Of Interest to Fort River Families

Please note that these events are not sponsored by Parent Council. Do You Know a Family that could be a Friendly Town Host? The Fresh Air Fund is trying to recruit more Friendly Town host families for Summer 2008. If you know a family that you think would be willing to welcome a Fresh Air Fund child into their home this summer, please tell them about our important Friendly Town program! Here are a few things you might want to mention to prospective Friendly Town families: * Children starting out in the Friendly Town program are six to 12-years old, and stay for one to two weeks. * Most of the children in the Friendly Town program have never been outside the city. With your family, every day will be an adventure. Your Fresh Air Fund child will love learning to swim, hike, cook, play cards, and do all the things your family does. * Children and families are carefully matched to ensure the highest probability of a wonderful experience for both. And local volunteers work with and support families to help make sure things go smoothly. * Over 65% of children are asked back again and again, showing that the experience is rewarding for host families as well as the children. * It costs less for a child to spend part of the summer with a host family than at our summer camps. This means that the more host families we have, the more kids get a chance to escape the city. To help The Fresh Air Fund find new hosts, please send your friends and neighbors to http://www.freshair.org/becomingahost.asp. Parent Council President Catherine Sanderson (email: casanderson@amherst.edu) has been a host for the past 2 summers and would be happy talk to any Fort River families who are interested in participating. Walking with Dinosaurs - The Live Experience at the Mullins Center. Discounted Ticket Offer: Enter the code "GSMC" to receive a $5 discount off Thursday (March 27) and Friday (March 28) night shows! For groups of 10 or more please call 413-545-3332. Buy tickets at http://www.ticketmaster.com/promo/cwv89l. For more information visit http://www.dinosaurlive.com/. Contact: Scott Sasenbury, Director of Marketing Mullins Center, email: ssasenbury@admin.umass.edu; web: http://www.mullinscenter.com/. Family Outreach of Amherst Sixth Annual "Salute to Families." Title: "Another Place at Our Table: Simplifying Parenting in Complicated Times" by Kathy Harrison, author of Another Place at the Table and foster mother to over 150 children. A reading and discussion followed by a reception and book signing. Moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais. Thursday March 6, 2008, 7:30-9:00 pm. At the Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College. Tickets: $25 Benefactor, $10 General, $5 Seniors, Free to students. All proceeds will benefit Family Outreach of Amherst. Family Outreach: http://www.famoutreach.org/. A note from Parent Council. We will publish information about non-Parent Council sponsored events with the following conditions: 1. The event should be of interest to Fort River families. 2. The information should be sent to Ann McLaughlin at damclaughlin@comcast.net in the form of a short blurb of 100 words or less. 3. Contact information (name, telephone and/or email address) must be included. We add new information to the blog every Friday during the school year. Please note that we do not accept announcements of items or services for sale (with the exceptions of children's classes/lessons). Inclusion in this section does not imply any guarantees or endorsements by Fort River Parent Council or Fort River School.