Congratulations to student Natalie Stark!

Lacey Loves to Read 2010 Bookmark winners:

Congratulations to the following students whose artwork was selected for the 2010 Lacey Loves to Read bookmarks. They had surprise visits last week from Lacdey Loves to Read reps and Lacey City Council members. Thanks to the hundreds of students who participated this year. The top 12 winners will have their artwork published to help publicize the Lacey Loves to Read events and 2010 Native American author Jospeh Bruchac. To learn more, visit http://www.nthurston.k12.wa.us/read.

Grand Prize winners:

• Richelle Jones, North Thurston


• Regan Rudy, North Thurston


• Lashay Jimenez, Nisqually


• Natalie Stark, Mountain View


• Owen Carroll, Evergreen Forest


• Tristan Johanson, Pleasant Glade

Honorable mentions:

• Maddelin McElroy, Faith Lutheran (Community Winner)


• Nicole Parsons, Lakes


• Miles Thibodeaux, Horizons


• Briana Scheffer, Lacey


• Sammi Minter, Meadows


• Amy Conklin, South Bay

We need you in February!

Mt. View PTA members and friends of Mt. View,

I am sad to report that we were unable to conduct our important January business at the last meeting. We failed to draw a quorum (minimum of ten, per our rules) of members and thus could not elect our Nominating Committee. For this reason, we have shifted the 2010 meeting schedule and will have another general membership meeting in February, rather than a Board meeting.

Please join us:

Tuesday, February 9^th

6:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Mt. View library

If we fail to draw a quorum at that meeting, then we will not have a Nominating Committee elected and will be forced to hold our election for 2010-2011 officers during the April meeting, simply asking for nominations and self-nominations from the floor.

I certainly realize that some of you simply cannot attend PTA meetings. However, if we cannot even draw ten paid members to take care of important business every other month, then perhaps the PTA does not have enough support to do its business. Please consider whether you find value in PTA and mark your calendar for February 9^th, if at all possible. The point of having a quorum requirement is so that a handful of members cannot dictate the agenda and business decisions for all of you. This is YOUR PTA, after all!

Thanks for continuing to support your PTA. We are proud to do what we can to benefit our kids and students.

Take care,

Brian

January newsletter posted

Here's your January installment of the Mt. View PTA newsletter, thanks to our faithful editor and co-VP, Tara-Lyn Poole! If you have submissions for consideration for February's edition, please submit prior to February 5th.

PTA meeting - join us on Tuesday the 12th

Happy New Year and welcome back to the swing of the school year! I hope you had some time, over the winter break, to spend time with family and reflect over the year of 2009. I admit that I did that and took off my PTA hat for much of the break! But now we’re back to work and we have our next general membership meeting next Tuesday, the 12^th, at 6:30 p.m (Mt. View library).

This is an incredibly important meeting because we will elect our Nominating Committee, which is made up of paid members and is charged with recruiting and finding eligible and interested officer candidates for 2010-2011. Elections are scheduled for the April meeting and officers serve from July through June.

In addition, we are lucky to have two guest speakers on Tuesday:

• Elke Armajo – World Language Program
• Cynthia Coble – North Thurston Citizens for Schools (upcoming levy)

Please join us on Tuesday! If we do not have at least 10 paid members in attendance, it will be a short meeting and we will be unable to elect a Nominating Committee, nor vote on any business. Please help support your PTA by attending and learning more about how PTA works for the students of Mt. View.

Click here for the agenda for Tuesday's meeting and here for the December Board meeting minutes.

As always, thanks for supporting your PTA!

Brian Morgan