Photos from November Concert

Go to this link to see some great photos of our November concert.

http://www.mcqlancers.com/McQueenEvents/BMS_Orchestra.html

Thank you to Michelle Dalpe.

If you want to include photos on this blog, please send them to Mrs. Neidhold at her school address:

cneidhold@washoe.k12.nv.us

Popcorn Palace Recall for Allergen Contamination

Follow Us: Popcorn Palace Issues Allergy Alert on 1-Gallon Value Bag Products To our valued Fundraising Customers: This recall applies to all 12 popcorn flavors available in the 1-gallon Value Bag. We have been distributing these products with a round label that identifies the flavor of the popcorn (e.g., “Cheddar Cheese,” “Rainbow,” “Caramel Nut,” etc.), our name “POPCORN PALACE,” and our web address “www.popcornpalace.com” on each bag. Along with this we have been supplying an information sheet containing the nutrition information, ingredient information, and allergen information for all of our popcorn products. We have recently been advised by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that consumers could receive the product without the information sheet or the information sheet could be separated from the product and not be available to provide critical allergen information to those persons that are allergic to ingredients in these products. We had not considered this possibility and we agree with FDA’s position. While, for most people these ingredients are perfectly safe and healthy, for persons who are allergic to these ingredients, not knowing that they are present could result in a life threatening allergic reaction if they consumed them. Therefore we request that you immediately stop distribution of all flavors in the 1-gallon Value Bag size, mark them “RECALLED – Not For Distribution,” and place them in quarantine. Take an inventory of what you have remaining in stock and fill out the attached spreadsheet and return via email to mailto:info@popcornapalace.com?subject=Food%20Recall%20Inquiry or fax to 847.801.5325. Once we receive your inventory counts we will overnight labels for you to apply to the back of the value bags. The labels will contain the flavor name, product ingredients and critical allergen information. If you have any questions you may contact Customer Service by telephone at 800-873-2676 or by email at mailto:info@popcornapalace.com?subject=Food%20Recall%20Inquiry. Sincerely, Timothy J Heitmann President

Awesome Aides Clean Desk!

My 4th period aides cleaned my desk and top drawer today.  Thanks to Olivia W. and Cynthia B. for such a wonderful job!

Take a look:

Popcorn Predicament

I placed the order for missing popcorn items and was informed by the Popcorn Palace person that they do not send popcorn via expedited shipping.  I was a little flummoxed, shocked, and amazed that a company wouldn't offer this option.  ?   Have you ever ordered online and not had several expedited shipping options?  So, I'm a little worried that the popcorn won't make it before the break.  Students should check with me daily next week to find out if the popcorn shipment arrived yet.

Whew.  This year's popcorn adventure has been a huge learning experience.  Congratulations to the students for making this a big success!

David Garrett free sound check!! E-mail Mrs. Neidhold

On January 20^th at the Grand Sierra Resort  David Garrett is going to open his sound check rehearsal to WCSD orchestra students. If you would like to attend this event please let me know ASAP. They have enough openings for about 100 students to attend but I do not know how many Billinghurst students they will allow. I do not know the time of the sound check as of today but it likely will be around 4 PM in the GRS theater.
If you would like to attend the sound check, Email Mrs. Neidhold at:
cneidhold@washoe.k12.nv.us

Plenty 'O Popcorn

Wow!!!!!  Everyone did such a fantastic job of selling popcorn.  Thank you to all the industrious students who helped make our fundraiser a HUGE success.

The students sold $12,000 in popcorn which should give us a profit of about $5000!  This is our most successful fundraiser ever and will really help the trip to the Music in the Parks Festival and the Beginning Orchestra field trip to hear the Reno Philharmonic Youth Symphony's Young People's Concert.

Congratulations to Colin Gibbons for being our top seller at $625 in popcorn.  The order forms for prizes are due on Thursday and we will have the drawing for the $100 Visa card next week.

Way to go!

This is what the orchestra room looked like once the popcorn was all unpacked and sorted by flavor.

Wren & Pietra Brady help get orders ready.

Max Neidhold and Beyer Brady take a break to smile for the camera.

Clio Brady hard at work.

This is what the orchestra room looked like at 10 p.m. on Wednesday.  Mrs. Neidhold had to leave the building by 11 p.m. so she worked fast to make sure the room could have classes the next day.