Letter To Parents

September 29, 2010

Dear Parents,

The Parent Teacher League (PTL) of Pilgrim Lutheran School is proud to host its first annual Jog-a-thon on Wednesday, October 13th.  This event is a great way for our students to participate in an exciting physical fitness activity while raising money to help fund our Spanish Program, Art Literacy Program, fellowship events like the Spring Carnival, other school needs and classroom essentials.  This is an important school wide fundraiser, so participation is vital to our students! 

What is a Jog-a-thon?  Students raise money for the Jog-a-thon by collecting pledges.  Students will run for approximately 20 minutes around the Elsie Stuhr grassy area (weather permitting).  Everyone will run for fun on the day of the Jog-a-thon whether they have collected pledges or not. 

With safety being a top concern, we are encouraging students to only approach people they know.  Attached you will find a pledge envelope, sample letter and sample e-mail.  (These forms can also be found on Sycamore.)  This year we are accepting flat pledges, one flat amount regardless of how many laps the students run.  We will accept cash or checks made payable to Pilgrim Lutheran School, with your child’s name and grade written in the memo section of the check.

Children will be able to compete for prizes.  Some prizes will be based upon highest amount of pledges collected and some prizes will be given out randomly. Pledge envelopes are due on Wednesday October 13th, but pledges will be accepted until Wednesday, October 20th.  Our 2010-2011 PTL budget is $11,000.  If each child could raise $75 we would meet and exceed that goal!  What is exciting about the jog-a-thon is that all pledges are tax deductible.  And an added bonus is that many companies match funds for donations made for education!

We are in need of volunteers to make the Jog-a-thon a success. Please take a few minutes and consider volunteering, it will be a fun day!   There will be a sign-up on the PTL bulletin board in the atrium for volunteer opportunities.

There are many ways to help support Pilgrim’s Jog-a-Thon! Donations needed: prizes, gift-cards, silly bandz (those crazy rubber bands kids are wearing these days!), running bibs, oranges, participant ribbons and ice cream.

Thank you in advance for all your generosity.  This is going to be a great year! 

Sheri Kaetzel
PTL President and Jog-a-thon Coordinator