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Mar. 5th                      David Storey                               Publisher of the Gazette

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Polk Schedule

March 5            No School

March 9            PTA Meeting (5:00 pm - Art Room)

March 12          PTA Muffins with Mom (7:30 am - Cafeteria)

March 12          4th/5th Gr Spring Music Program (10:00 am School - 2:00 pm Parent Show

March 15-18     Snow Make-Up Days

March 19-26     Spring Break - No School

The Sunshine Fund Grant Committee is currently accepting applications for grant requests.  The application can be found in the Announcements section of the Daybreak website.  All applications must be postmarked by April 15^th, 2010.  If you have any questions, please contact Cindy Bathgate.

Get out your cowbells and get ready to cheer!  Please join your fellow Rotarians for a night at the RoughRiders - 

Cedar Rapids vs. Green Bay

Saturday, March 13th 7:00 pm

Tickets are $7

If you plan to join us, please let Erin Gray know by Monday, March 8 so that she may purchase tickets.  You can contact her at 551-0574 or egray25@hotmail.com.

“We did feel the earthquake in Viña and it was terrifying.  On the richter scale it was an 8.8 in Concepcion, 7 in Santiago, and 6 in Valparaiso/Viña is what I heard.  The actual tremor lasted about 2 minutes (I later heard that on the radio, I can't say I was counting while it was going on) and was actually quite strong.  The building swayed quite a bit as we were on the 20th floor, lots of pictures and paintings fell, and one of the televisions.  There were some superficial cracks in the drywall at the apartment.  We continued to feel minor tremors and sways throughout the rest of the morning.

At about 8 am we headed back to Santiago.  I believe a bridge and building collapsed in Santiago if I understood correctly (we were getting a lot of mixed information from the radio) but as far as I know the majority of the damage is farther south in the Bio-Bio region.  At the apartment there wasn't too much damage, lots of superficial cracks in the walls and ceilings, loose tiles, broken plants, etc.  At the grandparent's house there was even less damage, so that's good.

We're still pretty shaken up still, but everything is fine.”

Upcoming Daybreak Meeting Schedule

March 26                                                               Terry Branstad