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Lara Cole (lcole23@nc.rr.com), Creekside PTA President
Oct 6th --- PTA Board Meeting, 7pm Media Center, everyone is welcome to attend.
PTA Committee News – Opportunities Abound
It’s time to start planning for the Duke games again. Since they have a new football coach and everyone is hopeful they will do well there are 7 home games this year. The first 3 games are coming up soon. If you can participate in any of the following games please contact me or email Farzad directly.
Spirit Nights - Mark your calendars now for Tuesday, September 30th. Come enjoy dinner at Chick-Fil-A on University Drive behind Sam’s Club between 5 and 8 PM. Be sure to bring some spare change and look for the prize wheel under the tent! Give your coupon to the cashier and 15% of the proceeds will come back to the PTA to support our students, staff and school. Make sure you have some special Creekside colored ice cream before you leave!
Join us on October 16th at Moe’s from 5 to 9 PM and stay tuned for more Spirit Night events in coming months!
Fall Fundraising – Pam Kearsley and Nicolle Mercer--All fundraising orders and money are due back to school on Monday, October 13th. This year, online ordering is even easier than ever before! It’s quite simple to log into the website jhdistributors.com and send a link to all of your friends and family to generate more sales to help our school. Please see your packet that is in your student(s)’ folder for more details. We are seeking volunteers to help with collection day (Monday, October 13th). For more information and to volunteer, please contact Pam at prk@nc.rr.com or 484-8866.
Family Involvement & Welcome – Sha’Ronn Brown, Adria Boyd and Debbie Earnhardt We want you! This year, the Creekside PTA hopes to increase family involvement. So it is important that the Family Involvement & Welcome committee recruits some enthusiastic and creative parents. The committee co-chairs, Adria Boyd (adriaboyd@nc.rr.com), Sha’Ronn Brown (spbrown19@aol.com) and Debbie Earnhardt (jearnhardt@nc.rr.com) have already been brainstorming. But we need YOU to help coordinate events to get the whole family involved in learning & fun at Creekside. Please contact one of the committee chairs if you have some ideas or time to share. We want to make this year an awesome one at Creekside.
School Spirit Store – Cheryl Piccillo
Due to popular request, we will once again be ordering
Creekside T-shirts, sweatshirts and more.
The design will be the same as last year (Dare to Soar).
Please complete the order form found in your child's Friday
folder and return it, along with payment, to his or her
teacher by the deadline noted on the form.
Please note that at this time, this will be the only
ordering planned for this year, so place your order now.
We will continue to offer some items at our Spirit store
but cannot guarantee the colors or sizes you want will be
available. Also, if you would be willing to sort orders and
assist with the distribution, please e-mail Cheryl Piccillo
at cpiccillo@yahoo.com. This would be a great way to spread
the Creekside spirit, meet other parents and help by
committing to a one time event!
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Please remember to keep collecting the following over summer vacation, so we can get a great start going into next year:
Thanks for your helping this year in raising $1,500 worth of cash and awards. For more information, please contact Tina Casto at tina.casto@gmail.com.

Get your news and read about the latest happening from the Creekside PTA President Lara Cole on the new PTA President's Blog.
See the updated listing of all the active PTA committees and our wish list of those committees that are in the most need of parent volunteers for the upcoming school year. If you are interested in any of these opportunities, or would like more information on volunteering through PTA in general, please contact Christy Esterling at christyesterling@nc.rr.com.
Join the Creekside PTA and be part of helping to improve the education, health, and well-being of all children. We support better education, more resources, and safer schools for all children. Membership is open to anyone concerned with the education, health, and welfare of children and youth. For more information on joining through PTA, please contact Amber Rappleyea.
Be sure to register to support Creekside! We're not asking you to buy anything...we are asking you to support Creekside by registering at area businesses and saving product labels...that's easy! Register at:
Harris Teeter: 5611
Target VISA: 121367
Food Lion: Register online
Office Depot: 70204253
Please use this form when requesting reimbursement by check from the PTA. Completed forms should be sent to the PTA Treasurer.