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Do you own a pre-80s classic car you would like to show off at the Stevenson Rocks Around the Arts Silent Auction & Concert fundraiser?

The event is Friday May 7th,  5-9pm.

Car owners need to register in advance – download a registration form here:

Carshow Registration

Car owners need to check in between 4-5pm. Arrive at the side gate on California to enter the playground. Cars must remain on the  playground until 9pm (no early outs).

Please contact De Eldridge for more information 818-415-8487 or send an email to ffs@stevensonpirates.net

If there is an emergency or disaster on a school day, the following rules apply:

During School Hours:

• Your child will be kept AT SCHOOL unless it is unsafe.
• Your child will be released ONLY to persons listed on your school emergency card.  Anyone attempting to pick up your child will be asked for identification.
• Your child will be taken to the nearest safe location should it be necessary to evacuate the school.  Listen to the following Emergency Broadcast Station to determine this location:  1620 AM

Going to and from School:

• Your child is to continue on his/her way to school if he/she is already going to school.
• If your child rides the bus, the bus driver will go to the nearest school that is safe and remain with the students. The school administrator or his/her designee will then take the responsibility for the students and their safety.
• Your child is to continue on his/her way home if he/she is already going home.

In order to pick up your children in the aftermath of any disaster:

• Remain Calm.
• Do not call the school telephone system.
• Go to the “Student Release Gate” on Avon Street near Room 21.  You will receive the “Student Request/Release” form.  Complete the “request” portion and return to school officials.  Be prepared to show a picture ID.
• Upon completing the request form you will be instructed to proceed to the “Reunion Gate” on Avon Street near the Log Cabin.  You will be asked to sign the “release” portion once your child has arrived at the reunion gate.
• Children are released only to parents or adults listed on the Emergency Authorization Card.
• While the release procedures may feel long and involved to all of us, we must insure the safety of all students!
• In the event of a disaster (civil defense, fire, earthquake), students will be supervised in designated areas until transportation can be arranged or until students are picked up by their parents.
• In case of danger on the schoolyard (wild animals, civil strife, etc.), the students will be kept in the classrooms until the school grounds are safe.
• In case of danger in the buildings (fire, gas leak, etc.), the students will leave the buildings and line up on the school ground assembly area.
• It is extremely important that parents keep all their emergency telephone numbers and contact names current with the Stevenson school office.  Please call (818) 558-5522 whenever you move or change emergency information for your children.

By Miss Ginnetti

Jennifer Jesperson with Autry

Hooray for Hollywood!

It’s award season in Hollywood in case you hadn’t noticed. One of my favorite moments so far was from The Golden Globes when “Glee” won the award for Best Musical or Comedy. When creator and executive producer Patrick Murphy and his cast took the stage, one of the first things that Murphy said was, “This show is about a lot of things: it’s about the importance of Arts education…” I jumped up off of my couch and broke into applause and tears simultaneously. We live in Hollywood. I never dreamed of being in “The Biz” when I was little, but it’s different for our children. Many of them do. And by providing an education rich in The Arts, we are helping them.
The work we’re doing is not just about The Arts per se. It’s about giving our children the confidence to get through life. It’s about giving them a license to use their imagination. It’s about giving them hope. It’s telling them that it’s OK to dream. No matter what that dream is.

De Eldridge with Arthur

The goal of Families For Stevenson is very clear and remains a constant. We raise money for The Arts and other specialty programs including sun shades for the playground and library refurbishing and funding. Fundraising is not always “fun.” We know that many of our families are struggling. But we must do our part. The state government certainly isn’t.

To find out more visit: http://stevensonpirates.net/donate/

Our donation drive is in full swing (thank you to everyone who has already donated), we just finished up our Barnes & Noble Book Fair and Dine-Out Nights. Thank you Renee Kregler for all of your hard work! We’ve begun planning for our biggest event of the year, Stevenson Rocks! We’re looking so forward to it. If you want to get involved with the planning (no matter how much or how little) please contact our co-chairs, De Eldridge, Emma Clarkson or myself.

We hope to see all of you at the talent show on March 5th and 6th. The children have been working so hard and they absolutely love being involved… you’ll see!

Jennifer Jesperson & De Eldridge
FFS Co-Presidents FFS@stevensonpirates.net

As the saying goes, sometimes when you don’t have anything good to say you shouldn’t say anything at all. But the problem is that would be too easy. As co-presidents of our PTA, we feel compelled to relay the message or information back to our Stevenson Community. And the message as you might guess is not good.

The Burbank Unified School District is desperately struggling to deal with the State’s drastic cutbacks to our public education system. This will not come as news to anybody that hasn’t had their head buried deep in the sand. The issue that has become more and more apparent to us over the last month’s PTA Council and School Board meetings is the depth and the degree of our problems.

Without detailing all of the factors that are making our national, state ad local economies extremely weak these days, suffice it to say that we, as a school district, do not have the necessary revenues coming in to maintain our status quo and will be very hard pressed to stay solvent let alone out of bankruptcy over the next three years. Our school principals and board members have stopped trying to put a smiley face on it. Our situation is dire. Walk up and ask any of them about the future of our public schools and you will get an ear-full – classroom-size will balloon up to teacher / student ratios none of us are prepared for – INCLUDING K – 3; staff & administrators will be noticeably reduced in numbers; security at our high schools will be reduced; librarians and school nurses will be almost non-existent; art, music and PE will soon suffer drastic cutbacks. And this is their “best case scenario”. Seriously.
Now we assume that most of the folks that are reading this are already informed because you are the type of people who… well, stay informed. So here is what we suggest – with all of our anger, disappointment and frustration with this situation, all of our deep concern for our kids education and welfare, our voice must be heard! Our SHOUT has to be heard OUTSIDE of our small circle of Stevenson PTA and FFS. We have to start talking to more people, neighbors, relatives all of the time about this huge mess or nothing is going to change except (we promise you) it will get worse. So please be part of the solution. Get involved. Come to meetings, speak your mind, spread the word here in Burbank.

There is true power in numbers!

Tiffany Bakas & Felix Chamberlain
The Tag Team Stevenson PTA, ptatagteam@stevensonpirates.net

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. ~David Orr

The world has come together in Vancouver. And these Olympics are the greenest in history!

For example, the Olympic and Paralympic Village will reuse captured methane gas from a former landfill for energy and the primary heat source for the community will be waste heat recovered from the municipal wastewater treatment system.

The Richmond Oval, where all speed skating events will take place, has a huge ceiling – the size of almost seven Olympic hockey rinks! It is made with a million board feet of pine beetle-infested wood that otherwise would have gone to waste. Wood cleared from the six-acre site before construction began was used to make benches in the team dressing rooms. Even the rainwater running off the roof is collected in a pond for irrigation and for flushing the facility’s toilets!

NBC’s broadcast headquarters has a six-acre “living roof.” The roof features an enormous garden with 400,000 individual indigenous plants to help regulate the building’s temperature.

And of course how green could the Olympics be without sustainable transportation? The athletes will be traveling between venues and around the Olympic village via cutting-edge electric trolleys. Since their introduction three years ago, over 450 of them have been installed across Europe, and Toronto has ordered 204 models of a similar design.

Vancouver has raised the bar.

Remember, it is easy being green!
By Jennifer Jesperson