Tickets available for AGS Night at the 7/27/09 Kane County Cougars Baseball game !Take me out to the ballgame ! Mark your calendars now for the first ever AGS night at Elfstrom Stadium ! Tickets are available now; cost is $10 per person and ordering deadline is June 8th. Order forms are available in the rack in the PTO lobby. What a great way to keep in touch with AGS families over the summer.  For more information, please click here or contact Lisa Foydel Kramer. Hope to see you there ! Go Cougars !

Mark your calendars ! Fall Gently-Used Clothing and Toy Resale is set for September 11th and 12th !
Planning is underway for the Alice Gustafson School PTO 24th annual Children's Clothing and Toy Resale on Friday, Sept 11th from 6-9 p.m. and Saturday, Sept 12th from 8 a.m. - noon.

The sale entrance will be located on the NORTH side of the school and admission is free.

The massive sale features infant through teen clothing for all seasons, maternity waer, baby equipment/furniture, shoes, uniforms, sporting goods, costumes, books, games, videos, CDs, and toys. Shoppers will find all clothing neatly sized and hanging on garment racks filling the school's gymnasium. The shopper's paradise continues with more items organized throughout the school's stage and cafeteria. Merchandise is pre-inspected for new or gently-used condition.  Bargain hunters will find many brand names at rock bottom prices. On Saturday, all white-ticketed items will be HALF PRICE.

The Clothing / Toy Resale is one of the PTO's major fundraising events. Participants selling their items receive 60% of the sales price with the remaining 40% gong to the PTO. Income from the sale is used for educational programs, materials, and equipment for AGS students and staff.

Interested participants need to register ahead. E-mail agsclothingsale@sbcglobal.net for more information !



Mark your calendar for the AGS Business Expo November 5, 2009
AGS families with small or home-based businesses are welcome to register to participate in an all-day expo that will take place during parent-teacher conferences. This is a GREAT way to network, publicize your business, and to make your products / services available to AGS families. Expo spots will be $40 per business; tables will be provided. Please note that only one vendor of any particular line can be accomodated, so pleaser register soon to make sure you will be the one ! For more info, please contact Jennifer Tonn at mjdjhtonn@comcast.net. Mark your calendars now ! 

Tyson A+ Program!
Tyson Project A+ is a new fundraiser available to us this year.  When you purchase participating Tyson products at the grocery store, (chicken, etc.) simply clip the entire A+label and send it in to school. The PTO can redeem it for 24 cents per label ! Tell your friends and relatives to look for these labels and save them for you. THANKS !

Gator Gold Program at AGS
Gator Gold is a gift card program for major merchants in our area and on the internet. It is a one-stop way to purchase cards for restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, hotels, and many other retailers. The AGS PTO purchases the gift cards at a discount, and sells them to you for face value. The difference in cost then becomes  PTO revenue. With a little planning ahead, you can help the PTO by purchasing cards for goods/services you routinely use !  Consider Gator Gold for Stocking Stuffers or gifts for the paper boy, piano teacher and coach.
For more information and to download an order form, see the Gator Gold page.

Meijer Community Rewards
If you shop at Meijer and are willing to use a Meijer credit card, cash, or debit card for your purchases, then you can sign up for Meijer Communmity Rewards. This program is an easy fundraiser whereby a percentage of our eligible purchses at Meijer are returned to the AGS PTO. Eligible purchass include grocery items, pharmacy, general merchandise, gas station purchases, convenience store purhcases, and online items. If you have friends or relatives that shop at Meijer, they can enroll too ! Our organization ID number is 566327. Log onto www.meijer.com/rewards  more info ! This is an easy way for the AGS PTO to earn funds while  you do your Meijer shopping ! 


Target Take Charge of Education Fundraiser
If you shop at Target and have a RED cards, Target donates 1% of your purchase price to our school.  All you have to do is sign up and start shopping ! Go to www.target.com and click on RED CARD at the top of the menu. Select "Take Charge of Education" and follow the prompts. Pick AGS (school code 45152) as your school and voila, you are all set up. Simply setting this up and shopping like normal will result in funds being donated to AGS !