A quick bit of good news before we head into summer:  the TDSB trustees passed a new $2.9 billion operating budget on June 19 – without cuts to music programs!

Pub night is coming up fast – May 3 will be here before you know it.

If you haven’t purchased your tickets yet – please do so soon! This annual event is a great night out with fellow Runnymede parents and also a great night of shopping at the silent auction, with many great items on the auction block! To purchase tickets, either send in the Pub Night Form (which came home with your kids recently) or write down your name, email and number of tickets you’d like to buy and send in with a cheque to your child’s teacher OR email Shannon Pritchard. Tickets are $20 each.

Check out the ever-growing list of silent auction items (listed here, as well as in our previous post – don’t miss out!

• Blue Jays tickets
• Marlies tickets
• TFC tickets
• Think Fitness- 2 weeks of classes
• Oxford $400 gift certificate
• Forever Interior on Dundas- Coat rack
• Gotta Dance-Camp or party
• JC salons-hair cut
• Retrofit Pilates
• Swansea School of Dance
• Bauer hockey stick
• Lucy Nails
• Cycle Monkey-camp
• Coca Organic Chocolate
• Coco Beauty Bar at Jane and Bloor
• Family weekend at Mansfield Ski Club
• Camp Restaurant
• Eat More Store
• Trixie
• Cecil Ward
• Coffee Tree

Mark your calendars for April 20, 2013, for our Spring Yard Day and Earth Day. Come out and help tidy up the Runnymede schoolyard, and enjoy a great day full of family activities. Click the poster for more details.

See you on April 20th!

Don’t miss the year’s most anticipated social event. Runnymede’s annual Pub Night (fundraiser, kid-free night out and all-round good time) is Friday, May 3 at Earth. We are amassing silent auction items; here’s just a sample of the loot you could get your hands on:

• $50 gift certificate from Tdot Tumblers
•  2 rooms for events at Swansea Town Hall valued at $50 each
• From Microsoft- office for Mac and windows 8
• Art kit fromTillman and Robinson
• Landscape consult from Green Bean
• Runnymede Adventure Club camp
• Directors Cut camp
• Humber Optical $100 gift card
• $400 Oxord gift certificate
• Delight chocolate
• Mellow walk boots
• 1 month of free classes at RPM
• 1 week of Westside fun camp
• Fashion consulting
• Chiropractic massage
• Beaver Valley ski club family weekend
• 1 month trial at Boulevard Club
• High tea at Windsor Arms
• 2 iron urns
• 5 passes for High Park Village Fitness
• Tabatta fitness by Katerina Simons
• Lole jacket

If you have items to donate, please contact Jennifer Kopplin.