AUCTION The St. Mary Dinner Dance Auction is a major fund-raiser for our school. Items and service donations are accepted from individuals and businesses and are auctioned off during a fun-filled evening. The auction is held in the spring. Please see the school calendar for the date of this years event. Click here to see a list of items to be auctioned at the Dinner Dance Auction BINGO St. Mary Bingo contributes a significant portion of the income needed to operate our school. St. Mary Bingo is run entirely by school parents. Each parent must contribute by either working at bingo or bringing food for bingo. Buyout option is available. Click here to see the 2007-2008 schedule for parent volunteer workers. Click here to the the 2007-2008 menu assignments. BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB For your child's birthday, you may purchase a book from the Rita Brown Bookstore inside Christ the Teacher Parish/Newman Catholic Student Center in DeKalb. This book will then have a name plate put inside with your child's name and birth date and will be placed in our main library for any student to use throughout the year. A percentage of the cost of the books purchased through the Rita Brown Bookstore is then given back to our library to purchase further books. Contact person is Patty Pumfrey. BOOK FAIR BOX TOPS/SOUP LABELS
The collection of General Mills Box Tops is an
ongoing project. Our school receives ten cents per box top that is
collected
and sent back to General Mills. Box tops may be dropped off in the School
Office, Parish Office, or entrances of the church.
Cambell's Soup Labels This is an ongoing project
in which the school has, over the years, received various items such
as
cassette
players,
computer software, overhead projectors, and other supplies. Labels
can
be dropped off in the School Office, Parish Office, or entrances of the
church. Volunteers are needed to collect and cut the labels. CARTRIDGES AND CELL PHONES This
is our seventh year participating in the Inkjet and Laserjet Cartridge
recycling program using The Funding Factory.
It has expanded to also accept cell phones. Please click on the above
link to adopt our school and have mailing boxes sent to your business.
Once on the Funding Factory site, click on the link "Business
Support" to
read about how you can help. Then click on the link at the bottom of
the
page "Register
your business today". Complete the online form and enter our Beneficary
ID # 9710. It's that easy. The Funding Factory will send prepaid
boxes to use to mail in your cartridges and cell phones. When they
receive your first shipment, our school will earn points for the cartridges
that you send in as well as $10.00 just for signing up!These
points are used to purchase equipment and software for our lab. For individuals who do not generate enough cartridges to sign up for the adoption program, cartridges/phones can be dropped off in the School Office or Parish Office. Contact person is Marcia Feltes. MANNA A tuition credit program that involves buying bulk gift certificates to local and national retailers, restaurants, gas stations, etc. at a discount. Ninety percent of the discount will be credited to the purchaser of the certificate in the form of tuition credit. Contact people for the Manna Program are: Sara Olson and Juli Smith. Click here to print out the Order
Form for Manna.
St. Mary School Account #3179 Current Order Forms can be picked up in the Parish or School Offices or in the literature display rack at the chapel entrance of the Church. Return order form by mail to 1608 E. Stonehenge Dr., Sycamore, IL 60178, drop off your order form in the Parish or School Office, or place it in the collection at Church by Thursday, July 7, or order online (simply click on logo above) by Wednesday, July 13 at 12:00 Noon. For more information, please contact the school. Monies received from this program
are given directly to the Home & School Association. They in turn,
give an allotment to every teacher to be used for classroom supplies,
help with outdoor education fees, offset bus field trip costs, and
provide
money as necessary to school or classes. Market Day Pick-up Dates - 9:30-10:30
AM RAFFLE TICKETS Every family is required to sell 10 raffle tickets for the school year. Buyout option is available. Dates for the raffle are January 1 through December 31. Each ticket is $15.00 and drawings are held every day of the year.
Now you can raise funds for our school all year long just by shopping online! Start by clicking on the above link to www.schoolshare.com and a portion of everything you buy will be rebated to the school. For more information, contact Linda Zenz. It's easy: 1) Go to www.schoolshare.com
(click on link above). 2) Click on any of our more than 125 quality online
merchants. 3) Log-in with your Market Day username and password. If you
don't have one you can register through SchoolShare. 4) Make a purchase.
That's all there is to it!
St. Mary sponsors a September Festival, which is an annual parish family event. This festival includes a carnival, food and craft booths, bingo, music, and many more attractions. This family fun event is run by volunteers from both the school and parish. All proceeds benefit the school. Click on the image above for the September Festival web page. For more information please contact - Beth and Don Young. Note: The links on this page are provided for your convenience. Although we make every attempt to provide you with information that is appropriate for building your faith, we cannot guarantee the content of sites that are external to our own site. St. Mary Parish assumes no responsibility for, nor does it endorse the content any of the web sites. If you find objectionable material in any of the sites, or if you come across a link that is no longer working, please contact the Webmaster. This page was last modified on October 12, 2007
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