Fall Fest volunteers needed
By Sam Waller
The Albany Parent-Teacher Organization is seeking volunteers to work at Fall Fest later this month on Saturday, Oct. 30.
The event is scheduled for 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Nancy Smith Elementary School.
“If anybody would like to volunteer to help work a 30-minute shift, the PTO would be extremely grateful,” PTO president Malarie Sutton said. “Cleanup is hopefully going to start around 7:30 p.m.”
To volunteer or for more information about the event, contact Sutton at 325-762-6368.
There will be some changes to this year’s event, Sutton said.
“There won’t be prizes at each game this year,” she said. “Participants will win tickets, which can be turned in at the prize booth on the cafeteria stage. The prize booth will open between 5:30 and 6:00.”
Food will be served in the cafeteria, and the fire department’s bounce house will be on hand.
To participate in activities, attendees must purchase tickets for 50 cents each.
“Every booth is just one ticket,” Sutton said. “We try to keep it feasible for anybody and everybody who wants to come.”
Activities will start at 5:00 p.m. with a silent auction for decorated pumpkins for each grade level.
“Head Start and Pre-K will be together, then each of the grades kindergarten through sixth grade will have a pumpkin,” Sutton said. “Junior high will too, but I’m not sure if seventh and eighth will each have their own or if junior high is having one together.”
The auction will conclude at 7:30 p.m.
A costume contest will start at 5:30 p.m. on a trailer outside the band hall next to Griffin Road. Age groups for the contest will be age 1 and under, 2-3 years old, Pre-K, kindergarten-second grade, third-sixth grade and 13 and up. There will also be a division for duo/team costumes.
At 6:00 p.m., there will be a cakewalk under the awning next to the band hall and separate bingo games for children and adults. The children’s bingo (17 and under) will be held in the band hall with the adult game in the gymnasium.
“We are asking the community if they’d like to donate desserts for the cakewalk that they please do so,” Sutton said.
