MARINERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Fall Fundraiser & Auction Summary

As co-chairs of A Night at Ciro's, we would like to express our gratitude to all of the individuals, donors, and sponsors who made this event a success!  We raised over $90,000 net for our school!  This was possible because so many of you donated items, donated your time, attended the event, or some combination thereof!

Each year, we are amazed by the dedication of the parents, teachers, and faculty at Mariners Elementary School.  Equally as impressive is our network of local business owners who continually support our fundraising efforts through their generous donations toward our silent & live auction! Please continue to patronize our local sponsors and donors!

In addition to the list of committee volunteers, underwriters & donors recognized in the Ciro's event program, we would like to personally acknowledge the following families and individuals:

The Marking Family:  Eric Marking for dedicating countless hours to build a computer network that would ensure a smooth guest mgt. process.   Susan Marking for spearheading the Auction pay software selection & implementation, spending countless hours & sleepless nights supporting the donation merchandising effort, & ensuring bid sheets were created until the very last minute!

The Patterson Family:  Words cannot express the gratitude to the Patterson family.  Julie graciously volunteered to lead the auction wrapping effort, opening her home to weeks of boxes, bags, ribbons, and donation drop-offs. Johnny "P" even relocated his workout equipment from the garage to accommodate the dozens of volunteers who would be in and out of their home for 3 solid weeks!  And to their son, Connor, for allowing us to invade his home and 'steal' his mom's time for way too long... thank you!

Meredith Cagle (the voice of reason) who was 'just dropping off a donation' at Julie's house & happened to be at the right place at the right (at least from our perspective), and took over as 'Auction pay software extraordinaire'... deleting those packages before we were too far off-track and then steering us in the right direction.

Christin Gurka for conquering way more than she ever intended to, and becoming the resident guru of the Ciro's project event website. Katie Bronicki and Mrs. Amy Wolf for accomplishing a stellar job on the Teacher Time & Talent category, which raised $8200!

Thank you to all of our teachers and staff for your 100% participation.

Rory O'Neil and her team (Lisa Li and Georgina Forbath) for accomplishing a tremendous outcome on the Mariners parking spot opportunity raffle - raising $5400! And to the Kassouf family, who won the raffle and donated it back to Mariners to raise another $1000 for a $6400 total - thank you, thank you!

The donation committee (Laura Cox, Gina Covina, Sue Wojtaszek, Nancy Terry, Amy Stefano, Jeanine Bashore, Kathleen Levine, Julie Patterson, Christine Babin, Jamie Delgado, and Anne Brown) for facilitating over 300 donations from our network of businesses and Mariners families!  And to Mike Huntley for picking up so many of the donations (and building the bicycle that turned out to be quite functional)!

The auction wrapping committee (Tina Palmer, Lisa Sinatra, Roni Herrington, Janice Hess, Amy Stefano, Valerie Minken, Patricia Stark, Sandy Vanian, Jennifer Woodward, Shelly Kormeluk, Michele Dicarlo, Maria Solomon, Kim Woodens, and Mesha Swart) for spending many nights sorting through the chaos and delivering beautiful auction baskets!

Dan Leichty for driving to Sante Fe Springs to pick up the event program so that we could all save $.  Alan Wiesner and Beth Silverman for designing a beautiful event program.

Gabriella Duncan and Maureen LaGrandeur for creatively designing the Auction story boards.

Amy Stefano for generating the auction catalog at the 11^th hour.

Jennifer Woodward and Julie Karges for the beautiful flowers we all enjoyed the night of the event.

Teryn Clarke, Tai Wells, Melissa Robinson, Janice Hess, Mesha Swart, Anne Machado, Andie Kenny, Steven King, Leah Belfiore, Jon Minken, Matt White, Rose Casler, Teryn Clark, Cindy Lee, Roni Herrington, Lynette Sauerborn, Tina Palmer, Jen Blanchfield, Jaime Weber, Jana Kalinowski, Jaime Weber, Nanci Terry, Margie Rimland, and Maureen Lagrandeur for volunteering the day of the event to accomplish all of the behind the scenes tasks that are critical to the success!  And we are grateful for the 3 Ensign volunteers Jordan Blanchfield, Reilly Cox, and Annie LaGrandeur who were onsite and helped tremendously... thank you, thank you!

And last, but not least, the dedicated folks who stayed till the vey end of the night, typing away on laptops while most of us were still on the dance floor... Eric Marking, Kathy Arblaster, Jennifer Walker, Sue Wojtaszek, Christin Gurka, Mike Huntley & Laura Forbes, Matt and Julie White, Kate & Mike Smith, Lori & Brendan Williams, Anne & Craig Ima, Dianne and Jonno Wells, Jana and Ron Kalinowski, Teryn and Dave Clarke, Laura Cox, Katie Bronicki, Shelly Kormeluk, and Dana Binford.

If we have missed someone, please accept our sincere apologies, as your efforts were not overlooked!

We are looking for a chair or several co-chairs to lead the 2010 Fall fundraiser!  If interested, please contact Sharon Zablan at 949-677-4903 or zablansl@yahoo.com.

Respectfully,

The 2009 Event Co-chairs: Jami Delgado, Molly Kassouf, and Sharon Zablan

Ralphs Community Contribution Program
IMPORTANT: For Mariners to continue to benefit from your purchases, Ralphs requires you to register for each school year (Sept - June). If you are not sure if you registered for this year, go ahead and re-register today - it takes less than one minute.

Click Here to re-register (Mariners NPO Number is 80137). Learn More

Mariners Gift Card Program         Download Order Form Here     Delivery Calendar
The Mariners Elementary School Foundation is excited to implement a Scrip Fundraising Program.  Scrip Programs allow non-profit organizations, such as MESF, to purchase scrip Gift Cards at a discount then resell them at full face value.  The bulk of the discount (from 2% to 25%) is retained as revenue.  This allows families to produce revenue by making purchases they would make anyway. Groceries, clothing, meals, toys, gifts even gasoline can be purchased with scrip. Learn more