Fall Creek PTA

What a weekend!

The Fall Creek PTA would like to thank everyone involved in this weekend’s activities – the Hilby show at the State Theatre and the IPEI Spelling Bee at the high school.

The State Theatre show sold out, as did all our bake sale offerings. The final amount raised isn’t available yet, but looks to have topped what we raised last year ($3,600) by several hundred dollars. Thank you to Hilby, John Higby, and Nate the Great for donating their talents to the show and to David Moreland, Mary Waisbrot, and Sally Butterfield for their organizational talents.

Our spellers, the Fall Creek Stingers, made it to the championship round for the second year in a row, but were tripped up by “cis,” which refers to a certain configuration of molecule. Thanks to Mary Ann Erickson, Tom Clavel, and Karen Keller for joining the team and to Richardson Brothers Electric for helping to sponsor our team.

Gimme! Coffee Sale

The Gimme! coffee fundraiser is now underway.  Stock up now on that delicious locally roasted coffee you know and love while supporting the Fall Creek PTA!  Please note that an updated order form is now available, as some coffee varieties are no longer available and new options have been added.  The new form will be sent home in this week’s Thursday folders or you can download the order form from the website.  Orders are due Friday, December 4th.

Hilby Bake Sale at the Hilby Show!

Calling all Fall Creek Bakers & Helpers!

The PTA needs people to create tasty treats to sell @ the Hilby Show fund raiser next SATURDAY, NOV. 14th!

For goodies, we need items individually wrapped in amounts you’d expect to pay about $1.  So, 2 cupcakes or small muffins, 4-5 cookies, a couple of med. sized brownies, a couple of doughnuts, etc per baggie would be great!

Also, in the past, we’ve had success with baggies of popcorn or cereal mix like Chex Mix or reindeer food. We like to try to avoid nuts, or at least make a point of labeling when a food contains any kind of nuts/peanuts or a nut-butter.

There will be a table in the school lobby on Thursday & on Friday (for parent-teacher conferences) on which you can place your donations, or you can bring them to the table @ the State Theatre if you’re planning to attend the Hilby fund raiser.

WE ALSO NEED VENDORS to help sell our tasty treats & merchandise in the lobby!  Please use the contact below ASAP to sign up!

If you have any questions at all, please contact Mary Waisbrot @ 277-6380 or mwaisbro@twcny.rr.com

Thanks for your help & support!

Adult spelling bee coming up! Nov 15 at 2:00pm

Support our adult spelling bee team, the Fall Creek Stingers!
This years IPEI spelling bee is on

Sunday, November 15, 2009 2:00pm at the Ithaca High School

Meet the Fall Creek Stingers team!

Three ways you can help!

1. Join us on Sunday  at IHS gym and root for our team!
2. Bring your change and help raise almost 50% of the entrance fee of $375.  Richardson Brothers Electric is providing the $200 and we will be raising the other $175.  5th graders will be shaking a water jug in the morning collecting the money.  We write lots of wonderful grants to IPEI and they have funded Fall Creek with THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EACH YEAR to support such projects like:  the Dance Residency, 4th graders reading books on tape, Kindergarten bears, Kids Discover the Trail trips for each grade,  1st graders trips to Lakeside Nursing and Rehabilitative Home, and so much more.
3. Think of spelling words for our team so they can practice!

Hilby at the State Theatre Sat. Nov. 14th at 2pm

Hilby at the State Theatre Saturday Nov. 14 at 2pm for the third annual Fall Creek PTA fundraiser.

At last November’s Fall Creek Family Fund Raiser show, the opening act for the evening had not just warmed up the audience, he had lit it on fire. Hilby, aka “the skinny German juggle boy”, had climbed into a huge red balloon. Only his head was visible, poking out of the balloon’s neck. And then he began to undress. He squeezed his hand out of the opening and tossed out his shirt, then his pants, then his boxer shorts. The audience went  wild. And then, unplanned by Hilby, the balloon popped. He was revealed wearing—thank goodness tiny lyrca athletic shorts. The audience’s laughter doubled. Hilby’s shows are always filled with delightful surprises—some planned; some not—so the Fall Creek PTA was thrilled when he volunteered to be the headliner for this fall’s third-annual fund raiser show on Saturday November 14^th at 2PM at Ithaca’s Historic State Theatre.

Advance tickets for the Hilby show are just $6!

Hilby Tickets
Save $3 per ticket by purchasing yours in advance!
Tickets at the door will cost $9 (what a ripoff!), but only $6 in advance (what a deal!)
Here’s how you can get your Advance Tickets:

• in the school lobby the week before the show, Monday November 9- Friday November 13, before & after school.
• by using the order form in your child’s takehome folder. Just fill it out, send it along with payment into school with your child, and the PTA will send home tickets.
• at the State Theatre Box Office.

Yo-Yo People to open for Hilby!
The opening act for the afternoon show is The Yo-Yo People, comprised of John and Rebecca Higby of Amherst, Massachusetts, whose amazing yo-yo antics have put them in the Guinness Book of World Records and on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’.

Chocolate Sale Deadline: March 11

The Spring Chocolate Sale is coming to a close!  Be sure to get your orders in to the school by Weds March 11th.

More information is available at the Chocolate Sale Page.