DONNA'S DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS DUCK DASH
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Terry Decarr's adopted duck took the1st place prize of $125.00, Trina Frederick's duck took 2nd place for $75.00, and Tammy White's duck came in 3rd for for a $25.00 prize. Congratulations to our winners, and thank you to everyone who adopted a duck for the race!
A BIG thank you to Trina who donated her 2nd place prize of $75 back to Dollars for Scholars!!!
HYPNOTIST COMEDY SHOW WITH MASTER HYPNOTIST MICHAEL BLAINE FUNDRAISER - FRIDAY, MAY 10th, 2013
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A NIGHT OUT WITH BMDFS
LASAGNA DINNER AND INTO THE BLACK/THIRTY1 & MANDOLIN
CONCERT FUNDRAISER - FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013
Into the Black
Thirty1 & Mandolin
Student Volunteers (left to right) Madison Carter, Kenzie Traynor, Rachel Tower, and Ashley DeBeer having a great time helping at the Lasagna Dinner
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Our second fundraiser of 2013 was once again a tremendous success, again raising over $2000!!! In the span of a month, we've raised over $4000 towards our scholarship fund for this year's scholarships for the Class of 2013!!! That's absolutely fantastic!
Despite bad weather, our supporters enjoyed a delicious lasagna dinner served up at the BMC Cafeteria, which was followed up by a great concert. The opening act was BMC's own Into the Black, and topped off by the much-loved local favorite, Thirty1 & Mandolin. A Night Out enjoyed by everyone, all for a great cause.
Many thanks to our adult and student volunteers for such a successful evening, as well as our event sponsors: Community Bank, NA, Glazier Food Service/Packing Company, Adirondack Energy, Fasprint, Seyfarth & Seyfarth CPAs, PC, Malone Office Products, SEI Design Group, and Leonard Bus Sales. You'll notice the sponsor logos on our webpages, click on the logos to go to their website. Please support them the way they supported us.
ANNUAL FFA PANCAKE BREAKFAST AND OPEN HOUSE
BMDFS BAKE SALE AND iPAD2 RAFFLE
Congratualtions to MR. KIRK ROCKHILL of Chateaugay, NY, winner of a new iPad2 in our raffle! His winning ticket was drawn at our bake sale booth at the annual FFA pancake breakfast and open house on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at BMC...
Left: BMDFS Treasurer Angela DeBeer holds the box of raffle tickets while Missy Planty draws the winning ticket. Right: Mr. Rockhill's winning ticket the moment of the draw!
Mr. Kirk Rockhill receives his new iPad2 from BMDFS Vice-President Chad Niles
1st place - MacKenzie King - $619
2nd place - Megan DeBeer - $342
3rd place - Luke Ducharme - $223
McKenzie wins $100 and 10 bonus BMDFS hours, Megan wins $50 and 5 bonus BMDFS hours, Luke wins $25 and 2.5 bonus BMDFS hours.
Thank you to all our ticket sellers on a job well done!
Alex Pond $20.00
Caitlyn LePage $22.00
Carlton Lamica $5.00
Chase Stonehouse $106.00
Colby LePage $20.00
Danielle Trimm $77.00
Elaina Bowen $100.00
Jocelyn Martin $74.00
Katie Lavarnway $35.00
Kiersten Carlson $67.00
Loren Traynor $40.00
Marcus Manning $82.00
Mary Anne Yando $37.00
Nathan Niles $20.00
Tyler Nimz $119.00
2nd Place Ticket Seller Megan Debeer (left) and 1st Place Ticket Seller MacKenzie King (right) receive their prize checks from BMDFS Board Memeber Deb Ducharme
FEBRUARY 2012 RAFFLE TICKET SALE
BMDFS President Nenette Greeno presents a $100.00 check to Senior Marissa Brockway
Congratulations to BMC's Class of 2012's, and BMDFS Board Member, Marissa Brockway!!! She sold the most raffle tickets for our February 2012 raffle ticket sale to raise funds for our Scholarship Fund. For selling the most tickets, Marissa won a $100.00 cash prize and also received 5 credit hours of Dollars for Scholars volunteer time to add to her student profile to apply for this year's scholarships. As Fundraising Committee Co-Chair, Marissa was also instrumental in making our 1st annual Spaghetti Dinner and Chinese Auction such a successful venture. Honorable mention goes to student volunteers Luke Ducharme (Junior) and Tyler Nimz (Freshman), who sold the second and third most tickets respectively. Thank you for all your hard work Marissa, and to all of our student sellers, on a job well done! We're PROUD of you!!!
Through the efforts of our student volunteers, our 50/50 raffle ticket sales netted $905.00 to add to our Scholarship Fund...and that's AWESOME.
Winners were divided into three prize percentages of the 50% -
1st Prize was 25%, 2nd Prize was 15%, and 3rd Prize was 10%
Congratulations to our winners:
1st Prize - $505.00 - Kathleen Rego, of Churubusco, NY
2nd Prize - $303.00 - Tina Lamica, of North Bangor, NY
3rd Prize - $202.00 - Jim Bunyar, of Brushton, NY
Thank you everyone for your support of us and our students!!!
FACEBOOK REFERRAL CONTEST
Congratulations again to Marissa Brockway, winner of our Facebook Referral Contest to celebrate the launch of our new website! She'll be receiving a $100 cash prize and 5 credit hours of Dollars for Scholars volunteer time for having the most Facebook friends referred to our Facebook page in a one month period. Thanks to all those who participated, it was a lot of fun!
2012 SPRING FOLLIES - WHAT A GREAT SHOW!!!
Friday, April 20, 2012
On Friday April 20th, 2012, our Chapter sponsored the annual longtime favorite SPRING FOLLIES, our school's premier spring talent show at the BMC Auditorium. Those in attendence were treated to an absolutely fantastic show comprised of 21 total acts by some extremely talented performers...and the crowd loved all the evening's singing, dancing, and instrumentalist entertainment. Well done to all, and thank you for being our "hometown shining stars" for the night.
The show was extremely well attended and very successful, raising over $900.00 to add to our scholarship fund!
Special thanks to all our Student Volunteers - Katie Pierce, Chelsea Donais, and Antonio Mendoza, our MC's, Marissa Brockway, our Stage Manager, Peter Taylor, on stage crew, and Rebecca Hastings, on lighting, and Josh Collette, Brandon McCaffery, Deven Ploof, and Joey Russell of the band "Into the Black," for the use of their microphones and stands as well as help with our technical needs - as well as the ton of helpers we had backstage, and with ticket and concession sales and clean up. We couldn't have done it without you! Also, thanks to BMDFS Board Members, Ms. Nenette Greeno and Ms. Deborah Ducharme, BMC Music Teacher Mr. Paul Jadlos, and community volunteer Ms. Brenda Collette for all their assistance in making the night a resounding success, as well as Brushton-Moira Central School for the use of school for the event.
Check out videos all of our 2012 SPRING FOLLIES acts, and more, on our YouTube channel by clicking here
SPRING FOLLIES producer, and BMDFS Board Secretary Ms. Joy Hastings, opens the show with a presentation about BMDFS and an introduction of our student volunteer Master of Ceremonies for the evening.
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BM Dollars for Scholars Fried Dough For Scholarship Dough at the FFA Open House - Saturday, March 31, 2012
Abby Gordon and Haylea Gary sell raffle tickets for a beautiful handmade quilt crafted and donated by BMDFS President Nenette Greeno.
Here's our Dough Prep crew hard at work in the kitchen!
Tina Lucey and Keirstan Carlson add the final touches to our fried doughs.
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On Saturday, March 31st, 2012, our Chapter teamed up with Brushton-Moira Future Farmers of America at their Annual Open House for a fantastic day at BMC! BMDFS sold fried dough and beverages to raise dollars for our scholarship fund.
We had an absolutely fantastic day, and rasied $594.00 toward our fundraising goal of $10,000.00!
Our student and adult volunteers pitched-in with dough preparation, service, and clean-up of the BMC West Cafeteria for all of our fried dough and beverage purchasing supporters...who turned out in force to help our cause!
Thank you to BM FFA for letting us "ride your coatails," allowing us the opportunity to be part of such a large and successful community-supported event...and to all of our volunteer and donor support! THANK YOU ALL!!!
BM Dollars for Scholars First Annual Spaghetti Dinner and Chinese Auction - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
BMC's Cafeteria set to go for the 1st Annual Spaghetti Dinner
BM Dollars for Scholars Board Members and Volunteers preparing the meal....
Our supporters enjoy a fantastic meal served by our hard working student volunteers!
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On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, our chapter held its very first fundraising event! We hosted a benefit spaghetti dinner at the Brushton-Moira Central School cafeteria to raise funds for the Brushton-Moira Dollars for Scholars scholarship fund for BMC's graduating seniors in 2012.
The event was a great success, and rasied $1,080.00 toward our fundraising goal of $10,000.00
More than 60 student and adult volunteers pitched-in with dinner preparation, service, and clean-up, as well as with a Chinese auction that was held durring the dinner. Also, more than 50 area businesses donated or contributed merchandise toward the event in some way, either with cash donations, dinner supplies, or Chinese auction prizes.
WIthout this help, the event would have never been as successful as it was, and all of our volunteer and donor support was sincerely appreciated! Thank you all so much, and we hope to see you at next year's dinner!!!
To take a look at the businesses and individuals that contributed to our spaghetti dinner, click here and here and here
Please support them the way they supported us and our students!
