• Shop at the Book Fair and Bake Sale.
• Renew your Safeway card with eScrip.
• Donate a Halloween costume to the Caring and Sharing drive.

• October 9-13
• 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday
• 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday
• Laurel Multi

Club LE Dance Rave - Friday, October 13 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Don't miss this dance party hosted by Jane Kellum and her dancers from Show Biz Dance! Children can dance the night away while you shop!

10/18	Site Council Meeting, 3 p.m.
10/18	School Board Candidates Forum, 7 p.m.,
	   Encinal Library 
10/19	Minimum Day
10/20	No School, Staff Development
10/24	Box Tops for Education Deadline
10/24	Picture Day
10/25	Special School Board Meeting
10/31	Laurel Halloween Parade, 8:30 a.m.
11/8	Laurel Exec Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m. 
11/8	School Board Meeting, 7 p.m. 
11/10	No School - Veteran's Day
11/13-15	Minimum Days, 11:35 a.m. Dismissal 
11/13-15	Parent/Teacher Conferences
11/15	Laurel Site Council Meeting 3 p.m.
11/22-24	No School - Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28	Picture Make-up Day

The PTO will be selling baked goods and popcorn outside the Book Fair after school. Volunteers are still needed to help sell goodies. If you can spend an hour helping out, please call or email Eileen Rozanski, evr456(at)comcast.net, 327-7144, or Shana Middler, shananelson(at)yahoo.com, 321-3411.

• Wednesday, October 18
• 7 p.m.
• Encinal School Library

Little Caesar's Pizza Curbside Pickup
Get ready to order pizzas for pick up at the curb in front of the Laurel office on Friday, October 27. Order forms will be sent home in your child's blue folder on Friday, October 6. Extra order forms will be available in the Laurel and Encinal offices. You can also print out the Pizza Order Form, then follow the instructions on the form to order your pizzas. Orders and payments must be submitted in your child's blue folder or to your school office by the order deadline of Tuesday, October 17. No more orders will be accepted after the first 300 pizzas have been purchased, and no same-day orders will be accepted. A portion of the purchase price of each pizza will be shared equally by our PTOs! What a delicious and convenient way to support your Laurel/Encinal PTOs!

Ski Lift Tickets
Ski at Northstar or Sierra at Tahoe and Support the PTO while saving money! Direct-to-lift tickets (no waiting in line!) are interchangeable for both resorts, with no blackout dates, AND are fully returnable if you don't use them. Adult tickets are $57, Young Adult tickets are $47, and Child tickets are $18 (regular prices are $63/$53/$22) Use the Lift Ticket Order Form by October 27 to place your order. This is a PTO Business Alliances program. Contact: Andrea Palmer, newsletter(at)laurelpto.org, 473-1299.

BOO!!! Now that we have your attention....The Laurel and Encinal PTO Caring and Sharing Committees' first event of the 2006-2007 school year is collecting new and gently-used children's costumes and accessories (hats, boas, scarves, etc.). Bring costumes to the Caring and Sharing Giving Boxes at Encinal and Laurel October 9-20. Costumes are available to anyone who is interested and will be distributed at lunch time beginning October 18 (parents are welcome to come and help). This is an opportunity to recycle costumes, share with those who may need a costume or find something that will be perfect for your child! If you have any questions, please contact Peckie Peters at 321-2423 or peckye(at)comcast.net.

Eco Squirrel here again to tell you that the Zero Waste Lunch is going well! Students are doing a great job of sorting their trash from their compostables. We are consistently generating at least three times as much compost as trash at lunchtime so keep up the good work! Parents, you can help by packing your child's lunch in reusable containers whenever possible. This way, you can also see what they are eating from what they bring home.

Did you know that juice boxes are not recyclable or compostable? They have too many layers so they have to be thrown away. An alternative is to buy the Rubbermaid reusable juice boxes from the grocery store. See you next week!

Safeway eScrip
The Number 1 eScrip Money Maker Must Be Renewed By November 1. Our schools receive over $30,000 per year thanks to the more than 1,000 families that have signed up their Safeway club cards with eScrip. Every year this subscription must be renewed before November 1. It is simply a one click update. If you have a Safeway club card that is already signed up, please go to www.escrip.com now and click to renew. If you have a Safeway club card but have not signed up with eScrip, please sign up for the program.

Sign Up for More eScrip Dollars
Subscribing to eScrip at www.escrip.com means that hundreds of participating local stores will rebate money to our schools when you use registered credit/ATM cards or store club cards – at no cost to you. eScrip dollars are used to fund library, music, technology, science and teaching excellence programs at our public schools -- Hillview, Oak Knoll, Encinal and Laurel. eScrip raised over $60,000 for our kids last year! Register under Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation; Group ID #126417042.

The Laurel PTO does not sponsor or endorse any of the organizations whose activities are listed below.

Girl Scouts
Interested in Girl Scouts? We have strong interest from several Laurel parents in helping to start a new Daisy Girl Scout troop for kindergartners and a new Brownie Girl Scout troop for first graders. For more information, contact Debbie Hall at halldla(at)gmail.com or 322-8470.

Keplers' Family Story Time

• Sunday, October 8, 11:30 a.m.
• Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park

Atherton Town Barbecue

• Sunday, October 15, 3-7 p.m.
• Holbrook-Palmer Park