Please join us Friday, November 18 for a live performance by Jeff Kready!
Mr. Kready was recently seen featured as Bert Healy the radio announcer in Annie Live! on NBC with Harry Connick Jr. His Broadway credits include: Company, Tootsie, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Billy Elliot the Musical, Sunday in the Park with George, and Les Misérables. Favorite regional credits include: Brigadoon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Holiday Inn (Paper Mill Playhouse), Carousel (Goodspeed Opera House), and David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks). TV: “The Code” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “Elementary” (recurring, CBS), “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). He has performed as guest soloist with The Colorado Symphony, The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, The Grand Teton Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, the Allentown Symphony, the Topeka Symphony, and can be heard on the album, “The Broadway Tenors” (Jay Records). Washburn University graduate and former elementary music teacher. Favorite roles: husband to Nikki, dad to Lena and Louise.
This week's meeting will be held in person at the Topeka Civic Theatre. Click here for directions using Google Maps. Announcements will begin promptly at 7:45 am, with breakfast and coffee being served at 7:30 am!
Students arrive at 1pm. Pair up one-on-one with a child at Shoe Carnival and help them pick out their very own pair of brand new tennis shoes! The shoes are paid for from existing donations along with a District 5710 grant, so there is no monetary commitment for volunteers. Each event takes approximately 30 minutes.
When: 12 Volunteers are needed each of these dates:
Sole Mates provides new shoes and socks to kids, allowing them to be better participants in activities and alleviates some issues that result from not having “the right things.” If shoes are not replaced often, they become a hospitable environment for bacteria to thrive. For many of the families serviced, shoes are handed down from child to child creating more opportunity for unsanitary situations. Short term effects of shoes that do not properly fit include blisters, pressure sores, & ingrown toe nails. Children could end up with deformities, posture problems, & joint issues.
There is a new location this year since Stout Elementary closed at the end of last year. We will be meeting monthly in the library at Highland Park Central Elementary School from 12:45-1:15p.m. through May. Another change is that we will be honoring 14 students each month. Last year we had 8 students per month. It is exciting to be interacting with even more students, but this also means we will need almost double the volunteers. The goal is to have one volunteer per student. At the very least, we need to provide 7 volunteers a month so that one volunteer does not have more than two students. These are special students who are deserving of our time and attention.
Exciting news! We will be receiving District Grant money for Lunch Bunch this year. The funding covers pizza, drinks and books. Therefore, volunteers are NOT asked to bring any cash to pay for the food items this year.
Here are more details not in the flier on how to find the school library:
You can park along 28th street on the school side of the road. You may also park inside the fenced area along 28th Street if space is available, even though the lot is labeled as "Staff Parking". Be sure to pay attention to the signage posted inside the fenced area. You will enter through door #6 (labeled above the door). This door faces 28th Street and you will need to walk through the fenced area to find it. Once you enter through the double doors, take the first right available. Walk to the end of that hall to the office which will be on your left. You will need to sign in at the office and then you will be directed to the library.
If you are a new TSR member, the flier provides an explanation of what the volunteers do. For anyone who has never tried this program, we would love to have you. If you have previously volunteered for Lunch Bunch, thank you so much and I hope you can join us again this year. If your schedule does not permit you to volunteer in-person at the school, you are always welcome to help by donating books, especially 2nd-5th grade levels.
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