PITTSFORD SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED
on Friday, May 23 and on Monday, May 26 for the Memorial Day weekend.  There will be no PTSA E-News on these dates.  Please plan accordingly.

PASS NEWS (5/16/08)
New information is now available at the PASS Website: www.pittsfordpass.org.  Please go to the website homepage for detailed information re: the following updates:
 
Upcoming Meetings:   Annual PASS Luncheon: DATE CHANGE!  Tuesday, June 10, 2008, Brio's Restaurant at 12 Noon.  Please RSVP to passnews@frontiernet.net.
 
News Alerts:
1.  May is Better Hearing & Speech Month!  PCSD Speech Pathologists and the American Speech & Hearing Association (ASHA) want you to remember that 2.  May is Better Hearing and Speech Month.  Go to www.pittsfordpass.org to learn more.
3.  BOCES 2 Attorneys Snared in AG Investigation
4.  Urgent Notice from OMRDD re: Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver Rules
 
Event Alerts:
1.  Resident Options Agency Fair - May 21, 2008
2.  OMRDD Video Conference for Families re: Medicaid Service Coordination - June 7, 2008
3.  Lose the Training Wheels Program - June 29, 2008

SUPPORT PITTSFORD MUSICALS
On June 13-29, Pittsford Musicals will be presenting DAMES AT SEA at GEVA Theatre's Nextstage as part of the Rochester Theatre Festival.  It will be directed by Pam Marsocci, with Shelly Thompson as choreographer and Harold Mc Aulliffe as music director.  The cast will be performing at Pittsford Barnes and Noble Saturday evening, May 24 at 7PM. 

Pittsford Musicals supports our local schools with yearly scholarships for graduating seniors who plan further studies in the performing and visual arts.  To date they have distributed over a quarter million dollars in scholarships!  You can support this Pittsford institution by mentioning Pittsford Musicals when you make purchases on May 24 in the Pittsford store or by giving the following Bookfair ID # 272435 at any of the other stores. 

FIRST ANNUAL “STICK HORSES ON PARADE”--5/30
We Provide the Stick Horse.  You Provide the Imagination!

Kids--be artistic, attend a Red Wings baseball game and help other people--all at the same time! You will be raising money for EquiCenter, a not-for-profit therapeutic horse center in Mendon that helps people with disabilities and at-risk youth.

WHAT: 
·Register online, and the EquiCenter will give you a wooden stick horse to decorate.  You can also build your own fundraising page, if you want. Tell all your friends and family about your page so they can go there to donate online!
·Bring your decorated stick horse to the Rochester Red Wings game on Friday, May 30.  While there, you will enjoy a special pre-game picnic dinner in the “Nest”, parade around the field with lots of other kids on your stick horses, watch the game and then stay for post-game fireworks!
·Win great prizes for creativity and fundraising!  You could win two round-trip AirTran Airways airline tickets, a Raleigh mountain bike, an iPod and more! Raise $25 and get a t-shirt!
WHEN:   
·Friday, May 30, 2008 – gates open at 6:00 p.m. for a 7:05 p.m. 
WHERE:    
·Frontier Field, 333 N. Plymouth Ave., Rochester, N.Y.
COST: 
·$15 (includes all of the above – even your wooden stick horse!)
Get details, register online, and find out where to
get your stick horse at www.equicenterny.org.

DUCK DROP POETRY/SIGN CONTEST--OPEN TO ALL!
Help Pittsford Youth Services (PYS) celebrate its 10th annual Duck Drop!!  PYS needs your ideas for "Burma Shave" type signs to advertise the Duck Drop.  Remember the one from last year?   
                 A Race of Sorts/at Pittsford Port
                 The Duck Drop is/Your Kind of Sport! 
Our Youth Board will  paint new signs in a few weeks, and we need your ideas!! The contest is open to everyone and every age. Your rhyme should be no longer than 4 lines and should be short enough to fit on three 2x4 foot signs. The best rhymes are often four to eight words.
 
Email your entry to PYS at pys2486299@aol.com by Friday, May 23. The winner will receive 5 Duck Drop tickets ($25 value) and a 2008 Duck Drop t-shirt. Enter as many poems as you like! The winning entry and runners up will be posted on the new PYS website www.pittsfordyouthservices.org. and will be recognized on July 18, the night of the Duck Drop.
 
HOST A DUCK DROP SIGN
Support the Pittsford Youth Services (PYS) 10th Annual Duck Drop with lawn signs.  You or your neighborhood can host "Burma Shave" type signs on your front lawn(s) for a few nights in July. Let us know at pys2486299@aol.com . We’re happy to post the signs anywhere (in accordance with town regulations) but are particularly interested in locations on well-traveled roads.  Thanks for your support of PYS which lets us to support youth and families in Pittsford. 

SCPC PITTSFORD ASSET BUILDER AWARD NOMINATIONS
Each year the Pittsford School Community Partnership Council (SCPC) recognizes a person who builds assets within the Pittsford community. If you know an adult who fits the following criteria, please fill out the form at www.pittsfordptsa.net/files/2008_Asset-Builder_Nomination_Form.doc and send it to Dale Cameron-Kody, Community Wellness Coordinator, PO Box 1022, Pittsford NY 14534 by May 18, 2008

• Focuses on positive aspects (is an optimist)
• Focuses on relationships
• Takes personal responsibility to make a difference in the lives of others
• Is proactive
• Empowers other to see their role in asset building
• Focuses on strengths of youth, individuals, families and communities within Pittsford
• Encourages collaboration to build assets in all people
• Encourages others to intentionally build assets in the activities they normally pursue with youth
• Promotes hope that change is possible

6/6/2008 6x6x2008 Preview 6-10pm (no purchasing) during East End Fest
6/7/2008 Reception and Artwork Sale 6-10pm sale begins at 7:30pm