Only 16 days left until the annual Barton Hills Book Fair! This year's book fair has a rainforest theme - get "Wild for Books" at your Rainforest Book Fair! This year, the book fair will have extended shopping hours to accommodate people's busy schedules.

The book fair is held at the Barton Hills Elementary School Library (2108 Barton Hills Dr.). The book fair will be open for viewing only (no purchasing) on Monday, Dec. 4 (after 12:00 p.m.) and Tuesday, Dec. 5. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, and Thursday, Dec. 7, the book fair will be open for shopping from 7:15 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. We will have activities for children from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on both shopping days.

Because we will be open longer this year and we will be offering a gift-wrap service, we need lots of volunteers. If you want to volunteer, contact Trish Parker at 442-4713. To help with decorations, call Jean Drew at 917-0792 or sailordrews@peoplepc.com. We need volunteers to help with decorations, set up, clean up, gift wrap, and running the cash register.

We are also looking for corporate sponsors and small business owners in the neighborhood to sponsor the book fair. There are three ways you can sponsor:

1) Sponsor a kid: Not every BHE child can afford to buy books. For as little as $7, you can help purchase a book for a needy child.

2) Sponsor the "$1 for Books" campaign: For every $1 we raise, Scholastica (our book fair vendor) matches it and donates the funds to a worthy cause.

3) Feed our volunteers: We need donations of cash and/or coffee & pastries to nourish our wonderful volunteers during set up and clean up.

Please contact Celia Hagert at 707-2762 or hagert@cppp.org if you want to be a sponsor.

Remember, the BHE library receives 25% of all sales from the book fair, so please spread the word with friends and family about this great way to fulfill your holiday shopping needs while supporting the BHE library.

In honor of this year's Veterans Day recognition, Barton Hills Elementary would like to say "thank you" to the men and women of our community who have served our country or are currently serving in our military. If you or anyone you know is a veteran of our country's military service, would you be our guest at our Monday morning assembly at 7:45 a.m. on November 6th? We invite you to wear your uniform if you like and come to the library for refreshments at 7:30 a.m.

If you can join us, please fill in the following information and return to Kay Wallingford or you can email her at kwalling@austinisd.org.

We look forward to sharing this memorable occasion with you. If you have questions, please feel free to call or email Mrs. Wallingford (414-3486).

Name __________________________________________________

Branch of Service ____________________Years of Service _______

We invite all parents to join us for this patriotic reflection when we can show our appreciation to the thousands of people who have given so much to preserve our freedom. All students, parents, and teachers are invited to wear red, white and blue for this special assembly!