Volunteer Help Needed for Saturday, 12/15
Posted December 11, 2007
Saturday should be another big sales day for us. Currently, we could use a few more adult volunteers for the Saturday 6 - 9 PM shift. We have one adult and three terrific Blanchet students working that evening, but 2 - 4 more adults would be ideal because it can get very busy on Saturday nights. Please consider volunteering. Also, if you want to work a shift during the day, but there are no open slots for that shift, just show up and add your name to the list! Thank you and thank you for all of your awesome Christmas spirit!
Greetings from Tree Lot Operations!
Posted November 30, 2007
Greetings from the Tree Lot! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped with set up last Saturday and who have signed up for Tree Lot shifts. The trees look great, the Christmas music is filling the air, and it has only rained once! We are going into the first big weekend of the sale and are fully staffed all the way through December 8th. With over 400 shifts filled, it looks like we are in great shape through the next two weekends and will post another staffing update then. A big Thank You to all the volunteers who have signed up and showed up!
A reminder on parking: When you show up for your shift PLEASE DO NOT PARK ANYWHERE IN THE SAFEWAY PARKING LOT! Management at Safeway has graciously asked us to leave the available parking spaces open for customers. One of our volunteers received a parking ticket today. Please park on the street - thank you!
Get Your Christmas Trees from “West Seattle’s Most Famous Nonprofit Christmas Tree Lot”!
Posted November 30, 2007
Thanks, West Seattle blog, for mentioning us in your blog.
Ho Ho Ho! Sign Up For Tree Lot Shifts!
Posted November 11, 2007
The Tree Lot opens in less than two weeks! Thanks to the families who are filled with Holiday Cheer and have signed up for Tree Lot shifts. We have filled 300 shifts and have about 100 more to fill. The critical unfilled shifts for the first week are:
- Sat 11/25 3PM-6PM (1 shift)
- Sun 11/26 3PM-6PM (1 shift)
- Tues 11/27 12PM-3PM (1 shift)
- Weds 11/28 12PM-3PM (2 shifts) and 3PM-6PM (1 shift)
- Thurs 11/29 12PM-3PM (2 shifts) and 3PM-6PM (3 shifts)
- Sat 12/1 12PM-3PM (1 shift) and 3PM-6PM (3 shifts)
Please sign up and help make this year’s Tree Lot a success. The Tree Lot is the school’s third largest fundraiser and stands to raise between $50,000 and $60,000 for the school this year! Please help us achieve our fundraising goal and volunteer for an open shift. Thank you! We will continue to provide staffing updates with critical shifts that need to be filled. Please call or with any questions. Thank you.
- Allison Willhite, Tree Lot Fundraising Chair
Tree Lot Pancake Breakfast
Posted November 1, 2007
Mark your calendars! The Annual Tree Lot Pancake Breakfast will be on Sunday, November 18 after the 8AM and 9:30AM Masses. Servers include 6th Graders and Tree Lot Elves. The Pancake Breakfast assists the 6th Grade students on their annual sailing trip. Enjoy scrumptious pancakes, delectable French toast, crispy bacon, mouth-watering sausage, fresh orange juice, and good, hot coffee enough to perk up the sleepiest elf on Christmas Eve!
Don’t you dare miss out on this special once-in-a-year treat!
Tree Lot News
Posted October 10, 2007
Just what you’ve been waiting for…Tree Lot Shift Signups are now open online! Volunteer today. There are over 400 shifts to fill so there is plenty of room for the whole family to volunteer and get all your fundraising hours completed by the end of the year. Extended family and junior high/high school kids are welcome to volunteer for shifts. Many Holy Rosary families have enjoyed making this time of bringing Christmas cheer to others a holiday tradition for their family. You can also sign up to be part of the Lot Squad or Home Delivery Team too! Please see the Tree Lot Times flyer in your FCE envelope or download it here for more information. If you have questions or would like to be part of the Tree Lot Committee please email . .
Thank You from your Head Elves
Allison & Scott Willhite, Tree Lot Chairs
Ho Ho Ho! Tree Lot Signups Open Next Week!
Posted October 4, 2007
Only one week until the 2007 Tree Lot signups are officially live online. The Tree Lot will open on Saturday, November 24 and run through December 21. Hours of operation are noon - 9PM weekdays, 9AM - 9PM weekends. On line signups are easy: just login and volunteer.
You can also sign up online to be part of the “Lot Squad” (an on-call team that can help with restocking and unloading) and “Home Delivery” team (six to eight guys with trucks that can help deliver trees to customers homes the first three weekends). We need lots of help to make this year the best ever.
Questions? Want to be part of the committee or learn the ropes to chair next year’s Tree Lot? Call .
Thank You,
-Allison & Scott Willhite, Tree Lot Chairs
Ho Ho Ho!
Posted September 27, 2007
Now that we’ve cakewalked at Westfest and renewed all our magazines, it’s time to break out the holiday cheer! Just what you’ve been waiting for ~ the First Tree Lot Committee Meeting of the season. Even with last winter’s “unpredictable” weather, we achieved the second highest volume Tree Lot season in history. Let’s make this year the best ever. Many Tree Lot veterans have graduated or will be graduating soon and we look forward to sharing Tree Lot cheer with a new generation of Tree Lot elves. If you are a returning Tree Lot Committee veteran or a Tree Lot newbie looking to join the committee that puts the “FUN” in fundraising, please come. Next Monday, October 1, 7 PM at our home (email for directions). Of course, “Tree Lot Cheer” will be served. For questions, please contact . Thank you and HO HO HO!
-Allison and Scott Willhite, Tree Lot Chairs.
