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Advocacy – Keeping Our Kids Safe from Local Gangs

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Gang Awareness and Education – Keeping Our Kids Safe from Local Gangs

– A Problem that Demands Your Attention!

In partnership with the Edmonds School District, City of Lynnwood and
Edmonds Community College, we’d like to invite you to an important
Gang Awareness Community Meeting on December 8th at 6:30pm at the
Meadowdale High School.

As a community, we are experiencing the beginning stages of
significantly increased gang activity in Snohomish County. Awareness
and education is an important first step to keeping our kids and
communities safe. Our middle school students are particularly
vulnerable as recruitment often starts at that age.

Good News! CPA Can Now Accept Company Matching Donations

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As many of you know, we’ve been working with the IRS and the state of WA over the last two years on name change issues, as well as other misunderstandings between the state and the IRS.  As such, we had not been able to accept company matching donations, even though individual donations have always been tax deductible.  We finally received our affirmation letter from the IRS that states that Challenge Parents Association (instead of the former name, Challenge Parents Booster Club) is recognized as an exempt organization under section 501(c)(3), and has been since March 1979.

So, that raises the question… Does your company match your donations?  If so,and you made a donation during the fall pledge drive, it still shouldn’t be too late for CPA to receive those matching funds.  Please send the matching gift form from your company to school with your child, or drop it off in the CPA lock box in the office.

If you were waiting to make your fall pledge drive donation until this issue was resolved, now is the time to do that.  The pledge form can be found on our website at http://www.challengeparents.org/about-the-cpa-board/fundraising/.  Please send the pledge form, your matching gift form and your check to school with your child, place it in the CPA lock box in the office, or mail it to CPA at this address:

Challenge Parents Association
P.O. Box 3371
Lynnwood, WA  98046-3371

Thank you for your continued support!

CPA Board

CPA General Meeting Minutes – October 13th, 2009

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CPA General Meeting 10/13/09 7:00 p.m. Terrace Park Commons
In attendance: Sue Wilson-Schmitz, Tracy Hannuksela, Tania Klippert, Megan Hicks, Tina Marohn, Mary Freitas, Michelle Toshima, Marilyn Hall, Kari Potter, Kristen Merrill and other parents, Denise Schmitz (youth organizer),  29 adults in attendance, with 5 children in the back.

A big THANKS to all those who were able to attend the meetings. We had a fantastic turnout!

Agenda Items:

  • Budget Report
  • Audit Report
  • Website Subscription Drive
  • Picnic Recap
  • Brier Terrace Middle School Update
  • Recap of CPA co-presidents’ meetings
  • Citizens Planning Committee Update
  • District Maintenance & Operations Levy
  • WAETAG Conference Update
  • Gifted Education Day
  • Community Building Events – Upcoming Speakers

General Membership Meeting–October 13th, 2009

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Please plan to attend our first General Membership meeting of the school year. Find out about events CPA has planned for our membership this year and give us your input on what you would like from CPA. The meeting will be held in the Terrace Park Commons from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. (with a goal of wrapping up earlier). CPA board members are providing snacks, and childcare will be available in another section of the Commons (supervised by high school students and parent volunteers).

WAETAG Conference Volunteers Needed

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WAETAG (Washington Association for Educators of the Talented and Gifted) will be holding its annual conference on October 23rd and 24th at the Lynnwood Embassy Suites. Traditionally, Challenge parents volunteer to help staff the event by working the check-in tables and providing whatever assistance the presenters or participants might need during the course of the conference.Volunteers are needed Friday the 23rd from about 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (two shifts available) and Saturday the 24th from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (three shifts available). We are looking for four to six volunteers for each shift.

If your are able to donate some of your time, please contact Megan Hicks.