Carnival Wrap-Up
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Lost and Found
Contact us if you know who owns these items.
- A pink “ful” backpack with “anna” and “acs” sharpied on it,
- purple tinkerbell backpack with metal butterflies attached,
- “All Points” fuzzy jacket with light/dark blue pattern.
Thank You!
Thanks to all who shared our Saturday with us, whether as a volunteer or a participant or as one of our many donors.
Our carnival cannot happen without a lot of involvement from our community. Thanks to these people for their help with the carnival:
Hemi Khanchandani, our volunteer coordinator.
Lisa Callarman, our food coordinator and storage unit organizer extraordinaire.
PTO Officers Brian Flatgard, Janet Wilson, Theresa Sanchez and Victoria Coe.
Sara Park, our arts and crafts coordinator.
Cory Lee, our bake sale coordinator, and for organizing the recycled water bottle terrarium project and the long-extinct plant & animal project.
Lisa Streu, raffle coordinator, collecting the raffles and determining our top 3 sellers.
Amanda Brite for coordinating all our donations, and coordinating the silent auction.
Michael Nattboy for posting our donors and raffle items online.
Robin and Becky Vining for offering their audio equipment once again.
Satwant Singh Khalsa and Donna Waters for cakewalk help.
Receptionists Dawn Scheurn and Corina Enrique for putting up with all the PTO detritus washing up in their offices, helping boost our wristband sales and being a communications hub.
Damon and Lily Brasch for food contributions from That’s a Wrap and Green.
Julie Kossak and Mark Weeter for food contributions from zPizza.
Colleen Orth for coordinating our prizes, and getting her friends and family to count every single item and put it in a spreadsheet. Amazing!
Sami Rank for pioneering our new food item, decadent vegan No-Killbasa sausages.
Ernesto Maya for going above and beyond with his trailer and helping us move a massive amount of carnival loads.
Madeline Wilson for coordinating the kid auction.
Satwant and Donna (and Jayden!) for a long full day of cakewalkin’.
Gift Baskets
Cricket Bourget for organizing our class gift baskets. Debi Vetter for once again helping to wrap and prepare the baskets. We also want to thank the following classroom coordinators for organizing the gift baskets. Please contact them if you have yet to contribute for your classroom:
- Ramona Fontes (daughter Olivia): Primary North, Pam Hogan
- Victoria Coe 3rd year in a row! (son Jacob): Primary South, Rose Holmes
- Grace Kelly (mom of Wilson): Primary Upstairs, Sylbia Garza
- Linda Valenzuela (mom of Maya Amaro): Lower Elementary North, Carie Modeer
- Camela Jones (mom of Najah): Lower Elementary East, Susan Ritchey
- Mary O’Brien (mom of Ruby Ellis): Lower Elementary South, Mary Erickson
- Debi Vetter (mom of Kenzi): Upper Elementary South: Keerat Giordano
- Heather Karsten (mom of Alec): Upper Elementary North, Lindsay Caglio
- Trudy Pekala (mom of Ariana Dominguez): Transition Kindergarten, Dawn Tapia
Food volunteers
- Ice getters: Cody and Ethan Moody (students) and their grandmother, Shant Khalsa
- Food Set-Up: Carly and Tom Oden, Karen Paxton, Ernesto Amaro, Hemi & Brian
- Pizza Pick-up: Asit Goel
- Food Service: Satnam Khalsa, Carly and Tom Oden, Kathy Callarman, Lana Ruch, Cathy Biggin, Adam (alumni) and his mom, Heather Karsten, Ms. Treasure and her friend, Ann & Kenzi Vetter (student), Hugo Medina
- Sausage: Sami Rank, Richard Bravo, Keri Mosier & Paris and Michael Nattboy, John Hinton
- Bake Sale: Cory Lee, Gina DiLascio, Ms. Melissa, Kristina Holmstrom
- Clean-Up: Kathy Callarman, Lana Ruck, Sami Rank, Heather and Adam Karsten, Members of the Bible Baptist Church Youth Group & Karen Paxton
Even more volunteers
A lot of these volunteers did multiple things, and it’s hard to track how much help was provided. (If you weren’t listed, please let us know so we can get you on the list!)
- Gina Reyes
- Carly Oden
- Keely Varvel Hartsell
- Jerry Geering
- Satnam K Khalsa
- Kirin Khalsa
- Lisa Formica (son: George “Eddie” Masten)
- Heather Karsten
- Adam Karsten
- Sarah Nix
- Maria Spelleri
- Thomas Waldron
- Natalie Newell
- Yolanda Wheelington
- Shoshanna Kroeger
- Kris Ellis
- Jamie Welch
- Tami Johnson
- Farzad & T. Marie Mahootian
- Sandhya Pauchuri
- Linda Valenzuela
- Rachelle Zeitlin
- Trudy Pekala
- Chad Orth
- Russell Horning
- Senna Clement
- Lori Clement
- Chris Andres
- Ramona Fontes
- Aide Geering
- Pam Hogan
- Arushee Divyakirti
- Xavier M Flores
- Raquel Enrique
- Yamini Sahesan
- Melissa Wilson
- Dana Cimmarrusti
- Michael & Cynthia Hrnicek
- Claudia Meráz
- Jill Cooper
- Jaskanwal Singh
- James P. Abner
- Lori Lasota
- Michelle Edwards
- Marie Hibbitt
- Steve Riley
- Mandeep Kaur Sodhi
- Keri Mosier
- Lisa Bartholomew
- Anne Elizabeth Hamilton
- Chris Spelleri
- Sarah De la Rosa
- Angela Balliet
- Stephen Anderson
The crew at Bible Baptist Church for miraculously appearing to help us clean up the park.
The good people of our attractions vendor, A Better Bouncy Alternative, for their polite and unceasing help.
St. Mary’s and the City of Phoenix for use of the parking lot and Monterey Park.
John and Tara Collison for cooler help.
Raffle winners
- Amavilahs
- Janet Wilson
- Lisa Streu