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Holiday Bazaar Planned for Dec 5
Scholastic
Journey will be hosting a Holiday Bazaar at C&P Coffee Co. in West
Seattle on Saturday, December 5, 2009, from 3-7 p.m.
The Bazaar
will include a bake sale, an "Untrim Our Tree" ornament sale, and many
more exciting items. It promises to be a fun way to do your holiday
shopping while supporting a great cause!
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Thanks to CAC for Donation
A
special Thank You goes out to CAC Real Estate Management Co., Inc. for
thier donation of office supplies. Sherry and Liz were so helpful and
let us choose 10 boxes of office supplies that we can pass on to
children in need. Thanks so much ladies for your time and
thoughtfulness!
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Great Balinese News Source on Line
For
those of you who may be interested in a news source on Indonesia, The
Jakarta Post is the largest English language newspaper in Indonesia.
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Thanks for reading our News From the Road!
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Dear Friends,
Welcome
to Scholastic Journey's first on-line newsletter! We have lots to tell
you about and we hope you enjoy reading our "News From the Road!"
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Updates to Website
 We have been working hard to make our website, www.scholasticjourney.org, more representative of our organization and what we hope to accomplish.
Soon
you will find a section on different volunteer opportunities, from
events to opportunities for high schoolers who need service hours and
projects, to information about our Volunteer Vacations plans.
We
also are working on an on-line store where items such as Scholastic
Journey logo t-shirts will be available. We will also have t-shirts,
tote bags, and note cards with designs from the children we visit on
our journeys. In addition, for the person who has everything, you can
purchase gifts in their name for children in need, such as pencils,
paper and backpacks.
There will be a section about our upcoming events, and access to our newsletters, press releases and other general information.
We
will have a section about the various projects and areas we are
supporting, so you can follow our progress and learn about other areas
of the world as well.
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Bali Trip Planned
 We
are so excited to be planning our trip to Bali this fall! We are
thrilled that we will be able to provide supplies and uniform vouchers
to make a real difference in the education of rural children in
Bunatan. We will be using the trip to cement our relationships with
local teachers and community leaders so we can continue to offer our
support in ways they find useful.
Our trip will also be spent
exploring other options like trying to figure out how to help the local
villagers market and sell the sea salt that they already harvest and
sell locally. Wouldn't you like to try some organic Bali Sea Salt?
In
addition, watch for more information about a "Volunteer Vacation" for
Spring 2010. We'd like to take a small group with us to Bunatan for a
couple of days of work in the village. Of course we will also plan a
couple of days of fun exploring the culture and natural beauty that are
Bali!
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Wine Tasting 'Barrels' of Fun
 Thanks
to everyone for joining us for our September 3rd wine tasting event at
C&P Coffee Co in West Seattle with Ward Johnson Winery!
We
had great company, great food, great wine, and great music to listen to
as well, from the Garfield High School Jazz Band Trio! We look forward
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Volunteer Hours Available for High School Students
Many
high school students need volunteer or service hours in order to
graduate and Scholastic Journey has many interesting opportunities for
volunteers.
The Holiday Bazaar will need volunteers in several
ways, from setting up/cleaning up, to organizing the bake sale and
ornament sale, as well as finding donations for the bake sale, and
making ornaments for the ornamnent sale. We would also like to have
some sort of acoustic or vocal entertainment for the crowd to enjoy.
In
addition to volunteer opportunities available at the Holiday Bazaar, we
also would like to involve some high school students in projects like
creating a logo for Scholastic Journey, working on promotional videos
and presentations, and our website.
HS
Volunteer orientation meeting will be at the Burien Public Library from
5:30pm to 7:30 on Sunday, November 8th in the upstairs conference room.
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Be a Part of Our Journey
For those of you looking for an easy way to participate in any of our events or projects, we have a couple of options.
We
would appreciate any supplies for ornament making at our Ornament
Workshop on November 14th. Any extra ribbon, glue, scissors, stickers,
pipe cleaners, craft paper or other decorative items that you'd love to
clean out of your craft closet we will put to good use.
For our
Holiday Bazaar on December 5th we would love any donations of homemade
holiday ornaments. We are also looking for any tasty treats that you'd
like to share for our bake sale at the Bazaar.
Any of these
donations can be dropped off at your convenience at our mail box, #278,
at 2701 California Avenue South West, Seattle, WA 98116.
The
nice folks at Admiral Jct Mailing & Printing Center will accept any
size packages for our mail box and call us to let us know we have a
pick up waiting!
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In August Scholastic Journey will be partnering with St. John the
Baptist Episcopal Church in West Seattle to present a bike ride
fundraiser! The route is amazing as it includes three ferry rides, a
farmers market, beautiful scenery and beautiful people (that's You)!
All donations from registrations go to charities Including Scholastic
Journey! 
This spring Scholastic Journey is planning a 5K Run/Walk
here in Seattle. We will need a number volunteers to assist throughout
the event. A list of positions will be available soon including
registration tables, food and beverage, course assist, water stations
just to name a few. To make this a successful and fun event Scholastic
Journey will need the support of volunteers like YOU! 
