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Kurn Hattin Homes for Children

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Program/Fund Goal Amount

June 28, 2018

Student Reward Fund: Lunch Out With Principal: $75 per month

  • Eight or nine students are chosen each month as exemplary academic and social leaders in their ability groupings. (9 times per year)

Residential Student of the Month Dinner Out Fund: $80 per month

  • 12 months X 9 students/month

Day Students Fund

  • Clothing for special events winter gear and school: $1,000
  • Christmas Gift/Christmas Party: $750
  • Day Student work pay (farm, maintenance, summer): $300
  • Educational needs (day packs, notebooks, pens, pencils): $300

Sports Teams:

  • Sports uniforms: $2,000
  • End of Season Dinner Out Fund, 3 seasons – 5 teams/season: $1,500

Summer Recreational Activities and Field Trips Fund: $850 each

  • Summer Camp Scholarships: $3,500 per year

Camping Supplies

  • Sleeping bags: $300 (10 @ $30)
  • 2 toasters: $40 (2 @ $20)
  • Trailer to transport bikes: $2,500
  • Travel/camping games: $50

Activities/Recreation Fund

  • Local/Boston/Theater/Opera/Dance Tickets for student groups: $2,000-$8,000
  • Disc Golf Course on campus (9 portable units/4 sets of discs:) $2,000
  • Pool Table in Recreation Room re-felted and new sticks/equipment: $1,200

Counseling Fund

  • Scrapbooking supplies for 8th grade memory books: in-kind/$300
  • Dress up clothes for role playing and creative play, and a large trunk/container to hold them: in-kind
  • Baby dolls and doll clothes: in-kind

Renovations Fund

  • Tennis Courts Resurface: $25,000, Rebuild $55,000
  • Mathey Building Front Porch Renovation: $10,000-$15,000
  • Library Furniture: $1,000-$2,000

Music Program Fund (Field Trips): $1,500 each

  • Musical Instruments $2,000 per year

Post Graduate Scholarship for Private School Fund: $5,000 per child. This fund helps pay for their tuition.

Therapeutic Horse Program Fund: $5,000

  • On-going need for funds for general care and to replace the aging herd.

Healthy Children Program (uninsured medical expenses): $20,000

  • Health Wellness Awards: $100 quarterly
  • Wellness Center Florescent light decorative covers (4): $75 each
  • Baby Think It Over Program infant strollers with car seats (2): in-kind
  • Used baby (newborn) clothing for Baby T.I.O. Program: in-kind
  • Speech and Language Therapy Fund: ($525 per student for 1.5 hours of Speech and Language services every week) $5,250
  • 32 inch TV w/DVD and stand for children to watch when ill: $350

The School Store Fund: $100 – $1,000

To stock inventory Items for purchase by students using Caught Being Good (CBG) coupons given for good behavior:

  • Lego building set
  • Soccer balls #3 and #5
  • NFL sportswear/NFL related items (sizes S, M, L, XL)
  • Footballs
  • Basketballs
  • Batman items
  • Action Figures
  • Fischer Price “Little People” items
  • Men’s deodorant, shampoo, etc.
  • Ladies shampoo and body wash
  • Silly Putty
  • Marbles
  • Outdoor game items – Lawn games
  • Indoor basketball hoop sets – fits over top of door
  • Girls/boys sweatpants/tops (sizes S, M, L, XL)
  • Baseballs, bats and gloves
  • Magnetic dart games
  • Horseshoe game – Outdoors
  • Croquet set
  • Bocce set
  • Archery set with foam tips
  • Ring toss set – indoor/outdoor
  • Bowling ball gallery/balls – For table or floor
  • Planko game
  • Polka game set
  • Bean bag toss games
  • Baseball cards – without gum in packs
  • Girls/boys watches
  • Finger stress spinners
  • Hot Wheel cars and tractor trailers
  • Hot Wheel racing tracks and starting gates
  • Earbuds
  • Stuffed toy items – anything large or small
  • Dolls of any sort
  • Barbie dolls with changing color hair
  • Barbie dolls – different working professions. Example: doctor, teacher-new
  • Girls’ chokers – jewelry
  • Riddle books – younger and older students
  • Apollo reading book set – 2 books in set
  • Art supplies – colored pencil sets
  • Adult coloring books
  • Lap blankets – small pillows
  • Barbie doll furniture
  • Toe socks
  • Tic Tacs
  • Microwave popcorn
  • PG – latest CD movies for teenagers

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Rick Meleski, who graduated from Kurn Hattin Homes in 1975, is today the superintendent of the wastewater treatment facility and the water department for the town of Winchester, New Hampshire. In many ways, the path he’s been on for decades, and the success he’s achieved, started at the Homes. Since beginning his career at the water […]

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