I would like to publicly thank all of the incredible people who gave so much to making this year’s JRA Soirée a success!

Sonja Dickey and Giustina Solano, who spent months soliciting for donations, tirelessly putting together hundreds of packets of information, not to mention setting up and running the entire Silent Auction Saturday night. Thanks to these women, the Silent Auction raised close to $10,000 for our school!!!

Jennifer Reeves, who not only worked with the children everyday on their class projects, but was also in charge of all the decorations that filled the room and made everything come together. Sally Williams who spent weeks making big, beautiful paper flowers for us. Galen Congdon who designed the amazing centerpieces for the tables. Chelbe Heminger and Nicole Fallon who worked with the children of JRA to create wonderful, authentic crafts and decorations for the event. Denise Gagne and Stacy Wallace who helped in so many different ways. They assembled auction paddles and filled in wherever and whenever they were needed. Dale & Kathleen Rhodes for helping with check-in. Matt McHugh & Steve Weitzel for running our Live Auction. Dave Goesel for helping create the invitations for the event. Ari Malatlian for helping us decorate and clean up after the event.

Our teachers: Susie Bulger, Meg Curulla, Darlene Naumen, Renee Garabedian; and the families of JRA: Giustina Solano, Denise Gagne, Kelly Marsh, Hillary Chojnacki, Sharon Stewart, Ari Malatlian, Jennifer Reeves, Jim Roberts, Greg Hawkins, The Nock family, and Steven Sheardown. By generously contributing their time and talent to making projects for our Live Auction, they helped us raise well over $4000!

I would also like to thank Miles Christian-Hart, Leroy Beachy and Beth Golden for donating their services and providing the wonderful entertainment for the evening.

And I can’t forget to thank the parents and friends of JRA who attended the Soirée and helped to make this event such a success with their generous donations.

Together, we have raised enough to make a real difference at the school. This money will go towards getting the new playground equipment that they need, and will also provide the teachers with many of the items that they’ve requested for their classrooms.

I cannot thank you all enough!

Sincerely,
Sharon Carole
JRA PTO President

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