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Welcome 2009! Do not miss the PTSA meeting & other exiting news!
January 08, 2009 — The entire PTSA Board and all of our volunteers wish every EPHS family a wonderful and blessed holiday! We will see everyone in the New Year! Our next PTSA meeting is Thursday, January 8th 5:30 pm. Read about two significant projects in the works for El Paso High!
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Texas PTA Member Benefits
Check out these discounts!
Texas PTA partners with organizations in order to provide discounts on services and products that PTA members might find beneficial. For a PDF version of this Member Benefits Information, copy and paste this address into your web browser: txpta.org/members/Discounts/discounts2008.html
Aflac: Aflac's Accident Insurance policy is made available to members at a competitive rate. To apply for a policy, go to: www.chooseaflac.com/New/MainPage.aspx? Path=TEXASPTA. For questions, please contact Aflac Agent Trish McMinn at p_mcminn@us.aflac.com.
BarnesandNoble.com: National PTA and Barnesandnoble.com have developed a discounted online bookstore for PTA members featuring over one million titles of books, textbooks, audio books, music, DVD's, and videos. Members will save 5% off all purchases ordered from this site in addition to any normal site discounts of up to 40%. You will need to reenter your username and password, which are username:families and password:involved when you get to our site.
Enterprise: Enterprise Rent-A-Car is pleased to extend a discount to all Texas PTA members on all rentals across the nation. To make your reservation and get your discount automatically, contact your Enterprise Representative Sunny Howard at 512-912- 5332 or at sunny.c.howard@erac.com.
Fiesta Texas: Members receive 15% off regular adult admission when purchasing tickets online.
La Quinta:Up to 35% off, guaranteed rate of $85.00 or less, no up-charge for king size beds, no upcharge for as many as 4 additional occupants, free up-grade to gold level in the La Quinta guest stay program, Returns, 15% off rack rate outside of Texas. Ask for the Texas PTA rate when booking by phone at 800-642-4271 or when calling the La Quinta location of your choice directly. Go to this link www.lq.com/lq/reservations/cobrand/index.jsp? cobrand=TXPTA to book online with your discount, or use discount code "TXPTA" when making your reservations at www.laquinta.com. To upgrade your La Quinta Returns status to Gold level, please contact: Sandy Clinton at Sandy.Clinton@laquinta.com.
Nationwide: Call the Fowler agency at (888- 549-4922) or speak with your local agent. An Auto Insurance Benefit for Texas PTA Members.
Schlitterbahn: Corporate Code: uphillcoaster Members receive 15% off regular admission when purchasing tickets online. Note: For the system to recognize your discount code, you must use the link: www.schlitterbahn.com/corp/partners/
Sea World: Members receive 15% off regular admission when purchasing tickets online. Please follow this link: txpta.org/members/Discounts/seaworlddiscount. html?code=TexasPTA and click on "Worlds of Discovery." This will take you to Sea World's page where you can purchase your discounted tickets.
Sharp Electronics: The PTA/Sharp Electronics member store is now available to offer you valuable member discounts on Sharp AQUOS Liquid Crystal Televisions and some other home electronics products! You will need to re-enter your username and password, which are username: families and password: involved when you go to this site.
Southwest Vacations: (1-800 423-5683) Promotion Code: PTATRAVEL Southwest Vacations, in partnership with Southwest Airlines, is offering PTA members a 5% discount on vacation packages of two nights or longer to any Southwest destination. Note: Official National PTA travel still will be booked through Omega Travel by following the directions issued by the national meetings department.
T-Mobile: Texas PTA members receive a 14% monthly discount on rate plans. Sign up today and receive a new FREE Samsung Gravity phone! Call-in offer only. 1-866-464-8662 (select option 3). Mention promo code 9397TMOFAV and the main Texas PTA number (512-476-6769) or your member ID for verification. The new G1 Google phone is discounted as well. Offer is NOT valid in stores. Members who sign up in stores will NOT receive the phone or rate plan discounts. No activation fees, no setup fees and no shipping charges. Rate plan discounts are for both new and existing customers/members. Existing customers wanting the rate plan discount should e- mail bj.durham@t-mobile.com for information on how to receive the discount.
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There are two significant projects in the works for El Paso High:
1) Drop-off and Pick-up Issues
Risher Gilbert, our membership VP, has been working on drop-off and pick-up issues at EPHS since her youngest, Meg, started EPHS. Stopping restrictions on Schuster, no parking zones, bus zones, crosswalks, historic structure status have all complicated this issue and continue to compromise the safety of the students, staff and everyone at El Paso High.
After more than 1000 hours of wrangling with district, city and traffic officials, two plans were presented and the PTSA voted to support the drop-off zone shown (the other was significantly smaller) with the request that lighting for the area be incorporated into the plan when it goes out for bid. The catch is that it is to be funded by the District and there are LOTS of other things on the district wish-list for improvements. As a PTSA, we need to be pro-active about this plan and get the support of El Paso High parents as well as parents in our feeder-pattern, to support this needed safety addition.
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2) The El Paso High Marquee
The El Paso High Marquee was originally proposed by the EPHS Alumni Association in 1999 but foundered due to questions about their 501(c) 3 status. Dr. Roskosky requested Tina Wolfe, parent of Junior Erich, to spearhead the campaign to make this happen. Tina has been working for 2 years ironing out the bugs, working with planners, designers and contractors to come up with a funding estimate. The entire sign with electronics is budgeted to cost around $60,000. This is far more than the usual amount for a 'class gift' and quite outside the realm of our current parent body.
We need to develop a plan to contact current EPHS families, alumni and interested citizens to work together to raise the money for this project. If you are interested in heading a committee to work on this fundraising plan, please contact Lisa Palm - lisa@farcosales.com or 915-345-7125 to volunteer and plan on attending the January 8th meeting for a complete presentation.
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~~Thanks from EPHS Teachers and Staff for the Teacher/Staff Appreciation Day!~~
The entire PTSA Board and all of our volunteers wish every EPHS family a wonderful and blessed holiday! We will see everyone in the New Year!
Lisa Palm, PTSA President
