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NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER
JUNE 2019

ANCHORS AWAY....SUMMER IS COMING!

As the school year wraps up, I want to give a very heartfelt thank you to our amazing PTO and
the many parent volunteers that keep our ship sailing along to create such an amazing school
for our kiddos. Team work makes the dream work and it has been wonderful to work with all of
you. I look forward to planning lots of exciting activities for next school year …after a fun
summer of course! Best wishes for a safe, happy and fun- lled summer to all of you!

Maggie Piotter
PTO President
2018 ANCHOR FUN RUN "IN COLOR"
We would like to thank all the families that participated in the Anchor Fun Run this year! We
had a total of 251 people that registered in advance with more registering on site the day of
the event! Even though the weather did not completely cooperate for us, we still had an
amazing turn out the day of the event! A huge thank you to our sponsor, Two Moms and a Mop,
who generously donated their funds, their resources, and their time at the event! Thank you
Cahills! We are so lucky to have you in our LCE Family!

Thank you to Smoked Down BBQ and Via Gelato for the after-race snack options! They were
delicious! Be sure to click the links for more information about these two businesses.

Thank you also to our event chairs: Sarah Overholt, Kim Evans, and Maggie Piotter for all of
their work coordinating, planning and setting up this special 90th Anniversary celebration in
combination with our Anchor Run!

We could never have pulled this event off without all of our amazing volunteers! We had past
and present LCE students and families as well as some other high school students from both
PNHS and PCHS. We were told that spraying the color was just as much fun as being sprayed!
Thank you to Paul Cahill, Lesley Cahill, Scott Overholt ,Laura Pallo, Marianne Voetberg, Ellie
Voetberg, Reagan Voetberg, Connie Nelson, Tinsley Nelson, Evie Nelson, Owen Nelson, Teresa
Caron, Zoe Kipp, Makenzie Peterson, Ashlyn Peterson, Madison Still, Stella Trickey, Ashlee
Jackson, Brandon Durant, Rachael Beachnau, Sarah Blum, Michael Blum, Jackson Blum, Lilah
Blum, Benjamin Blum, Tim Carlisle, Sophia Ehler, Kara Ehler, Brian VanDerWoude, Debbie
VanDerWoude, Nena McComas, and Kris Taylor. If we have forgotten anyone, we apologize but
we appreciate all of your help!

If you have not seen the amazing photos taken by Nena and Kris, check out our LCE PTO
Facebook page or click Here and Here to see them all.
PTO
MEETING -
ALL ARE
WELCOME!
We will have our last PTO
meeting of this school year on
Monday, June 11th at 4:30 pm
in the 2nd oor media center.
Childcare will be provided
TERRACYCL
E:
ELIMINATIN
G THE IDEA
OF WASTE
Terracycle went really well for
the rst classroom collection.
Thank you so much for all who
participated. I know that a lot of
conversations were sparked,
and I hope that our school will
continue to grow within this
program.
Congratulations to Mrs. Rutten’s
class for collecting the most
items. They will get smoothies
and get to pick the organization
that our school will give to this
school year through the
Terracycle program.
As your children clean out their
desks and nd all those dead
markers, we are also collecting
those and recycling them with
Crayola. A box is in the entry
way, next to the Terracycle
draws.
Here is to making Lake Center
Elementary a greener school
and teaching our children the
importance of helping the
environment and others.
DINING OUT
FUNDRAISER
S
Thank you to all of the families
that participated in our last
dining out fundraiser of the
school year at Taco Bob's. We
had a great turnout and with the
generous donation of 20% of
the sales throughout the entire
day we were able to raise $ for
our school! Combined with all
of the other dining out
fundraisers for the year, that is
a grand total of over $1600
raised for our school! What an
easy and fun way to come
together to support our school!
Thank you families! We
appreciate your support and
thank you to all of the
participating restaurants:
Peace Love & Little Donuts,
Culver's, Panera, Chipotle,
Moe's, and Taco Bob's.
 WE ARE STILL IN NEED OF SOME
VOLUNTEERS AND DONATIONS FOR
TOPPINGS! PLEASE CLICK BELOW IF YOU
CAN HELP!

Ice Cream Social 2018 www.signupgenius.com

It's time to socialize with some ice cream and get your kiddos
their summer reading books! Looking for volunteers for set up,
cafeteria supervision and clean up. Also someone to run the
registers for the book fair. In addition, we are in need of
donations of ice cream toppings as listed below. Thank you so
much in advance for your generosity.   Teresa and Connie
 MRS.
BALTMANIS
IS SETTING
SAIL!
It is bittersweet for us to bid
farewell to our beloved Mrs.
Baltmanis. Please take a
moment in the remaining days
of the school year to thank Mrs.
Baltmanis for her dedication to
Lake Center Elementary. We are
so grateful to her for taking
such special care of our
students and keeping our
school running so well and
always sharing her warm smile
as our kids walked into school
each day! She will truly be
missed! Join us in a farewell
ceremony during the Ice Cream
Social upstairs in the Media
Center to share your well
wishes and bid farewell to our
front o ce friend!
HAPPY PTO PARENT
RETIREMEN FEEDBACK
T MRS. SURVEY
GLASS! We would love to have your
feedback! Each year we strive
Our sweet Mrs. Glass will be
to improve our PTO and
retiring from Lake Center at the
improve upon the fundraisers,
end of this year. Thank you for
events, and support that we
inspiring our children, sharing
give to the school! Your opinion
your talents and creating
matters to us! Please take a
beautiful music together! She
few minutes to record your
has been such a blessing to
thoughts in this anonymous
have at our school and for
end-of-year survey! Thank you!
being so kind for and for
always sharing her warm smile
as our kids walked into school
each day! She will truly be
missed. Many wishes for a
happy retirement Mrs. Glass!
Join us in a farewell ceremony
during the Ice Cream Social
upstairs in the Media Center to
share your well wishes and bid
farewell to our friend. Many
wishes for a happy retirement!

STAFF APPRECIATION WEEK

THANK YOU!
Thank you to everyone that helped us give our staff the star
treatment during Staff Appreciation Week May. Thank you
especially to our PTO chairs Sarah Blum and Melissa Jorgensen
for coordinating this special week! Thank you also to everyone
that sent in supplies and goodies to make this week and success and for bringing in gifts,
letters and owers for our teachers to show them our gratitude! Thanks for checking! Thank
you to Meijer and Target for donating gift cards, EarthFare for the breakfast items, Jade
Johnson for the cupcakes and Marcell Corlin for the gluten free mu ns and cupcakes.

MILEAGE CLUB
We had a great year of Mileage Club this year and together the
LCE students logged over 2000 miles on the track behind the
school! Wow! Mrs. Kitchen will be awarding certi cates for the
top achievers in each grade level next week and students who
logged more than 5 miles, received a Toe token. We would like
to thank Melissa Jorgensen for her work as chairperson for this
event and for all of the parent volunteers that came out to help
count laps and cheer our kids on. Thank you Heather Kent, Deborah Goodchild, Stephanie
Trevino, Lesley Cahill, Nicole Reedy, Jade Johnson, Christy Szekely, Sonja Staples, and Maggie
Piotter

2018-2019 LAKE CENTER

ELEMENTARY PTO
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Executive Board:
Maggie Piotter - President,
Christy Szekely - Vice President,
Kim Evans - Secretary,
Erin Kissinger - Treasurer
Principal: Kelly Jensenius
Teacher Representatives: Marci Mungovan & Lisa Trott
Board Members: Sarah Blum, Lesley Cahill, Teresa Caron, Tara
Chumita, Aggie Cottrell, Tommy Cottrell, Toyin Daranijoh, Jade
Johnson, Melissa Jorgensen, Rachel Millward, Connie Nelson,
Stephanie Norg, Sarah Overholt, Stacie Sokolowski, & Kristen
Weaver

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