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April 5 – 18, 2014
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Nominations for 2014-15 PTO Board members are open; anyone interested should contact knoxelementarypto@gmail.com for more information. Free child care is provided during the meeting. Flying high – Last year, several CUSD teachers and administrators designed and launched a high-altitude balloon. Sally SkyRider, as she is now known, launched near Casa Grande and traveled nearly 100 miles east to land on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Sally was recovered, intact and full of interesting data and video footage. This year, Knox gifted fifth graders will take the lead redesigning the questions and payload; the next launch is scheduled for Saturday, April 12. Stay up to date on Sally SkyRider and the work of the KGA fifth graders by following her on Twitter, Instagram and Flickr; check it out at my.yapp. us/D7S8DX. Character Counts – Students are asked to come dressed in green to celebrate the character trait of Responsibility at the next school assembly Thursday, April 17. Chess champs – The Knox chess team recently won first place in the K-3 champ section. Trophies were also won individually by Kenneth Su, second place; Benjamin Higgins, fourth place; and Evan Higgins, 15th place. Calendar April 8: PTO meeting April 8-11: AIMS testing May 2: Field Day May 5-9: Teacher Appreciation Week May 6: PTO meeting May 9: Muffins for Moms —Jacqueline Bartrim
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Get involved and give back by volunteering Event season has hit Arizona with clear skies and beautiful temperatures that draws the community outdoors. Downtown Chandler is no exception, and for the next few months there is an event almost every weekend. The Downtown Chandler Community Partnership (DCCP) is seeking volunteers to assist at a variety of events such as the Chandler Craft Spirits Festival, Cinco de Mayo and Chandler Chill Out. “Volunteering at one of our events is a fun way to get involved in the community, meet people, and assist at events that raise money for our
foundation which provides grants to nonprofits in the community,” explains the DCCP’s Executive Director, Jennifer Lindley. Volunteer duties vary per event but often include beer and wine tents, ticket sales, wrist banding, information booth, kid zone attendants and more. See below for a list of upcoming events needing volunteers: • Chandler Craft Spirits Festival – 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday April 26, • Cinco de Mayo Festival and Chihuahua Races – 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 3, • Chandler Chill Out – 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Saturday, May 31 Visit downtownchandler.org/ volunteer-downtown/ or email allison@downtownchandler.org for more information.
Kids: Win $15 gift card from Changing Hands Bookstore Students who either live in Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek or surrounding areas or who attend area schools can win $15 gift cards from Changing Hands Bookstore, thanks to a partnership between the bookseller and the SanTan Sun News. This ongoing, monthly promotion awards a $15 Changing Hands gift card to every youth whose article, story, poem, essay, editorial, book review, photo or illustration is chosen to be printed in the SanTan Sun Kids Opportunity section, while
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supplies last. The Kids Opportunity section is printed in the Youth Section of the first paper of the month, each month. The best news is that even though only one to three submissions are printed per month, all good submissions are held in a file to be printed in future issues. So if an entry doesn’t win this month, it could win next month— or even the month after that. To enter, visit SanTanSun.com, click on Youth and then on Student
Writer Permission Slip to download a submission-permission slip. Complete the form and have a parent sign it so the paper has permission to print the entry and the author or artist’s byline. Then, email the submission-permission slip and writing or artwork to news@ SanTanSun. com as a Word file, if writing, or JPEG, if art, or pasted into the email.
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