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New Deduction Available: The bill makes a new deduction available for up to $300 per taxpayer ($600 for a married couple) in annual charitable contributions. This is particularly beneficial to people who take the standard deduction when filing their taxes (in other words for taxpayers who do not itemize their deductions). It is calculated byContinue reading “New Tax Donation Benefit”

Share a picture of your favorite dirt road in Ola with a favorite memory!!! We’ll post it on the Ola PTO and Ola Alumni Association Facebook page and enter you into our Ola Memorabilia drawing!

Calling all friends of Ola School: Teachers, Students, Aids, Volunteers, Friends, Supports, Contributors. We are attempting to create a Friends of Ola Registry. Please help us get the word out to as many people as possible. We would like to use this registry to keep you posted on crucial updates about the school, especially asContinue reading “URGENT CALL FOR ALL OLA SCHOOL FRIENDS”

August of 2019 began our initiative to save our 110-year-old school in rural Gem County. It is amazing that this one building has been used for the purpose of educating children for over 100 years- a tradition that needs preserving! Trout Architects’ 2019 analysis determined the school building unsafe for use because of significant dryContinue reading “SAVE OLA SCHOOL: “Same Song Second Verse””

Ola Parent Teacher Organization, Inc. Meeting Minutes 10/8/2020 Attendance: Amy Davis, Lori Buckendahl, Shannon Miller, Katie Poole, Aleah Nelson Meeting Began @ 4:35pm Accepted Minutes from 9/24/2020 Meetings Treasure Report: SOS-  Raised  $244202.05   Balance as of 10/7/2020  $243,561.02   Approved $2.80 spending for Idaho Power mailing fee-and will reimburse PTO From SOS PTO  BalanceContinue reading “PTO Meeting 10/8/2020”

OLA PTO AGENDA  9/24/2020 2:30PM Welcome: Aleah Minutes: Reading Budget: Report: Bills/Receipts: Treasurer (Shannon Fouria) Presidential Appointments Nominations for President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer. Aleah SOS Committee Meeting 9/24/2020 @ 3:30pm. Need another video, another thank you card picture, old photos for social media Aleah Build A Shed: Exterior Trim Paint, clean slab, ridge vent capContinue reading “PTO Meeting 9/24/2020”