Standing out on the corner

Just wrapped up two outstanding nights hanging out on the corner of Chester and Sharon visiting with the parents of our middle school music students. Well, maybe not visiting with them exactly but at least speaking with them and watching a number of them support our cause by signing our petitions. A few passed us by with a congenial 'no thank you', but a lot more passed us by with an 'already signed'. We didn't mind that second comment nearly so much.

Hopefully we'll get a lot more signatures before Thursday's PCMS band concert, when we'll be back out working the corner...

...with our petitions, c'mon, folks.

By the by, big thanks to Maggie Jones of Lincoln Heights for being the first to turn in her petition. Remember, all circulators, we need your petitions turned in post haste so the OEA can begin verifying the signatures.

PS - For those of you who might've been around PCSD for a year or two, Gretchen Tash passed along this photo of a certain past PCSD superintendent <cough Richard Denoyer cough> signing our petition with his wife Saturday at Washington Park. For those of you who are newer to PCSD, ask somebody around who remembers Dr Denoyer.

Calling in the troops...and the drinks

Got an email from Ann Bayou today. She's our local OEA rep.

Her bosses are calling in all the petitions, so we're going to need to give petitions to Ann by Monday at the latest. She'll give us more petitions for each one we turn in, but she needs to get our petitions by Monday.

So, we're calling in all the petitions - whether you have ten signatures or fifty. They have to come in.

The best way would be to bring them to Saturday's community event (12-5 at Washington Park, have we mentioned?) so we can check off what's come in and make sure the back page is filled in correctly. If you can't make it to Saturday's event (and that's going to have to be something pretty big for us to understand that), then give an email to the PACEForKids@gmail.com address so we can arrange an in-person pickup. These can't go through the Pony service at PCSD.

And separately, thanks to Kevin Lawhon for being the first donor to get a 12pk to the high school for Saturday's event. We got a few through the day, but we're still in need. Bring 'em on, folks.