ARPS PGO Fall Meeting September 28

ARPS PGO Fall Public Meeting

September 28th at 3:00 PM

The Works- Downtown Amherst

Meeting Agenda

Introductions

Individual School Updates

Election of President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Officers

Annual Taxes and State Filings 

Group Fundraisers: UMACC (United Way), Giving Tuesday, Florence Bank, Amazon Smile

Other Business not anticipated by the chair

Our mission is to support the education of children within our schools through fundraising, supplemental programming and volunteer efforts.  We help build community by fostering relationships among the schools, parents, teachers and staff.

The Amherst Regional Public Schools Parent Guardian Organization (ARPS PGO) is a registered 501(c)3 Massachusetts charity

encompassing the individual PGOs of the Amherst Regional High and Middle Schools, Crocker Farm and Wildwood Elementary.

Amherst Survival Center Community Breakfast/Desayuno Comunitario

Not a school-sponsored event

Penguins and Global Warm - Sept. 28

Global Warming:  A Problem for Penguins

Get informed during Climate Preparedness Week, as Dyan deNapoli, also known as The Penguin Lady, presents a program titled Global Warming: A Problem for Penguins at the Jones Library on Saturday, September 28 at 2:30 pm in the Woodbury Room. 

Penguins are an indicator species, and they are alerting us to the health of the environment they live in. It is now unmistakably clear to scientists that penguins are being negatively impacted by climate change.  In fact, it is the top threat to penguin populations today.  In this eye-opening presentation, best suited for adults and older students (ages 12 and above), the various ways in which global warming is affecting all 18 penguin species will be discussed. Action steps that individuals can take to help penguins and the environment will also be part of the conversation.

This talk will be given by Massachusetts native, Dyan deNapoli. Dyan is an internationally recognized penguin expert, TED and Nat Geo speaker, and award-winning author. Prior to founding her company, The Penguin Lady, she worked as a Senior Penguin Aquarist at Boston’s New England Aquarium for 9 years.  The Great Penguin Rescue, her inspiring and bestselling book about saving 40,000 penguins from the Treasure oil spill in South Africa, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press in 2010. Dyan will have copies of her book available for purchase and signing.

During September 24–30 each year, Climate Preparedness Week is organized by Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), an organization dedicated to learning, service, and actions that better prepare communities for extreme weather events.  To learn more, visit www.climatecrew.org/.

Free and open to the public.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Libraries and the Woodbury Fund.  For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413-259-3223.

 Not a school-sponsored event

A Thank You from PGO Chair

We had a very happy time together! It was so special to share this first PGO event with such nice families! Also Principal Smith joined in the fun! 

Kids had delicious vanilla and chocolate ice cream - a variety of sprinkles included- after picnic with parents, they were all smiles as they ran around having good fun. They made a little origami bookmark to take home and the candy I brought was gone, too! 

The raffle table was fun - even Mr.Smith won a prize!  He said he never wins a thing but yesterday was different. Prizes were from Atkins market, GoBerry yogurts, Sally Beauty, Amherst Cinema and a Fall gift. The winners were delighted!

The 'Zero Waste' activity went very well; I briefly talked about the new 5Rs, then kids followed instructions to save their plastic and paper cups to reuse them again, create something etc. Parents signed up to continue with this important example, so good for everybody and the planet, they said. And we didn't make much trash because of that; we only made less than half the big trash can! Green success! Stay tuned for more 'green' news at school!

Thank you all for a great inspiring time all together! See you at the next social and keep up the ARMS spirit!

Laura Rojo MacLeod

ARMS 'green'  PGO chair

Amherst Block Party - September 19

Not a school-sponsored event

Matilda: The Musical - Auditions Sept. 13-15

ARMS Back to School-Picnic-de Regreso a la Escuela - Tuesday, Sept 10

After the Picnic brush up on Civics with Solomon Goldstein-Rose

Many-Levered Machines:

Government Systems and How to Influence Them

Brush up on your civics savviness with this first in an upcoming series of programs on civics and democracy in the Woodbury Room of the Jones Library at 7 pm on Tuesday, September 10, 2019.

Amherst's former State Rep. Solomon Goldstein-Rose will explain the basics of local, state, and national government systems, expand on the complex set of institutions that form public policy, and lead an interactive exercise to help participants think about where advocates can tap in to make a difference. This session will be appropriate for those with little to no experience with government systems, as well as those with great understandings of institutions but with a desire to become more effective activists.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Jones Libraries and the Woodbury Fund.

Free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.

Not a school-sponsored event

Amherst Boys & Girls Club After School Program

Not a school-sponsored event

Joy Art Space Fall Programs

Not a school-sponsored event