Events

Goooood morning and welcome to another school year! A new year of school. A new year of school sports. A new year of school clubs. A NEW YEAR TO VOLUNTEER!:)

Our kids started back to school last week and I’m already running in 40 different directions between swim, XC and PTC. I was more determined this year to make out my fundraising/community/volunteering schedules and get them approved early… Well, I did my part. I’m just waiting on the “getting approved” part. I’m sure a lot of you know what I am talking about – but that’s for another post, another time!:)

Tonight, we are having our back to school night at the Middle School/High School. I just went to Aldi (don’t judge!) and stocked up on cookies, printed off my sign-up forms, and now working on some catchy phrases to post around our table. I have signed up for a service, Remind.com, so that parents can sign up on the spot and be made aware of what all is happening on the school front – family events, volunteer opportunities, fundraising, etc. We use it for our swim team and also for Open Swim nights. I think it’ll be a great addition for the organization this year.

Did/are any of you do anything big to kick off your new year? Did you add anything new to your sign up process this year? Let us know!

take care!

The Volunteer Parent - Swim Banquet — Celebrating Swim Season in Pictures!

Last night we had our swim banquet for our high school team. Usually, we would have had the ‘Winter Sports Banquet’ at the school before now, however, this year we were on our own to do our own thing. The annual Winter Sports Banquet was cancelled due to a very scary event with our boys’ basketball team. The banquet was cancelled because of a game that had to be rescheduled to that specific night. So after that, there were no open nights for another banquet night…

I have to admit, I didn’t think it was actually going to happen although I had been planning it for over a month and a bit. I reserved a room at a pizza place and it was $13 a person. I wasn’t going to do centrepieces because so much was happening but I’m glad we did now. They were not grand and spectacular by any means but the kids LOVED them:)

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