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<FONT color=#000000>I want to thank everyone who showed up and helped make our Native Plant Sale an enormous success and to apologize to anyone who might have been disappointed by how quickly we sold out of plants, especially those who travelled from out of town. <FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Please understand that this was just our second annual native plant sale, and we're learning as we go.</FONT> <FONT color=#000000>We are a small volunteer organization with a small budget, so purchasing the</FONT> <FONT color=#000000>plants outright, as we had to do, carries a risk. We were please, surprised, and overwhelmed by the public's response to this year's sale. By mid-morning on Saturday, we had sold nearly twice as much as our first year </FONT><FONT color=#000000>and, had we known, could have sold much more. We will take everything that happened this year into consideration and do our best next year to hold a sale that will make everyone happy</FONT>.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Again, </FONT><FONT color=#000000>please accept my thanks and my apologies</FONT>.</SPAN></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>Bart </FONT><FONT color=#000000>Lawrence</FONT></SPAN></FONT><BR>
<FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#000000>President, Hyattsville Elementary School PTA</FONT><BR></SPAN></FONT>                                            </body>
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