The annual Fall Festival is an event the entire PS 107 community looks foward to every year. This year was another rousing success. Facepainting, music, magic, a variety of craft projects, puppets, food-food-food and more filled the day for everyone. Thank you to Lisa Gorlitsky & Julie Hendel, Social Committee Co-chairs for all their hard work making Fall Festival 2010 possible. An event like this couldn't work without an army of PS 107 parents and friends volunteering their time and effort. See the list here.
Special thanks to PS 107 parent Susan Fox for the photos below.
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We hope everyone was able to enjoy themselves at our Fall Festival Saturday, October 23rd. We had a total of over 1,100 people attending this year! Sunshine was abundant, and it was incredible to see so many smiling faces come out and play! Thanks to the residents of 14th Street, we were able to expand our Festival again this year, making the event more enjoyable for everyone who attended, and a more profitable Fundraiser for our school. It seems that after all of our expenses are taken into account, the Festival income (including those fabulous new T-Shirts!) was over $10,000 this year.... a new record!
Although this event is largely put on by our PTA board to welcome our entire community (school and beyond) enjoy a wonderful day together with PS 107 school spirit, in these challenging economic times, we do our best to support Ms. Holton, the Administration, and Staff. Your support at events like this make this possible! So THANK YOU for coming and supporting your school!
We have many people to thank for helping to make this such an amazing day. We will lay out some specifics for BIG contributions, and then do our absolute best to name you all: (If you do not find yourself on this list, you were not signed up on our main list, or may have pitched in last minute. Please take a moment to e-mail us and let us know so we can add you to this list!)
THANK YOU TO:
*PS 107 parents Lisa Mann and Keary Horiuchi who generously sponsored the event, through their company TOLA architecture www.tola-architecture.com
(Please see footnotes about TOLA and their generosity to PS 107 below)
The one & only Mary Vines, our Madame Co- President, for all the thought put into every big picture detail and all of the little things that made this impossible to be executed without her all knowing presidential wisdom. Daniel Schlachet and Ken Hendel (our husbands) for sacrificing so much of their time with us for the Festival and then for working the festival wherever needed!
Marin Riegger, PTA Board E-secretary, for all your work setting up the brilliant online Volunteer list and working so hard to ensure that that everything would run smoothly for the Festival with reminders and pleas for help throughout the week, via e-mail or up and down 14th Street!
Karen Kane for the beautiful Festival poster, as well as Heidi Chisholm for creating the much talked about Festival signs. Paul McKenna for his unbelievable availability both before & during the event; unloading pumpkins, setting up, helping with the amazing Giant puppets, making Hot Chocolate and Apple Cider, and cleaning up afterwards. Could not have done this without your help! Mr. Jimmy Vines for being so generous with your wife, and then being available the ENTIRE event while raging a fever.
Jane Walsh for organizing and running the entire Chili contest garnering prizes and enthusiasm. Julie Rosenberg who managed to get all the donated apples, baby pumpkins, organize the pie contest and pie judging, and work tireless shifts at the festival. These two ladies worked very hard to manage these important and popular parts of this event, please do your best to tell them how much it meant to you!
Heidi Chisholm and Claudia Vieira for creating the beautiful and fun Festival mural and then working the whole of the event! Their idea of tracing all your children on paper was a huge hit and helped the Festival to have the feel of Community that we always strive for. Thanks to Sarah Tanzer, Maria D"Albert, Lilliana Arzate, and Brigida Munoz for helping to keep it moving!
Victoria Guisinger, Dave Chin, and Heather Millward, the rest of our PTA board, for making themselves available for the event in any way, and for their support throughout. Karen Wolfe for helping secure the block permit by asking her fellow 14th Street residents for their support, and then for her pitching in before and throughout the entire event.
Thank you to Michele Amoroso for getting the bulk of those fabulous Pumpkins for us, being their early to help unload them, and then for working the ENTIRE event from set up to Clean up and everything in between (even strong arming!) Your help was invaluable. Thank you to the rest of the morning Pumpkin Unloaders which included: Paul McKenna, Frank, Meg Barnette and Vicki Sell who also helped pick up and return the Puppets and the Balloon Tanks!
Susan Fox for organizing her entire gang of amazing face painters (as well as taking unbelievable pictures throughout), along with Judi Barr for being co-organizer and who with face painting training, set up, and painted for 4 hours! The rest of the Face Painting crew were: Suzanne Kouros, Amy Yang, Ethan Jacobs, Judi Barr, Rhati Gorfien, Janet Barad, Tara Kelly, Bronwen Stine, Karen Jenkins, Karen Wolfe, Karen Kane, Patty Deminsky, Kathleen Redgate, Jennifer Vega, Amanda Libotte, Desiree Cassese, Katherine Fletcher, Susan Brennan, Jennifer Vega, and Ella Celebiorganize.
Daniel Paterna for making and donating his delicious and very popular Sausage and Peppers, getting to the event early to help set up, and then working the whole of the event while taking beautiful pictures during. Gersh Kuntzman who is a MOST excellent Chili hawker and for helping secure our Pie Judge, Melissa Murphy, from “Sweet Melissa’s" on 7Th Ave and 1st Street (Please stop by and say thank you to her!).
Victoria Toth, who headed up our Community Outreach Committee's book donations and sales table. The money raised and books collected were donated to various organizations including: “Reach Out and Read”, an early literacy program at Methodist Hospital, and U.S.-Africa Children's Fellowship, where the boxes of books will be sent out to Africa with the goal of building libraries in remote areas, and supplying teachers with a broad range of reading material. Others who helped at the Outreach Table included: Richard Toth, Julie Fissinger, Lenora Lapidus, Aluren Young, Sharon Seitz and Lisa Mann.
Stacey Petruzella, for brainstorming ways of keeping the Fall Festival Greener throughout, and for heading up the Green Committee’s Recycling and Compost Table. Stacy's volunteers included: Don Petruzella, Michael Amoroso, Randi Roberts, Claudia Heuerman. Thanks to David Lindsay, who carved the recycling Barrel Covers an d pitched in at the table, and to the Afterschool kids in the Green Club who made all the Green signs!
Sally Gosper for her fabulous "Wishing Tree", a new and very popular addition to the event, and for running errands and constant support in making the Fall Festival happen. Deborah Majerovitz for picking up the Starbucks Coffee, working the Pumpkin Sales, and for offering to help with the Volunteer Coordinating. Brigid Nelson and Carmen Nunez, who helped organize and run the entire Bake and Drink Sales before, during, and after the event; making everything run incredibly smoothly throughout. Thank you for all the hours you put in! Catherine Teegarden for pitching in wherever was needed as soon as getting to the event and staying late to tackle anything left over.
Rahti Gorfien, who introduced us to New York Life's Child ID “Fingerprinting” Program, headed up by Ivy Diaz. Faye White Willinger for coming early with that helpful wagon, and doing whatever tasks were necessary, before and during the event, to make sure everything was in it's proper place. Our set up help: David Kim, Nikki Kim, Meredith McGinnis, Ivandy Astor, Venice Mondesir, Justin Smith, Sheila Finnegan, Meg Barnette, Leonora Peralta, Susanne Koenig and Daniel Power for their incredible set up/organizational skills and then working many shifts throughout the event.
Let’s hear it for Victoria Guisinger, our PTA Board Vice President, and T-Shirt Queen! She is making sure you are all represented in true P.S. 107 style! (Weren’t the new ones great!?) Her mighty sales team included: Nikki Kim, Meredith McGinnis, Lisa Cahill, Virginia Navarro, Iwona Szatkowska, Becky Hutcheson, Steve Shiffman, Kenny Hendel, Vanessa Rodrik, and a special shout out to everyone who so generously offered, on the spur of the moment, to carry all the boxes back and into the school! And thank you to Victoria for helping to sell all those pumpkins AFTER the event!
Our Chili participants, a hearty meaty (or veggie) thanks to: Elton Dodson, Ed Jen, Joe Elorriaga, Steve Shiffman, James Gosper, Mary Vines, Susanna Yorick, Third place winner Lawrence Green , Second Place winner "Little" James Gosper, And the winner: Andrew Hughes! Congratulations & thanks to all who participated in this yummy addition to the Festival.
Pie Contestants: Stephanie Thompson, Patti de Vries, Christine Courteney, Sally Gosper, Vernon Scott, Third Place winner Erica Morris, Second Place winner, Desiree Cassese, And the winner Sasha Alper!
THANK YOU TO all of these amazing folks for lending an hour or two (or more!) of your time before/during/after the event and for all of your donations: (In no particular order) Maria D'Albert (Prutsalis), Stephanie Monroe, Tami Ephross, Candace Luckman, Susanna Yurick, Kay Papavassiliu, Jessica Cohen, Deborah Iarussi, Ana Martins, Susie Jem, Paula Bernstein-Orkin, Lenora Lapidus, Tanya Pollard, Sasha Emmons, Heidi Igoe, Siobhan Harren, Gina Hughes, Claudia Senatore, Mark Vincent, Cathryn Rich, Melinda Smith, Gerald Stinner, Melissa Barkan, Rachel Abramson, Jamie Tresselt, Nick Fleischhacker, Margaret Parker, Jane Landry Reyes, Emily Heath, Virginia Navarro, Jay Harren, Abena Strafford, Megan Liberman, Jason Novatt, Matthew Phillips, Eilleen Lawrence, Bertie Ferdman, Mark Prutslais, Meghan Galvin, Zena Goldszer, Maurice Moore, Molly Thompson, Rosalyn Latse, Taura Williams, Laurie Dalheim Rouslin, Colleen Gillespie, Vickie Sell, Jennifer Dowd, Alicia Young, Michele Jaslow, Zvenessa Rudin, Jorge Aguilo, Jomo Davis, Jamie Tresselt, Katherine Samels, Haleh Nazeri-Morris, Andy Lottman, James Logatto, Carol Rabenhorst, Tom Brennan, Angela Sheldon, Cynthia Ruse, Marie Donnelly, Brigida Munoz, Rieke Celebi, Andrea Vaszko, Marci Weissler, Hugh Simmons, Katherine Koegel, Tina Fehlandt, Sascha Alper, Stuart Miller, Chris Bryson, Julia Tarrio, Chris Pena, Martha Laserson, Grace Kosmal, Mike Adelman, Steve Shiffman, Jacek Starzyk, Angelina Capodanno, Michael Moss, Tracy Phillips, Desi Parasol, Erica Morris, Adam Campagna, Sharon Best, Jena Brook, Michale Amoroso, Sean Luckman, James Bernard, Doug Merrifield, Jennifer Gomez, John Heath, Dustin Perun, Michelle Villeroel, Cristobal Acosta, Grace Kosmal, and Anita Acosta.
Congratulations to our Hay Bale raffle winners:
Josh Katz, Sam Bischof, and Ramon Reyes
Thank you to Slope Cellars on 7th Avenue between 14th & 15th Streets, who donated the prizes for both the Chili and Pie contests!
Some fabulous teacher/Administration support came from many sources! Ms. Diane for her fabulous Sausage and Peppers, and being available the entire event. Ms. Jones and Ms. Donna for working the Grill sales the entire event, Ms. Sarah for working Security, and Ms. Alice Ott for pitching wherever was needed. Ms. Pat Mannino, who helped to troubleshoot all manner of things before the festival, including securing our Block permit for 14th Street, and then worked tirelessly at the grill the entire Festival! Thank you Pat for ALL that you do! Ms. Sharon (and her family!) for helping to maintain order, and of course to Ms. Holton & Ms. Yolanda for all of their support before, during (all that grill work!) and after the festival, as always. And thank you to Ms. Yolanda's husband Joe, who helped unload all the Cosco supplies and then worked the Grill all four hours!
Last but not least, A BIG thanks to Peter, Frank, Giovanni, Herman, and the rest of the Janitorial staff for their unending help before, during & after the festival. Without their efforts, we simply could not have had this event. Please take time to thank them personally when you see them in the halls of our school.
Thank you to all who donated all those delicious baked goods, water & juice. We greatly appreciate your contribution!
*Our apologies to anyone we have left out. There may have been volunteers who were NOT on our master list who either volunteered at the event last minute, or worked for a specific table not coordinated by me. Please do e-mail us your name and contact info to LDGsky@nyc.rr.com so that we can include you in the thank you printed in the newsletter and on our website. We do not want to miss anyone!
Please do know how appreciative we are to all of you. This simply could not have been done without your help & support. Thank you all for helping to bring our school community together... which is truly what this is all about.
Best Always,
Lisa Gorlitsky & Julie Hendel
Social Committee Co-chairs and proud members of this P.S. 107 community
*Lisa Mann, RA, LEED-AP and Keary Horiuchi, RA, AIA
Thank the Fall Festival team, for a GREAT event!
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