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Glenealy School PTA November 2012

Glenealy International Bazaar November 16th, 2012

The Glenealy Community Celebrates

On November 16th, the Glenealy Community got together to eat, drink, play, shop and socialize at the Glenealy International Bazaar. The Bazaar

is Glenealy School PTA’s annual main fundraising event, and 2012 Bazaar raised a record number of funds!

Highlights

Funds raised

$195,900 raised towards the Glenealy Library

Fundraising record!!

Over $90,000 more than last year’s already impressive Bazaar fundraising.

Donations and underwriting

Over $34,000 in donations and cash underwriting.

Generous in-kind donations

In-kind donations helped us to reduce the cost of the Bazaar fundraising.

A show of Glenealy sprit

Over 180 Glenealy parent volunteers!

A strong show of Glenealy spirit: From Glenealy Community to Glenealy kids!

Raising Funds for the Glenealy Library On behalf of the PTA team I would like to thank-you all for helping to make the International Bazaar such a huge success. Thanks to your generous spending, sponsoring, donations and volunteering we had an exceptional night and raised an estimated $195,900 towards the Glenealy Library. As a comparison, this is over $90,000 more than last year's already impressive Bazaar fundraising.

We are well on our way to giving our kids a library that will be the heart of our school and a dynamic and interesting place for them to be. So again, thank-you for helping us to bring this closer to reality. Your school spirit motivates us to keep working towards our goal.

Sincerely

Natasha Sylvester

Chair

Glenealy PTA

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International Bazaar

I would personally like to thank the tremendous PTA Committee for leading, organizing and showing utmost commitment to the International Bazaar that was held last month. The team worked in a collaborative fashion, each taking responsibility for a section of the organization for evening. I was most impressed by their can-do attitude, their ability to be proactive and to try new things and their desire to work with the community to raise as much money as we could, to go towards the school library project. This team of dedicated workers spent their last few weeks before the bazaar almost entirely on school bazaar business, trouble shooting last minute regulations, looking at rain contingencies, sourcing products, liaising with vendors and our community chefs, marketing the event etc. They were extremely thorough and because of this the evening went without a hitch!

The Glenealy PTA Committee Natasha Headley, PTA Chairperson

Priya Mistry, International Bazaar Chairperson

Marissa Han, Accounts and Finances; Pizza

Tarja Joro Na, Communications

Mina Daswani, Silent Auction

Penny Donowho, Glenealy Money

Marie Milan, Games

Anne Pietrafitta, International Food

Hema Shah, International Food

Fiona Tam, Lay-out and On-site

Agnes Wong, Vendors

Wendy Zhang, Glenealy Bar

The Glenealy PTA Committee wishes to thank Principal Brenda Cook, the staff PTA representatives Dianne Best, David Benzie and Kristy Urquart, and the entire Glenealy staff for their support of the PTA International Bazaar.

Not only did the PTA team work tirelessly before the event, but during the event they were seen running from place to place to ensure everything was going to plan, they assisted in all of the packing up and counting of profits and the aftermath of a PTA office full of ‘stuff’ that was stored overnight! Going way beyond their role, many PTA members also underwrote some of the costs of certain aspects of the Bazaar and were seen as first starters in the silent auction.

We have had excellent feedback from you all about the Bazaar evening and I’m sure you will join me in thanking the team (listed below) for their outstanding effort and for encouraging the community as a whole to be involved and to contribute to this wonderful event. I’m sure you will enjoy looking through this pamphlet, which acknowledges the amazing contributions from so many of you. Thank you! We have had confirmation from ESF that our library project will definitely go ahead in August 2013, ready for our next academic year. We are so excited about this cutting edge project which I’m sure will see Glenealy with one of the most outstanding libraries in Hong Kong!

Brenda Cook, Principal Glenealy School

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The Glenealy PTA wishes to thank Shang Min and Vivian Woo for their exceptionally generous donation to the Glenealy Library.

The Glenealy PTA wishes to thank the following families for generously supporting the Glenealy School International Bazaar and Glenealy library in the form of direct donations, cost underwritings, and in-kind donations:

Darren and Ann Bowdern, Anthony and Miki Byrne, Jackson and Lynne Davis, Dalep and Mina Daswani, Jarrod and Marissa Deakin, Ali and Zainab Ebrahim, Mustapha and Alefiyah Ebrahim,

Simon and Sook Tze Ho, Joseph and Helen Hsu, Greg and Kim Jones, Sharmen and Susana Karthigasu, Fook Kiong and Siong Shi Lee, Thomas and Helena Lee, Alex Lung and Adeline Chin, Matthew and Georgina Lyons, Victor and Sharon Meakins, Megapower Company, Jean Baptiste and Marie Milan, Vikash and Priya Mistry, Paul Na and Tarja Joro Na, Doron and Corrina Nagar, Nick and Andrea Phillips, Miles and Mandy van Rensburg, Rob and Ha Stewart, David and Natasha Sylvester, David Thomas and Wendy Zhang, Neil and Bronwyn Tomes.

The Glenealy International Bazaar Donors and Underwriters

International Bazaar Chairperson: Priya Mistry

The International Bazaar is Glenealy PTA’s main annual fundraiser. This year’s bazaar had all the traditional elements: delicious international food, great bar, fun games and fabulous shopping. The new elements that the 2012 Bazaar saw were the silent auction, and a call to parents to lend a hand by underwriting costs. The response was overwhelming, and contributed significantly towards the fundraising record. The combined donations and cash underwritings were over $34,000.

What an Amazing night! What an amazing night the school bazaar was! Thank you to the PTA, who worked incredibly hard to make it all happen, and to all the parents who contributed their time in preparing the food, helping with stalls and the bar, setting up, cleaning up and generally supporting the fundraising efforts. It was a genuine community effort, all of us working together for the benefit of the children. We were completely blown away with the amount raised and we are grateful that the funds can be put to good use towards the school library redevelopment project.

Trish Oliver, Teacher Librarian

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The Glenealy Bar PTA Coordinator: Wendy Zhang

As an annual tradition, Glenealy parents practiced their bartending skills. The 2012 International Bazaar saw the most polished Glenealy Bar to date! In addition to excellent wines and cold beer, Prosecco, Pimm’s and Gin and Tonic were served. Glenealy Bar raised $33,400 towards the library.

Our most sincere thank-you to Neil Tomes for all his hard work and expertise in putting together the most amazing bar!

We would like to thank Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong for generously donating all the soft drinks. We would also like to thank Hop Leaf for their donation of beer, and Alfie’s by Kee for the bar tables. The many Glenealy families underwriting the cost of wine and other related expenses are listed in the section “Donors and Underwriters”, page 3. Thank you!

Our wine partner for the bar was Telford, who supplied the wine at wholesale prices for both the bar and by case sales.

And, we would also like to thank our Glenealy bartenders for keeping the party going:

Ana Baillie, Tom Baillie, Sumita Barnes, David Beatty, Darren Bowdern, Tom Cheung, Mark Dowding, Ja Gerjusarak, Lisa Goeller, Matt Lyons, Miles van Rensburg, Glenn Schloss, Elliott Shadforth, David Shaw, Rob Subbaraman, David Sylvester, Peter Williams, Jason Wincuinas and Michael Yee.

Hop Leaf - bringing craft beer to Hong Kong

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The International Food PTA Coordinators: Anna Pietrafitta, Hema Shah, Marissa Han

The Bazaar would not be what it is without the delicious food. Every year Glenealy parents roll up their sleeves and put together a feast that reflects an array of international dishes. The International Bazaar guests can take a journey around Asia on a plate, enjoy an eclectic mix of international delicacies, chow down some pizza, and finish it with a phenomenal selection of desserts. This year’s newcomer, Candy Floss, was very popular among Glenealy kids! The International food raised $55,500 towards the new library.

The International Food is a showcase of the School Spirit of the Glenealy community. This year we want to take the opportunity and thank all the International Food donors and volunteers – over 140 of them!

So: thank you for cooking, baking, donating towards costs, and volunteering at the Bazaar:

Dessert Stall

Coordinator: Rose Kehoe

Gina Agresti, Terri Appel, Shannon Bayes, Natalie Beatty, Beth Cave, Shibani Chopra, Amy Cohas, Clare Gowran, Kathryn Curley, Di Challenor, Soni Daswani, Ivy David, Penny Donowho, Pamela Ferguson, Naomi Healy, Gwen Heath, Rachel Hooper, Tara Johnson, Scarlett Mattoli, Liz Moser, Melinda Narguet, Megan Porter, Mary Rutkowski, Melissa Shadforth, Monique Stapleton, George Lyons, Wendy Mahbhubani, Mike Maiers, Denby Tamms, Catherine Williams, Steph Weathington.

Candy Floss

Helen Hsu

Chinese Stall

Coordinator: Daphne Dai

Alice Chan, Emily Chan, Silvia Chan, Candy Chau, Chuly Cheng, Kimmy Cheung, Gigi Chong, Lynn Anne Davis, Jing Han, Cannis Koo, Doris Lam, Hubert Lam, Elena Lau, Vicky Shim, Jennifer Shiu, Brigitte Da Silva, August Tang, I Chun Wang, Jennifer Wang, Agnes Wong, Jennifer Wong and O'shamn Wong.

Filipino Stall

Coordinators: Marichu Opsima and Cristina McWhirter

Dawn Aquino, Rowena Banham, Diana Bunao, Elma Dunsca Dowding, Emma Donohue, Fe Anne Law, Cleofe Tirol Leahy, Ruby Ann Lintao, Imelda Maddock and Ella Regnard.

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Indian Stall

Coordinator: Sudha Panagrahi

Fathima Abedi, Lavina Advani, Resham Aron, Minal Bellani, Seema Bhatia, Deepali De Blank, Sangeeta Buffonge, Dipti Chauhan, Rani Chaubal, Shibani Chopra, Monisha Dadlani, Sanam Daswani, Shivani Datwani, Alefiyah Ebrahim, Zainab Ebrahim, Urvashi Gidwani, Nisha Gopalan, Deepa Iyer, Shweta Jain, Kully Jaswal, Julie Kothari, Rakhi Lodha, Wendy Mahbhubani, Nisha Malhotra, Rasna Mangaram, Priya Mistry, Tina Mitra, Indu Mohan, Vandana Om Kumar, Sudha Panagrahi, Ameeti Pirie, Jaya Pursram, Rekha Ram Kumar, Sophie Rao, Amina Roy, Tanushree Saha, Gayatri Sainath, Roma Sethi, Deepali Shah, Hema Shah, Harleen Sheshadri, Vidya Shivram, Bushra Siddiqui, Nandita Tilve, Niharika Yadav and Jennifer Zuzarte.

International Mix Stall

Coordinator: Leilani Lam

Cassie Blackwell, Claire De Boer, May Chen, Gwen Heath, Helen Hsu, Grazia Luciani, Stephanie Mathyssek, Marie Milan, Liz Moser, Marichu Opsima, Ameeta Pirie, Maxine Shaw, Brigitte Da Silva and Anastasia Sinigaglia,

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Japanese Stall

Coordinator: Reiko Sokabe

Yukiko Cannon, Yumi Farquhar, Naoko Hama, Nagi Murao, Kaori Nishikiori, Junko Shiokawa-Pitt, Akiko Suzuki, Miki Takahashi, Miki Takeda-Byrne, Hitomi Tsuchiya

Korean Stall

Coordinator: Soyeon Ahn

Christina Appleton, Tarja Joro Na, Shin Hyun Me, Jun Seun Park, Judy Wong and Yoon Mi Yeon

Pizza Stall

Coordinator: Marissa Han

Sharon Bayes, Diana Smith and Island School student volunteers.

Thai Stall

Coordinator: Ann Bowdern

Ja Gerjarusak and Michelle Greiner

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Did we miss you? We did our best to include all our sponsors, donors and volunteers in this Newsletter. If we missed you, please accept our apologies and

drop us a line at [email protected] and we will add you!

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The Vendors PTA Coordinators: Agnes Wong and Priya Mistry

This years International Bazaar had a record number of vendors. The Glenealy community was given a head start for holiday shopping with a wonderful selection of merchandise. After the costs, the table fees contributed $19,200 towards our fundraising.

We wish to thank all our vendors; we really appreciate your business. We hope that the Glenealy community enjoyed the shopping experience!

• Ayesha Oriental Carpets – Carpets & Rugs

• Beads ‘n’ Butterflies – Kids’ Beadmaking Kits & Handmade Cards

• Brainchild Ltd – Hexburg & Robotic Toys

• Care Label – Jute & Fairtrade Bags & Jewelry

• Cat Factory – Handmade Home Decor

• Celeste Fashion – Handmade Women’s Clothing & Jewelry

• Global First Education Centre – Mandarin Courses

• Golden Star – Folding Shoes & Girls’ Tutu skirts

• Healthy Living – Truffle Oils & Sauces

• Healthy Snacks – Home made health foods

• Heng Yue Yen Long Kwon Kung Fu – Kung Fu Lessons

• House of Kamal – Handmade Jewelry

• Joy Distributions– Handmade Scarves and Cards

• Kikissimo – Handmade Jewerly

• La Madeleine de Proust – Imported French Confectionery

• La Obamas – Black Garlic Health Products

• Lea James Purse Organisers – Purse Organisers

• MKU Originals – Children’s T-shirts

• My Creative Dimensions – Gift Wrap Paper, Cards & Stationery

• Purple Magnolia – Fresh Flower Arrangements

• Renaud Lifestyle Products – Barbecue Grills & Air Purifiers

• Tiny Footprints – Children’s Lifestyle Products

• United Stores – Imported Candies, Beverages and Foods

• Venture Studios – Photography & Photo Studios

“It was great! We all enjoyed it. Thanks again and looking forward to participate again next year.” Master Connie, Heng Yue Yen Long Kwon Kung Fu

“Your layout this year was better I think, and the mix of vendors perfect. The international food stalls were really great, so I will be looking forward to - hopefully - participate again next year. Thanks for organising a really good event.” Janne Poulsen, House of Kamal

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The Silent Auction PTA Coordinators: Mina Dawsani,

Natasha Headley, Tarja Joro

This year the International Bazaar saw the first silent auction. Over 30 donors responded to our outreach and donated goods and services to be auctioned off for a good cause. The silent auction contributed $26,000 towards the Glenealy Library.

We are very grateful to Ross Hills Wines for their exceptional generosity. We also wish to thank the Pacific Gourmet for their generous donation.

Our most sincere thank-you goes to all our donors: Alan Ng Personal Trainer, Asia Spa and Wellness Limited, Brilliant Kids Ltd, Cake-A-Licious, California Vintage Wine Bar and Restaurant, Castelo Concepts, Chito Ryu Karate, Elite Personal Training, The Feel Good Factor, French Creations Ltd, Geoclicks, Habibi Holdings Ltd, Harilela Hotels Ltd, Hidestyle, Ista Indian Cuisine, La Madeleine de Proust, Laboratoire Nuxe / LCL, The Mustard Seed Workshop Limited, O2 Hair Studio, Orient Box Limited, Pantry Magic, PizzaExpress (Hong Kong) Limited, Purple Magnolia, Saturn Essentials, The Sharif Family, Sim's Sweetshop, Snapdragon Pictures, Takeout Comedy Club, Tennis Club de France, Tiny Footprints, Trinity Pilates / Barre, Viniga Limited, Zaika Safaris by Seema Bhatia of Magnet Concepts.

Our thank-you goes to Liz Moser for her expert advice on setting up the auction and soliciting the items. We wish to thank Seema Bhatia, Clare Gowran, Rasna Mangharam, Marie Milan, Melinda Narguet, and Fiona Tam for soliciting the items, and Cassie Blackwell, Rani Chaubal, Katherine Dale, Lynne Anne Davis and Wendy Mahbubani for helping during the auction.

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The bazaar net income by source:

International food 28%

Bar and wine sales 17%

Silent auction 13%

Games and crafts 11%

Vendors 10%

Donations 8%

PTA stalls 8%

Other 5%

Glenealy PTA Stalls PTA Coordinator: Priya Mistry

PTA’s own stalls – Book / DVD / CD stall and Kitchenware / Clothing stall were again successful, contributing $14,600 towards our fundraising.

We wish to thank Dayna Garrett for coordinating the Book / DVD / CD stall and Sophia Rao for coordinating the Kitchenware / Clothing stall.

We also wish to thank Sumita Barnes, Deepali De Blank, Tara Bond, Mina Daswani, Andrea Fletcher, Lisa Goeller, Nisha Gopalan, Nisha Malhotra, Rasna Mangharam, Ali Menhenet, Melissa Shadforth, Monique Stapleton, Miki Takeshaki, Kathleen Underhill, Yvonne Yung and Glenealy Prefects who helped at the stalls.

Our sincere thank-you goes to Ali and Zainab Ebrahim, Mustapha and Alefiyah Ebrahim, Mina Daswani, Orient Box Limited and Anastasia Sinigaglia for their contributions.

Saturn Jewelry

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We wish to thank Glenealy Music Coordinator David Benzie and the amazingly talented Glenealy children for such wonderful music performances throughout the evening.

We thank also Heng Yue Yen Long Kwon Kung Fu for their demonstration, and Tim Wilson, a parent who organized the Jazz Band and played alongside members from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts to entertain us during the evening.

The Games PTA Coordinator: Marie Milan

The Program PTA Coordinator: Fiona Tam

This year’s Bazaar introduced a number of new games that proved very popular among the Glenealy kids! The games and craft stalls contributed $20,800 towards the library. This year there were more turns or rounds of games played than last year, but the money raised was lower. This was anticipated and intentional as the game selection and pricing structure was overhauled. Kids were also invited to play “Name the puppy” for free, and every child was given a small token gift.

Our sincere thank-you goes to all of the teachers for their work with setting up and signposting the games and ensuring the children were excited and motivated to attend.

We wish to thank Chito Ryu Karate and Heyton Tze for providing the the Karate board chopping booth which was a huge success.

We would also like to thank Claire de Boer for her help with the Beauty Spa, Phil Garrett and Miles van Rensburg for helping with the Karate booth, the Island School student volunteers for their help with various games, and Penny Donowho and the Glenealy Brownie pack for their help with the Craft stall.

Music by Glenealy children, Kung Fu, and Jazz kept the Bazaar goers entertained!

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Behind the Scenes PTA Coordinators: Marissa Han (Accounts and finances),

Tarja Joro Na (Communications), Penny Donowho (Glenealy Money sales),

Fiona Tam (Layout and on-site)

A good amount of background work goes into organizing a Bazaar!

We wish to thank our long-term collaborator AGS Four Winds for providing the tents. Given Hong Kong weather, there cannot be a Bazaar without a rain backup plan, and thanks to AGS Four Winds we were completely rain proof!

Our warmest thank-you goes to Ricky Yeung and the Glenealy site staff for their work with the set-up of the bazaar. Every year their work is instrumental in turning the school playgrund into a Bazaar within a matter or hours. We also wish to thank Jane Shanahan and everybody at the Glenealy school office for helping the communications run so smoothly.

We wish to thank Alex Donowho with his help with Glenealy Money, and Dipti Chauhan, Pamela Ferguson and Jarrod Deakin for their help with the Glenealy Bank

We would also like to thank Melissa Shadforth for her initiative to bring recycling to the Bazaar, with recycling partner, HK Recycles.

The International Bazaar flyer was printed by Scientific Blueprinting Services Ltd. The printing of the flyer and all other Bazaar-related material was kindly underwritten.

Our warm thanks go to Glenealy PTA Company Secretary Anne Bezzano for her hard work towards the bazaar, and keeping the other business going during the busy planning period!

Finally, we wish to thank Adeline Chin, Ja Gerjusarak, Benny Lo, Wendy Mahbubani, Jason Wincuinas and all the ad-hoc volunteers who helped with the set-up and clean up.

Did we miss you? We did our best to include all our sponsors, donors and volunteers in this Newsletter. If we missed you, please accept our apologies and

drop us a line at [email protected] and we will add you!

Glenealy School International Bazaar

will be back in November 2013 Help the Glenealy PTA to put together our next Bazaar, and to make it even better than this one!

• Consider joining the PTA Committee, or volunteering to coordinate a part of the Bazaar.

• Do you have a product or service to sell or promote? Do you want visibility for your company? Consider being a Bazaar Vendor, donating towards our Silent Auction, or sponsoring the Bazaar.

• Use your culinary skills to support the International Food, or if cooking is not your thing, support our Bar.

• Be where the action is, and volunteer during the Bazaar.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."

— Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Kennedy

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read." — Abraham Lincoln

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." — Jorge Luis Borges

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." — Frederick Douglass


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