PTA Basket Raffle is underway at 8 of the downtown stores!!

Exciting holiday basket raffle with local downtown businesses to benefit our kids!! Some of you may remember, and miss, the basket auctions that were held at Dike Newell in years past. This year we thought we'd reinvent this tradition by having downtown businesses create wonderful baskets for us, that will be raffled off at their stores. The PTA contributed $25 towards the value of each basket and the proprietors of the stores generously contributed to the baskets as well, making baskets of substantial value (we'll post the values on our blog www.bathelementaryptablog.blogspot.com when we have them all tallied). Raffle tickets only cost 50 cents per chance, and will be sold beginning this Saturday, November 14th, at the following stores: Papa Geppettos, Pitter Patter, Magnolias, Now You're Cooking, Bath Book Shop, Marnee's Cookies, Tates, Bath Natural Market and the Maine Maritime Museum. We are deeply grateful to all of these stores for participating in this project, and all proceeds will go to the Bath Elementary PTA to fund projects that benefit our children. The winner of each basket will be drawn on Dec. 15th. Please note: There will be no refunds or exchanges on any of the items in the gift baskets.

Pay your PTA dues at the Dike-Newell Open House on Sept. 17th!

Let's kick off this PTA year by establishing as many PTA memberships as possible BEFORE the inaugural meeting of the PTA on Sept. 22nd! PTA board members will be on hand at the Dike-Newell Open House on Thurs., Sept. 17th, 5:30 - 6:30 to accept annual PTA membership dues. Dues are $6/adult and $10/family (each adult who joins gets a voting privelege at PTA meetings among other benefits to membership!). We hope we'll see you at the Open House!

The First Meeting of the Bath Elementary PTA will be on Tues., Sept. 22nd!!

The first meeting of the Bath Elementary PTA will be on Tues., Sept. 22nd at Dike-Newell, social time starts 6:15 p.m., meeting convenes at 6:30. The meeting will be held in the library on the second floor, free babysitting on the first floor in the art room. After this meeting, regular PTA meetings will begin in October, meetings held on the second Tuesday of the month and alternating between the two elementary schools, with the October 13th meeting being held at the Fisher-Mitchell school library.

We hope you'll join us to see how you can become involved in this group that advocates for our elementary-aged kids, teachers and families of Bath!

Meet us at the Dike-Newell Open House on Thurs., Sept. 17th. We'll be accepting membership dues ($6/adult or $10/family) and just saying hello!