Community Events

Fun Fair & Auction Need You to Succeed!

FFSignWE NEED YOUR HELP!!

February 22 is the BIG DAY! Irving is the place to be! This is our biggest fundraising day of the year and we need a little help from everyone to make it a huge success! Help set up for the day, help for a bit during the day, or help after to finish up. We can’t do it without you! If you give just one hour of your time to school activities this year, this is a great day to help! Here is a summary of what’s going on:

FUN FAIR:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/70A0A49AEA923A64-2014/3519337
Please offer an hour or so of your time to set up games, work at the game stations, take down the games in the gym at the end of the Fun Fair, or to assist with food sales in the lunchroom. This is a great way for older students to help out. Sign up here or email irvingfunfair@gmail.com

AUCTION:
http://www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080D45ADAF2CAA8-silent1/3842880
The silent auction is our biggest PTO fundraiser. Volunteers help set up items the night before, walk the hallway to make sure things go well during the auction, and assist with check out for those paying. Sign up here or email hanoconnor@gmail.com

DANCING FOR DESSERTS:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080948AAAA22A64-dancin
Oh, Bakers and Buyers of Baked Goods – we need you to bake or buy cakes, cupcakes, bars, cookies or pies for the cakewalk! Thanks ever so! Sign up here or email loriandwillmcconnell@gmail.com

WE NEED YOUR DONATIONS!!!

Are you ready to party, Irving?
New to the auction this year we are selling tickets to parties hosted by teachers and parents. The parties can be for kids or adults. Here is a sneak peak of some of the fun parties that Irving students can participate in! We hope parents offer to host parties as well as our amazing Irving staff! Think of hosting a themed dinner party at your house, or a game night for grown-ups, or share a hobby. We have such a great community so this should be a ton of fun! Details and the sign-up form are in this document.

What’s an auction without donations?!
The silent auction is our biggest PTO fundraiser. To make this event a success we need help with donations. Feel free to contact hanoconnor@gmail.com if you have anything to donate. We need all donations by February 13, 2014.

What’s a bingo game without prizes?!
House Cleaning? The Fun Fair Committee is looking for new items to be used for Bingo Prizes. Small Items such as fast food toys, party favors, noisemakers, promotional items, small books/coloring books, new items laying around the house that are not being used by your children would be perfect Bingo Prizes. Drop off your items in the school’s Front Office, or bring them to the lunchroom the morning of the Fun Fair.

Raffle Prizes!
If you have, or know someone that has, a business that would like to donate a prize for the Fun Fair Raffle or Grand Prize drawing, we are looking for those items as well. Anything from small to large electronics items to Gift Certificates would be tremendous and they will receive heaps of exposure and gratitude from the Irving School Family. Contact irvingfunfair@gmail.com

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS A GREAT DAY!

 

It’s Time to Create the Master Plan for Oak Park Pools!
It’s Time to Create the Master Plan for Oak Park Pools! 
Community Meeting on W, Feb 19 at 7pm
You’re invited to a community meeting at the Oak Park Conservatory to help develop a master plan for the Park District of Oak Park’s two pools, the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex Pool (set to open summer 2014) and Rehm Park Pool.  The Park District will be gathering public input regarding future improvements to Rehm Pool to complement the new features at the RCRC Pool to better meet the needs of our residents. more details 
Questions? Please contact Diane Stanke

Instructions and Link for Online Silent Auction

Thank you for supporting the Irving PTO through this silent auction! We’re thrilled to offer these amazing items online this year. Here is the link to access the online auction: http://irvingsilentauction.wordpress.com

Bidding opens: Tuesday, February 19, 6:00 p.m. Bidding closes: Thursday, February 21, 10:00 p.m. Note to teachers & staff: Please use an email address other than your @op97.org one. These may get marked as Spam and they are slow to show up.

Download Instructions

To place a bid, click to view the item you’re interested in, then click on “Leave a Comment” or “Leave a Reply” and enter the dollar amount you wish to bid. The first time you do this you will be asked for your name and email address. This is how you will be contacted if you win (emails are hidden from public view). You do not need to leave any other information in the Comment, just your bid amount, for example “$200.” You need to keep posting comments to increase your bid; it doesn’t happen automatically.

If you are the winner of an item, you will be contacted to arrange payment and receipt of your new prize. Please make payments by cash or check only. Local pick-up or delivery only; items cannot be shipped.

If you have any problems or questions, please call Hannah O’Connor 773-368-4184 or email hanoconnor@gmail.com

Please join us at Irving School for additional items at the in-person silent auction on Saturday, February 22 from 11 am to 2 pm. The items posted online will only be available at the in-person silent auction if the starting bid is not met.

Here is a sneak peak at what will be on the online auction:

Blackhawks – 2 Tickets for March 4 vs Colorado

Blackhawks – 2 Tickets for March 4 vs Colorado

Bears – 4 tickets to preseason game or 2 tickets for regular season game. (See link for available games) Section 124 Row 4. Value $206

Bulls vs Miami Heat – 4 seats Sunday March 3 at 12:00pm 300 level seats. Bulls will be having a hat giveaway. Value $325.

Bulls vs. Philadelphia – March 22 at 7pm Benny the Bobblehead giveaway.

Empty Bottle / Bite Café – Dinner and a show package for 2 based on availability. Value $100

Duseks Board and Beer – dinner for two with beer pairing.  Value $125

Magical Minds – 10 pass punch card.  Value $90

Second City and Sen Sushi -Two passes for a Second City show Tues/Thur or Sunday and gift certificate to Sen Sushi. Value $142.

Let’em Bounce House Rental – I day standard moon bounce house. Value $220

ABC Tour– Behind the scenes tour of the ABC Newsroom with Jill Jordan for 5 people. Friday April 11, 4:30. Value: Priceless

Lemondmade Style and Snips Birthday Party – includes 2 hour access to party room and party supplies for 10 kids. $250

Amanda Miller Design Studios – 3 hours of interior design consultation by designer, Amanda Miller. Value $405

Steve and Kate’s Camp – Five days of camp to be used at the River Forest site or any Steve and Kate Camps. Value $345.

Cubs – Several tickets will be available for auction

Sox – Several tickets will be for auction.

Eberts Photography – $500 gift certificates for Ebert photography. Set at a $99 buy it now price and will sell up to 5.

Parties for the Silent Auction

Are you ready to Party Irving? 

New to the auction this year we are selling tickets to parties hosted by teachers and parents.  Here is a sneak peak, as of 2/7/14, of some of the fun parties that Irving students can participate in!  We anticipate having parent-hosted parties as well. 

Tickets to these parties will be available when the online auction opens at 6pm on Tuesday February 18th.  The online auction closes at 9pm on Thursday February 20th, and spots are first come / first served.  The price listed below is a flat fee per ticket – no bidding on these items.

FLYER

Mile in the Middle
Irving 5th graders now  become Julian 6th graders next year, and they will have the chance to participate in the Mile in the Middle,  a noncompetitive run between Brooks and Julian.
The premise of the Mile in the Middle is fun. Participants can run full out or Sunday stroll. They can skip, hopscotch gambol, or  glissade if they want, run while holding hands with friends, run in costumes, run in their get there the fastest with mostest footgear or stomp along in their best store bought, goin’ out clodhoppers. They can run forward to see where they are going or run backwards to see where they’ve been; they can run sideways if they can’t decide which.
At the end of the run, the after-party starts, where there’s congratulatory high fives plus bump and G-rated grinds (this is a family event) followed by food, games, sports, a raffle, and music to get jiggy by.
Mile in the Middle is a community event. In the past, it has received support from such businesses as BikeFix, The Book Table, Body by G, Brown Cow, Buzz Cafe, Competitive Foot, Energy Tees, Greenline Wheels, Mindful Practices Yoga, Quaker/PepsiCo., and Trader Joe’s.
For this run to happen and after party to party it needs people, people to organize it and man or woman the route to hoot on the runners. This event is a great way to become acquainted with Julian, mingle with parents from other schools and catch up with parents you haven’t seen since your kids were in preschool or first year T-ball.  Contact ptojulian@gmail.com if you want to become a part of this event.