Greeley PTA Vice Chair

Bell PTA Vice Chair

Seven Bridges PTA Vice Chair

Grafflin PTA Vice Chair

Roaring Brook PTA Vice Chair

Westorchard PTA Vice Chair

Chappaqua PTA Vice President

Chappaqua PTA Treasurer and

Chappaqua PTA Corresponding Secretary.

Please consider nominating yourself or someone you know who you believe to be qualified.  Nominations must be received by Wednesday, January 25th.  Email nominations tochappaquaptanominating@gmail.com or mail nominations to Nominating Committee, Chappaqua PTA, P.O. Box 5, Chappaqua, NY 10514. 

PTA leadership provides a wonderful opportunity to be more involved in your child's school, meet and work with parents from all district schools, and work closely with administrators and teachers.  For more information contact your school's nominating committee representative: Ethylene Ziegler at ethziegler@gmail.com.

PTA Fundraising 

Membership dues alone do not cover the costs of all Chappaqua PTA activities.  For that reason we run a fundraising program.  You can support the Chappaqua PTA in one of three ways: by ordering a KidStuff coupon book, by purchasing theater tickets through Givenik or by ordering Sally Foster products.

Are you a Sally Foster gift wrap fan?  No worries, we have continued our relationship with the Sally Foster company for another year, but only via direct online ordering.  To order, please visit www.sallyfoster.com.  On the home page, before selecting items, purchasers should click on "Support a Fundraiser" in the upper right-hand corner, click on "Give credit to school or group" and enter the Chappaqua PTA's account number, 181309.  Your items will be shipped directly to the address you provide.  Shipping is free on orders of $50 or more and the PTA will receive 40% of every purchase.

NEW THIS YEAR is the Chappaqua PTA's fundraising arrangement with Givenik.com.  Givenik is an exciting new way to get discount tickets, premium seats and group rates to Broadway and Off-Broadway shows and support the Chappaqua PTA!  The PTA will receive 5% of your ticket purchase, so when you're thinking about getting show tickets, please keep Givenik in mind.  Click here to visit the PTA's dedicated page on the Givenik website.

GRAFFLIN GOES GREEN!

Recycling Drive for January: Holiday Cards

Save your holiday, birthday and thank you cards! The Grafflin Environmental Committee will be collecting all types of cards for the St. Jude's Ranch for Children Recycled Card Program. The children participate in making the new cards by removing the front and attaching a new back with a new message. The result is a beautiful new card made by the children and volunteers. The benefits are two fold: customers receive "green" holiday cards for use and the children receive payment for their work and learn the benefits and importance of "going green".  NOTE: Please send only card fronts (rip off message side of card)  Also, we cannot accept cards with photos of people on them.

Illustrations and generic photos are fine. This drive will run until the beginning of February.

Thanks to all who ordered their Lunchskins!  You are doing your part to reduce the use of plastic bags in lunches and snacks.  The drive was a huge success!! 

GRAFFLIN GREEN STATION

Come visit Grafflin's Green Station located in the front lobby.  We will be posting useful environmental information and tips throughout the year for students and parents.

The Green Station is also the place to drop off your contributions to our recycle drives.

RECYCLE DRIVES

BOTTLE CAPS:  We will, once again, be accepting bottle caps this year as we continue to participate in the Aveda Bottlecap Recycling Program.  All bottle caps will be recycled into new shampoo bottles and other packaging for Aveda.  We can accept RIGID PLASTIC CAPS ONLY.  This includes caps on shampoo, water, milk and other beverage bottles, pharmaceutical lids, flip top caps (like from ketchup or mayo), laundry detergent and peanut butter lids.  We CANNOT accept non-rigid caps such as yogurt lids and butter tub lids.  This program keeps many of these caps from ending up as litter and migrating into our rivers and oceans where they can cause pollution problems and endanger the lives of wildlife.  

COSMETIC CONTAINERS!:  This year, we will be participating in the Origins Cosmetic Packaging Drive.  All cosmetic packaging collected will be sent to Origins, the cosmetic company, where it will be either recycled into new packaging or plastic lumber, or, if it is not recyclable, used for energy recovery, which means it will be incinerated to generate energy.  We can accept EMPTY make-up and skin care containers- including cosmetic tubes, bottles and jars- regardless of brand.  Cosmetic packaging is often made from resin, which is not usually accepted through local recycling.  By contributing to the Origins program, we are helping to keep this packaging out of our landfills.

Shoe Drive: We are accepting shoes and sneakers from both adults and children.  We will be donating as much as we can locally to the Community Center of Northern Westchester and TO Neighbor's Link- where any gently worn footwear will go to the in-need communities they serve.   We will also be donating some out of season footwear to Soles4Souls- to be distributed to people in need around the world.  Those that cannot be reused will be recycled.