20th District Annual Dinner - Rescheduled

You Are Invited!

Please, plan to attend our annual District Dinner, held this year at Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill.

Details are below and please RSVP by June 5th to:
Tami Baloy - beijingchows@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, June 10th
Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill
638 Wave St., Monterey, Ca

Cost: $15.00 per person (adult or child)

Please send your checks to:

Michael Silver
3040 Sunset #9
Marina CA, 93933
(email: michael-silver@sbcglobal.net)

Phone: 831-277-3317

If you have already sent a check for the first dinner that was postponed and there are no changes, no action is required. If you have a change of numbers, please contact Michael to correct it.

Menu includes: Beef Tacos, Cheese enchilladas, Chicken Fajitas, Cheese Quesadillas, Spanish rice and beans, chips and salsa, beverage. Dessert will be provided by the 20th District.

Day of Education Rally Salinas

California's schools are facing the largest round of education cuts ever proposed in the state -- a staggering $4.8 billion, equal to nearly $800 per student and $24,000 per classroom.

On May 14th, education groups around the state including parents, teachers, support personnel, school administrators, and school board members will be joining forces to demand adequate funding for California Schools.

This is your chance to make your voice heard.

Flunk the Budget! Rally

District Dinner, Friday April 25

You Are Invited!

Please, plan to attend our annual District Dinner, held this year at Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill. Details are below and please RSVP by April 20th to:

Tami Baloy - beijingchows@yahoo.com

Date: Friday, April 25th

Time: 6:30 PM

Location: Jose's Mexican Bar & Grill

638 Wave St., Monterey, Ca

Cost: $15.00 per person (adult or child)

Please send your checks to:

Stephanie Bloom

139 Peppertree Place

Marina CA, 93933

(email: stephbloom@comcast.net)

Menu includes: Beef Tacos, Cheese enchilladas, Chicken Fajitas, Cheese Quesadillas, Spanish rice and beans, chips and salsa, beverage. Dessert will be provided by the 20th District.

TAKE ACTION NOW!
Join us in protecting our children and California’s future.
The Governor’s proposed 2008-2009 budget contains disastrous cuts to education and children’s programs.
We urge you to take three actions to "Flunk-the-Budget."

1. Starting today and continuing each and every Friday; email, call or visit your local legislators in their district office to express how harmful these budget cuts will be to our children. A sample letter and phone script are available here:
http://www.capta.org/sections/advocacy/downloads/FTBLetterSamples.pdf
To find your legislator go to: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html

2. Participate in "Flunk-the-Budget Friday" activities, including a SUPER "Flunk-the-Budget Friday" activity on April 25th. Contact your local PTA council or district to see what may already be planned in your area. Send the message loud and clear to your local legislators that this budget hurts our children! For more ideas go to:
http://www.capta.org/sections/advocacy/downloads/FTBTakeAction.pdf.

3. Join us in Sacramento on Thursday, April 24 at 11:00 am for a rally at the capitol. This event will include PTA members from all over the state. (If your PTA is planning to join us, please let Lindsay Shoemaker, Communications Specialist (lshoemaker@capta.org) know.

Please visit the "Flunk-the-Budget" section at http://www.capta.org/ to obtain more information on "Flunk-the-Budget Fridays" activities, fact sheets, sample letters and the "Flunk the Budget" logo.

New Changes in the 20th District Board

At the last executive board meeting, the 20th District Board made some important changes to its members.

We are very sorry to lose Robin Martinez as our Treasurer and Katia Stornetta as our membership chair. They will be greatly missed as they both did excellent jobs in their positions.

We would like to welcome Kevin Singley to the board as our Auditor, a postion that has been sorely needed. Thank you, Kevin!

To accommodate the loss of our Treasurer and Membership Chair, other changes were made on the board. Following is a new and updated list of the 20th District Board.

Thank you very much to Stephanie Bloom, our new Treasurer, Melanie Gibson, our new Secretary, Mark Baloy, our new Historian and Tami Baloy, our new Membership Chair for taking on new positions and challenges to help keep our district successful!

In other announcements, our annual District Dinner will be held on April 25th. Please, mark your calendars now and plan to attend!

20th District Officers:
President Tom Jennings
VP Santa Cruz Mary Marasco
VP Mtry Penin Michael Silver
VP South District Karen Gibbs
Secretary Melanie Gibson
Treasurer Stephanie Bloom
Auditor Kevin Singley
Parliamentarian Michael Silver
VP Membership Tami Baloy
Historian Mark Baloy II
VP of Salinas Sherrie Payne
Convention Chair Rene Keehn
Dir. of Comm. Jenny Wood
Hospitality Chair Tami Baloy
Consultant Jane Mitchel
Reflections Chair Bettina McBee
High School Rep Marylyn Silver
Middle School Rep Theresa (Tess) Bloom

Congrats to our Reflections Winner!

Congratulations to Theresa (Tess) Bloom for being honored as the only Reflections artist to be sent on to the State PTA! Below are Tess' photographs which answer the 2007 - 2008 Reflections theme - "I can make a difference by ..."

Thank you Tess and good luck at the State competition. Winners at the state level have their pieces shown at the Convention in May.

"Saving the Planet, One Can at a Time"

"Bags are a Drag""CRV for Me"

"Cash for Trash"