Principal Newsletter // SEPTEMBER 12th, 2023
CARNIVAL SUCESS!
Dear Appleton Community,
The Annual Appleton Carnival was a great success! I saw so many smiling faces! It was a fun event that builds community connections, a sense of belonging, and aids the Appleton P.T.A.’s efforts to support so many of the programs that benefit your children.
Thank you for your generous auction bidding. There were amazingly generous examples of folks being outbid and still donating the money they would have paid if they had won.
Thank you for all of your cake donations.
Thank you to all of the staff members and volunteers who covered booths, the food area and the big cleanup afterwards.
Thank you for getting donations for the silent auction.
Thank you to all of the silent auction donations.
Of course we couldn’t have this much fun without the hard work and dedication of the P.T.A. members, teachers, and parents who volunteered their time to make this event so successful.
Hillbilly Grill Supports Appleton to Rave Reviews!
Hillbilly Grill once again did a marvelous job for the Carnival dinner! Stephanie and Miles Gwinn are Appleton parents who happen to also own the Hillbilly Grill catering and food truck. Besides the great food and atmosphere, they make a donation of a percentage of the profits back to the school. Delicious!
Contact Stephanie if you have catering needs: 303-909-5095 or chefsteff@hillbillycatering.com
Special Thanks To:
Sheila Vrooman, Amanda Builteman & Lacey Milligan - Silent Auction Organizers
Silent Auction Donation Team - Katie Johnson and so many others of you searched all over the community to get donations. There are so many of you, I’d hate to miss someone but know that your specific efforts have supported your children with several thousand dollars in donations.
Clayton Newitt, Aryk Croley , & Janice White - Cleanup/Custodial Team. Cleaning up for over 1,000 people on a short time frame is a huge job.
Jared Johnson– P.T.A. President (hours of sound support, planning, and leadership)
Joe Kuta – P.T.A. Vice-President (hauling a truckload of ice to generous gifts of time and resources
Brooke Bray - P.T.A. Treasurer (in charge of prize acquisition and hours of volunteering)
Joy Zeller & John Zeller – Continued support for the P.T.A. Carnival Committee
Blubee Media & Jared Johnson - Carnival commercial & social media posting
Bananas - Bump house donations
Fellowship Church, Shaun Tatum & Will Britt - Carnival booth games support. Two of our most popular games are from Fellowship Church.
Appleton Alumni, Redlands Middle School Flight Crew, Grand Junction, Fruita Monument & Palisade H.S.(various clubs) - volunteers
The Appleton Staff - Lots of extra hours organizing and volunteering for this event. For many, Friday was a 14 hour day some came in on the weekend, as well.
An event this big takes lots and lots of work and partnerships. Everyone who participated in this event deserves a big Appleton THANK YOU!
More Carnival Winners!
We will be contacting all winners of Pie in the Face bids, Front Row Seats at Programs, Ice Cream with the Principal, and other bids very soon.
We do have the winners for the Estimation Jars contests and the totals:
Amount in Each Jar: Winning Guesses:
Laffy Taffy – 175 Whitney Gallegos – 175
Sour Patch - 156 Elsie Wallace - 158
Starburst – 318318 - Colin Fogarty, Bryson Prell, Carter Pollert, Calvin Emerson, Joey Bray
Go Bookworms!
Corey Hafey - Appleton Elementary
