for $5 each with a is still looking for adult help to
choice of two pork sliders or a get everything up and going
hotdog and one side of either and clean up afterwards.
On Wednesday, March 11
coleslaw, beans or chips.
The usual treats of cotton from 5:30 to 7 p.m. help is need-
candy, cookies and other ed to bring carnival booths up
desserts will also be available from the basement and set
them up.
to buy.
On Thursday, March 12
Booths will be set up in the
gym for kids to “go fish,” play from 7:45 a.m. until 2:15 p.m.,
basketball, soccer, or spin to help is needed to work with
win and a bounce house will each class to set up and deco-
rate booths, make and hang
be set up in the library.
The gym will also boast the posters and make cotton
“jail” where, for the price of a candy in advance of the carni-
few tickets, students can have val.
During the school day on
their favorite teacher, princi-
pal, or even parents “arrested” Friday, March 13 from 8:30
a.m. until 2:30 p.m., adults
and thrown into the pokey.
It’s all for a good cause and helping during the school day
the jailbirds can either serve will blow up balloons, set up
their time or be bailed out by the gym with prizes and orga-
the price of a few more tickets. nize raffle items.
From 2:30 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Classrooms will be set up
for bowling, nerf zone, and on Friday classrooms will
two cake walks with all sorts need to be cleared out, signs
of goodies donated by valley posted around school and car-
nival items brought in from
businesses to win.
Special this year is a new cars outside.
During the carnival, each
“Zen Room,” a quiet place
where parents and other booth needs 4 parent volun-
adults can go to relax and get a teers to keep it going and last
neck massage by local mas- year some booths had to close
early due to lack of adults to
sage therapists.
Tickets to play games, have run them.
Adult help is also needed in
someone arrested or bailed
out of jail, or to enjoy the Zen the kitchen to serve food and
Room are 4 for $1 and will go clean up the cafeteria after-
on sale this Thursday, March ward and carnival clean up
12 at the school office for those starts at 8:00 p.m. to take down
of you who want to get a head booths and set everything
back to rights for school on
start on purchasing them.
Raffle tickets are $1 each Monday morning.
If you’d like to help out or
and can be purchased from
students, at the school office have any questions, contact
from 7:15 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., Sarah Wilson of the Parkdale
or at the carnival and you do PTO at 503-819-4092 or by e-
at
parkdalep-
not need to be present to win. mail
Prizes include a 2-night to@gmail.com.
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beach house rental, horseback
On Saturday, March 14,
riding lessons, beautiful art-
work, handmade quilts, wine Parkdale Elementary will
gift baskets, gift certificates for send their first Oregon Battle
local restaurants, Mt. Hood of the Books team to the re-
Meadows ski passes, three gional OBOB tournament at
prizes of a $100 bill, store mer- The Dalles Middle School.
Fifth grade teacher Holly
chandise and gas cards.
Lavoie has coached the
school’s three teams with such
celebrated names as The
Flaming Cheeseballs, the Dy-
namite Dragons, and the Book
Busters.
The Dynamite Dragons will
represent Parkdale Elemen-
tary at the tournament, com-
peting against teams from
May Street Elementary, West-
side Elementary, Mosier Ele-
mentary and schools from The
Dalles.
“A special thanks to all the
parents who have been en-
couraging their students to
read and for donating books to
our OBOB book shelf at
school,” said Gus Hedburg,
principal. “Special thanks also
to parents Julie Stuben and
Mel Toney for their help dur-
ing practice times and to the
Parkdale PTO for sponsoring
the team and covering the cost
of registration.”
Propagating vegetable and
flower seeds class March 21
Learn how to reproduce
seeds for vegetables and flow-
ers so that you can have won-
derful plants year after year!
Join us at the Hood River Li-
brary on Saturday, March 21, 2
p.m. This two hour hands-on
workshop will be taught by
Oregon State University Ex-
tension Service Master Gar-
deners, Audrey Schneider and
Paul Marcotte, from Hood
River.
Materials will be provided
except for gloves. Since partic-
ipants will be working with
soil, you may wish to have gar-
den type gloves available for
your use.
The workshop is free and
open to the public. For more
information, please contact
the Hood River County Li-
brary District at 541-386-2535,
info@hoodriverlibrary.org, or
visit their website at
hoodriverlibrary.org.
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The Parkdale Health and
Wellness Committee, a group
made up of parents and com-
munity members looking to
increase opportunities for
healthy living in the Parkdale
Community, will be meeting
on Thursday, April 2 at 2:30
p.m. at Parkdale Elementary.
The meetings are open to
the community and this
month’s discussion will be on
preparing for an upcoming
Health and Wellness Fair to be
held on Monday, April 23 at
6:00 p.m. at the school.
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A reminder that the Park-
dale Home Extension Study
Group meets this Thursday,
March 12 at 10 a.m. at the Park-
dale Grange Hall for the pre-
sentation, “The Spices of
India.”
Tea and snacks featuring In-
dian spices will be provided
and community members are
welcome to attend.
For more information con-
tact Joanne Ehl at 541-352-7363.
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Many of you know that
each year this reporter partic-
ipates in the Mid-Columbia
Lions Follies fundraiser for
the Oregon Lions Sight and
Hearing Foundation.
We often need items to use
in the show and this year is no
exception.
If you have any of the fol-
lowing items and would be in-
terested in either donating
them with a receipt, or will
loan them to the Follies for the
show, it would be appreciated.
Items needed this year in-
clude 1960s-style small couch
or chair and table, a wooden
kitchen table, old-fashioned
milk cans and moonshine
jugs, a metal bed pan and hay
bales.
E-mail
uvupdate@ya-
hoo.com or call 541-352-4254 to
arrange for pickup or drop off.
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Springtime astronomy with Jim White
Join Trout Lake amateur astronomer Jim
White for a presentation about the universe and
tools to explore the skies above on Friday,
March 27, 7 p.m. This program is for anyone
who would like to know more about the stars,
planets, and galaxies, or are interested in get-
ting/using a telescope. If we’re lucky enough to
have clear skies, after the presentation we will
go outside and view the Moon and Jupiter with
telescopes.
The presentation is free and open to all ages.
For more information, please contact the Hood
River County Library District at 541-386-2535,
info@hoodriverlibrary.org, or visit their web-
site at hoodriverlibrary.org.
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