Garibaldi PAC Has a New Webspace!

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Please come by and check out our new blog. Drop by often to keep up to date on what's happening.

If you would like to post to the new blog, please email a request for an account. We'll send you an invite to the blog, which will allow you to create your own account and create posts. 

Alternately, you can email your post and we will post it for you. 

New Web Address (please update your files): garibaldipac.wordpress.com
Email: garibaldiannexpac@gmail.com

Regards, The Garibaldi PAC 2015-16

parenting workshops at HCC

Bat walk in Hastings Park Sep 26

raspberry pruning Th 11 am

Sorry for the short notice but such is life often.
If you are interested and able to come and help us, please meet us at 11 am in the garden. If you have garden pruning scissors and garden gloves, please bring them along.

See you tomorrow!

Jana

August raspberry pruning

Hi folks!
It's time to prune our fabulous twice bearing raspberries in the Garibaldi garden. I am hoping to get that done by the end of this week. Is there anyone interested in learning how to do this type of pruning?
If yes, please let me know what time would work for you. I am pretty flexible but also have a life:)
Once time is set, I will post here, so anyone interested can come and help us:)

Jana
jana.ronne@gmail.com

Look at these!

I can't believe that 4 weeks of summer have already zipped by! I hope you are all sharing some really nice moments together with your families!
The garden party was really fun and our new signs are now in the garden and they are working! Thank you, Lena, for creating them!
Neighbours are coming in to harvest kale, cucumbers, berries, herbs. Other neighbours ask about more exact dates on the ripening of our apples:)

Come by and send your neighbours to enjoy the garden too!

Jana and Sandra
(moms to Julian and Maja - now in ARLord -  and Findlay)

Garden party July 15! Please post widely

Manure sale March 28!

Our popular annual manure sale is back! This year it will be held on Saturday, March 28, from 9am - 4pm in the Garibaldi Annex parking lot.

Hormone & antibiotic free, locally produced,

1.5-years-composted steer manure

Great for flowers or veggies!

Cost: $5 per 5 gallon bag or bring your own wheelbarrow before lunch and save $1/bag by taking unbagged manure!

We reward each hour of bagging help with 1 free bag.

Refreshments, light lunch and babysitting provided.

Manure is sourced from Hopcott Farms in Pitt Meadows.

Order here:

Manure order form

Sign-up to help here:

 volunteer sign-up

(Just enter your name into any time slot that works for you.
The link has been fixed, if you had trouble in the past)

Alternately, you can order manure or sign-up to volunteer by e-mailing the.manure.sale@gmail.com

Please, spread the word, put in your and your family's and friends' orders and come out and help us bag!
All the proceeds will go towards the Garibaldi Annex and AR Lord PAC funds to benefit our children.

$10 trees from treekeepers - Let's plant an urban (food) forest

Treekeepers are selling fruit and landscaping trees for $10-15 each again this year.

Pick up is at local community centers.

This year, there are 3 varieties of apple (Jonafree, Honeycrisp, Spartan), 3 fig varieties, 2 plum varieties (President and Yakima prune plums), Japanese maples, magnolias and hibiscus trees.

For more information on available trees and to purchase, follow this link

Treekeepers Buy a Tree

When completing your purchase, enter the name of our school as your community school. It might give us a chance to win a grant.

The annual manure sale is back!

Our popular annual manure sale is back! This year it will be held on Saturday, March 28, from 9am - 4pm in the Garibaldi Annex parking lot.

Hormone & antibiotic free, locally produced,

1.5-years-composted steer manure

Great for flowers or veggies!

Cost: $5 per 5 gallon bag or bring your own wheelbarrow before lunch and save $1/bag by taking unbagged manure!

We reward each hour of bagging help with 1 free bag.

Refreshments, light lunch and babysitting provided.

Manure is sourced from Hopcott Farms in Pitt Meadows.

Order here:

Manure order form

Sign-up to help here:

 volunteer sign-up

(Just enter your name into any time slot that works for you)

Alternately, you can order manure or sign-up to volunteer by e-mailing the.manure.sale@gmail.com

Please, spread the word, put in your and your family's and friends' orders and come out and help us bag!
All the proceeds will go towards the Garibaldi Annex and AR Lord PAC funds to benefit our children.

Reminder!!! Garibaldi Annex - Hastings Sunrise Cook(s) Book update

Calling Volunteers!  Please come to the 1st meeting

So far we have 3 new volunteers!  These volunteers came forward for Graphic Design and Soliciting Restaurants and planning!  We still need more help!


Come out to find out more about the project:
First meeting February 3rd 2015!  7:00 p.m.
Please RSVP your attendance if possible

2510 Parker St., Vancouver, BC
Email Kate:  kamulligan3@gmail.com

Here's a first go at laying out the possible concept, but this will be discussed at Tuesday's meeting:

Hasting Sunrise Cook (s) book

Vision:  Inspire Hastings Sunrise to find about the “small school with the big heart” and engage our community in becoming Garibaldi advocates and promoting “good, local” food.

What: A cookbook featuring Hastings Sunrise restaurant recipes along with features from the Hastings Sunrise community.

Why:  It will instill a sense of pride, togetherness and understanding about Garibaldi and the greater Hastings Sunrise community.

How: The cookbook with feature recipes from participating restaurants, tips for urban gardening with a focus on child friendly foods and activities.

When:  Timeline February until May 2015

Format:  The cookbook will be available in print and possible online content.  

Fundraising goal:  minimum $7000 to Garibaldi Annex or 50% to Garibaldi and 50% to a Hastings Sunrise foundation for good, local food fund or similar or, to be provided to neighbouring schools for sustainable food development.

Promotion:  Local eateries, local media,  Tourism Vancouver, Vancouver foodie tours, MLA and MP, neighbourhood schools within the Hastings Sunrise Catchment.  

Budget: TBD

Development:

Printing, binding:

Promotion:

Website:

Video:

Outcomes: Awareness builder for Garibaldi Annex, community engagement, driver of enrollment, food awareness, food growing…

Design:  The cookbook will have a grassroots feel, what makes the Hastings Sunrise community unique.  The book will feature inspired recipes from local eateries that would appeal to children, have a story or East Van roots.  The book will look like our community in the raw, but will appeal to those living outside the Hastings Sunrise neighbourhood. This will make a great gift for those food enthusiasts, your friends and family in or outside the community.  It will be a great story about why our community is so amazing.

Launch:

Diner en Blanc at Garibaldi featuring greater community including restaurants, entertainment and families that represent the Garibaldi community.

Raspberry and fruit tree pruning workshop at Garibaldi, Jan 30

Come and learn the basics of how to prune your fruit trees, twice-bearing raspberries and grape vines.
We will meet at 2pm at the Garibaldi school garden. If you have a pair small pruning scissors and want to practice, bring them with you.
Time permitting, I will also talk about some newly arrived berry crop pests and how to protect your berries.
Bring any questions you might have - I will try to answer them.

See you on Friday,

Jana Ronne (Julian and Maja's mom)

Call out for volunteers: Garibaldi Annex is cooking East Van style

Garibaldi PAC is going to sizzle this spring.  We are embarking on a fundraising, community engagement project, to build awareness of the small school with a big heart!

We need your help with our latest community project - the Hasting Sunrise Neighbourhood Cookbook.  Complete with recipes from your favourite eateries with neighbourhood contributors.

You don't have to be a genius in layout or design.  Here's the various positions we are recruiting for:

• Parent and student participation
• Photography
• Sales & Distribution
• Community engagement
• Accounting/Book Keeping
• Sourcing donations of time and money (i.e. printing services)
• Event coordination
• Any other way you'd like to help!!!

You don't need to have expertise in these areas, just a desire to help spread the word about Garibaldi to promote the school!  

We are seeking a small committee to meet bi-monthly to create a cookbook that we would be able to launch no later than May (even sooner if that is feasible). 

This is supposed to be fun and a memorable experience for our school and greater community. 

Go East Van!

If you would like to participate, please contact Kate Mulligan who will project lead at kamulligan3@gmail.com 

Go Garibaldi Go!

PAC Meeting - Wednesday, January 21st at 6pm

Please join us for our next PAC Meeting this Wednesday, January 21st at 6pm in the school library.  The minutes from our December PAC meeting are below the agenda if you would like to review them before the meeting.

We will be discussing the upcoming follow-up meeting with Denise Johnson, Board of Education.  She was present at the meeting at Lord Nelson with the Associate Superintendent, Scott Robinson.  Some PAC Executive members will be meeting with her on January 22nd.

AGENDA

1. Welcome

2. Adopt previous meeting minutes

3. VP Report - Lorraine Baker

4. Financial Report

5. Committees

        - Kitchen

        - Garden

        - Movie Night

        - Fundraising & Grants

        - Sustainability

        - Activities

6. Spending Requests & Allocations

7. Other Business - Discuss Thursday, January 22nd meeting with Denise Johnson, Board of Education

8. Next Meeting - February 11, 2015

9. Adjourn

Minutes of Garibaldi PAC Meeting – December 3rd, 2014

Attendance:
Lorraine Baker
PAC Executive (4)
General PAC Members (2) 

Metta Hamaguchi, Lord Nelson Principal

Margie Trovao, Lord Nelson Vice Principal

Agenda:

• Welcome; Adopt previous meeting minutes

• VP Report

• Special guest report Metta Hamaguchi and Margie Tovao, Lord Nelson Principal and Vice-Principal

• Financial Report

• Committee Reports

• Spending Requests

• Other Business

• Next Meeting

• Adjourn

• Welcome and Approval of Minutes 

• Welcome to Metta and Margie from Lord Nelson

• Minutes adopted; Sandra move to adopt November minutes. 

• VP Updates: Lorraine Baker

• Thanks from Lorraine for care from everyone regarding her injury

• Since last meeting: 

• Mobile Dairy visit with 6 day old calf; children learned about where milk comes from 4H presenter

• School photos taken (date of photo re-takes to be confirmed)

• Library barcodes

• Children performed at Lord Nelson for Remembrance Day – very special and thank you to Lord Nelson for the invitation

• November 28th Pro D Day – afternoon spent on school growth goals; morning spent on iPad            learning cart – use of iPads, apps (e-books, embedding video, etc) and how to enrich and extend these tools

• Audrey Von Alsten has volunteered to come to school to meet with parents to learn about how to use these resources

• At Lord Nelson, Metta and Margie work very closely with iPads and it has been very successful with high student engagement

• “Snow Rules” – reiterated policy 

• Pedestrian safety – Constable from VPD did a presentation on pedestrian safety 

• School administration asked to look around for “attractive nuisances” for children after a child fell off a school roof on a weekend; the school was found partially responsible

• Security buzzer installation for Board employees – North exit by bike racks

• Ms. Rosati – Dec. 5 is Ms. Rosati’s last day. ToC will fill post until January. Closing date for maternity leave posting was Dec. 1st – 8 applications.

- End of VP Updates

• Special Guest report – Metta Hamaguchi and Margie Tovao, Lord Nelson

• Sandra invited Metta and Margie to say a few words. Garibaldi is the annex of Lord Nelson and most children at Garibaldi transition to Lord Nelson for Grade 5

• Metta and Margie shared Lord Nelson’s Code of Conduct and School Handbook

• Metta invited interested parents to come to Lord Nelson events - January 20th Kindergarten night and January 26th presentation from parent/neuroscientisist on how children learn

• For children transitioning to Lord Nelson, there is a school tour for the kids scheduled for sometime in May. Parents are welcome to attend with their kids

• If you have a child with a special need, there is additional support available from Lord Nelson resource teachers in assist in making the Garibaldi – Lord Nelson transition a smooth one

• Financial Report

• Lisa presented financial updates and the Draft Budget

• 2 accounts: $2486.16 (Savings); $3136.65 (Gaming)

• Budget for year - $7348 to fund a year’s activities

• Healthy financial balance; the fundraising goal is to shoot for an additional $3500 (eg. Movie nights, manure sale, popcorn and bake sales, other fundraising TBD by fundraising committee)

• Some activities have already been paid for (eg. Teacher allocations for consumables, tennis, Pumpkin Patch)

• Teachers have been asked to price out their Wish List items

• The Draft Budget can by passed to next year’s PAC – thanks to Lisa and Sandra 

• Move to accept Draft Budget – Lisa moved; Angela accepted.

• Committee Reports

No spending requests at this time. The Kitchen Committee will put together a Wish List for items for kitchen; Lisa will spread the word about the upcoming hot lunch

Movie Night Committee:

• Next movie night: January 28th – to be confirmed

Garden Committee:

• Nothing to report; everything is frozen 

Kitchen Committee: 

• Hot lunch planned for December 5th

• Bake sale planned during holiday concert (afternoon and evening) on December 17th

Fundraising: 

• Sandra suggest organizing a PAC fundraising committee meeting for January to discuss options

Sustainability

• Clothing and boot swap went very well

• Other Business

• MuseWest – two music concerts are organized for Spring term; first one is January 14th; honorarium for performers approved at previous PAC meeting

• District PAC representative – Angela is looking for someone who can represent Garibaldi at the DPAC meetings. Meetings are weekday evenings. Angela will let us know and we can try to make sure that we have a representative attend

• Meeting with VSB’s Scott Robinson on December 2nd. As follow-up, Ann-Marie will collate the key messages from the meeting so that we can send the summary to the Board and also relay the message back to the parent community

 Meeting Adjourned

Next meeting: January 14th at 6pm