Flapjack Flip at Watauga High School December 12
School principals will serve up pancakes at the Flapjack Flip, held to benefit the Watauga Education Foundation (WEF), on Saturday, December 12, from 7:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the Watauga High School cafeteria.
The breakfast features all the pancakes you can eat, with an option of homemade blueberry syrup, plus all the milk, juice or Bald Guy Brew coffee you can drink for $6.
The WEF provides classroom grants for creative initiatives that fall outside the state and local budgets, funds continuing education for teachers, funds Battle of the Books, produces Shooting Stars and is bringing Imagination Library—a program to get books into children’s hands even before they can read—to the area, said Melanie Bullard, WEF executive director.
“Bring the family,” Bullard said, adding that even parade participants will have time to eat before the parade lineup begins.
Principals will accept tips for serving pancakes, which will go to their school’s PTSA, Bullard said, adding that elementary school principals Tom Trexler of Cove Creek and Phillip Griffin of Green Valley will serve from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., and Patrick Sukow of Blowing Rock and Mary Smalling of Hardin Park will serve from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.
WEF board member Ben Shoemake is chair of the flapjack committee and has been organizing the event, Bullard said.
For the third year, school PTSAs will sell a variety of crafts and gifts to benefit the respective schools’ PTSAs.
“We felt this was a great way to get smaller schools in front of a larger audience,” Bullard said.
Mabel Elementary will sell photographs with Santa and Valle Crucis Elementary will sell chances to win homemade baskets, she said.
Toward the end of the event, raffle drawings will be held for 15 limited raffles.
“We have some pretty incredible packages,” Bullard said.
Raffle tickets can be purchased online, and only 20 chances are sold for each of the packages.
“Once they’re gone, they’re gone,” Bullard said.
Winners do not need to be present to win, and proceeds benefit the WEF. As each individual package sells out, it will be removed from the online listing, which can be viewed by clicking to www.wefnc.org.
“We really want to sell out our raffle,” Bullard said. “Last year, we did not sell out.”
This year, more than ever, Bullard said, the schools need the supplemental funding provided by the WEF.
“We lost 50 teachers this year,” she said. “If you walk down the hall in our schools, one in four bulbs is burning, to save money. What’s that telling you? We’re needed; we’re desperately needed.”
Additionally, the stipend provided to each teacher to purchase classroom materials was halved this year, Bullard said.
The WEF strives to fund creative projects that will leave an impact on the kids of Watauga County Schools—allowing them to experience learning rather than just read about science, for example, Bullard explained.
“We want to create productive citizens,” she said.
“We get so much support from this community,” Bullard continued. “We have more than 200 local businesses that support us. That’s saying a lot.”
For more information, click to www.wefnc.org.
Raffle Packages
The following are the packages, as listed online, for which raffle tickets are on sale. To purchase tickets, click to www.wefnc.org.
1. Ultimate Foodie Fantasy
$75
Dine out and take your friends with you! This scrumptious package includes dinners for four adults to the best restaurants in the High Country: The Gamekeeper, The Best Cellar, The Bistro, Crippens Country Inn and Restaurant, Bistro Roca, Story Street Grill, Reid’s and Casa Rustica. Honey, let’s go out tonight!
2. Steep and Deep
$100
Let it snow! You’ve got 2009-10 season passes at Appalachian Ski Resort for one adult and one junior, and four tickets for a day of tubing at Hawksnest. You’ll look great in your new accessories from Farmer’s Ski Shop. Don’t forget your new Thermos filled with hot chocolate!
3. Bow wow WOW
$50
Pamper your pooch with a snuggly new $50 bed from The Pet Place and $50 of chow from Kmart. Plus, Animal Medical Center of Boone will give your best friend $50 toward his annual checkup. And while you’re away, The Pet Prairie Kennel will keep little Fido for two nights. That’s howlin’ good.
4. A Little Cheese a Little Wine Part Deux
$25
Back for a second year, this sellout package includes a bottle of wine per month for a year, and a delicious wedge of frommage from Harris Teeter and a monthly loaf of Stick Boy Bread. Merci beaucoup!
5. Baby Can You Dig It?
$40
Does your garden need a little TLC? A Cut Above Nursery has $100 in perennials and annuals to spruce it up. Of course, $250 in new gardening tools from New River Building Supply will help you get them in the ground. Then, enjoy a manicure and paint your nails the same perfect shade as your petunias. Yard work has its rewards.
6. Queen for a Day
$50
Your sweetheart will thoroughly enjoy a date off the mountain to Charlotte. This one includes tickets for two to the Aluminum Show at the new Knights Theater during the month of January and a $100 dinner at Maggianos Little Italy. When the evening is over, fall into a heavenly bed at the Hampton Inn Southpark. Breakfast is included.
7. Zip-a-dee-do-dah
$100
Four of you can fly on the original High Country Scream Time Zipline. Then take a crack at the Climbing Tower at Footsloggers in downtown Boone, and if you’ve still got energy, two of you can go rafting with High Country Expeditions. Take lots of photos, because this package includes a digital camera. My-oh-my, what a wonderful day!
8. Slow Food
$35
You’ll enjoy a summer’s worth of fresh produce with this gift certificate for $10 a week for 12 weeks at the Watauga County Farmers’ Market. Add that to $100 of locally raised beef from Rocksprings Farm and you are eatin’ local. Did we mention a beautiful quilted wall hanging and your exquisite mugs and plates for four from Doe Ridge Pottery? Read your copy of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and get to know your food.
9. ASU Basketball Experience
$45
Want to know what it feels like to be in the locker room with Buzz and the boys? You’ll find out with this package. It includes four basketball season tickets to the 2009-10 ASU men’s basketball games, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join the team post-game behind the scenes. Your autographed basketball makes this a slam-dunk.
10. Whee! A Shopping Spree
$75
Leave your credit cards at home because you have $100 each from South's, TJ Maxx, Gap/Old Navy and Sports Fanatic; $50 from Rack Room Shoes; $25 each from Shannon’s, Boone Mall, Shoppes on the Parkway and Watsonnata; $20 from Dress Barn; $15 from Maurice’s; and a $100 Visa gift card. That’s more than $650 of fun!
11. Duffers Delight $100
Not one, not two, but three rounds of play for four at Hound Ears Golf Club, Boone Golf Club and Blowing Rock Country Club. Keep the Bearcat driver for yourself, but invite your friends to play a round!
12. Soccer Mom Survival Kit
$25
Because you are more than a chauffeur! You have $50 in free gas from Kangaroo Express; $100 in gift cards from Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silvers and Taco Bell; a $45 free carwash from Blue Ridge Car Care Company; a case of Gatorade; and two camp chairs from Kmart. Pile in team, and enjoy the ride.
13. I Feel Pretty
$40
Who wouldn’t, after you indulge in a new $150 hairstyle from John Mena at Haircut 101 and enjoy a $70 massage from Mind & Body Wellness, a $35 makeover from Lavender Fields, a $40 pedicure from Haircraft, a delicious fragrance basket from Belk and the coup d’grace—a new $100 pair of shoes from Monkee’s in Blowing Rock. Honey, did we buy a raffle ticket for the Ultimate Foodie Fantasy, ‘cause I’m ready to hit the town.
14. Family Adventure Pak
$60
You will be the hero of your family if you win this: four tickets to an ASU football game, Carowinds, Dollywood, Tweetsie Railroad and a night at the Great Wolf Lodge. What more is there to say except, “Yippee!”
15. Baby Panache
$75
Your little bundle of joy will feel like the heir to the throne. For starters, how about a session with photographer extraordinaire Jonathan Burton? It’s the perfect place to wear a new pair of Robeez shoes. Snuggle up close with your baby in an Ergo Baby Carrier, and when you get tired of doing the totin’, slip babykinz into your new $375 BOB Stroller. You’ll be saying wee, wee, wee all the way home.
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