Birthday Parties Available at Meet the Trucks 2012!!!
There is a choice of themes, and your party for 8 children will include a theme decorated table, sheet cake, party favors, hot dogs, chips and drinks and free admission to the Meet the Trucks event!
All of this for your special occasion for $150.00
Call soon to reserve a spot! 970-884-3259
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Our annual run starts off the Bayfield Independence Day Celebration! This event has grown quickly with 100 runners last year and hundreds of spectators! Registration money, donations, and sponsors help us improve the quality of this event and also provide support for our programs which offer theraputic intervention and alternative education to area children.
Come and RUN with us!!!
Any questions please call 970-884-3259
Saturday, June 30, 2012 at the LaPlata Fairgrounds 10am to 3pm
This event benefits Skills for Living and Learning, a local non-profit organization that offers several programs for children to ensure their success at school, home and life. Occupational therapy, education and speech support are all blended in a safe, positive, supportive environment to help children develop the physical, social, sensory-motor, communication and academic skills they need to succeed. Events like this help to ensure that all children get the services they need at a low cost to families. Medicaid and insurance also may help to cover the cost of services. We thank our sponsors and all of our supporters to help us help kids.
Come see the vehicles that make our community run! Honk horns, push buttons, get in and explore!
Carnival games, face painting, giveaways and a bounce house!
Food and Fun, FREE CHILD ID KIT!
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts for sale too!
Vendors are welcome!
Skills for Living and Learning is selling Butter Braid pastries to raise money. Orders are to be in by March 15, 2012. Delivery date is Mach 23.
Butter Braid pastries are being sold for $12.00 each; Cherry, Apple, Cinnamon, Cream Cheese, and NEW Caramel Rolls are available.
Our group makes a $5.00 profit on each one we sell. Please help us reach our goal! If you have any questions please call Susan 884-3259.
CONGRATULATIONS COBY SPENCER! The winner of the 2012 Meet the Trucks Logo Contest! Great Artwork Coby! 
Todd Rutledge, Board President, Owner of Mountain Trip
Skills for Living and Learning is culminating their summer program with an ascent of Washington’s Mount Rainier. The Bayfield based institution blends therapy with education to provide an alternative-learning environment for area children via an accredited K-3 school, a pre-school and their popular summer program. This summer’s theme has been a Reading Road Trip of the West. The final week of the program will coincide with a benefit climb up the iconic volcano located outside Seattle and the students will follow the progress of a team of climbers who will ascend the mountain as a fundraiser for the program.
The Rainier benefit climb is the second such climb that Skills’ Board President Todd Rutledge has organized to help raise money for the non-profit school. His Ophir, CO based mountain guiding service, Mountain Trip, organized a very successful attempt of Alaska’s Mount McKinley a year ago. This year, they are teaming up with a family game company out of Seattle, Discovery Bay Games, to send a message out from up high that our special kids deserve every opportunity for support that we can provide them. The goal of the climb is to raise $5000 for Skills for Living and Learning
The team will climb the mountain over five days via a route called the Emmons Glacier. Instruction in mountaineering skills will be provided for lesser-experienced climbers. The climbers will check in daily with the students at the Skills for Living and Learning summer program, who will be tracking their progress from Bayfield.
Skills for Living and Learning would like to thank the supporters of this fundraising climb, Discovery Bay Games, Mountain Trip, and a generous donation from the Montrose, CO based dentist office, Colorado Smiles.
Read the article in the Durango Herald for more….. http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20110728/NEWS01/707289934/-1/News01/Climbing-Rainier-to-help-little-learners
Hello and Happy Meet the Trucks!
If you were there, you know how much fun it was for ALL! If you weren’t there, you really missed a great day, so mark your calendar for the last Saturday in June, 2012! Our board and staff feel that this unique, fun, family oriented event can grow into our major fundraiser, eliminating the need for so many smaller fundraisers. Of course, these events are the result of a large group of dedicated, hard working volunteers to whom we are all very grateful.
First of all, we had a 100% representation of our board! Thank you Lynn, Kay, Denny, Todd (who drove in from Ophir!) and especially Sharon, whose tireless efforts at both Krispy Kreme sales and Meet the Trucks helped make it the success it is. Joining forces with Sharon was Jenn DeNunzio, newly hired at Skills for Living and Learning. Jenn’s persistence in obtaining sponsors and participants was nothing short of amazing! Other SLandL staff offering great help that day was Susan 2, Aren, Tamara, Patti, Eva, Lora, Savana and Kathy………..and of course our wonderful parents!! These are Meg Dunn, Terrina Mills, Hope Reinhardt, Lisa Ann Pilgrim, Sara Willie and thank you Charmaine Summers and Kami Larson for the crock pots. Fabulous facepainting was done by Justa Witt and Monea Monroe. Running around everywhere to do a multitude of tasks were Sharon’s Color Guard Girls!! And of course where would we have been without Valorie to go to Rio Rancho and pick up the Krispy Kremes!!
Thanks to all the families who sold Krispy Kremes, helped with posters, came and had fun and gave us support………
Susan Livingston
Save the Date – June 25, 2011 at Durango Fairgrounds, 10-3
Your kids get to climb on and in, blow their horns, ask questions & thoroughly experience the trucks
Show up at the La Plata County Fairgrounds next to
Durango High School for a day of amazement and
you will want to be sure to bring your camera as
the kids may never get so up-close with most of these
awesome vehicles.
Admission is $2/person with kids 2 and under free.
Please plan on coming to the event and telling your
friends! This is THE event of the year for any child
who attends.
Call NOW to order!
To be delivered SATURDAY, FEB 5th
11-3 pm at FUN CENTER, 29603 HWY 160 EAST
-OR-
12-3 pm 110 E. SOUTH ST, BAYFIELD
(Skills for Living & Learning)
CALL (970) 387-8250
by NOON on FEB 2
Glazed $10/doz Chocolate Iced $11/doz
Proceeds go to help area non-profits, including Animas High School, Bayfield HS Winterguard, Durango HS Winterguard, Durango Swim Club, Piedra Learning Community, Skills for Living and Learning
Join us for an evening of splendid dining, enjoyable entertainment and tempting silent auction items to support the education of our children. Saturday, February 12 VFW Hall 1550 Main Ave Durango, CO Social Hour and Cash bar 6 pm Dinner served at 7 pm Tickets are $45 per person – To reserve or buy tickets, please call 884-3259 or e-mail skills4landl@gmail.com
