I would like to send heartfelt appreciation to everyone who helped make the West Windsor-Plainsboro Education Association (WWPEA) Pencil Points Dinner to Aid Schools Damaged by Sandy, a huge social and financial success!
Thank you to all the parents, students, and community members who joined us for a delicious dinner catered by Business Bistro. Thank you to Marie Blistan, NJEA secretary/treasurer, for joining us as a server and as part of the clean-up committee; to NJEA for its financial support; and to Senator Linda Greenstein for joining us!
Thank you to the volunteers from the WWPSA, the WWPAA, and other WW-P employees who helped us create this night! Lastly, as WWPEA president, I am enormously proud of the more than 100 WWPEA members who set up, served, entertained, baked, and cleaned up for our dinner, so I send out a huge thank you to them!
To date, we have raised more than $5,000 for the Hurricane Sandy Get Kids Back to School Fund. This fund was started by NJEA with seed money of $500,000, which would have gone toward the NJEA Convention that was canceled after the storm. This fund provides school supplies to teachers and students who have been displaced as a result of the storm. NJEA has already provided “teacher boxes” full of supplies to teachers who are now working in alternate locations and backpacks full of supplies to students who now need to start over in a temporary school.
As families and teachers were leaving the dinner, many were saying, “It would be great to do this again!” This was a big undertaking, but it was completely worthwhile! WWPEA members loved hosting this event, and we look forward to doing it again.
Debbie Baer
WWPEA President
Additional donations can be sent to WWPEA, PO Box 27, West Windsor 08550. Make checks payable to WWPEA Cares. For more about the December 6 event, see story, page 28.
