Volunteer opportunities – Can you chip in some time?

There are so many opportunities, large and small, for volunteers this year. Please take a look at this list and think about if your time, interests and skills might match these needs. Contact President Brian Morgan (360-970-9513) if you have questions or want to sign up! The pay isn’t great but I promise you’ll get plenty of genuine thanks and a great feeling inside.

• Adopt-a-road coordinator – we have signed up with the City of Lacey for a 0.5-mile stretch of roadway to keep clear of debris and trash. We need someone to coordinate volunteers for this program throughout the year, at monthly intervals.
• Halloween fun night general volunteers!! (Friday, October 30^th)
• Fun Run volunteers (course monitors, for the most part – Date TBD
• Bazaar volunteers (set-up, breakdown) – Saturday, November 21^st
• Newsletter – articles and editing (these are normally published monthly)
• Yearbook – we need photographers who are willing to snap pictures at school and PTA events, as well as people to help coordinate the yearbook itself with our publisher.
• Fundraising – we need some additional input and ideas, not only with the upcoming spring fundraiser but to provide suggestions for next year’s fundraising!
• Business partner volunteers – soliciting local businesses for donations, informing them of the benefits of partnering with us
• Website development – we use the user-friendly Google blogspot to manage our web presence. No software needed!
• Book fair volunteers – these will probably coincide with the fall conferences in late October and we’ll need volunteers to staff the book fair during its hours of operation. No experience necessary!
• Coordinators for simple programs that we would like to implement, including “Donuts for Dads” and/or “Muffins for Moms”. These two would include arranging for food (perhaps through donations by businesses), volunteers and advertising the event to Mt. View parents. These programs can only be instituted if we have someone to coordinate them!
• Coordinators for a proposed military appreciation dinner or event.

If you have a program you would like PTA to consider, please give us your idea by sending it in, dropping it in our PTA suggestion box at the front of the school or in person at a PTA meeting! If you have a great idea, please come prepared to help implement it, if at all possible!