Amherst and UMASS Police Youth Adventure Academy 2012

The Amherst and University of Massachusetts Police Departments are pleased to announce the dates of the Amherst and UMASS Police Youth Adventure Academy.

The 2012, Amherst and UMASS Police Youth Adventure Academy is a ONE week program, being held Monday July 9, 2012 to Friday July 13, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Youths entering 6th, 7th, or 8th grades are eligible to attend.   The cost is FREE and academy size is limited to 20 youths, so preference will be given to Amherst residents and UMASS affiliated families (ex. parent/guardian works or is a student at UMASS).  For more information, click here.

This event is not sponsored by the FR PGO.

 

Fifth Grade Tag Sale Fundraiser

The Fifth graders at Fort River are organizing a Tag Sale to help fund their upcoming field trip to Lowell, MA. They will need a lot of support from Fort River families to make this venture a success! Please help support their efforts by donating items for the tag sale. Some suggestions for items to donate include furniture, household items, sporting equipment, toys and books. Donations may be dropped off at the school (Jen Pablico's classroom) from Monday 4/23 to Wednesday 4/25.  You can also help by attending the tag sale this Saturday at Fort River School (by the basketball courts outside the gym) from 10 am- 2 pm. There will be games and face painting, so bring the whole family and please spread the word to family and friends!   

Thanks to everyone for making the Book Swap a big success!

Thank you to the families, staff, and community members who donated books to our Swap. We had a wonderful selection of books for our students and they certainly seemed to enjoy making their selections.  Special thanks to organizers Libby Stanforth and Deb Leonard, and the people who volunteered to help set up and work the Swap: Becky Michaels, Carol Slaughter, Pam Rietkerk, Sue Borden, Becky Schneider, Jenn Green, Katie Clarkewright, Eileen Marasco, and Shubha Tewari. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Thanks also to Fran Ludington, who welcomed us into the library and was instrumental in making the Swap a success.

Amherst Sustainability Festival

The Amherst Sustainability Festival will be held on Saturday April 21.

Discover Your Downtown Eco-Hero!
Look for the green Eco-Hero Hunt posters in downtown store windows and learn what Amherst is
doing to save energy and natural resources! Participation is easy: Read about the sustainable actions
downtown businesses are taking, complete a simple quiz, and enter a raffle to win great prizes. Start
hunting on Saturday, April 14; entry forms and collection boxes will be available at A.J. Hastings,
Subway, and The Toy Box. The Hunt ends after the Sustainability Festival on Saturday, April 21.

Recycle and Reuse Textiles! Collection on Saturday, April 21st.
People often donate wearable clothing and household textiles to charitable organizations, but what
about the worn, torn and stained stuff? The Re-Thread Textile Collection at the April 21 Sustainability
Festival wants it all—the wearable and the woebegone, the stylish and the shameful, as long as it is
clean and dry. Wearable items will be divided between the Amherst Survival Center and the Fisher
Home Hospice Shop, other items will be sent to the textile market for recycling. An estimated 260,000
tons of textiles is sent into landfills and incinerators when 95% of it is reusable or recyclable. Clean
out your closets and bring discards to the Town Common between 10am and 4pm on Saturday, April
21. Each bag donated receives a prize drawing entry for a gift certificate to a local clothing store. The
Collection will not be held if the Sustainability Festival is canceled due to rain. More information here or find it on the Town website at www.amherstma.gov .

BBBS Daffodil Fun Run is Coming Up!

The 2nd annual Daffodil Fun Run to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters will be on April 29 starting at Kendrick Park in Amherst.  Run or walk through the center of town and help a great cause!  More information is available here.

This event is not sponsored by the FR PGO.

AEF Spring Sprint registration is open!

The Amherst Education Foundation (AEF) is excited to be registering runners/walkers for its 2nd Annual Spring Sprint, a 5K Run/Walk and a 1 mile Fun Run for kids. This year’s race is scheduled for May 5th at 9:00 am, beginning and ending at Wildwood Elementary School. As a special bonus this year, local artist and author Tony DiTerlizzi of the Spiderwick Chronicles designed our t-shirt. See the shirt online. All pre-registered participants will get a t-shirt, so register today! Also new this year – kids can use a pledge form to collect donations for their run/walk. You can find both a mail-in registration form and the pledge form attached here. Remember – in order to get a special t-shirt, you must PRE-register by April 29th online, or by April 21st through the mail.

This event is not sponsored by the FR PGO.

Summer Camps

Summer is on the way!  Here are a few more summer camp options:

Girl Scout Camp Lewis Perkins in South Hadley

AYSA summer soccer camp

LSSE Summer Sports Camps

These events are not sponsored by the FR PGO.