W-G Parent Email(4-1-10)

Dress Code: Please review with your student the Dress Code. With the warmer weather the clothes are shrinking!!!! We want everyone to be in proper attire to learn without distractions! Let me know if you have questions. I can send the dress code to you or you can get on the website and look in the handbook!

Activities:
Monday, April 5:
Boys and Girls Golf at East Greene, 4:00
Boys and Girls Track at Panorama, 4:30
Friday, April 9:
Girls Track at Ballard, 5:00
Spring Play, “Once Upon a Teen”, 7:00 PM High School Auditorium
Saturday, April 10:
Spring Play, “Once Upon a Teen”, 7:00 PM High School Auditorium

Mark Your Calendar:
Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30 in the HS Auditorium. The Concert Band and Choir will be performing. Fine arts awards will be given out that night. This includes the band, Choir and Drama/Speech awards.

Enjoy the long weekend!

Below is the Hawk Stadium Minutes. Please take a look they are looking for volunteers on April 17th to work a ISU FB game.(Which is PROM!)


March 31, 2010

Follow our progress at our website....
Hawk Stadium Website: http://wgstadium.webs.com/

Jim Uthe brought the meeting to order.

The first item up for discussion was the T-Ball field. We need to make certain the field is put back into the same condition it was left since T Ball practice is beginning this weekend. We will be meeting at the T Ball field southeast of the football field tonight at 5:30 to clean up any material left by contractors and make sure the field will be ready. We are asking any volunteers to meet at the field at 5:30 tonight to help clean up. There are still bleachers that belong to Perry we used for the football playoff that will be moved and hauled away this Friday.

Jim asked about ordering the bleachers. He spoke with the bleacher company and gave them a verbal agreement. They could be delivered by July 24th. We still need to raise money to pay for these bleachers. He has not yet signed a contract at this time.

Dick Boies with the George Long company spoke with Jim about the Goalposts. He is honoring his sale price from last December of $2895. Jim asked if we wanted to go ahead with purchasing new goalposts. Th subject remains under discussion. Dick also mentioned to Jim about getting a quote for the irrigation from Bob Lenc Landscaping, as he has worked with them on other complexes. We will review a bid from Bob Lenc Landscaping. He also mentioned he could possibly get us a discount on our bleacher price of about 20%. He also mentioned he has a contact at Wells Fargo that may help us with a new scoreboard. At this point, we are considering using the old scoreboard. All these items are still under review and discussion to see what bids come in and if they are under our current bids and will be directly influenced by funds we still need to raise to cover these items.

The third week in May is when Fisher Tracks will be working on putting the rock and asphalt down for the track. The Polymat will NOT be put down at that time unless we have raised additional funding to cover the cost by then.

Committee Updates

Approval of bills ~ Amy submitted a bill to be paid and there may be a bill coming for the installation of the lights on the poles.

Finance ~ Total amount raised: $449,122.00 We still have outstanding pledges of $171,600 of that total that need to be collected. We currently have $51,000. in the bank as of 3/31/10

Fundraising ~ The Raffle is still ongoing. Lance is still working to determine an event and place to wrap up the Raffle and draw the winning entry on May 28th. You can still buy Raffle tickets by contacting a committee member or going to the Hawk Stadium website here: http://wgstadium.webs.com/fundraisers.htm

The Carnival and Pancake breakfast we held the past two Saturdays brought in some funds. A brick was purchased at the Carnival and a few hurdles. We hosted a free face painting booth and had our information for the stadium project on display hoping to get interest from parents of our younger athletes and raise more funds.

The pancake breakfast was successful as we sold three bricks and several Raffle tickets, along with the freewill donations for the breakfast.

We discussed further fundraising events. We are looking into a Spaghetti Supper. Details to follow.

Donation Committee ~ Bridget went over the Business and Alumni contact list. Follow up from various members and who they contacted and the outcome was discussed. Many people say they are going to do something, but now is the time to follow up and collect funds.

General Contractor Update ~ Nathan said the lights are up and McAninch will be coming to finish up the work that was part of our bid with them. We are developing a timeline and responsible party to keep the project on track and have it football ready for the inner squad game on August 20th, 2010. Our first home game is August 27, 2010

Irrigation is nearly ready to be installed, but we decided to wait on the bid from Bob Lenc Landscaping before proceeding.
Press Box : Nathan is getting pricing for steel for the pressbox priced and footings will need to be poured soon for the press box and scoreboard.

We need to do some seeding with rain coming this weekend. Jim will look into getting the detention pond sodded when the football field is done.

We are in need of parents of the elementary and middle school kids to work the Spring ISU game as a fundraising effort for the stadium project. We need 25 adults to work two concession stands. The spring game will begin at 2:00, so work time will probably be noon. Since this is the day of Prom, many committee members and highschool parents will not be able to work. We are asking the younger athletes parents to step up and volunteer to work this event. Contact Jeanette Boderman mjboder@earthlink.net or Beth Krehbiel bak@tometichengineering.com to sign up to work.

Our next meeting will be April 14th in the Granger school library at 6:00 pm.

If you know of anyone wishing to be a part of this email list, please contact tlmay11@gmail.com and we will get your name added to keep you informed of the project.