Holiday Gift Sales

Holiday Gift Sales with
LIVE Holiday Wreaths and Yankee Candle Gifts

THANKS to all who participated in this fundraiser.  The Greenery will arrive around the 7th of December and the Yankee Candle will as well.

The Holidays are just around the corner and we’re making it easy this year to give and send gifts.  Give a fresh, fragrant natural balsam wreath and hanger to those out of town relatives and your friends and neighbors. 

Or browse the Yankee Candle catalog and see all the wonderful gift ideas.   From Aromatherapy scents to Holiday Fragrances,  there is sure to be gift for everyone on your list. 

Catalogs have been sent home and we need everyone’s help to make this successful. Select a gift for a friend  or a special gift for yourself.  

Credit cards are accepted in the office or checks made payable to Mary Immaculate School.

Remember all monies need to be turned in by Monday, Nov 14th.

Ladies Tea Party & Live Handbag Auction

This event is fast approaching-please join us for this special event. 

Saturday November 12, 2010
1:00pm @ St. Mary’s Renewal Center  

Our new annual event is dedicated to all the  mothers , grandmothers and friends for your hard work throughout the years.  Ladies, put on your best dress and hat (or flower in your hair) and come join us for this great event.  There will be a variety of teas, appetizers, dessert, plenty of  champagne and a LIVE handbag auction.

Donation items needed:
New or Used-good condition handbags, wallets, totes, jewelry and women’s accessories. (Designer brands would be a plus).  We also need sponsors, volunteers, champagne, wine, finger food and baked goods.  If your business or any business you know would like to help sponsor, please contact us.  We will pick up the items for you or you can drop it off at the front desk at Mary Immacula

Please help us make this another GREAT event for Mary Immaculate
All proceeds to benefit Mary Immaculate Star of the Sea School

1st Annual Mariner March 5K

Mary Immaculate Star of the Sea will be hosting the 1st Annual Mariner March 5K on April 30th.  We think this is an amazing opportunity to promote exercise  and wellness within the School and Parish.  At this time we are looking for sponsors and volunteers.  If you are interested in helping please contact Bascom Grooms at 304-7444 or by email at bascom@bascomgrooms.com.   The Mariners March 5K registration form can be found HERE.

List of Fundraisers

Albertson’s Community Partners
Shop at Albertson’s Grocery Store, use your community partners card and help the school raise money.   We receive a quarterly check based on gross sales.  Community Partners cards available in the office.

St. Mary’s Flea Market
If you have good stuff to donate- clothing, kitchen items, books- we can take them at our Flea Market that runs every Saturday outside the rectory.  (9am-2pm) Bring it on Saturday or anytime during the week. Every Monday, Rosemary gives the school a check and the flea market is well know around the island.  Please help us and donate your stuff  for our school.

Box Tops-Cut and collect box tops, drop them off at school and each box top brings in $0.10.  Those dimes add up to big money.

Amazon.com

If you shop online, make sure to check out the link from www.maryimmaculatekeywest.com
Shop through our affiliate links to Amazon.com and 4 – 6% of your purchase will go to Mary Immaculate School (with no added cost to you)! Simply click on our banners and shop ’till you drop… and feel good about it!

School Pax.org
If you shop at Footlocker, Travelocity, Flowers.com and Subway you can help raise money for our school.  These merchants have a link from our site to help our school raise funds.

World’s Finest Chocolate Bars-October
Each year our community looks forward to the kids from Mary Immaculate coming around selling the World’s Finest Chocolate Bars.  Each family takes home a box of 50 bars. We ask each family to sell at least one box or more if you can.

Fantasy Fest Parking-Fri and Sat Oct 29-30
We park cars all over the property at Mary Immaculate.  We need helpers from Friday 12n thru Saturday night midnight.  Its’ fun and we raise BIG BUCKS. Last year over $20,000.   Sign up in the office.

Book Fair (early December)
Each year the Scholastic Book Fair comes to Mary Immaculate.  It runs for one week and we open the fair before school, during lunches and after school.  We need a parent coordinator to help organize the volunteers that is needed to run the Book Fair.  It’s fun and the kids LOVE IT.

Tea Party and Handbag Auction-Nov 13 (1pm-5pm)

WANTED ALL LADIES.  Come and celebrate and have a bit of fun at the 2^nd annual Handbag Auction. If you have any handbags or accessories to donate we could use your donations.  We auction off designer handbags (and knockoffs) with a REAL AUCTIONEER. We also have a Chinese Auction with wallets, totes, jewelry and women’s accessories.   With lots of wine and champagne it’s sure to be a lot of fun. Event Coordinator  Yakuna-305-304-8278

Rock n Roast- Feb 5
This event has become one of the largest for Mary Immaculate. It consists of LIVE music throughout the entire event, with a full Pork Roast Dinner prepared by Chef John Correa from Café Sole and a silent auction with lots of great stuff.  Last year we had over 300 items.  If anyone has anything to donate (items, gift certificates)  to the silent auction please contact Robin Beede the coordinator (305-304-7451).

Boot Sale-
If you are thinking of cleaning out your closet and don’t know what to do with your stuff, drive it to our school during our BOOT SALE and sell it right out of your car.  Or set up a table to display your treasures.  Easy great fundraiser and a great way to finally get rid of that stuff you don’t want any longer. This fundraiser needs a parent coordinator.

Knights of Columbus Fish Fry’s
Our Fish Fry’s have become famous and our neighbors look forward to this Friday night tradition during Lent.  KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS serve it up in our cafeteria.The families of Mary Immaculate bring desserts, help to set up and clean up.Each classroom will be given a certain week to be in charge and it’s up to those parents to help with the Fry that week.  But we can always use EVERYONE’S desserts each week.

Car Raffle
Mr. Earl Duncan has been VERY GENEROUS to our school and has donated a NEW CAR to our school that we raffle off.  We ask that each family sell 2 tickets and we need help selling them after all masses.  We need a parent coordinator to help schedule the volunteers to sell after church.  A few parents have done it during the entire sale of the tickets and we need more helpers.