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Email from: Blaire Pritchard, PTA President
To: Jessica Halloway
Subject: Looping Back Regarding Desperate Situation
Hi Jess,
My apologies for taking so long to get back to you. Work has been an absolute nightmare! I’ve signed you up for the payments desk position, as requested. Please note that the payments person is also responsible for rounding up towels to bring in. I’m told we’ll need at least four dozen. You’ll have lots of time, as the fundraiser isn’t for several weeks.
Thanks for stepping up!
Also, Patricia had a wonderful idea for a Thanksgiving pie fundraiser. I think we have just enough time to pull it together. If each grad family brings two homemade pies, we can make a killing! We’re going to put out a mass email to advertise that the pies will be available for pick up the last day of school before Thanksgiving, and have people pre-order them. This way we’ll make sure we don’t wind up running out (or worse, having leftovers that, let’s face it, will go straight to our thighs! Haha!).
I’m putting out feelers to see how many pies we can get before we announce. Can I put you down for four pies or six? You’re such a terrific baker, and we already know some families won’t contribute anything, so we need to find people to make up the shortfall. (I’ll probably buy two of yours myself.)
Regards,
Blaire
Blaire Pritchard, MHRM, BBA, Director of Human Resources at Info-Tech Inc, PTA President, Proud Mom of Hannah and Will
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Email from: Jessica Halloway
To: Blaire Pritchard, PTA President
Subject: Looping Back Regarding Desperate Situation
Hi Blaire,
Forty-eight towels sounds like an awful lot, but I’ll see what I can do. Does the store not have any we can use? I would have thought since they’re donating the grooming center for the day that they would include towels.
Please put me down for two pies for now. If I put more than two at a time in my oven, they tend not to cook evenly. I can increase that number if we wind up being short on pies.
Jess
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Email from: Blaire Pritchard, PTA President
To: Jessica Halloway
Subject: Looping Back Regarding Desperate Situation
Hi Jess,
The store said they would have to charge us to use their towels, since they’d need to pay an employee to wash and dry them for us. There’s some sort of liability issue with having a volunteer run their machines. Something to do with insurance.
Why don’t I check and see if you could take the store’s towels home to launder there? I’m assuming they’d need them back the next morning. Is that manageable with the machines you have at home?
Thanks for the offer of two pies. So far, I’m not having very good luck with finding other parents who are willing to bake. Patricia is going to make ten! What a trooper, right? Maybe we can count on you for six? They can be baked ahead of time and popped in the freezer.
Regards,
Blaire
