Notes and Reminders for Week of November 14

Thanksgiving Potluck

Bhaktivedanta Academy's annual Thanksgiving Potluck is Friday, November 18. Our students share a wonderful Thanksgiving style feast with preparations brought from home on this day.  Please sign-up online for the item you can bring for your child's class.

Family Fun Day at Poe Springs Park

Join us for our first Bhaktivedanta Academy family fun day of the school year. We will gather at the main pavilion at Poe Springs Park near the play set and sports fields. A pasta and salad lunch will be provided by Radha's Kitchen.The weather will be beautiful for a nice day outdoors. We hope you will join us.

Drop-Off / Pick-Up Reminders

Thank you all for patiently working together with us as we have all gotten into the new drop-off and pick-up routine this school year. We are now humming along fairly smoothly and just wanted to remind everyone of a few things to ensure student safety:

• Stay within the 5 m.p.h. maximum speed limit driving into and through the entire parking area.

• Pull fully to the right to allow pass through traffic in the left lane if utilizing the drop-off and pick-up lane.

• Do not exit your vehicle on the driver’s side of the car. All students should exit from the passenger side only.

• Pay careful attention to pedestrians around your vehicle before maneuvering your car out of the drop-off/pick-up lane.

• Do not park in front of the pick-up / drop-off lane. If you need to attend to something after using the pick-up / drop-off, please pull into a parking space within the lot.

• Do not use cell phones while in the parking area.

Lunch Order Contacts

With the addition of Gopal’s Cuisine to the weekly lunch options, it is now possible to order lunch for your child Tuesday - Friday. Lunch orders are a private arrangement between our families and the caterer and are not tracked or managed by the school office. Below is contact information for the caterers currently making lunches available in case you need to reach them regarding your child's lunch:

Radha’s Kitchen

(352) 214-4180

Gopal’s Cuisine

(352) 222-1440

The Messenger 2: Planting the Seed

Please join us at the New Raman Reti Temple pavilion for dinner and a dramatic and musical performance by the students of the Bhaktivedanta Academy. This drama commemorates the 50th anniversary of Srila Prabhupada formally establishing the Hare Krishna movement in the United States and celebrates how he influenced an entire generation and the unprecedented achievements that followed.

5:00 p.m. Dinner (Available for Purchase)

6:00 p.m. Doors Open

6:30 p.m. Performance

Holiday Fudge and Cookie Production

Our annual holiday fudge and cookie fundraiser is right around the corner. This is a big event that consistently raises several thousand dollars that goes toward classroom material and supply purchases for the school year. We always need a lot of help to make all this possible. We will be sending out a volunteer signup form soon but wanted to ask everyone to save Saturday, December 10 – our big production and packaging day.