Last Wednesday was our last event of the year! Special thanks to our picnic committee: Melissa Ryan, Meaghan McCarthy, Alyssa Yu, Shaun Appleby, Mike & Erin Bosco, Hannah Jean-Francois, Tina Perez, Anne Burgholzer, Candice Carbone, Clerveau Toussaint, Erica Auon, and Sana Mantell. And thank you to all the volunteers that donated their time to make this great event happen! We could not have done it without you!

So many families came out and had a great time celebrating the end of the school year! We collected bags and bags of food for the food pantry. Kids enjoyed face painting by Color Me Funky and enjoyed music led by DJ Balthazar. So many food choices from three food trucks (Montillo's Pizzeria, the Chubby Chickpea, and Alden Park'ed) and CAPT provided ice cream from Mike & Ants ice cream truck, cotton candy, and popcorn. Have a great summer, Hansen families!

CAPT sends their congratulations to the 5th grade class for completing six years at Hansen! As a going away present, we have bought each fifth grader "Flying Lessons and Other Stories", which is part of their summer reading before they start at Galvin Middle School. The book will be delivered soon. Have a great summer!

It is time to say a fond farewell to our current CAPT Board members:

  President: Kristen Ecord

  Vice President: Jillian Daghlian & Tiffany Giglio

  Secretary: Jessica Bacon

  Treasurer: Janise Foley

  Chairperson of Programming: Erin Bosco

  Chairperson of Membership: Jessica Murphy

They completed their two years and are ready to pass the reins to a new Board starting this summer. It has been an interesting time to be leading CAPT. They started back when the world shut down, voted into office through email because no one was meeting face-to-face in the beginning of a pandemic. They had no idea what the next two years would bring or what changes would have to be made, but they were up to the challenge and very dedicated to keeping CAPT running.

And here we are, two years later. Our President, Kristen Ecord, has done an amazing job with boundless energy and abundant ideas. She was the driving force our organization needed to get things done and we're so grateful to her. We are amazed by her and feel so lucky to have had her as president.

Under her guidance, everyone was able to contribute to a successful year. Tiffany Giglio was her second hand, helping get things done while juggling 5th grade activities. She has an amazing talent of getting lots of volunteers like no other can! Jillian Daghlian spearheaded the Scripts program and created baby baskets and retirement baskets for staff. Janise Foley has been up to her eyebrows in receipts and financial transactions. Her finance expertise kept projects moving on time and reimbursements back into pockets. Erin Bosco enhanced the classrooms with lots of programming throughout the year and took on the enormous Holiday Shop with its hours and hours of shopping, coordinating, pricing and event facilitating. Jessica Murphy brought in new CAPT members, raising our numbers tremendously from last year. Jessica Bacon recorded the monthly minutes and thought that wasn't enough, so added in weekly newsletters and ran Penny Wars. There is no way this column could cover everything that this group contributed, they have done so much more, big and small.

So much has gone into CAPT that has made this year as great as it could be! Thank you, ladies, for your hard work and dedication. These two years have seen challenges unlike any other, but you have risen to them and put so much back into the school. None of this could have happened without any of you.

Enjoy your break this summer after a job well done! We know we'll see you at CAPT meetings in the fall.