The HFCS PTA is pleased to host its annual Family Fun Bingo on Saturday, March 28, from 9 to 11:30 am in the Hoosick Falls Junior-Senior High School Cafeteria. Come one, come all – kids with their moms, dads, grandmas, grandpas – join the fun and play Bingo with your family and friends and win great prizes donated by local vendors.
The PTA is pleased to have Mark Cottrell returning as Bingo caller, and Chris Catlin, of The Fresh Air Fund, will be on-hand with brochures about the program and to answer any questions from potential families.
For more information about Family Fun Bingo, please contact Laurie Gormley, Chair, at smglkg@aol.com or 518-686-9138.
And new this year, the PTA would like to encourage players to bring plastic shopping bags to be donated to the Blue Whale Project. This project that began in October, led by Melodee James and her Science/Ecology class at HFCS, resulted in the construction of an 80-foot long blue whale (made from plastic). In addition to learning about whales and other ocean creatures and using math, physics and a lot of teamwork to complete the project, James wanted her students to understand about the pollution of plastics in the ocean. According to James in a previous Eastwick Press article, “Ninety percent of the garbage in the ocean is plastic.” To help people understand about how much we pollute the oceans with plastics, the group will be filling the whale with plastic shopping bags and recycling the bags instead of having them thrown away. They “hope this will promote the use of fabric shopping bags as an alternative to plastic.”