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A message from Tom VanThof - President, and Mick Schoenberger - Vice President
As you know, all three propositions of the recent bond vote passed. Your booster club took an active role in getting the word out and asking people to vote. We put together an awareness campaign that included lawn signs, banners, canvassing neighborhoods with door hangers, and letters to the editor among other things. The primary mission of the booster club is to raise funds for the purpose of supporting Penfield athletic programs. Supporting this bond vote was in direct alignment with that mission. On behalf of the Penfield Sports Booster Club, we Thank You for your support!
On another note, We’d like to tell you about a new fundraising effort that Global Boosters is currently conducting. It’s called the SCRIP program and here’s how it works. We purchase gift cards at a discount from a company that represents various merchants such as Tops, Panera Bread, Starbucks, Home Depot (you name it we can probably get it). You buy the card from booster club at face value, and the excess goes to the booster club. The intention is that you use the scrip cards at places that you would normally go to anyway. It’s really a painless way to fund raise. Patty Vermillion is our SCRIP guru so you can contact her with any questions or card orders. These cards make great gifts!
This year we changed our process regarding facilities requests. We now consider these requests twice a year both in the fall and the spring. We recently supported the purchase of lane clocks and white boards for the swim team through this process.
Finally, I’d like to tell you about another initiative that we’ve undertaken. If you are reading this you already know that The Penfield Sports Booster Club now has its very own website. The address is Penfieldboosterclub.org. While there’s not a lot of content on this site yet, we see this site as being a hub that will house links to individual team websites. In addition, we can provide a page to teams that don’t currently have their own websites so they can have a web presence if they desire. We’ll post booster club meeting minutes, information about fundraisers, and information about facilities requests for example. To the Penfield coaches, if you’d like any specific information posted on the site, please get it to Mr. Shambo or work through your team’s booster rep and we’ll follow up on getting it posted on the site.
As you can see, we’ve been busy.
On behalf of the Penfield Sports Booster Club, Thank You and good luck this season!
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