The festival helps raise money for classroom budgets.
By
Jessica Salmond
| 12:43 p.m. October 24, 2015
East County
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Tara Elementary School's back lawn was festive for its annual classroom fundraiser.
The school hosted its fall festival Saturday, Oct. 24. Different classrooms set up booths with games and prizes to help raise money for in-classroom budgets, as well as local businesses. The fest featured a haunted house and a special performance from the Tara dance team.
Dana Towell, Brooklyn McCutchan and Matt Stamos
Jakub Dolan shows Addison Stennett the haunted house.
Austin and Aidan Suter dressed up as policemen.
Third-grade teacher Charles Rogalla gets blasted with a water balloon.
Harley Kovalick, a Braden River High School volunteer, paints Abigail Tallent's face.
Iris and Gracie Comegno
Jakub Dolan, a fourth-grader, played the big bad wolf in the haunted house.
Landen McCutchan drenches third-grade teacher Charles Rogalla with a water balloon.
Fourth-grade teacher Mary Searing helps volunteers Elizabeth Gape and Vihn Dong make snow cones.
Melinda Woodruff, Ali Tarnowsky and Nicolette Woodruff play the ring-toss game.
Nico Anzalone wins the pumpkin toss. Jack and Pat Knowlton, the art teacher, ran the booth.
Parents and family signed up for the silent auction baskets.
Sid Royce helps his son and Tara principal Steve Royce cook hotdogs, under the supervision of Manatee County Sheriff's Office Deputy John Kruse.
Tom Kema and his wife, Sue, a substitute at Tara, check out the personalized gifts form Karen Hoskinson and her business, thirty-one.
