CUB BACKERS

Our mission is to support Big Bear Middle School students, teachers and administrators in various school events. BBMSCB is a non-profit organization. Monies that are raised through BBMSCB are used to purchase the students Reminder Binders, Teacher and Staff Appreciation and we are currently working on providing Teachers with "Three Wishes".

The Cub Backers meetings are open to any parent, faculty member or administrator of BVUSD. Our meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 3:00pm in room 6.

Letter to BBMS parents

August 2007

Dear BBMS Parents:

The BBMS Cub Backers Booster Club is very excited about supporting the students and staff that make up our school community. As club president, I would like to introduce our organization and board, as well as encourage your active participation and commitment.

In a nutshell, your Cub Backers club provides financial and in-kind support for BBMS, its students, teachers, administrators, families, and community. We fund valuable student tools like the reminder binder, School year refrigerator magnets, staff student dances, make site improvements, procure classroom supplies, and back staff and teacher appreciation programs, to name only a few.

We are different than Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs), where parents must register and pay to join. All BBMS families automatically belong to Cub Backers. BBMS is blessed with a tremendously talented group of Cub Backer families that have historically moved many a mountain. But with today’s erratic statewide educational budget cuts, our BBMS school community has even more peaks to climb in the years to come to ensure that our children have the best educational experience possible.

In effect, we have all returned to middle school now with our children. Although it would appear that everything has changed since our day, nothing really has. You see, regardless of what a child might say, most like seeing their parents involved in their school life. In fact, some experts believe that these middle school years are when our children need us most. And there is much to do every single day, and as Cub Backers, we are committed to continually identifying how we can all make a difference at BBMS today and everyday.

We really need parent volunteers to make this all possible for our kids and their teachers. We meet on the second Wednesday of every month at 3 p.m. in Room 6. Please pencil these critical dates on your calendar today. If you are unable to attend these meetings, be sure to give us your email address so that you can be kept in the loop. There are many ways to support your children and their school. Our next meeting on Wednesday, September 12 at 3pm. Please join us in supporting our children, their teachers and their school!

Sincerely,



Malissa Parker Forry
President
Cub Backer Booster Club
Big Bear Middle School
909-585-5144
Cashless Fundraising

There are a variety of companies that will donate a percentage of your shopping that you do with them to our school. All you need to do is register on-line.

Principals Fund - Provides monies for Acclerated Reader Awards, Lunch with the Principal and Student and Staff Appreciation.

Washington Mutual - If you have a Washington Mutual Visa Check or Debit MasterCard you can go to www.wamoolaforschools.com or call 1-866-WAMOOLA. The fund receives 1 point per transaction which Washington Mutual converts to cash.

Office Depot - When shopping at Office Depot or on line at www.officedepot.com give them the schools ID#: 70006157 and the school receives credit equal to 5% for use of FREE SUPPLIES!!

Youth Act - They are a community service club that in the past have gone to deliver Easter Baskets at the skilled nursing facility at Bear Valley Community Hospital and have planted flowers around the school. One way that Youth Act raises money is from the collections made in the red recycling bin on the west side (gym side) of our school. Just save your aluminum and plastic beverage containers and they will recycle them for you.

eScrip is BIG way to support our school. Just go on line to www.eScrip.com to register any of your existing Vons Club, Macys, debit, and credit cards. Contributions will be made by the participating merchants without any effort on your part. You can even track your purchases online. The eScrip account number for BBMS is 6475531.

Schoolpop is another to support our school. Many of us do our regular and holiday shopping on line. For every purchase made through this link, www.schoolpop.com , a percentage of your purchase will be donated to our school. Once you register, you can use this site to click on dozens of links, such as: Barnes and Noble, Circuit City, Eddie Bauer, Home Depot, eToys and many more. Make sure all your online shopping starts at the website. Check out schoolpop.com to see the entire list of the companies that you can use to help BBMS.

Another way to support our school is to register your long distance service in Verizon's school rebate program. Call 877-927-3348 and let them know that you would like to sign up for the Extra Credit for Schools Program. Verizon will donate 5% of your bill to BBMS.

Finally Target will donate1% of every purchase that you make at Target or www.target.com using your Target Red Card and 1/2% of each purchase made elsewhere using your Target Red card. Just call 1-800-316-6142 or register your Target Red card at www.target.com. Make sure that you enter the schools ID#: 29770.

For those of you who are already using these programs at our elementary schools last year, be sure to re-register as a middle school parent so your donations come to BBMS!
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