Health & Fitness
Montevideo Runs, Shops and Eats to raise funds for Technology
Montevideo Elementary is having a Spring Boutique that is open to the public there are great vendors with beautiful items. It is a fundraiser to raise money for new technology at the school.
The First Annual Montevideo Elementary School Spring Boutique is this Saturday, April 20th at 10:00am.
The proceeds of the sales at the boutique are being put toward equiping the students at the school with up to date technology to help grow their futures.
The Boutique is here just in time. There will be 20 plus vendors participating in the show, to help you find the perfect gift for Mother's Day, Teacher Appreciation Day which is May 8th across the Saddleback Valley Unified School District, any birthday gifts, graduation gifts. There are no limits to some of the amazing vendors that will be there.
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The purpose of the Spring Boutique is a fundraising effort. Montevideo Elementary has in conjunction with their PTA focused their efforts on raising money to update the computers in the classrooms as well as get Ipads, computer carts, and just get caught up with technology.
The school recently had a Jog A-Thon which raised almost $15,000. Between the contributions that the children got local businesses helped to sponsor the Jog-A-Thon by donating $500 (Gold Level), $250 (Silver) or $100 (Bronze). Paulus Engineering was a Gold level sponsor .
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Stratatron LLC, The Jezek Family, Advanced Orthodontic Center - Sam Veshkini D.M.D, Core Group were Silver Level Sponsors.
Armes Electric Inc, BNoticed, N3 Notary, AAA Insurance – Brent Weitzel, Dr. Brett Bowman, and Moody, Cummings, Balasanian & Caputo DDS. Inc were Bronze Level sponsors.
Prizes for students were donated by Laser Quest, Pump-it-Up, and Boomers. Surf Donuts and Starbucks (Marguerite and Santa Margarita) provided the refreshments for the jog-a-thon volunteers.
Marc Ley provided the DJ services.
In addition to the boutique and Jog-A-Thon the PTA has arranged monthly restaurant nights that various locations donate a percentage of the evenings sale to Montevideo. These evenings have proved to be very successful, some of the participating restaurants have been Oggi's, Chik-Fil-A Foothill Ranch, Mountain Mikes in Lake Forest, Ruby's and California Pizza Kitchen.
