Welcome to Mount Pleasant Elementary!
What’s Mt. Pleasant PTA doing?
At Mt. Pleasant Elementary, our PTA’s goal is to provide education enrichment in the arts, physical education, and technology. Our annual budget is developed with these goals in mind. As you are aware, school budgets in Virginia have been dwindling at an alarming rate. We use fundraising, memberships, and donations as our source of income. This money is used to sponsor field trips, family events, educational assemblies, student recognition, equipment and staff appreciation. This enrichment is vital to maintaining the high standards at Mt. Pleasant Elementary.
We specifically try to provide a sense of community within our school through programs and events designed to bring families and friends together. In order to do this, we also rely on volunteers to fulfill the needs of our staff, faculty, and the PTA in order to successfully accomplish our goals.
How can we support our School?
With the recent announcement from Roanoke County Schools that Mt. Pleasant might be closed due to budget constraints we have decided to add information in ways you can help keep our school open.
The buck starts with all the elected officials starting with the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representative, the Governor, Commonwealth of Virginia Senate and House of Delegates to our local Roanoke County Board of Supervisors and Roanoke County School Board.
We need for everyone to start calling, e-mailing or sending letters to all these people. Their contact information is below:
U.S. Senate
The Honorable Mark R. Warner The Honorable Jim Webb
459-A Russell Senate Office Building Russell Senate Office Bldg., CI
Washington, DC 20510 Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-244-2023 Phone: 202-224-4024
Fax: 202-224-6295 Fax: 202-228-6363
Toll Free: 877-676-2759 E-mail: www.web.senate.gov
U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Robert Goodlatte
2240 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 25015
E-mail: Talk2bob@mail.house.gov
Governor of Virginia
Governor Robert McDonnell
Office of the Governor
1111 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Phone: 804-786-2211
Fax: 804-371-6351
Contact form available online
Commonwealth of Virginia – Senate
Ralph K. Smith
P.O. Box 91
Roanoke, VA 24002
Capitol Office: 804-698-7522
Local Office: 540-206-3597
E-mail: district22@senate.virginia.gov
Commonwealth of Virginia – House of Delegates
17th District
Christopher T. Head
P.O. Box 406
Richmond, VA 23218-0406
Phone: 804-698-1017
E-mail: delchead@house.virginia.gov
County Board of Supervisors:
Michael W. Altizer
5204 Bernard Drive
Fourth Floor
Roanoke, VA 24018
Phone: 772-2005
Fax: 772-2193
E-mail: bos@roanokecountyva.gov
School Board:
Michael W. Stovall
1615 Mountain View Road
Vinton, VA 24179
Cell Phone: 598-9884
E-mail: mstovall@rcs.k12.va.us
Here is also a link on Tip on Contacting Capitol Hill
Box Tops –Remember to continue to clip your Box Tops throughout the year. Here is the link that will show you a complete list of what products participate in this program http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx. Please help out the PTA and try to clip them as close to the dotted line as possible.
Labels for Education - Please clip the UPC’s and beverage caps from participating products to earn points that can be redeemed for FREE educational merchandise. Here is the link that will allow you to see a complete list of participants: http://www.labelsforeeducation.com/earn/participating-products.aspx
Recycling – Remember to recycle your newspapers and aluminum cans. The recycling box is located in the parking lot close to the cafeteria.
Food Lion - Our school can earn money when you shop at Food Lion. Register your Food Lion card at www.foodlionmvprewards.com and use school number 217803.