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HOUGH HOWLER

PTSA NEWSLETTER

Volume 6 Edition 2

August 9, 2015

IN THIS ISSUE

Volunteers Needed

Submitted by PTSA President Amy Mory

 

Urgent - Tomorrow!!

Envelope Stuffing for Informational Mailings

Monday, August 10th

9 am - 1 pm

 

We need PARENT volunteers to help us stuff envelopes to mail home a back to school letter and bus information.  Schedules will be available at a later date.   If you could help us with this task on Monday, August 10th from 9 am -1 pm or as long as you can, we would greatly appreciate it.  We apologize for the last minute notice - Again, this is for parents only.  Check in at the front office to see where to go. Thank you so much for your help!
 

Click here to help on Monday, August 10th

 

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Students and Parents Wanted

"First Day Packet" Stuffing

Tuesday, August 18th

9 am - 1 pm

 

We need manyl volunteers - students or parents - to help stuff the large envelopes that go home with our students on the first day of school.  We are doing this on Tuesday, August 18th from 9 am until 1:00.  You can help all or part of this time.  Hough students are welcome and we can sign forms for volunteer hours.  Check in at the front office to see where to go.

 

Click here to help on Tuesday, August 18    

Also - don't forget!!! 

Ninth Grade Orientation

Thursday, August 13

Sign-up online by Monday

Submitted by Tanya Branham

 

We will be hosting our last two 9th Grade Orientation sessions for students on Thursday, Aug. 13th.  We have already run 2 sessions and these are the last two.  Students will only need to choose one to attend. The morning sessions will run from 8-11 and the afternoon sessions from 12-3.  Please sign up by Monday, August 10. 

 

Students, please sign up for one session at the following link.

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Please re-link your VIC Card Today!

 

Harris Teeter's Together in Education program is a fund raising program for schools in our community.  When customers purchase select Harris Teeter Brand products using their VIC card, Harris Teeter contributes a percentage of those purchase dollars to the schools of their choice. In addition, a percentage of each prescription filled in a Harris Teeter pharmacy will be donated as well. Customers must have their VIC card linked to a TIE school in order to participate. We need your support!  This is a painless way for us to raise needed funds. 

 

You must re-link each year on/after August 1st!

Please consider linking your Harris Teeter VIC Card to the following Hough organizations:

PTSA # 8376

Husky Athletic Club # 8348

Band # 8414

JROTC # 8368

Chorus # 2072

Rugby # 2685

Orchestra # 3191

 

There are several ways to re-link your VIC card:

· click on this link Harris Teeter Together in Education 

· Customer Service desk

· At the checkout counter

· Call 1-800-432-6111 (number located on the back of your VIC card)

 

 You can link up to 5 organizations/schools (funds will be divided equally). 

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Important Dates
Link Hough Calendars to your Smartphone
 
 
Please refer to your Howler dated August 2nd for more important back to school information.  Another Howler will come out on/about August 16/17.
 

Hough High PTSA has created Google Calendars that parents, teachers and students can print out in calendar view or sync with their smartphone calendarInformation to link the Hough High calendar to your smartphone:

*Hough High School Calendar  Calendar ID: houghhighptsa@gmail.com  Ical address:  click here 

*Hough Athletics - all sports calendars click hereFor instructions on how to sync calendars with your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, and IPod Touch) click here

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Academic Calendar 2015-2016

Hough Howler Submissions

Next Deadline:  August 15 Noon

 Deadlines for Articles This Year 

The Hough Howler is the electronic newsletter compiled by the Hough PTSA that communicates the most current Hough High School News and and information.  We encourage all Hough staff members, booster clubs and Hough student clubs to provide us information to publicize to the over 2600 Howler e-mail subscribers in the Hough community.  Articles must be specific to Hough, Hough PTSA, Husky Athletic Club, other Hough clubs/organizations or CMS specific/principal approved. 

 

Deadlines:  During the school year, there are two deadlines a month for articles - the 1st and 15th of each month at NOON.  During the summer months, the Howler has less frequent deadlines.  Please pay attention to these deadlines as sometimes that date is on a weekend or during a holiday.  If there is something urgent that needs to go out, the Howler will be distributed on a more frequent basis at the Editor's discretion. The Howler may be distributed within a few days past the deadline, so please submit your articles on time, or even better, early! Thank you for your cooperation.

Requirements for submssions:  Articles should be typed in Arial 11 font; if you want a picture included, please indicate placement within text and submit a separate jpg file.  If you want to link to a document or flyer, please send fllyer or document as a pdf file.  If you want it as an image in the article, please send as a jpg file.  If including a picture, please indicate names of those in picture (left to right.).  Editor reserves the right to edit or decline articles not meeting the abovementioned criteria.

  

2015-2016 Howler Deadlines:   

(2015) August 15, September 1, September 15, October 1, October 15, November 1, November 15, December 1, December 15 (2016) January 1, January 15, February 1, February 15, March 1, March 15, April 1, April 15, May 1, May 15, June 1 (Summer) July 1 

 

Submit articles to Linda Petry, Hough Howler Editor at LPetry@mindspring.com.

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Important Links: 

School website     PTSA website     Husky Athletic Club website

 Band website      Chorus website 

School telephone number:  980-344-0514