2 ❚ SIUSLAW NEWS SCHOOL NEWSLETTER ❚ MAY 2016
Mapleton
Mapleton
School District
end-of-year events
M APLETON
IN
M AY
Students celebrate May Day with
flowers for area neighborhoods
I
n honor of May Day, the Mapleton
School District student body deliv-
ered over 80 baskets of flowers to
members of the Mapleton community
on Monday, May 2, just to spread the
joy of spring. Students and staff walked
through neighborhoods and delivered
flowers to businesses in Mapleton.
—Submitted by Carrie McNeill
Monday, May 30
Memorial Day — No school
Wednesday, June 8
Last school day for MHS seniors
Saturday, June 11
Mapleton High School Graduation — 2 p.m.
Tuesday, June 14
Last school day for kindergarten
Wednesday, June 15
Last school day for all students
Thursday, June 16
Last school day for Mapleton teachers
H AVE A GREAT SUMMER ,
M APLETON S CHOOL D ISTRICT !
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“In some months the Pepperidge
Farm UPCs are worth more than
others, and I was delighted to find
so many cookie and cracker UPC
codes this month,” said Button
Watkins, PTA Labels for Education
Coordinator. “Thank you to every-
one who’s helped us get products
for our students.” —Submitted by
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certificates at the high school’s
Scholarship Night on May 26.
Other items of interest
include:
Florence PTA ended with
107 members district-wide.
In August, PTA and the
elementary school were the
recipients of National PTA’s
School of Excellence Award
for 2015-2017.
Guest speakers at meetings
throughout the year were Ethel
Angal, Siuslaw School District
Superintendent; Bou Kilgore
and Steve Moser, representing
the ASPIRE program at the
high
school;
Jonathan
Hornung and students from the
high school LINK program;
Lynn Anderson,
Native
Education Director; Becky
Holbrook, elementary school
volunteer art teacher; and Lyza
Houlihan, School Garden
coordinator.
Projects and events: Back
to School baskets at all
schools;
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The Florence Community PTA
is going to try to get as much as
possible from the The Labels for
Education Program. Instead of
products, the PTA voted to use the
points earned to receive gift cards
instead of merchandise from the
program.
UPC codes from the following
products are sent in for points: Bic,
Campbell’s, Pace, Pepperidge
Farm, Spaghetti-Os, Swanson’s
and V8. The program will accept
all UPCs from these products,
including ones without the Labels
for Education logo through July.
Starting in August, only UPC
codes with the Labels for
Education logo attached will be
accepted.
There are collection boxes in the
Siuslaw Elementary School Office,
TELLE
CHAN
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PTA gathers labels,
UPCs for rewards
Meyer Community Rewards,
the AmazonSmile program
and Viking apparel sales pro-
vide the money that allow the
PTA to provide grants.
To learn more about how
you can give back to the
schools through these pro-
grams, visit the PTA’s website
at www.florencepta.org, and
click on “Ways to Support
PTA.”
The PTA scholarship pro-
gram is funded primarily
through the Box Tops collec-
tions at Siuslaw Middle and
Elementary schools.
PTA awards scholarships to
graduating seniors in the
Florence area who are going
on to study for careers in
teaching and working with
children.
This year’s recipients are
Mikaela Siegel, Holly Hicks,
Nikita Williams and Taylor
Richards-Sykora; all graduat-
ing from SHS.
Recipients received their
GENTA
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CYA
Crisis supplies
Positive Behavior incen-
tives
Online Brain-Pop sub-
scription
Emergency response kit
supplies
Hands On Math program
Night vision trail camera
Wiggle seats
Stream Team field trips
School dance inflatables
Music DVD program
Books on the 13 colonies
Daily language review
program
In addition to grants, the
PTA supports worthy projects
that will enhance the education
of students on a larger scale,
rather than a single classroom.
This year, $1,500 was given to
support the 5th and 7th grade
Outdoor School to be held at
the end of May and early June.
Fundraisers
such
as
Safeway eScrip (which is
going away as of June 1),
General Mills Box Tops, Fred
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The great thing about the
Florence Community PTA is
its mission to support and give
back to Siuslaw schools. This
school year, PTA funded 21
grants to teachers and staff
throughout Siuslaw School
district, representing a total of
$5,553.02 given. Of the 21
grants approved, six were for
Siuslaw High School, seven
for the middle school and 10
for the elementary school.
Grants approved this year
included:
Band music
Music bells
Art supplies
Civil War field trip
iPad covers
Marching band shoes
Transportation fees for a
college tour
College pennants to pro-
mote post-secondary paths
Culinary Arts kitchen
recertification
Student reading work-
books
Run/Challenge and Fall
Fitness Fair; Holiday Shoppe
at SES; Book Fair Diner dur-
ing Dr. Seuss week; dinners
provided on long parent-
teacher conference nights;
SES Talent Show; and the
week-long Teacher and Staff
Appreciation Week festivities.
Oregon
State
PTA
Conference and Leadership
Convention, where four local
delegates attended.
New Board elections for the
2016-17 school year were held
at the May meeting. Tiffany
Holdahl was newly elected for
the position of president. Susy
Lacer (Secretary) and Jennifer
Wilks (treasurer) were elected
for second terms. The new
board will take office on July
1.
Current PTA President
Diane McCalmont thanked
members and the Board for
their involvement in PTA this
year, and gave a shout-out and
gift to outgoing Vice President
Mike Kilgore.
As the school year winds
down, Florence PTA is already
discussing projects for the next
school year.
Anyone can become a mem-
ber of the Florence PTA. You
don’t have to have children in
school and don’t have to
devote hours of time to volun-
teering. All that is required is
that you have a desire to sup-
port education and children
and youth in our community,
state and nation. You can even
become a Business Sponsor by
downloading an application
form from our website.
For more information about
National PTA, go to pta.org;
about Oregon State PTA, go to
oregonpta.org; and about
Florence community PTA,
find us at florencepta.org.
If you would like to join
PTA, call 541-997-1854 or
email
florencecommunity
pta@yahoo.com. —Submitted
by Diane McCalmont
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e a part of School Zone,
a newsletter about the
Siuslaw and Mapleton
school districts.
Deadline for submissions
is the 15th of every month.
Call or email Siuslaw News
Editor Ryan Cronk
at 541-902-3520 or
editor@thesiuslawnews.com.
Look for ... KID SCOOP
Kid Scoop runs every Wednesday during the school
year in the Siuslaw News and features educational sto-
ries and fun activities for families.
The activity page is part of the Siuslaw News’
Newspapers In Education program, in which teachers
from Siuslaw and Mapleton school districts may
request copies of the local paper to use as curriculum
in their classroom. Call 541-997-3441 for more info.