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FRHS E-News
June 22, 2008
This will be the LAST newsletter you will receive from me. I turn over the
reins this Saturday to Darlene Skupien, who has graciously volunteered to
take over the newsletter. To that end she has established a new email
address for the e-news:
FRHSnews@comcast.net. In order to ensure continued delivery and to
prevent the newsletter from being filtered as spam please add
FRHSnews@comcast to your "safe" list or simply add it to your address
book.
Looking ahead.....
(New or updated items in blue)
August 1 - New Student Orientation, 10:00 - 11:00 AM
(for students new to the district)
August 4-8 - Band Camp
August 11-15 - Band Camp
August 11 - Fall Sports begin
August 12 - Regular Registration Deadline for September
13th ACT test
August 25 - First day of
school
September 1 - Labor Day, NO SCHOOL
September 2 - Picture Day, Grades 9-11
September 9 - Regular Registration Deadline for October
4th SAT
September 13 - ACT test @ neighboring school districts
September 19 - Regular Registration Deadline for
October 25th ACT test
October 3 - Senior Night Football Game
October 4 - SAT and SAT Subject Tests @ Franklin
Regional
October 13 - Staff Development Day - NO SCHOOL
October 18 - PSAT @ Franklin Regional
October 23 - Homecoming Bonfire
October 24 - Homecoming Game
October 25 - ACT test @ neighboring school districts
October 25 - Homecoming Dance
October 28 - End of 1st nine weeks
PTO news...
(New or updated items' titles are highlighted in
blue)
FRHS E-NEWS HAS A NEW ADDRESS!
Introducing the new address:
FRHSnews@comcast.net
Please make the necessary changes to your address books.
SUBMISSIONS TO THE E-NEWS
If
you have any news you would like sent out in the newsletter please send
your article to Darlene Skupien at
FRHSnews@comcast.net. As always please send a complete article and
include any pertinent deadlines and contact information.
School
news....
(New or updated items' titles are
highlighted in blue)
FR GIRLS LACROSSE
The ever famous Winner's Edge Lacrosse camp is
taking place on June 24-26th right here at FR Panther Stadium.
Registration is still open. Roll out of bed, and drag yourself to the
stadium and mix it up with the best coaches in America and the best
players in the WPIAL. Online registration is on our web site at
www.winnersedgelax.com. Go Lady Panthers!
John Bonaroti
412-389-8126
SCHOOL
CALENDAR
For the 2008-2009
School Calendar go to
http://www.franklinregional.k12.pa.us/calendar.asp
COUNSELING CENTER
MATERIALS
Now that
school is out and lockers have been cleaned out, please remember to look
around the house (and car) for any borrowed materials that you or your
student may have signed out from the Counseling Center. Each year the
counselors end up having to replace many of their resources, because
they are never returned! Thanks.
(ASB)
Class of 2009 news.....
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blue)
YEARBOOK PICTURES
Viglione Photography, Inc. is the school's photographer for the
yearbook. In order to appear in the yearbook your child's picture must
be taken at Viglione Photography Studio. Yearbook headshots are to be
taken by June 30th. Please call to make your appointment NOW. Viglione's
phone number is 724-387-2092. Anyone who does not get photographed by
June 30th will be subject to an additional late sitting fee of $25.
Any student who has been photographed must make their selection by
September 15th for inclusion in the yearbook.
FYI - Information from Viglione's was
sent directly to your home, thus eliminating the "student delivery
problem". Viglione does offer expanded picture options and
packages, but you not under any obligation to purchase them. You are
free to get your senior's picture taken at any other photographer of
your choosing for their "official" senior picture. (You know the one
you give to family and friends, display on the mantel or office and
carry in your wallet.) HOWEVER if your child wants to be in the
yearbook they MUST get their photo taken at Viglione.
Ways to help....
(New or updated items' titles are
highlighted in blue)
ALUMINUM CAN RECYCLING
Annie Essay's and Judy
Polcyznski's classes collect aluminum cans. The
Life Skill classes use the money earned to
participate in functional and community based
activities such as the Special Olympics.
Cans can be dropped off in the fenced-in
collection bin behind the Middle School. The
cage is just for loose aluminum cans. No
plastic bottles or bi-metal cans, please.
Please DO NOT put bags in the cage! If you have
collected your cans in a bag or some other
container and you are unable to dump the cans
into the cage, please do not toss them in
container and all. Simply place your container
on the pavement near the cage and the students
will take care of it. If a bag is tossed into
the cage someone must physically climb into the
cage and remove it! This can be dangerous, not
to mention unpleasant and in the warm
weather the bees and yellow jackets add to the
safety concerns whenever someone has to climb in
to remove bagged cans. So please remember - ONLY
LOOSE CANS IN THE CAGE. Thanks!
The aluminum can
collection and recycling program is an all-year
activity.
(ASB)
OFFICE DEPOT DONATES TO SCHOOLS
5% Back to Schools Program:
Office Depot will give the high school an Office Depot
Merchandise Card worth 5% of all qualifying school supply
purchases made during each program period. Computers, TVs,
all technology items including PDAs, all furniture items and
accessories, some bulk packaged products, ink and tone
cartridges, gift cards, and purchases made to contract
business account are not qualifying purchases. BUT that
still leaves notebooks, index cards, pencils, pens,
highlighters, filler paper, dividers, glue sticks, paper
clips, erasers, rubber bands and many other items you
typically purchase throughout the year!
If you shop at Office Depot
please remember to ask the salesperson to apply your
purchase towards the Back to School Program. I was told at
the store that the program runs year round!
They can look up Franklin
Regional High School or you can make live a little easier
for them by giving them our school ID# - 70087330.
(ASB)
(New or updated items'
titles are highlighted in blue)
Residents may now recycle all
of the following items:
Please note the following:
I couldn't send out my last newsletter without expressing my
deep gratitude to the many people who have supported and
helped me through the past 5 years. The administration,
counselors, teachers, booster groups, PTO, and subscribers
all contributed to the success of this venture.
The enthusiastic response to the newsletter through the
years has reinforced my conviction that communication is a
vital component of a successful school district. The fact
that I helped further that cause has been very gratifying. I
am honored to have received so many kind words of
encouragement and gratitude from families the newsletter
helped as they navigated the murky waters known as the high
school years. I am pleased to see that the school district
and the high school are expanding the use of the web page
allowing for more of the vital information needed by
families to become readily available. It is my greatest hope
that in the coming years that situation will only improve.
I would like to especially thank Judy Polcyznski who
faithfully, in spite of her very busy schedule, forwarded me
all the morning announcements and many other bits of news
throughout the year, even when my schedule was so
erratic. Without her assistance the newsletter would never
have really gotten off of the ground nor would I have been
able to keep the families so well informed. In addition, I
can't leave without thanking the PTO board members, Penny
Holden, Denise Rubino, Susan Iovino and Dawn Sheehy for all
their support and for always being quick to respond when I
needed advise or an opinion.
And last but not least, I would like to thank all of you.
As I have said before, this is your newsletter, without your
input and participation it wouldn't be the same and it
certainly wouldn't be as widely circulated! Thanks to your
word of mouth advertising the mailing list included over 880
addresses this year!
Thanks,
Anne Brendel
FRHS E-News
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