MBS HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION NEWS

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                          2007-08 OFFICERS
         
                       President - JENNY ORTEGO
                  Vice-President - DANIELLE DICHARRY
                       Treasurer - MICHELLE WYBLE
         Corresponding Secretary - WENDY MAGILL
             Recording Secretary - VALERIE WEBRE


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              2007-08 CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS


April 4	        Spring PALS Luncheon

April 22	Home & School General Membership Meeting @ 6:30

April 28	Bus Driver & Cafeteria Appreciation Week
- May 2	 

May 5	        Teacher Appreciation Week
- May 9	 

June 7	        Used Uniform Sale


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Congratulations to our Mother Seton award winner this year!  
MARY GUILHERME is a dedicated and dependable volunteer at MBS.  
She is a regular library and Book Fair volunteer, assists with Daisies 
and Brownies, has judged Science and Social Studies fairs, and has served
as the Home and School Fundraiser Committee chair for three years.   
At church, Mary has worked with the Children’s Liturgy and was also a 
Vacation Bible School teacher.  

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If you would like to participate in the upcoming Appreciation Week 
activities, please contact Danielle Dicharry at ddicharry1@cox.net.  

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CAFETERIA HELP

Welcome to our new Cafeteria Volunteer Coordinator Angie Courville!  
Angie will be organizing the cafeteria volunteer schedule to make sure we
have the help we need at lunchtime.  Please contact Angie (751-9404 or 
angecourville@hotmail.com) if you would like to sign up to help in the 
cafeteria.  

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Our "Pelican Partners" for this year include:

+	BREWBACHERS

When you dine-in our take-out on MBS Night at Brewbachers (3410 S. 
Sherwood Forest or 909 East Ascension Drive in Gonzales), ask for the 
sale to be credited to MBS. MBS will receive 10% of the sales for that 
evening.  Brewbachers nights this year are: 

     August 29            January 16          
     September 19         February 20        
     October 17           March 19           
     November 14          April 16                                    
     December 5           May  14.

+       DOMINOS PIZZA

The first Monday night of every month, Domino’s Pizza will contribute 20% 
of all orders received to our school.  Simply call Domino’s Pizza on the 
designated school night, mention MBS, and 20% of your bill will be 
automatically contributed to our school. 

The designated Domino’s Pizza nights for 2008 are as follows:

     Monday, February 11th (due to Mardi Gras holiday)
     Monday, March 3rd
     Monday, April 7th
     Monday, May 5th

Call the Domino’s Pizza nearest you:

     751-8193 – 5433 Jones Creek Rd.
     744-3232 – 17278 Airline Hwy.- Prairieville

+	TARGET VISA

Designate MBS and Target donates an amount equal to one percent (1%) of 
your Target Visa Credit Card, Target Credit Card, Target Check Card or 
Target Business Card purchases at any Target store and Target.com, and 
one-half percent (1/2%) of your other Target Visa Credit Card purchases.

+	ALBERTSONS

Earn money for MBS by using your Community Partners card.  

+	OFFICE DEPOT 

Ask the cashier to assign your purchase to MBS when buying school 
supplies and MBS will receive credits equal to 5% of the qualifying 
purchases to use for free supplies.

*** If you know of a business that might wish to become a Pelican Partner, ***
           *** please contact Katherine Lastor at 756-2974. ***

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COLLECTIBLES INFO

We participate in two campaigns:

1.  General Mills "Box Tops for Education"

Clip the special "10¢ Box Tops for Education" coupon from hundreds of products.  
Each Box Top is worth 10¢ to our school—and that adds up fast!

Go to http://www.boxtops4education.com/Downloads/Global/products.pdf
for a complete list of all products included in the program. 

2.  Community Coffee "Cash for Schools"

All coffee products, tea products, creamer, sugar and coffee filters
contain eligible UPCs.

The more Community® and Private Reserve® product UPCs we collect, 
the more cash your we can earn! 

Each Community UPC saved is worth up to 15 cents and UPCs collected from
commercial businesses are worth up to 75 cents. 

(The value of each UPC is dependent upon the total number of UPCs received.)

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