Recent Accomplishments

As I mentioned in my 'Who am I' intro at the Senior Center's Candidate's Who's Who for Election, here are some of my recent accomplishments for you to see...


Recent Accomplishments:

Auburn Zip Trip – Fox 25 (Kristen Pappas / Recreation & Culture Committee):
Established Auburn as the #1 spot with the most books collected this year at a Zip Trip -- 223!
Got Special thanks to the Bryn Mawr Elementary School

Scholastic BOGO Book Fair: Bryn Mawr Elementary
Made available Summer Reading List books for purchase for first time
Increased revenues by 16.14% - netting a profit and $110 voucher for books for the library
Assisted 1st Grade Classes/ Teachers with ‘Bank On Books’ Purchase for Auburn Youth & Family Svcs. Library set up

Assisted Mrs. Misa Hamden (Math teacher at Bryn Mawr)
Photographed Events for her: Home Depot Math Grade 2 Event pictures to be used at Bryn Mawr & at West Street
Photographed Events for her: McMath Nite @ McDonald’s Event – pictures to be published in Auburn News

District 1 PTO- I assist at many of their sponsored events and fundraisers.
School Spirit Clothing Sale- Not a fundraiser
This was just an opportunity to purchase clothes that had school logo or names or town name on it. I was able to price it and then negotiate the pricing in a way that we at final payment secured $162 for the PTO.


Special Olympics (Auburn Recreation & Culture Committee Member) (AR&CC)-
150 + athletes/ 400+ local volunteers all registered and managed by AR&CC
As part of the AR&CC hosting group during the weekend of the two day event: coordinated Olympic Town section of the event, main coordinator for the pre-registered 400 volunteers from town, was main point of contact after Recreation Director, assisted with medals awarding and photos, and set up and break down of the site.

I handled preparation of the final Thank you notes and certificates to all vendors and participants to those people and groups that were involved in this great activity- created, printed, delegated, assisted with the scheduling for presentation on camera at live meetings, and made sure all members of AR&CC were signee’s of certificates. This event was/ is a truly team event.

NOTE: The corporate Special Olympics for MA were impressed with the way we (AR&CC)administered our site that our site model is to be as an example for other sites, for multiple reasons. Because of all of this, Auburn had Massachusetts Special Olympics Winter Basketball as a host site for next year 2010 before the weekend had finished.

Auburn's Fall Festival (Auburn Recreation & Culture Committee Member) (AR&CC)-
NO working budget for this event, and managed to establish it as an annual event with non-profit/ profit local vendors (29 for first year) pulling in profit of $800, with approx.1,500 attending on what quickly turned into poor weather day. Have secured dates for 2009, with existing vendors as well as other interested vendors having seen success of this event in community; solicitation of vendors for vending at event; solicitation of donations for the event communications for the event (advertising/ public relations/ marketing related).

And these are but a few of the projects that I am/ have been involved with either in town or in the schools. I am the type of person that will let my work spreak for myself versus putting together a flyer or a log entry for this type of accomplishments. I work hard and will let that speak for itself.