January 2018

Cole, and his 8th grade class trip, has kept us very busy with fundraising all year long. Especially in January when the 8th grade hosted 2 huge basketball tournaments. The class needs to raise $20,000 for their trip to Boston at the end of May. 

The first tournament was the middle school basket ball tournament Jan 5-7 and the second was the Jr. Hoops (Heather's league) Jan 19-21. The tournaments are an incredible amount of work. Planning ahead requires contacting all the teams, acquiring their registration fees, making the game schedule, finding refs for all the games ( which happen continuously from Friday evening to Sunday evening), not to mention volunteers to run the score board and clock. Sometimes we can get high school students to do it for their community service hours. We also sell food all weekend - crockpots filled with mac n cheese, shepards pie, chili, beef stew, etc. There are baked goods, candy, soda, water, sports drinks.  The 8th grade families make all the food and the families and 8th graders are scheduled all weekend long to run the food tables, take money at the door (spectators have to pay to get into the tournament) All in all, these tournaments bring in around $5000 each so they are the biggest fundraisers for the class trip.

A snippet of some fun on the court for the few minutes between games during the Jr. Hoops tournament

Check out all this food.

Here's Heather and her Glover Jr. Hoops team playing in the tournament.  Jr Hoops is for kids grades 3-6 who are too young to play on the school team.

No photos of Cole's team in the middle school torunament, but here is a little clip of Cole at a game in Coventry with a foul shot.

On a different note, but also news in January, the Chinese restaurant in Barton burned down. It happens to be extremely close to the insurance office where I work. So that made for an exciting Friday afternoon!