BLAST UPDATE & THANK YOU

Thank you all for all of your help volunteering at the UMS BLAST! Our community had a BLAST thanks to the excellent TEAM we had in place the night of the event. Thank you especially to Jill Brehmer for co-chairing the event and managing the set-up/clean-up, DJ, Photobooth, Inflatables and day-of logistics, Jen Fosco for serving as the Volunteer Coordinator and setting up/cleaning up and handling day-of logistics, John Hart and Dan Brehmer for borrowing tables from Alta Vista for the event and setting up and cleaning up and overseeing a crew of volunteers for set-up/clean-up, Lisa Matson for ticket sales all week, our Treasurer Alma Mathias for helping secure square readers for ticket sales, Anna Rubacalva as Treasurer of the BLAST and Darren Matson for counting cash throughout the night, Laura Duran for a successful Book Fair, Elaine Hutchins, for decorating the campus (and staff room) with beautiful fall decorations, Lauren Hanson and Maaike Shenone for running the games committee (and helping with inflatables as needed), Kate Marchak and Crissy Alesii  for leading the food and concessions, Susan Nelson for procuring our sponsors, Anna Fraboni and UMS ASB leadership for volunteering to set-up and creating signage for the event and all of the volunteers who helped make it a fun-filled event for our community! The BLAST Committee is so grateful for this community of volunteers!
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Thank you to our gold sponsors: Wendy Marioni, Hall & Burnett, FIIT60, Bill Lister and Mike Wendstrand, Silver; Marioni Tile, Bronze: TR Homes, Ivy Math and Heather Saddique of Farmers Insurance. 
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HSC MEETING UPDATE
Our next HSC meeting will be Tuesday, November 1st at 6:30pm. 
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Help Needed for UMS HSC Booth at District-Wide Community Event: Helping Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022.
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Please sign up for a 30 minute slot of volunteering at our UMS HSC booth at our USD Community Event (you can bring your middle schooler or high schooler to help with you) here:
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https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C48AEAE2FA7FA7-hscbooth

More information about this event:
Greetings to our wonderful Union Middle School Volunteers and Families:

Our district will be hosting a Helping Harvest Festival for our community at Dartmouth Middle School on Saturday, October 29th from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm.  Dr. Andrews' message about the event was just sent out on Parent Square.  It explains our desire to bring our schools together (for the first time ever) to celebrate our community while helping support some very worthy local causes.  Along with providing a vaccination clinic, the event will offer our students and families fun activities, music, food trucks, caring messages, sock and food donations, and games.  We hope you can stop by this free family-friendly event. 

UMS Home and School Club plans to participate by hosting a small table and we will be collecting dry and canned non-perishable goods to donate for our Thanksgiving food drive including: canned beans, canned soup, canned pumpkin, canned cranberries, stuffing mix, boxes of instant mashed potatoes, boxes of Mac and Cheese, canned or boxed gravy, rice, etc. Please stop by the UMS HSC booth to make a donation.

Event: Helping Harvest Festival
Location: Dartmouth Middle School
Date/Time:  Saturday, October 29th from 3:00-6:00pm
Location for HSC Tables: Dartmouth Quad
Games/Activities:  Anything simple for all ages
Prizes:  Not necessary but the young ones would love a little treat
Set Up Time: Anytime between 1:30-3:00pm

Please connect with Randy Martino if you have any questions.

Randy Martino, Student & Staff Wellness and Community Relations
(408)377-8010 ext 44212
[email protected]
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Graveyard Grappler Wrestling Tournament Needs Volunteers

Union Middle School is hosting the Graveyard Grappler Wrestling Tournament on October 29th and we need a lot of volunteers to make this tournament happen. 

Linked below is the volunteer sign up page.We need volunteers in all areas but we especially need parents/students who we can train to operate the scoring at each mat. 

Volunteer List for Graveyard Grappler 2022

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!