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Giving Season - Featuring the SBPS Foundation and the SHS Booster Club · Bearcat Chat - A Podcast about all things Scottsbluff Schools

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  Welcome to the Bearcat chat, a podcast for everything
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  Scottsbluff School. Welcome everyone to the third
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  episode of the Bearcat chat, the podcast about everything
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  Scottsbluff schools, I'm Melissa price and it's December, we are
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  getting ready to have winter break, the holidays are coming
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  up, and I think at this time of year, this is a time where a lot
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  of people think or focused a lot on giving.
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  So this episode, we've decided Added to really showcase some of
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  the organization's who without their help.
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  We wouldn't be able to do some of the great work that we do for
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  our students every day. So with me right now is Beth
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  Moore. Hi Bev.
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  Hi Melissa. How are you good?
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  That is the director of the Scottsville Public Schools
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  foundation and the foundation does so much for us really at
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  all at all levels of our school but I don't know.
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  If a lot of people really understand what the foundation
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  does or how it works so Beth can you maybe start off by telling
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  us a little bit about what the foundation is, what your mission
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  is and tell us about the work that you do.
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  Yeah, I'd love to Melissa. So the Scottsville Public
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  Schools, Foundation was actually formed in 1988 by some great
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  business partners who, who wanted to just Ridge Community
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  funds for projects in the schools that we're just not in
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  the budget and they're in the nationally at that time.
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  There was a big push for school foundations because people saw
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  that shortfall in school budgets.
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  And so this was formed and we've been around for a lot of years.
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  We are a 501 c 3, nonprofit organization that is separate
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  from the district but Our mission is to support, District
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  driven initiatives and teachers and students at all levels.
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  Okay. Well, I think you brought some
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  really good points the first being that if you really want to
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  look at this, like from a community taxpayer perspective,
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  the work of the foundation helps to alleviate some of that.
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  Local tax burden, right? Yeah, it really does there's
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  just always a shortfall and not just hearing Gospel of but
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  really Across the Nation in school funding and and this is
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  one way that our community can pull together and support
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  education, right? And I think it can.
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  What it really comes down to is not just, we may be able to fund
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  through our normal funding formula through our local tech
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  support. The things that we, the minimum
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  things that we need to do to provide an education, but I
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  really think that it's about providing some of those extra as
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  and the things that really allow us to provide a really
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  high-quality education. Exactly.
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  And so that just that's that's exactly our mission.
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  Our mission is to raise the funds for support and
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  Improvement of educational programs and really enhance.
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  What is already being taught, teachers can just go a little
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  bit deeper with classroom grants well okay so tell me this how
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  directly does the foundation because I think you have to look
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  at it through The lens of students, as well as Bruce staff
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  and that sort of work that how does the foundation Provide
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  support directly to students. The Mets.
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  I think the main reason the main source of support is our
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  classroom grants. This is a this is a program that
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  really affects students at every school and at every level
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  teachers who want to go deeper who have an idea for a program
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  or teaching unit that is outside of the budget and is innovative.
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  They can apply for a classroom Grant twice a year and and they
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  are funded that way through the foundation.
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  Yeah, that really gives. I think those teachers that
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  opportunity to get really creative and really innovate
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  some things and it kind of creates these pilot projects
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  where if if it works well in a couple of places then that gives
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  us the opportunities that District you look at those
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  things and see if we can Implement that on a little bit
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  of a larger scale. Yeah, yeah that's happened quite
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  a few times with with a few classroom grants they have been
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  been put into the District budget.
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  So, the foundation also supports students by the way of
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  scholarships, so tell me a little bit about that.
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  You know, we have a pretty robust scholarship program,
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  we're adding for this year, our newest scholarship that I'm
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  really excited about is the para to teacher scholarship.
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  This is just a way to pour the foundation to help the district
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  and trying to build that teacher pipeline, is this is a problem
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  nationally that we are feeling. Here in Scottsbluff as well and
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  to use our own Paris and to support their education, as they
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  go on to get their teaching. Certificate is a really good
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  thing. It feels like just a win-win for
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  everyone. Yeah.
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  And I don't think that people would necessarily think he'd
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  always think of the schools or maybe even think of our
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  foundation when they think about Workforce Development in the
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  community, that that's exactly what this project is.
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  And I think it's really something that we can get
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  excited about. We have so many fabulous pair
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  has in our district and to be able to provide them the support
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  and me and financial help potentially to be able to
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  further their education. Should they so choose?
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  I think it's just really a unique opportunity that people
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  aren't going to find anywhere else.
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  Yeah. Very, very excited about this
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  program are Paris. As are just a vital piece of the
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  teacher education experience at Scott's Bluff.
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  And to support them in that way. Is just, it's an honor really.
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  And if you do provide student related, scholarships as well,
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  yet, we have a, we have 12 students, scholarships, I really
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  exciting when that you may hear more about this year as a new
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  one, called the marrying dressing or golden rules.
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  And this is for a female student, it's a four-year
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  scholarship and it's just a great opportunity.
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  A couple other. The new ones are a diesel tech
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  scholarship. So this is for students, going
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  into diesel tech a trade school. And then, the other new one is
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  the Woodshed Woodshed culinary arts scholarship so we're really
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  looking for scholarships that would align with each other.
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  Career Academy. And support our seniors as they
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  continue their education. Well, that's great and for
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  families out there that may have a senior or maybe just an upper
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  high school or in general, how can they access information or
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  apply for these scholarships great questions.
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  So if you go onto our website spps, foundation.com, there's a
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  scholarship tab that you can click on and you can see by now
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  all the information on how to apply dates to apply.
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  And any other related information there.
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  And that information is also made available to the
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  counselor's office and on the counseling overall scholarship
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  list, right? Yep.
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  Yep. Okay.
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  Well, changing gears a little bit.
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  Those are really some great opportunities, but there's a lot
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  that is very individualized about those opportunities, but
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  the foundation also does work that supports student learning
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  on a loan. A bit of a different scale,
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  maybe a little more pull back. Tell me about some of those kind
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  of projects that one of the biggest ones I that I can think
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  of right now is the playground project we have like rounds now.
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  So we just unveiled two playgrounds, what Roosevelt and
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  one at Longfellow. And without the foundation, we
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  wouldn't have been able to fund those or at least maybe not
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  quite as quickly as we did. So, tell us a little bit about
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  that. Yeah, this was the playground.
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  Checked was really exciting. This was a fun project to take
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  on, I think that so many community members, understood
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  the importance of the playground in just in the students
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  day-to-day lives. It's important to get out there
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  and get the Wiggles out and get some energy out.
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  So they can come in and really focus on learning when they're
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  in the classroom. And like you said, we have
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  Roosevelt and and Longfellow playgrounds installed and next
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  summer the the Last three will be insult, stalled Westmore,
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  Lincoln Heights and Lake minute are super excited about that.
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  Westmore's will have some Ada accessibility features and I
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  feel like it's it's just time for that to happen for that
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  school and we've just had a ton of community support.
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  We will in the spring. You can look forward to a Color
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  Run for the elementary students that we're going to just make
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  one last push to raise funds to Get that fully funded and I
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  guess I'll take this time right now to mention, we always need
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  volunteers. So if you would like to be part
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  of this playground project by volunteering at the elementary
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  school Color Run in the spring, you can always contact me by the
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  website or call the high school, that's where my office is, but
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  yeah it's a great great project. That really is exciting.
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  I know I certainly I got to get right on the playground at
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  Roosevelt the day the very first day that the first group, The
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  kindergarteners hit that playground and it was really
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  something to see so I know those will be used for years.
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  Um another place where I feel like the foundation, really
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  supports our learning is with career academies.
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  Through The Years, there have been a whole lot of different
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  ways of the foundation of supported Career Academy.
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  So too. Little bit about that right now,
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  the main way where we are supporting the Career Academy is
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  through our CTE breakfast in the spring, we're actually moving
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  it. We're not going to have it.
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  This spring, we're moving it to the fall but this is a
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  student-led breakfast at the high school, the career
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  academies. Put that on, you'll find out
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  what's happening in each Career Academy.
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  Their service organization And it's a fundraiser, so you get
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  breakfast. You get to hear all the exciting
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  things that are happening and you can donate to your Career
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  Academy of choice or for just everyone, but we use those funds
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  to support them in their state and National competitions.
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  Yeah. And I just think that that's
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  been really important and I think that those competitions
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  are really a way for the students to kind of be able to
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  quantify and show, you know, the work that they've put in.
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  Over, you know, especially those that go on and specialized at
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  that, that specialized Academy level and do those internships
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  and really dig deep into those careers.
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  And I know there's also been a lot of a monetary and Equipment
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  support that the foundation has provided through the years.
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  The greenhouse for the Ag Department, was funded by the
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  foundation and we, I think the high school is just found that,
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  you know, a lot of the equipment or the things that we For this
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  kind of specialized learning is just very costly.
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  So yes, it's been good for us to be able to have an organization
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  that we can lean on to, to not have to settle for less than
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  what our students need. Yeah, II feel strongly that
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  Scottsbluff Public Schools really lead in the Panhandle.
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  They have been in leader. They continue to be a leader and
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  we want to be part of that, we want to support the district.
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  And give our students the best possible educational
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  experiences, there are so foundations.
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  Real purpose is, it's a fundraising organization.
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  So let's talk a little bit about giving you know, it's that time
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  of year. The fiscal, you know, the tax
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  year is about getting ready to end for individuals, a lot of
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  organizations. So what are ways that the parent
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  Our parents or community members can support the foundation.
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  You know, there's many ways if you want to support we obviously
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  love a financial donation and that's easy to do.
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  You can do that online. You can, you can mail in a
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  check. These funds are They really go
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  directly to the students and to the teachers, another way you
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  can do that is by volunteering. We, I'm always looking for Vault
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  there we need volunteers, our CTE breakfast, we need
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  volunteers at special events. We also do planned giving.
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  So if, if you have a life insurance policy that can be
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  given to us, think of us when you are doing your estate plan.
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  But we also just have an annual giving, I have an annual
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  campaign campaign, we can't do the work without our
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  communities. For this really is our students
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  and our educational facilities. They it is a measure of our
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  community and how and you can I really do believe, you cannot
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  have a great Community without Great Schools.
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  So we rely on you, your vital to us, but filling our mission, and
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  that's absolutely right without the support of our community.
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  And whether that's through Tear hours or whether that's
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  financial support. We just would not be able to
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  provide the opportunities to all of our students the way that we
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  currently do. So if I wanted to make a gift to
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  the foundation, what area would you recommend?
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  Or where do you think that the greatest need is currently or
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  what projects? Need funded?
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  The most great question. So right now, we're really
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  trying to build up that para to teacher Dollar ship fund.
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  That's probably our greatest read net need right now.
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  We see that as being a very important need in the district
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  and we want to support that and then classroom grants.
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  I'm always asking for funds for that.
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  That's just, that's a way to impact the most students is
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  through those classroom grants and I can give.
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  So if I just want to make a general, Analyze donation.
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  That goes to greatest need. That is a possibility to write.
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  I don't have to specify or earmark.
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  My gift in any way know that you're right.
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  You could say greatest need and that will go where it is needed,
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  most? Yes, hey.
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  And then one final question if I make a gift, it's
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  tax-deductible, right? Yes.
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  All these funds are tax deductible.
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  I will you'll get a letter to show when you do your taxes.
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  And yeah, we just appreciate it. Much, okay, well let's begin to
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  the end of the year. If anyone's looking for a little
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  bit of a tax deduction, this is a great way to be able to
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  achieve that for yourself but also provides so much for our
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  students at the same time so bad that I feel like a like I
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  learned some things but this conversation and you know,
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  hopefully our listeners learn some things that they didn't
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  know about what the foundation does in giving.
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  But there's one last final thing that I want to talk about before
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  we finish. Because I don't think you give
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  yourself enough credit one other thing that you do that I think
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  is so vital is you provide so much in the area of Staff
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  recognition? Yeah, we that's just such an
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  exciting thing. Our excellence in education
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  awards are given out three times a year and this is for any staff
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  member who just goes above and beyond and it's just such is
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  really one of my favorite days of the year to hand those out
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  there. Always Very surprised, I think
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  probably every staff member deserves this, but when if you
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  want to nominate someone in anyone can nominate anyone on
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  our, on our website, it's just very meaningful for that person
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  to be recognized because they are working so hard and just one
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  thing probably should. Everybody knows what is your
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  website the website is spps? Foundation.com, yes, and you're
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  on social media as well. Yes, please follow us on on
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  Facebook and Instagram, Instagram, at spps, foundation,
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  and yeah. Stay up to up to speed on
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  everything that's happening. All right.
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  Well, the other nice thing that is for people to see if they
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  follow me on social media is you do a lot of different things,
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  featuring alumni and those are really Well, I think those are
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  really enjoyable, so I would recommend people, if you're not
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  following them, go out and give it a follow.
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  If you lived in this area, if you grew up and went to high
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  school here, you might see your friends, your classmates someone
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  on there that, you know, and that's been a whole lot of fun
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  to see. Yeah.
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  Yeah. That's I love.
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  Bearcats are the best. Yeah.
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  And it's really, you know, it's really awesome for people to see
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  those stories. I know, I certainly learned some
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  things that I didn't know before.
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  So, You for coming? Yeah, thank you.
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  Have this conversation. Thanks for having me Melissa
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  continuing along with our December giving season episode.
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  I have another guest here today from the Scottsbluff booster
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  club. I have the President Joe
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  weinman. Hi Joe.
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  Hi. Thanks for having me.
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  We're glad to have you. This is a great opportunity.
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  I think a lot, what was? Every school district or every
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  high school that's out, there has a booster club, but I don't
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  know if All of our parents or all of our students know what
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  the booster club does. Can you tell me a little bit
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  about what the booster club does?
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  Sure the overall goal for the booster club is really just to
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  support all of the activities at the school level.
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  We support all NSA activities. A lot of people typically think
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  that's just Athletics. We go much more beyond that as
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  well. We help with speech.
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  Play production journalism, cheer, drill team show choir.
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  So it's a A wide variety of activities that the student body
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  is engaged in, okay. And to clarify that a little
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  bit, which I think it's great that you support all the things
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  beyond the NSA sports, but when you say support, you mean a few
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  different things and one of them is financial support, right?
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  Yes. Each activity can put in a
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  financial request donation. For the booster club to
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  consider, we've donated uniforms before we've helped with
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  basketball hoops, different things like that.
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  Districts that whatever funds they need then we look at and
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  see how we can help support them.
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  Yeah and I think we're at a time right now where everything is
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  expensive but we have really fabulous activities will Sports
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  a non-sports at Scottsville high school and its really great that
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  we're able to have a mechanism to provide our students who
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  participate in activities with the things that they need.
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  Yes, I think the activities provided at the High cool level
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  definitely help with students becoming more well-rounded.
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  Okay? And so the booster club, you are
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  your volunteer organization, right?
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  Yes, it's a volunteer organization.
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  Anyone can join and participate in the organization, we meet
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  once a month. It's the third Thursday at 7.
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  A.m. at the Scottsbluff High School and anyone is welcome to
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  attend. And that's where we conduct our
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  meetings review, financials and donations and things like that,
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  okay? So, if you don't have to have a
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  student in high school in order to participate or be a member,
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  right? Nope.
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  You can have a kid in the elementary school level.
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  We will take any help that we can get as much appreciated.
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  Oh, well, that's probably good for me because my have all
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  graduated and left me but yeah, good to know how if I want to
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  support the booster club has talked a little bit about how
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  you're funded if I want to support the booster club is an
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  individual. How can I do?
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  That as an individual, I would highly recommend, we have
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  membership opportunities and those levels range from just a
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  twenty five dollar donation to five hundred dollars and above
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  currently right now you can just drop a check off at the high
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  school and and notate that to the booster club and it will get
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  to us. And then that just shows your
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  support, we will be recognizing those membership levels on our
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  score boards throughout basketball games, football games
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  and things like that. So, if you want to make a
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  financial donation, you can do that.
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  We're looking to If we streamline that in the near
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  future so that maybe you can just go through some type of
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  website to make a payment. We trying to make that process
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  easy, but that's one simple way as an individual to donate,
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  okay? And what if I, what if I have a
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  business or what if I were going to local employer, that would
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  like to get more involved in sponsoring or supporting
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  activities? Sure, what I would recommend is
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  we have a scoreboard opportunity for advertisements for really at
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  our kind of Bleah. Higher level.
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  There's two different levels. There's an anchor sponsor, and
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  Premier sponsor. They come with different types
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  of membership packages. It's a five-year agreement.
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  You probably have seen several of our sponsors.
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  If you've attended a basketball game, a football game at the
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  softball fields and that has been a huge support for us.
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  We've really tried to streamline that about five, six years ago
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  to stop having to ask for date Nations every single year and
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  just have one large donation. And then we allocate that money
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  over the years Well, that's really great.
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  The first thing I can't believe, you know this, but the
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  scoreboards were funded entirely by the booster club.
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  The scoreboards are fantastic, you know, for those of you out
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  there, if you haven't been to a game in the last few years, we
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  have brand-new scoreboards at football fields at softball
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  fields, and in the main gym. And, you know, they're really
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  great. And it's also provided some
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  student opportunity because we have our Communications Arts,
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  And Technology Academy, the high school, that does a lot of the
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  creative work and a lot of the production were to create Those
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  ads and kind of make those things possible.
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  So I guess, you know, we should be saying thank you because
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  we're very fortunate to have those.
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  Those are a really great opportunity.
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  Yes. It's been really fun to work
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  with them and to see their creative outlet and what they
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  can do and partner with us. And it's been a great experience
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  for us. Okay.
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  And I know there's another thing.
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  That you guys also offer I was I was running the wrestling dual
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  the other day and I was in the low scoring and I heard Mr.
• 24:28
  Hawksworth on the microphone he the school stores open.
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  If you want to go, you know, it's close to Christmas.
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  If you want to go by your Bearcat spirit wear and I was
• 24:35
  jealous because I couldn't just leave the scoring table and, you
• 24:39
  know, go pick myself up a pole over.
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  So, tell me about the spirit where, yes, it's a great
• 24:44
  opportunity to show school spirit and purchase stuff.
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  We open the School store. Quite as much as we can, we've
• 24:51
  been at football games, we actually sold out of.
• 24:53
  Almost all of our merchandise. I think by the second football
• 24:56
  game home game of the year and it's just been a great
• 25:00
  fundraiser, and also just a great way to support.
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  We got a new line coming in. We've got some I think Puma
• 25:06
  where some different things coming in.
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  Hopefully, our vendors come through, but we put a lot of
• 25:11
  announcements on our Facebook page to let people know when the
• 25:13
  school store will be open. We're also partnering with Deca
• 25:17
  who will be helping us with regular school store.
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  H, that's wonderful. So people kind of like in an
• 25:22
  idea of what kind of inventory you have, Facebook is may be the
• 25:27
  place to go for that. Yes, anytime we get new
• 25:29
  merchandise, and we like to put that on our Facebook page, to
• 25:32
  kind of let people know. And people can place orders
• 25:34
  right there as well. And then we'll set up a time to
• 25:38
  get that distributed. Yep.
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  And for those of you who don't follow that that Scottsbluff
• 25:42
  booster club on Facebook. So go out and give that a
• 25:44
  follow. You can see all the great new
• 25:47
  gear that comes in. And I think the best part of
• 25:50
  this is that not only do, can you get your spirit wear?
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  But the proceeds of it go right back to our activities.
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  Yes, it's a great thing. So with I also am I want to get
• 26:03
  involved with the booster club but maybe I don't have a lot in
• 26:07
  the means in the way of donating our volunteer or are there other
• 26:12
  ways I can get involved. Yes.
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  We definitely need lots of volunteers.
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  You can attend our monthly meetings and participate in some
• 26:19
  You're making processes but one of our big fundraisers.
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  Every year is our putt for the Paw Golf Tournament.
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  And we need a lot of volunteers to make that tournament a
• 26:27
  success. So if that's something or you
• 26:29
  have more time in the summer and can help with either beforehand
• 26:33
  on the planning stages or even just that day helping with, you
• 26:36
  know, at the scoreboard or whatever we were doing that is
• 26:40
  much appreciated. You can always contact us and
• 26:43
  let us know what you'd like to help with and we can make sure
• 26:46
  that we get in contact with you so that I believe that ball
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  tournament that's about the third week in July correct.
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  We've changed a few dates. But yeah, that's that's when
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  been working for us primarily. So we hope to secure that same
• 26:59
  date every year. Yeah, that's a really great
• 27:00
  summer. You know, opportunity, it's not
• 27:03
  quite busy for back-to-school time yet, that, you know, and
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  another way that people can support is by golfing by being a
• 27:10
  participant in the tournament as well.
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  Yeah. So it's a great time to enjoy
• 27:15
  some golf and support the booster club.
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  At the same time. We've had a good turnout, the
• 27:19
  Several years and hope that Trend continues.
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  Well, that's great. It's really exciting to see all
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  of the different sorts of ways that the booster club supports
• 27:30
  activities in our schools and also provides, you know, way for
• 27:35
  ways, for fans, for parents, for people even, you know, alumni to
• 27:40
  be able to get engaged. So, I'm really glad that you had
• 27:43
  the opportunity to join this today.
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  If someone wants to make a donation, And to the booster
• 27:50
  club, what's the best way to do? So at this time at this time, I
• 27:52
  would recommend either mailing it to the Scottsbluff High
• 27:55
  School, or dropping a check off. That would go to the activities
• 27:58
  office, correct? Yes.
• 27:59
  Okay, well, there you have it, folks.
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  This will conclude our giving season episode, and we hope
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  everyone has a wonderful winter break.
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  And we will see you back next month.
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  Thanks for having me. Thank you.