Please join the Nathan Hale Music Department for its 12th annual Pancakes & Performances fundraiser on Saturday, January 23rd, from 8:30 to 12:30.  Listen to Nathan Hale’s music groups perform while enjoying an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast.  Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for kids 11 and under and will be held in the Nathan Hale lunchroom.  There will also be a small silent auction and raffle.  For more information, please contact Brenda Waldrop at waldrop_watrous@msn.com.

(By the way, there’s an underscore in between the waldrop and the watrous in the email address.)

On February 9, 2010, voters within Seattle School District will be voting with an all mail-in ballot to replace two expiring levies that continue funding for schools. The first is a three-year operations levy. This Seattle school levy funds 23% of the Seattle Public schools operating budget for teachers, librarians, counselors, textbooks, and bilingual & special education specialists. The second levy, the six-year school levy, provides safety health and maintenance improvements and academic and technology updates to Seattle schools and grounds.

The Eckstein School PTA Board has endorsed the renewal of the levies and has reserved Wednesday, January 27 from 7-9pm for an Eckstein phone bank on behalf of the upcoming School Levies vote.  The phone bank will be held at the Schools First headquarters at 524 Dexter Avenue N.

Please contact Patrick O’Kelley (pwokelley2@gmail.com) to sign up to attend the phone bank.

You can find local information about H1N1, including where to get vaccinated here:

www.kingcounty.gov/health/h1n1