Here’s an amazing stat: This year we will be hosting our 18th holiday party at Sam Rosen Elementary in Fort Worth.

We had so much fun with that one, we just had to have another and will be celebrating our 8th year at Webb Elementary in Arlington.

Volunteering for these events is guaranteed to be one of the highlights of your holiday season.

Here’s the schedule for 2008:

Dec 9 (morning) Party Prep at Sam Rosen

Dec 10 (all day) Party at Sam Rosen

Dec 16 (morning) Party Prep at Webb

Dec 17 (all day) Party at Webb

Natalie Parish is the volunteer coordinator for Sam Rosen

Vince Heimann is organizing workers for Webb.

Sandy Spitzmueller is the coat drive coordinator.

Even though the parties last all day, you are welcome to work only part of the day if that is what you can do. In addition to volunteers, we make a donation of winter coats to each school and try to buy a few items for goodie bags for each child. Your donation of coats and/or cash would be greatly appreciated!

All volunteers must be approved in advance by the district. Click here for a copy of the Arlington ISD volunteer form Please fill out the form, attach a copy of your ID and forward it to Vince, his fax number is 817-273-5913.

The Fort Worth ISD volunteer form is one page, be sure to copy your I.D. on to the form and fax to Raymond at 817-882-0136.

The deadline to submit the background form is November 21st. If you are recruiting volunteers from your credit union, you may also want to plan in advance for substitute volunteers by having them fill out the form as well.

If you need directions to the schools, click on their names above.

Lastly, check back and check the comments to this post for any subsequent information from the committee.