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PTA President's Message - June 2010Hello Arlington Families, Well, this is most certainly hard to believe, the last newsletter of this school year. It seems like just yesterday we were all settling in for the new school year and now look; we have so quickly come to the end. With this being the last newsletter of the school year, there are things I’d like to write but before doing so, a brief recap of our most recent events. Kindergarten Round-Ups were held during the 3rd and 4th weeks of April. Thank you to the many board members and chairs who went to the parent meetings to introduce them to our PTA and thank you to Dawn Sawyer, hospitality, for providing snacks to our newest families and our kinders to be. Thank you to Tish Une for heading up Arlington’s Relay For Life team. Your time and efforts are very much appreciated for this very worthwhile and wonderful annual event. Thank you to Cayme Momita and Laura Shiozaki for chairing Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week and thank you to Kozue Kondo for coordinating the teacher/staff luncheon. We at Arlington are most definitely lucky to have such a great group of teachers/staff and although this one week was set aside especially for them, we hope they know that they are appreciated the whole year through. Thank you to Sandra Jones for chairing this year’s Blue Ribbon Week. Thank you for decorating our school with blue ribbons showing our appreciation for our local law enforcements and thank you for arranging to have officers from the Torrance Police Dept. come in and talk to our kids about the importance of safety. Thank you to Chris Mason and Cayme Momita and all their AIA docents and parent volunteers for all of their amazing efforts on this year’s “Artitude” AIA Gallery gala event. What a truly magnificent display of all of our children’s artwork. Thank you for your creativeness and countless hours of hard work. Thank you to Charlene Sakatani for chairing Arlington’s traditional Ice Cream Social event, always a treat for our Arlington families and friends. And thank you to Karen Paguirigan for chairing the second book fair of the year, another treat for all of our Arlington Superstars. Having said the above, it brings me to the final paragraphs of this newsletter. It has truly been an honor and a privilege to serve as Arlington’s PTA President and I want to say thank you for the opportunity. I want to thank all the many, many parent volunteers that have continually showed me, given me their support and have been nothing more than amazing and have truly been the best. Time and time again, your dedication, your devotion, your caring for our Arlington Superstars has overwhelmed me and the matter of fact attitudes that you all have is simply astonishing. I, as a parent, feel so fortunate and lucky to be at Arlington knowing all the support our children will continue to receive. Congratulations to Sharon Sawai, next year’s PTA President and the rest of the executive board members and chairpersons. There is no doubt; all of you will do an amazing job!!! Arlington, where AMAZING happens!!! Once again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you!!! It has definitely been a pleasure. Have a wonderful summer vacation and until we meet again, as always, take care….
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