St. Luke School Newsletter February 13, 2012 Catholic Schools Week!!!! Wed., 2/15 Pizza Salad Fruit

St. Luke School Newsletter

February 13, 2012

Catholic Schools Week!!!!

Every month, we do a food drive for the St. James Food Pantry. This month, there is a special need for TOILET PAPER! Toilet paper is included in the “Handy Packs” given to families through the pantry. Please send packs of 4-9 rolls. We will hold a contest this month.

COSI – We Need YOU!

COSI on Wheels is coming to St. Luke School on Thursday, March 8th_{. This} year’s theme is “What’s Wild.” The activity is for students in K-6.

We will

need lots of volunteers

sessions. If you are able to help, please contact Pat Kretz or Bobbie Smith at:

kretzp@stluke.cnd.pvt.k12.oh.us or smithr@stluke.cnd.pvt.k12.oh.us . You can also contact the school office at 426-1733, ext. 401 or 402. Thanks!

We Need Your Cooperation

Due to the many events at school and in the church, we have a lot of activity and traffic in both our front and back lots. Recently, we have had quite a few complaints about the unsafe driving in our lots, before, during, and after school. Please be patient as other drivers are traveling through the lot. Be mindful of children and others as they are walking in and out of the buildings. Many distractions inside and outside of our vehicles can steal our attention and cause accidents that are avoidable. Please follow the guidelines mentioned in the Parent/Student Handbook, which is available on our website: www.saintlukeparish.org/school. To that end, please make a note of the license number, make and color of a car that you have witnessed engaging in hazardous driving. Please send the information to the school office and we may have to ask the Beavercreek Police

Department for their assistance. Thank you for your help.

Pennies for Patients Clarification

Our Honor/Memory Wall is to honor ALL cancer patients, not

just the blood cancer patients. Please consider honoring a loved

one by completing the form at the end of the newsletter.

Upcoming Important Dates to Remember:

15 Clean out your Console for a Cure!!!! Car Rider Lines!

-Clean out your car change-Ms. Bruns in the AM Mr. Morter in the PM THIRD Tally for Pennies for Patients!

TOILET PAPER DRIVE….

Box Tops Drawing K12 Art Party

17 Box Tops Lunch for winner 6th _{& 7}th _{Grade Play}

18 6th _{& 7}th _{Grade Play}

20 Washington’s Birthday – NO SCHOOL 21 Magazine Sale Begins (ends 3/2) 22 Pennies for Patients Quarter War!!!!!

24 FINAL TALLY FOR PENNIES FOR PATIENTS – STUDENTS WHO CONTRIBUTED $5.00 MAY WEAR WRISTBANDS TO SCHOOL! QUARTER WARS WINNING HOMEROOM OUT OF UNIFORM 29 WINNING HOMEROOM ANNOUNCED FOR PENNIES FOR

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Chili Cook-Off Thanks!

Thank you to everyone who supported our First Annual Chili Cook-Off! We had over 200 people in attendance and sold over 70 tickets to the Auction! The following are the results from the cook-off:

Kid Friendly: Mike Smith Fire Extinguisher: Vicki Medeiros Vegetarian: Marcia Zink Meat: Sheila Cheruvelil

Most Original: Peg Hill Best Overall: Sheila Cheruvelil Congratulations to All!

St. Luke Boy Scout Troop 85 Pancake Breakfast

The Boy Scouts of St. Luke Troop 85 invite you to a wonderful breakfast with great food, fun and fellowship. Our pancake breakfast will be February 19th at the St. Luke Parish Social Center. We hope to see you there, and thanks for supporting the Boy Scouts!

Sunday, February 19th………8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. St. Luke Parish Social Center

1442 North Fairfield Road, Beavercreek

Pancakes, French Toast, Eggs, Biscuits and Gravy, Sausage, Bacon, Homemade Cinnamon Rolls, Tortillas, Doughnuts, Fresh Fruit, Coffee, Tea, Juice and Milk

$8.00 Adults… $6.00 Children 6 to 12 years… Under 6 Free… $25.00 Family Limit

Thanks to Beavercreek Bob Evans, Krispy Kreme, The Historical Clifton Mill and The “Eat n Run Café” (St. Luke) for their generous donations!

For more information, please contact Tammie Retzloff at 427-0685.

Big Upcoming Events!!!!

February 15

Clean Out Your Console for A Cure!!!

Morning Car Riders…..

Ms. Bruns will be on hand with a bucket to take the

spare change you have in your car! Give a bit or all…we

will take every last penny you want to share! This

collection will not be added to your child’s homeroom,

UNLESS you put the change in a bag or envelope and

mark it with the homeroom information!

Afternoon Car Riders…..

Mr. Morter will be handling the collection after school.

K12 Art Gallery Party

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

510 East Third Street

Choir Sings at 7:00 p.m.

Art on sale for $30.00

See Kelly at K12 (461-5149) to purchase art

Pennies for Patients

Collection for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society

February 3

through February 24

We are collecting change (and other monetary donations) for the Pennies for Patients

campaign. 100% of proceeds will go to the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society. The homeroom

with the largest collection will receive an

all-expense paid pizza party from Domino’s!

February

Activity:

When:

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Collection Kick-Off

Before School

8

First Tally

Pluck the Pennant

For 1

_{, 2}

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_place

15

Clean out your

Console for a Cure!

2

Before School in the

Car Rider Line

Third Tally

Pluck the Pennant

22

Quarter War!

All Day-Every Class

Fourth Tally

24

Collection Ends

3:00 p.m.

Final Tally

Pluck the Pennant

Students may wear

wrist bands

1 Once the tally is completed, the classrooms will be awarded a 1st_{, 2}nd_{, or 3}rd _{place pennant. After each}

successive tally, the new 1st_{, 2}nd_{, and 3}rd _{place homerooms will “pluck” their respective pennant from the previous}

week’s holder.

2 Ms. Bruns will be collecting money as she greets students coming to school in the car rider line. Clean

out your console for a cure!

3 Quarter War….on Wednesday, February 22nd_{, bring in your quarters to place in your homerooms jar! The}

classroom with the most quarters will win an out of uniform day on the 24th _{of February. For every coin worth}

more than a quarter or dollar bill placed in a jar, that amount will be deducted from the total. In other words, if class A has 25 quarters and 1 dollar bill, their total would be: 25¢ x 25= $6.25 subtract $1.00 for the dollar bill and the total is $5.25! Your chances to be the winner in the end will increase the more dollar bills and half dollars you add to another homeroom’s jar!

4 Collection ends and the final tally will determine the pizza party winner.

NEW THIS YEAR: You can go directly to our donation site at: http://soh.sy.llsevent.org/StLukeSchool

and donate directly to the campaign! You can use a credit or debit card and we will receive credit for the donation as well as the classroom/student you designate!

Pennies for Patients Campaign for 2012 February 3 through February 24, 2012

Most of us have been touched by cancer, be it a close relative, friend, even ourselves. I lost both of my parents to multiple myeloma, a blood marrow cancer. Mr. Morter’s 24- year old niece is battling multiple myeloma, as is our former St. Luke School Psychologist, Karen Schmitt. Research in the transplantation of one’s own stem cells is being funded by your donations. Mrs. Schmitt and Mr. Morter’s niece are just two people being helped and likely saved by this important breakthrough. Mrs. Trick joins us as a coordinator. Andrew, Mrs. Trick’s oldest son was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in March of 2011. His treatment went very well and Andrew is back at Ohio State resuming his studies! Your donations to the important research in this field is making it possible for these patients to reestablish good health when their treatments have ended. Mary Ann Scarpelli, who lost her young cousin to leukemia, will once again be helping with the counting of the money collected. Thank you, Mary Ann! We have not established a goal, so the sky’s the limit! Please give what you are able. May God bless your families with good health and good friends. --Thank you for your generosity ~ Nancy Trick and Deb Sutton, Pennies for Patients Coordinators.

NEW THIS YEAR: You can go directly to our donation site at: http://soh.sy.llsevent.org/StLukeSchool

and donate directly to the campaign! You can use a credit or debit card and we will receive credit for the donation as well as the classroom/student you designate!

Donate $1.00 and have your name placed on our “Wall of Fame” in the hallway leading to the cafeteria

Donate $5.00 and receive a Leukemia/Lymphoma wristband. Students who receive a wristband may wear them on Friday, February 24th

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Donate $10.00 and we will place a plaque in honor of or memory of a loved one on our campaign bulletin board by the cafeteria. The plaque will be used to cover the heading: “Make Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma Disappear.” Hopefully, we will be able to make the words disappear under the numerous plaques!

If you wish to donate $10 (or more), and wish to honor someone, please complete the form below and send with cash or checks made payable to: “The Leukemia/Lymphoma Society” or “LLS”. THANK YOU!

Family Name: Children/Homerooms:

Amount Donated: $________

To personalize the plaque, we would like you to give us a one word description of your loved one For each donation $10 and over:

In Honor of: descriptive word: