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Show The Salt Lake Tribune HOME & FAMILY Friday, January5, 1996 B4 PTA Takes Big Step Into the 90s By Nanci Hellmich Usa TODAY from shortages; some more than others. says Carole Kennedy. president-elect of Making cookies for PTA bake sales is out. Volunteer work at home on the computer is in the National Association of Elementary School Principals and principal of New Hayen Elementaryin Columbia, Mo. Never mindlong, drawn-out meetings on Tuesday nights with a half-hour break in the middle to socialize. Busy parents are meeting before work. during lunch hours But extra handsare crucial for manyactivities. When Kennedy was working at anotherschool, the PTA threatened to cancel nily fun night if enough people didn't or simply by telephoneconference calls The volunteer spirit } 48%say they've been active. X T |_ a hand, according to a national survey sponsoredby theInstitute for Educational ten to the kids read andget them to bed Source The | problem. meetingin time to go to work. And the meetings are not always at the school. The group might meet for breakfast suffer Many schools | 40% say they have volunteered 18% havebeeninvolved in an advisory council or other group sit back and appreciate your home. But it’s no time for compla at a local restaurant or in a conference roomat a bank where a memberworks. One PTA group takes a walk a couple times a week. They pick up members who haveporchlights on as they go by. During those walks they do a lot of sharing and lappy Birthday their time making things for bake sales, Dykstra says. When it comes to fund-raisers, the energyis better spent on activities All the Love & Happiness You Deserve - - like book fairs. ing, yearto comeand to make resolu- tions about taking care of the place Do you want a newkitchen. bath or deck? Now’s the time to plan. Remember that one project often leads to another. Remodel ing a kitehen mayhave an impact But it will doa lot in take the worry out of remembering to adjust the temperature Paints today are getting safer as companies removevolatile organ- magazines and books as you can efficiency oil-fired which can be retrofitted into the existing duct system. (If you have get your handson, and collect the ideas that appeal to you. Find a gas heat, you can still install a new home-improvement manual — @ Repair exterior concrete. especially gaps between house and slab, to prevent leaks. books from Reader's Digest, Sunset and Time-Life Books, and magazines such as Traditional Home and Kitchen/Bath Remodelingall offer good sources —and Winter figure out what you can reason- basement or attached garage so it freezing and thawing cycles are will be handy when snow falls and stock a bag of cat litter to spreadonice that the shovel can’t budge. especially hard on concrete, and repairs need to be madeat the ably do, in terms of money and structure. The clearer yourideas are, the easier it will be to work with a contractor when it comes timeto hire one. This advice also works for decks, gazebos and oth- earliest opportunity — say the first day the temperature creeps over 40 degrees WPrep exterior and repaint This can't be done in the dead of winter. but it can be doneearly in in April so any refurbishing or re- spring. Most of the work is in the door at the top of the steps to pairs can be madebefore it’s time to cut the grass @Buy new garbage cans and prep. keepall the mess downstairs and require workersto use an outside priming and caulking are the most important parts of painting. WClean out the garage/attic a the house number on them @Check chimney flues and heating equipment in summer and do maintenance, make repairs or replace an outmodedsystem. Are you unhappy with your basement and have a yardsale old heat-pump system? You panes. @ Vacuum the radiators W Start designing that new kitchen or bath. Read as many might look into installing a high- home-design/home-improvement @ Repair cracked window- if you have one. This time of year, contractors are hungry for inside work, so prices should be competitive. If you're a —yauladDay. ORIENTAL RUG GALLERY can helpclarify design or remodeling goals. W@Send for gardening catalogs andstart planning yard and garden plantings. Buy a notebook andstart a garden journal @ Give your house a present — 2855 Highland Drive / 487-7454 Mon aru Sat 9:30am - 6pm Financingavailable treeorshrubin the yard Forall yourhousedoes for you it deservesit ( 75TH HRTTIDAY JANUARY 16, 1996 GAME SETS-BARSTOOLS BARS An Open House will be held in his honor on January 6, 1996, 5-8 p.m Mt. View 7th Ward, 8825 So. 3200 West. No Gifts Please. Huge Inventory of Quality Game Sets Perfect for home entertaining. 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We Buy, Trade, Repair and Clean can give you a newperspective on design strengths/weaknesses and er outbuildings areoffthetrees @ Get the lawn mowerchecked Scraping, Indo Persian 6° Needle Point 8' X 10° ay Tibetan 8'7" X ic compounds, but youstill need to be careful. Put on a jacket and open the windows, or wait until warmerweather. @ Rearrange the furniture. It oradjacent bath. If your intention later is to remodel an upstairs bath, let the kitchen remodeler know: he maybeableto arrange things to save youtime and money in the future. Here are someotherideas for homeresolutions @Put the snow shovel in the high-efficiency system.) Check Examples of Values: Indo Shiraz 3X it requires adequateventilation on plumbing pipes in an upstairs any systemagain just before putting it in use Huge Selection of Rugs From fround The World At Great Savings! @ Winter may seemlike theideal time to do interior painting, but furnace ROAMAUC lead to leaks and damage @ Energy-sa’ ing thermostats. Money can be saved byturning downthethermostat, and an automatic setback thermostat will @ Furnaces. \ furnace more than 2C years old probably wastes morethanathird offuel it burns. New furnaces are more efficient and therefore cheaper to run. — Gannett News Service @Clean the gutters in the spring and again when the leaves especially in plac s where water accumulates. There are a numberofeasily installed plastic snap-together drain systems that can eliminate the problems that ;. The stripping will actually dolittle to decreaseheat loss and will not saveenergy. helping the house feel more comfortable to think aboutit, is the ideal time to make plans for refurbishing and remodeling projects in the DEANN TESCH DENSLEY planning and get exercise too Busy parents should not be spending do-it-yourselfer, what else have yougot to do? @ When the thaw comes, pay attention to howyour yardis drain- frames and doors, andalong joints in the siding. @ Weather strippi ? thathelps setschool policy. Consumer Reports qagazine recommendspeople concentrate on four areas to save energy and moneyin the home: Exterior and interior caulking. Every houseneedscaulk to protect against gaps and cracks that develop around window cency: now. while you have time partment, The Salt Lake Tribune P.O. Box867, Salt LakeCity, UT 84110. Entries must be received by Feb. 2 FIFTY CAN BE NIFTY! tional Leadership andthe Mattel Foundation @ Four Steps to Winterizing side makethis the timeofyear to to SpeakOut, c/o Features De- You Ought to See Her Now! This Winter, Make a Resolution to Refurbish Home By Karol V. Menzie and Randy Johnson BALTIMORE SUN Frightful weather outside the house anddelightful warmth in soe school and teacher's name. Send 19% agree that . they ¥ have problemsattending events at school because they can't gettime off work. parents w hen they know theyonly haveto comein once and “they're not going to get called 500 times.” But often, when parents get into the school, “they're far more ready —_to comeback,” she s Many peoplesimply can't makeit to long meetings on weekdayevenings. They have to come home from work, makedinner, lis- standing “S| ale T aregoing to useit All this change is coming about none too soon. Someharried parents are throwing uptheir handsand saying they can'tdo any more, and other hard-working volunteers are complaining theycan’t do it all Most parents thinkit’s important tolend Several PTAs have switched nowand umn of Utah schoolchildren's opinions. This month'squestion What areyour predictionsfor life time at a schoolseveral times or single dads. The issue is time and how we they have meetings in the morning before The Salt Lake Tribuneis resuming SpeakOut, a monthlycol- | | time, Kennedy and Dykstra say We haveseveral fathers whodon’t v far fromhere, and we've madeit po for them to come in smaller chunks of time Kennedysays. “Theycomein for 20 minutestolisten to childrenread. Some schools ask parents to volunteer once during the year in one four-hour block of time, Dykstra says. It’s a relief to work orat lunchtime, and that's working really well People get in and out of the | in the school's PTAorother *{ parent-teacher organization eel PTAs and schooi administrators need to be more creative in their use of parents Leadershipane ‘ne Mattel Foundat ion, but whenit comesto spending time involvedin activities at the child’s school, parents only give themselves a C+ The need for more volunteers is a long 69% i Fages hs pahia he = feb chicas eee! z eee in Utah at thestate’s Bicentennial semnaemnsrernamrconnaanoaessiit if in 2096? Essays should be 100 words or 1 | shorter. Include your name, age, ents pulled through and other groups across the country are updating the way they organize volunteer work in the 90s to accommodate timecrunchedparents. The sameold, same old isn’t going to cut it anymore,” says Joan Dykstra, president of the National PTA. “We're trying to move the group forward. We've got two parents that are working, single moms and AChance for Children To Speak Their Minds Howactive are parentsin volunteer work at school? A new national poll of 1,032 parents of elementary schoolchildren found: er to help. That didn’t happen. The par- Someevendiscuss PTA business during nightly walks through neighborhoods, The National PTA, school administrators | Bring yourplans! Get advice from the experts! 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