Hawkette Gazette
April 2008
Registration Update : We extend a welcome to 48 new Cheerleaders for the 2008 season. With our returning cheerleaders, our organziation will be just over 200 girls for this season.
New Parents Meeting : Monday April 14th - 7:30 PM at the BPHS Cafeteria (Auditorium Bldg). This is a room change. If you already have a cheerleader in the organization you are not required to attend this meeting. We do however need your fundraising information turned in by this date.
Uniform Resale : Resale Uniform pieces will be accepted through April 9th. Pieces should be clean and labeled with your name. Resale pieces are sold for half their original cost. You will receive a credit/refund for items sold. Anything that does not sell will be returned to you. Please contact Kim Leech with any questions or to arrange drop off of your resale items at 412-851-1063 or email leech4@comcast.net Resale pieces can be brought to our April Membership Meeting scheduled for Monday April 7th 7:30 - 9:00 in the conference room behind the BP Public Library in the Municiple Bldg. Uniform Resale will first take place at the New Parents Meeting - Monday April 14th. Any remaining uniform pieces will be at Uniform Fitting on May 3rd.
Uniform Fitting - There are several changes this year for Uniform Fitting -
Our main Uniform Fitting session is: Saturday May 3rd at the BP Community Center - Room A from 10:30am - 3:00 pm. At this fitting you can try on and order all of our uniform pieces for the 2008 season. If you are ordering any of the following items, you need to attend this session or notify a board member so we can obtain measurements from you: Vest, Skirt, Windsuit Jacket, Quilted Jacket, Headband, Bag, or Poms. These items all require embroidery or custom construction and must be ordered in early May.
Girls, please wear appropriate cheer, dance or swimsuit attire so you can easily change from your street clothes to try on uniform pieces. Please remember socks to try on shoes:)
For other 'stock' items such as - Tennis Shoes, Windsuit Pants, Briefs, Half Top, or Leggings - You can come order them at the May 3rd Uniform Fitting; however, we will also compile an order the very first week of camp (if you will miss the first week of camp, you must order before camp) or we can provide you with contact information to order these items on your own. When we order in bulk we sometimes get a discount or save on shipping, but you can order these items on your own if you prefer. We must place this order the first week of camp to have items in for Pictures and to distribute before the end of camp. We will stay after camp and you can order/try on uniform pieces from 8:00pm - 8:30pm each evening that first week of camp.
For anything ordered on May 3rd you must pay at least a 50% deposit of the total uniform cost. Half of the remaining Balance will be due the end of June with the remainder due at camp when uniform pieces are handed out. Anything ordered at camp must be paid for at time of ordering.
Fundraising - If you ordered Candy - it will be available for pick up at Uniform Fitting on May 3rd from 10:30 - 3:00. If you cannot pick up your candy this day, please notify a board member, or send an email to bpjrcheer@live.com and arrangements can be made. We did ask everyone to prepay for their candy this year, checks being held for candy will be deposited after Uniform Fitting
Rita's Cards -- If you ordered Rita's cards you will be notified when they are available. We will place our order for the cards after the New Parents Meeting and once we have a final total. We want to get your cards to you asap so you can take advantage of the discounts. Sherri Fluman is again coordinating this sale for us.
Joe Corbis -- Information on the Joe Corbi's sale will be made available at the New Parents Mtg, Uniform Fitting and at our May 5th regular meeting. Pick up of items will be at the end of May. Look for additional information in the coming weeks.
Friend Requests - You can request your daughter to be on the same squad as one other cheerleader. To make a friend request valid, both girls must request each other and not be part of any other requests. We do work to keep groups together where we can and also work to keep girls on squads together as they move up. However we must also balance siblings within cheerleading, to siblings within football when it comes to squad assignments and game schedules so it is not always possible to keep larger groups of girls together and keep the parents from having to get kids to games at each end of town at the same time. As with previous years, you may be assigned to a squad that cheers for different teams each week if we do not have an equal number of squads to teams at your level or you may be asked to cheer for two back to back games so we can cover more games each week.
Camp Dates are: July 28th - Aug 28th and will be Mon, Tue & Thurs from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the field behind UPMC at Village Square. If you will be on vacation for the first week of camp please notify us at bpjrcheer@live.com. Any other vacations during camp are considered excused absences and you should notify your coach once camp begins.
Monthly Meeting dates are: 4/7, 5/5, 6/2, 9/2, 10/6, 11/3. Mtg time 7:30 in the Conf Room behind the Library in the Municipal Bldg - all are welcome to attend.
Open Board Position - The Treasurers position is open for the 2008 season. Anyone interested please contact any board member.
If you have any questions the board member contact info is below or your can email our group address at bpjrcheer@live.com
Amy Leber, President 412-833-5283
Kim Leech 1st Vice Pres 412-851-1063
Michelle Cochran 2nd VP 412-835-1990
Dana Baxendell 412-952-8337
Judy Volpatti 412-831-1716
Mary Schneir 412-851-0694