Newark Catholic Junior High is taking applications for the positions of Head Football Coach and Head Golf Coach. Please contact TJ Mummey at 740-975-3572 or tjmummey24@yahoo.com with interest.

To commemorate the 125th Anniversary of our present church, the 125th committee is offering the following:

Longaberger® Basket, Woodcraft Lid, w/ clear plastic protector
Basket – 6 5/8” L X 6 ½” W X 3” H – Color, warm brown
Lid - Color, warm brown with drawing of Church and wording:
St.Francis de Sales Church 125th Anniversary 1887-2012.
Price - The basket is being offered at cost - $46.00
To get this special price, 200 basket sets must be sold by June 1.
The basket makes a lovely personal memento of the Anniversary celebration or great gift idea to commemorate special events celebrated in the church, e.g. Baptisms, First Holy Communions, Confirmations, Weddings or Anniversaries. 
To order: Contact Ann Forgrave at 366-3090, annforgrave@windstream.net or click on flyer and order form. 

The PTA meeting is cancelled for this evening.

All of the proceeds from tonight's Texas Roadhouse fundraiser will go to Michael's Playground. Thanks for helping us to build this tribute!!

The T-shirts for 'Michael's Playground' can be worn in gym class. The handbook states "Any St. Francis de Sales or Newark Catholic t-shirt in any color is permitted." The t-shirt does say St. Francis de Sales School.

Regarding the sweatshirts - no hoody may be worn during the school day. Students may wear them to and from school or at recess. (p. 24 of student handbook.

Please remember that the t-shirt orders are due by Wednesday, 2/29/12.


Also, Wednesday, 2/29, is 'Hats for Histio' Day to help Mrs. McNeish with her scholarship fund for students with histiocytosis. Students may wear a favorite hat for a donation to the scholarship fund.

St. Francis Desales  Benefit Night @ Texas Roadhouse
Monday, February 27th
4 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Click here for flyer

The Spring Festival Committee is looking for a volunteer to Chair the Games. The next festival meeting will be held on March 7th at 7:30 at in Johnson Hall. Please contact Heather Sherburn at heather.sherburn@yahoo.com if interested.

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Join us next Wednesday, February 29th, for HATS for HISTIO.

Wednesday is Leap Day and Rare Disease Day.  Wear a hat all day for $1.00.  The money will benefit histiocytosis research and a scholarship fund.  For more information about histiocytosis, go to www.histio.org or www.matthewandandrew.org.  See Mrs. McNeish in our Math lab for more information.

Hope to see everyone TONIGHT in the gym at our Mardi Gras celebration! Come catch a pancake from Chris Cakes! Students, be sure to get your door prize ticket - each hour we will draw a name to receive a coupon book with 4 casual day passes! And don't forget - there will be music, sand art, masks, and games for the kids, too! That's TONIGHT in the gym from 4:30-7:30pm!

We are still in need of some volunteers to help clean up/tear down after the event tonight. Keep in mind that April 30th is the deadline for volunteer hours for this school year. If you need to get some hours completed, this is the perfect opportunity!

Fat Tuesday with Chris Cakes

Be sure to celebrate Fat Tuesday Chris Cakes-style on Tuesday, February 21st from 4:30-7:30 pm in the St. Francis gymnasium. Catch all the pancakes you can eat for $5.00 per person or $20 for family of 4 or more.


Children will be able to make sand art masks for just $1 and game tickets can be purchased for $0.50 each.

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St. Francis has school this Friday, February 17th.  We will not have school on Monday, February 20th.

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Need Volunteer Hours? We need volunteers!

We need volunteers to help work our Fat Tuesday party.   Set up will begin at 1 and tear down will begin around 7:30.  We also need workers to fill in during the actual event.

Please email dougandamber@roadrunner.com if you can help work this event

Thank you!

A letter detailing the number of volunteer hours fulfilled to date will be sent home next week. Thank you!

IMPORTANT: There WILL be school on February 8th. This day was originally planned as a professional development day for teachers in Columbus. However, the workshop we would have attended was not scheduled this year so staff and students WILL BE IN SCHOOL that day.



Mrs. Litts and I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our artists, parent volunteers, teachers and staff for a wonderful Days of Creation! Without everyone’s involvement, this event would not be possible. A special thank you to MRS. HEFFLEY for a fabulous lunch, to MRS. RUSS for coordinating the volunteers, to MRS. McKENNA and MRS. MUSGRAVE for helping with set-up and clean-up and to MR. MATHEWS for making all of the wire sculptures. We would also like to acknowledge MR. JASON HUFFMAN, our custodian, MRS. McDONALD and MRS. WALSH.

Thank you to everyone for celebrating the arts with us!

Mrs. Charvat

Many thanks to ALL who sent in cookies for our 'Cookies for Courage' project, and to those parents who helped to deliver the packages.

Continuing events for Michael's Playground:

Ace Carpet Care Inc. is running a special for the month of February. 10% of all carpet cleaning or gift card purchases in the month of February will go to the playground fund. This does not include gift card purchases thru TRIP or commercial businesses. Just mention the playground fund when scheduling an appointment. Ace Carpet Care 740-366-2117

Look for order forms for Texas Roadhouse gift cards coming home next week! The cards can be used at ANY time and make a GREAT gift for birthdays, anniversaries, Easter baskets, or your favorite Valentine! Also, cards purchased now can be used on 2/27 at the special fundraising event to benefit the playground fund at Texas Roadhouse.

Help us keep the momentum going! We are one third of the way to GOAL!!

Just a reminder that for Fashion Disaster Day tomorrow parents and students should consult page 25 in the handbook for casual day guidelines. Students should NOT be wearing midriffs, tank tops, spaghetti straps, sleeveless tops...

Any student whose outfit is deemed inappropriate will have to call home for his or her uniform to be brought to school. We thank you in advance for adhering to the guidelines.

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IMPORTANT DAYS OF CREATION REMINDERS:

-Please feel free to send in a long shirt to protect your child’s uniform.

-Due to a funeral, all volunteers are asked to check in at the MULTIPURPOSE ROOM instead of Johnson Hall. Please enter the school through the FRONT Lamy Center doors and take the elevator down to the Multipurpose Room. Please do not enter Johnson Hall.

-All volunteers should sign in at the Multipurpose Room no later than 11:45am.

-All volunteers are invited to join us for lunch from 11:00-11:45am in the Multipurpose Room.

Thank you!
Christy

Thank you to all who have signed up to send in cookies on Friday for our 'Cookies for Courage' service project. We are still in need of people to help deliver the cookies and student cards. This is a wonderful way to thank our local emergency service workers for helping to keep our community safe.

If you work for any city or county agency that would benefit from a 'thank you' from our students, (police, firefighters, EMT, hospital, etc...) and you would be able to pick up a package Friday afternoon to deliver to your place of business, please drop an email to Linda in the office - lmcdonal@cdeducation.org - OR, if you would be able to deliver a package on your way home on Friday, we would greatly appreciate the help!

Tomorrow morning we will be celebrating an All School Liturgy at 9:00am. All are welcome to join us!