Mark your calendars for the Central School

Family Fun Night

Join us on

September 24th from 5:30-7:30 PM*

to kick-off the school year with other Central families.

Family Fun Night will take place behind Central/Hauser in the school parking lot. This is a great way to meet new Central friends and catch up with old ones.

Don’t miss our games, prizes and giant jumpee! Dance lessons will be provided by Riverside’s Principle Dance along with rockin tunes from our DJ!

What if all of that dancing gets you hungry?

Pizza, popcorn and ice cream too! Look for more information about this exciting event over the next few weeks.

We are currently looking for parent volunteers to sign-up for 1/2 hour time slots to help set-up, serve food and supervise activities during the event on September 24th. This is a great way to meet other parents.

If you are interested in volunteering — please contact Tracy Sloan at sloant@centralptonews.org.

Thanks in advance for your help.

*Note – in the event of rain, Family Fun Night will be held in the Hauser gyms from 6:30-8:30.

Hello Students, Parents, and Faculty,
A student who attends Ames School needs our help!   His name is Ethan Tkalec, and he was diagnosed with Giant Axonal Neuropathy (GAN), a rare and fatal disorder.  This disorder slowly takes away all the abilities we take for granted, like walking, writing, speaking, moving around, and even swallowing.
Hannah’s Hope Fund, the organization working to find a cure and treatment for GAN, is competing for $250,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Project.  The prize money will help fund human clinical trials in 2011.  This prize money will help save Ethan’s life.

We are asking that you vote for us EVERY DAY by each method below, if you can, with your parents’ permission.  Please pass this along to all your friends. Anyone with a valid email address can vote.

We are currently in 4th place, but  need to be in 1st or 2nd to win the prize.  Please help Ethan and the other children with GAN to live!  The Contest ends August 31, 2010! TODAY

With Deep Appreciation,
Gelse and John Tkalec

EVERY VOTE IS CRITICAL!!  Vote 3 times a day!  Remember, just because you hear the Pepsi can open doesn’t mean you’ve casted your vote.  You need to then click the VOTE FOR THIS IDEA button again! (at the bottom of the screen – You’ll see the number of remaining votes go from 10 to 9.)  Only vote for Hannah’s Hope Fund in the $250k category, as we are competing against all the rest in this category to be either #1 or #2.

You can make your vote count 3 times a day!

Voting instructions
1) Vote Daily by texting To:73774 (stands for Pepsi), Message:101885 (stands for Hannah’s Hope Fund)
No additional charge to text – it’s whatever your text plan is.
2)  Vote Daily on-line at   www.refresheverything.com/hannahshopefund  with every valid email account you have: work, personal etc. Then, press the ‘VOTE FOR THIS IDEA’ button.
3) If you have a facebook account, you are able to vote AGAIN on-line daily by logging into the Pepsi site using your facebook login. After you’ve finished voting as outlined in step 2 above, click the ’sign-out’ link on bottom left of Pepsi window.  Then, click ‘sign-in’ link, and press the blue ‘LOGIN WITH FACEBOOK’ button on top left of the Pepsi sign-in window.  Then, click ‘BROWSE IDEAS & VOTE’ button on right.  On the top right of the Pepsi screen where the magnifying glass is, type Hannah’s Hope Fund in the search field. Vote again!

Thank you for your support!

If you have a son who will be entering first through fifth grade, and would like to learn more about Cub Scouts, please join Pack 24 for a picnic. The picnic is Sunday July 25, from 12:00 – 6:00 at National Grove #2 in North Riverside (29th and Desplaines Ave.) The picnic is free and there’s no obligation to join. Come spend the day with your friends and neighbors and see what’s awesome about Cub Scouts. The whole family is invited.

More details are available at the Pack 24 website.

If you can make it to the picnic, please RSVP online.

The issue of crossing guards is on the Village of Riverside Village Board Regular Meeting Monday at 7:30PM in Room 4 of the Township Hall (27 Riverside Road.)

VII. Unfinished and Deferred Business
     A.     Discussion of Crossing Guards

The public is allowed and encouraged to make comments on this, or any, issue. Please see the Agenda for the appropriate manner and time to make a public comment.

The June Village Board of Trustee Agenda

has been posted on the Village web site.

Attached is a copy:  Riverside Village Agenda 6.7.10

Item VIII, C is PUBLIC SAFETY, HEALTH AND LANDSCAPE (Trustee James Reynolds) 1. Discussion of crossing guards

The public is allowed and encouraged to make comments on this, or any, issue.  Please see the PDF document for the appropriate manner and time to make a public comment.

VILLAGE OF RIVERSIDE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING
Monday, June 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Room 4, 27 Riverside Road, Riverside, IL 60546

The Friends of the Fourth are asking for donations to be made so that we can continue to celebrate the July 4th festivities.

EVERY dollar collected will be used for these events.

To make a donation in person, go to Riverside Bank, 17 E. Burlington Street.

To mail in a donation, address a check to Friends of the Fourth and mail it to P.O. Box 26, Riverside, IL 60546.

Village of Riverside Eliminates Crossing Guards

The PTA/ PTO’s of District 96 would like you to be aware the Village of Riverside has not funded crossing guards in next year’s Village budget.  District 96 has sought legal counsel regarding the implications of reimbursing the Village for the cost of the guards.

For information regarding the elimination of the crossing guards, please read the landmark article: Who will foot the bill for the crossing guards?

If you have an opinion about this issue, we would encourage you to speak with or e-mail our District 96 and Village elected officials.

The e-mail address for the District 96 elected officials is the following:  Boardofed@district96.org.

The members who share the above e-mail address are as follows:
President, Nancy Jenson
Giles McCarthy
Jennifer Leimberer
Mary Ellen Meindl
James Schraidt
Mary Stimming
Hareena Wakely

The next District 96 Board of Education meeting is Tuesday, May 18th at 7:30 P.M. at Hauser Jr. High School.  The agenda has allocated time for public comment.  The issue was tabled at the April meeting for discussion and action at the May meeting.

The Village Trustees may be contacted at the following e-mail address:

President, Mike Gorman, at mgorman@riverside.il.us

James D. Reynolds, jreynolds@riverside.il.us
Lonnie R. Sacchi, lsacchi@riverside.il.us
John E. Scully, jscully@riverside.il.us
Benjamin Sells,bsells@riverside.il.us
Mark D. Shevitz, mdshevitz@riverside.il.us
Jean Sussman, jsussman@riverside.il.us

The next Village meetings are scheduled for May 3rd and May 17th at the Village Hall.  As of this publication, the May schedule and agenda were not on the Village web site.

To speak at a Village meeting, please follow the directions on the Village web site:  Village of Riverside

Thanks for your attention in this matter.  Your voiced opinion can make a difference!

The District 96 PTA/ PTO Presidents

Ames:  Jen Kaiser, Stephanie Schulte
Blythe:  Lisa Gaynor
Central:  Allyn Pilewski
Hauser: Fran Sitkiewicz, Lisa Aulerich-Marciniak
Hollywood: Kierith Kurth, Denise Notz

St. Louise de Marillac School is hosting a chess tournament on March 27th.

Details in the flyer: Chess Tournament 2010

The people of Haiti have been devastated by the recent earthquake.  They are in need of so many basic things that we take for granted.

Central School is collecting money to send to the Haitian Community.  Our relief efforts are outlined in the flyer:  Help Haiti.

We are also collecting any loose change your children may want to donate from their piggy banks.  Have them drop their change off at the office.  All is appreciated.