PLEASE COME AND PARTY! Thanks to so many of you for all your time and energy in the preparation for the Garden Party. Please don't forget the event itself! We want all our parents to come and join in the fun on Saturday, November 11th. The Garden Party is both a major fundraising event and an opportunity for our parent community to celebrate in support of our wonderful school. Invitations have been mailed. Please join us at the Party!

VOLUNTEER! We still need YOU! Each of you has a special skill or talent to contribute. It is not to late to volunteer for the event. One, two or three hours, you decide. Anyone still interested in volunteering, please call Nette Barry at 527-7898.

If you are a member of the Dads Club (or would like to be), please attend the next Dads Club meeting on Tuesday, October 10th at 7pm in the Multi-purpose Room. Sign-up sheets for Dads Club participation in the Garden Party will be available.

AUCTION DONATIONS • We have extended the deadline to this Thursday, October 12th for those of you that need those few extra days! Thanks to so many of you for contributing. Some of you have indicated that you are providing a donation. We must have both the item and the completed donation form by this Thursday. Please contact Debbie Reed at 235-5249 if you have any questions.

ADVERTISE • Last chance to advertise in the Garden Party catalog. Questions regarding ad specifications and payments? Call Katherine Zapata at 233-8311 (home) or 220-3458 (cell) no later than this Thursday, October 12th.

The Garden Party is an ALL VOLUNTEER production. It's Kensington Hilltop School's biggest FUNd-raiser, a wonderful night out, with both silent and live auctions, great food, drinks, and music. Last year's event raised over $75,000! This money funds our school's extra scholastic programs - science and computer lab, art and music, and Read Naturally, just to name a few! These programs are NOT funded by the school district and would not be possible without the Garden Party. This year's Garden Party will be held on Saturday, November 11th at the Universalist Unitarian Church in Kensington. It takes the Kensington Hilltop School community: parents, teachers, and even our kids, to make this party happen!

VOLUNTEER! We need YOU! Each of you has a special skill or talent to contribute
Call Nette Barry 527-7898 if you have questions.

All 4th, 5th and 6th grade classes will be donating cash or check to the Getaways that will be auctioned off.

If you have any questions or have not received your theme flyer, please contact your Garden Party Room parent or Beth Thomsen (jthomsen@aol.com or 527-1319)

NEW THIS YEAR
Classes can earn a PIZZA PARTY - simply by having 90% participation in each class basket, your child's class can have a pizza party.  Be sure to sign in on the Pizza Party sheet (check with your teacher, the sheet should be by the donation box or on the cash envelope) with your name and your child's name. YUM!!

Also new this year. Please try to tape the value (receipt of estimated value) of each item onto your donation. This will help the Basket Committee come up with actual values so we know where to start the silent auction bidding on the great baskets (bidding starts at only HALF the actual value). No need to write your name on the item, just the value.  THANK YOU!!

AUCTION DONATIONS • Please let us know if you have business or know of a business that would like to donate items, gift certificates or services to the Garden Party. Please contact Debbie Reed: 235-5249 debgirltalk@ comcast.net or Barbara Wansick: 528-2407.

GETAWAYS • Please solicit donations of cabins, beach homes, hotels, time shares, houseboats, frequently flier miles, even loaner RV's. Ask relatives, neighbors or friends to donate. Please contact Elise Lusk at 528-8336 or e-mail at eliselusk@ comcast.net.

The Garden Party, a Foodie's Delight! • Thanks to our professional and parent guest chefs...the Garden Party offers fabulous grazing while you bid on our auction items. So whom do YOU know? Any restaurateurs? Bakers? Vintners? Chocolatiers? Dairy? Bottled Water Company? Cheese Wholesalers? You name it...we'll make use of it! Contact Karen Shebek 525-1539 or karenshebek@ aol.com, or Debbie Polito 558-8345 politos@ sbcglobal.net, and we'll be happy to follow up! 

ADVERTISE in the Garden Party catalog. Questions regarding ad specifications and payments? Call Katherine Zapata at 233-8311 (home) or 220-3458 (cell).