St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School www.stcharlesschoolfw.org [email protected]2604843392 Newsletter February 6, 2015 Dear Parents and Students, I hope you are well. I wanted to update you on Father Jacob’s bariatric surgery this past Tuesday. The surgery was successful and Father Jacob is recovering nicely. Father Jacob wanted to extend thanks for the many prayers that have been offered on his behalf. We should see him out and about later next week! Please keep in your prayers the soul of Mrs. Amanda Espy who passed away unexpectedly last Friday. She is the mother of Kaden in grade 6 here at St. Charles and the wife of John Espy. Thank you for remembering the family in your intentions. Also, please keep in prayer the soul of Mr. Edward Morris who passed away unexpectedly this past weekend. He is the husband of Mary Lou, who has substitute taught for us over the years, and the Father & Grandfather to our Morris and Tippmann families. Thank you for remembering the family in your intentions. Regarding weather delays and closings As parents, you always have the right to keep your children at home if you deem the weather is too hazardous to make the drive to school. I do understand that we have parents who drive great distances to attend our school and that weather and/or road conditions may be different twenty, or even thirty, minutes away from our school, thus prohibiting attendance under certain circumstances. However, as we do not have buses, which creates various concerns for our local school corporations, and as we have few student drivers, as Bishop Dwenger High Schools does, we have more control over whether to hold school or not. When we have a delay, we will try to inform our parents by 7:45 a.m., at the latest if we are moving to a closing. Please understand, we are a large school. Our Childcare Program opens at 6:30 a.m. even on delay days, and by 7:45 a.m. we already have over 50 students here in our program. Your driveway, or local road, may be slippery at this time of the morning, but 15% of our students have already made it safely to school. With the extra 90 minutes of sunlight and travel most of the main roads are usually in good condition by 9:20 a.m. Remember, I want people to be safe, so as a levelheaded parent, use your best judgement, just as we try to do here at school. I thank you for your cooperation and common sense, and I am starting to look forward to an early spring. Where’s Waldo? Better yet, where’s Sister Genevieve? Sister Genevieve has been in Brazil (the country, not the Indiana town) for the past few weeks visiting her fellow Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart who maintain a missionary branch in Brazil. Here is a bit of an email she shared with me. Please keep Sister Genevieve in your prayers as well as all of her fellow sisters. Their Order is doing great works of evangelization in Brazil. From Sister: Happy Wednesday! Sr. Joyce reminded me this morning that it was hump day basically half of our time here in Brazil will be over today. Travels were uneventful, though long. From when we left the motherhouse grounds to drive to O´Hare to fly Chicago Miami Sao Paulo Belem and the drive then to the convent in Icoraci was about 28 hours. I did sleep on the planes so was not as tired as could be expected. Temperatures are 7585, humidity level is very high since this is tropical and the rainy season. It rains some every day and then it is a major downpour for 1545 min or so. We have not had much outdoor time, though I try to sit on the porch and read a bit every day when we have ´free´ time. Much of our time has been with individual meetings with the Sisters. Three women were welcomed into the Postulancy and our temporarily professed Sister renewed her vows. These were two different ceremonies on Sunday. We also attended a special liturgy with the archbishop at the basilica on Monday for the celebration of Consecrated Life. Many Sisters from the region were in attendance at this. I was following the snow reports in Fort Wayne. The pictures made it all look so beautiful! :) In closing, we still have pockets of flu and cough here and there, so wash those hands and remember that students should be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. I look forward to seeing some of you at the Girl Scout sponsored FatherDaughter Dance Friday evening. I believe tickets can still be purchased at the cafeteria door Friday evening if you misplaced your order form. Thank you for your children, and please include our school community in your prayers. Thanks Rob S.
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St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School www.stcharlesschoolfw.org
Dear Parents and Students, I hope you are well. I wanted to update you on Father Jacob’s bariatric surgery this past Tuesday. The surgery was successful and Father Jacob is recovering nicely. Father Jacob wanted to extend thanks for the many prayers that have been offered on his behalf. We should see him out and about later next week! Please keep in your prayers the soul of Mrs. Amanda Espy who passed away unexpectedly last Friday. She is the mother of Kaden in grade 6 here at St. Charles and the wife of John Espy. Thank you for remembering the family in your intentions. Also, please keep in prayer the soul of Mr. Edward Morris who passed away unexpectedly this past weekend. He is the husband of Mary Lou, who has substitute taught for us over the years, and the Father & Grandfather to our Morris and Tippmann families. Thank you for remembering the family in your intentions. Regarding weather delays and closings As parents, you always have the right to keep your children at home if you deem the weather is too hazardous to make the drive to school. I do understand that we have parents who drive great distances to attend our school and that weather and/or road conditions may be different twenty, or even thirty, minutes away from our school, thus prohibiting attendance under certain circumstances. However, as we do not have buses, which creates various concerns for our local school corporations, and as we have few student drivers, as Bishop Dwenger High Schools does, we have more control over whether to hold school or not. When we have a delay, we will try to inform our parents by 7:45 a.m., at the latest if we are moving to a closing. Please understand, we are a large school. Our Childcare Program opens at 6:30 a.m. even on delay days, and by 7:45 a.m. we already have over 50 students here in our program. Your driveway, or local road, may be slippery at this time of the morning, but 15% of our students have already made it safely to school. With the extra 90 minutes of sunlight and travel most of the main roads are usually in good condition by 9:20 a.m. Remember, I want people to be safe, so as a levelheaded parent, use your best judgement, just as we try to do here at school. I thank you for your cooperation and common sense, and I am starting to look forward to an early spring. Where’s Waldo? Better yet, where’s Sister Genevieve? Sister Genevieve has been in Brazil (the country, not the Indiana town) for the past few weeks visiting her fellow Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart who maintain a missionary branch in Brazil. Here is a bit of an email she shared with me. Please keep Sister Genevieve in your prayers as well as all of her fellow sisters. Their Order is doing great works of evangelization in Brazil. From Sister: Happy Wednesday! Sr. Joyce reminded me this morning that it was hump day basically half of our time here in Brazil will be over today. Travels were uneventful, though long. From when we left the motherhouse grounds to drive to O´Hare to fly Chicago Miami Sao Paulo Belem and the drive then to the convent in Icoraci was about 28 hours. I did sleep on the planes so was not as tired as could be expected. Temperatures are 7585, humidity level is very high since this is tropical and the rainy season. It rains some every day and then it is a major downpour for 1545 min or so. We have not had much outdoor time, though I try to sit on the porch and read a bit every day when we have ´free´ time. Much of our time has been with individual meetings with the Sisters. Three women were welcomed into the Postulancy and our temporarily professed Sister renewed her vows. These were two different ceremonies on Sunday. We also attended a special liturgy with the archbishop at the basilica on Monday for the celebration of Consecrated Life. Many Sisters from the region were in attendance at this. I was following the snow reports in Fort Wayne. The pictures made it all look so beautiful! :) In closing, we still have pockets of flu and cough here and there, so wash those hands and remember that students should be fever free for 24 hours before returning to school. I look forward to seeing some of you at the Girl Scout sponsored FatherDaughter Dance Friday evening. I believe tickets can still be purchased at the cafeteria door Friday evening if you misplaced your order form. Thank you for your children, and please include our school community in your prayers. Thanks Rob S.
February 6 FatherDaughter Dance sponsored by our Girl Scouts 79 pm in school cafeteria 7 ISSMA competitions for those registered: Piano, Vocal 9 Kevin Stonerock represents A Hoosier Pioneer for grades 345 9 First Eucharist Parent Meeting 6:457:30 pm in Parish Hall, enter door #13, corner parking lot 10 Market Day pickup 5:30 pm in cafeteria 11 Allen County Spelling Bee 6:00 pm at Auer Hall, IPFW 12 Grade 5 attends Young Peoples’ Concert at the Embassy Theatre 13 Interim Reports go home 13 Second trimester ends (grades 78) 16 Presidents’ Day School IS IN SESSION 17 School Board Meeting 7:00 pm Hession Center 18 Ash Wednesday All School Mass 8:15 am 18 6th Grade Server Training 34:30 pm 19 Science Fair Projects judged during the school day 19 6th Grade Server Training 34:30 pm 20 Pueri Cantores rehearsal at Bishop Dwenger 11:30 am 2:30 pm 20 Science Fair is open for visitors 8:00 am 3:30 pm 21 Science Fair is open for visitors 4:30 6:30 pm 22 Science Fair is open for visitors 8:00 am 12:30 pm 23 Sacrament of Reconciliation grades 3 & 4 and 223 24 Fort Wayne Philharmonic Ensemble performs for grades 12345 27 Stations of the Cross 2:15 pm
Weekly Lunch Menu
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
February 9 Bosco Sticks
With Marinara Sauce Broccoli Pears
Teddy Grahams Milk
February 10 Egg Omelet w/
Salsa Pancake w/syrup Hashbrowns Oranges Milk
February 11 Chicken Nuggets Mashed Potatoes With Gravy Dinner Roll Carrots Pineapple Milk
February 12 Chicken Caesar
Salad Soft Pretzel Broccoli Pears Milk
February 13 Soft Tacos w/Meat Cheese & Lettuce Refried Beans
Corn Peaches Milk
‘Saint of Auschwitz’ to come to stage at USF Performing Arts Center The life of St. Maximilian Kolbe will come to the stage at the University of Saint Francis Robert Goldstine Performing Arts Center in a live production of Leonard Defilippis of St. Luke Productions. The Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend and Redeemer Radio are the sponsors for the two performances set Saturday, Feb. 28, at 1 and 7 p.m. Admission is $10 for the lower level, $5 for the upper level, $15 for a family pass on the upper level. The production is suitable for ages 10 and up. The oneman live production of “Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz” illustrates the life of Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest whose amazing life of service to the Church and courage in the face of attacks against his faith, led to his imprisonment in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was forced into slave labor, tortured and finally came forward to take the place of a married man, who was condemned to death by starvation. Tickets will be available through parishes, the Cathedral Bookstore in the Archbishop Noll Catholic Center in Fort Wayne or through email at [email protected]. The proceeds will benefit the diocesan Seminarian Vocation Fund. Visit the www.diocesefwsb.org/Maximilian for more information. MARKET DAY Market Day pick up is Tuesday, February 10th from 5:30 6:30 p.m. in the cafeteria. Thanks, as always, from St. Charles Market Day!!!
SCRIP NEWS Valentine's Day It's just a week away! Are you planning something special for your loved one? SCRIP can help. *** If you place an order of$100 or more anytime betweenFeb. 6 & 13, you have a chance to win a special Valentine package. Two lucky winners will be chosen for a dinner & chocolate gift pack. ***Make Valentine's Day special with SCRIP gift cards to your favorite restaurant, DeBrand's, Cookie Cottage, Lopshire, Carsons,
Macy's, JC Penney, Kohl's, Bath & Body, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or any other merchant that you know will satisfy your sweetie. Congratulations! Melissa Skeens and family are the winners of the television in our Catholic Schools giveaway. They are faithful and deserving SCRIP supporters. Merchant News SCRIP is happy to welcome The Lodge at Coyote Creek Canyon at 4935 Hillegas Road to the program. They are offering $25 gift cards with an introductory discount of 20%! Credit Statements The SCRIP Credit Statements were sent home with students 2 weeks ago. Your credit can be used for outstanding tuition for this school year or saved for a later time.
If you choose to save your credit, we can't stress enough how important it is save the statement in a safe place. This statement has the same value as a check or cash. While it is possible to obtain copies, there are problems that can occur when more than one copy of the statement is in circulation. Just as you would have reservations about rewriting a check without putting a stop payment on the original, the same risks are possible when there are multiple copies of credit statements. The SCRIP credit is one of the most valuable parts of the SCRIP program, please help us protect it by properly respecting your credit
statement. Special Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, Arianne Davis, Nancy Hartig & Lisa York for braving the difficult weather conditions last
week to fulfill their SCRIP commitment. VOLUNTEERS: Feb. 9 CLASSROOM DELIVERY Martina Tippmann Feb. 13 Lisa Madinski, Emily Sylvester, Kelly Wolf, Amy Copeland Feb. 13 CLASSROOM DELIVERY Theresa Cornewell Feb. 14 Mary Jones, Jill Onion, Jodi Armstrong Feb. 15 Laurie Amstutz, Jennie Chen, Brenda Harter
STUDENT OF THE WEEK Jensen Miguel, Michael Johnson, Nick Bayes, Blake Barnett, Elliott Tippmann, William Hogan, Vakai Kerns, Lainey Atkinson, Jillean Yenna, Nora Foltz, Lilly Filler, Jada Jordan, Nigel Bennett, Nick Snyder, Carolyn Steigmeyer, Alex Tippmann, Bridgette Black, Brady O’Keefe, Summer Stillwell, Paige Starkey, Maya Atkinson, Keira Rood, Tyson Hall, Trinity McDowell, Patrick Finley. ST. CHARLES BASKETBALL Saturday, February 7 at St. Elizabeth, 11:30 St. Charles 7 vs St. Vincent 7 Girls Saturday, February 7 at St. Elizabeth, 12:45 St. Charles 7 vs St. John 7 Boys Saturday, February 7 at St. Rose, 9:00 St. Charles 8 vs St. John 8 Girls Saturday, February 7 at St. Rose, 10:15 St. Charles 8 vs St. John 8 Boys DWENGER WRESTLING CAMP GRADES PRE K8 February 1619 and february 2326 in the Dwenger MultiPurpose Wrestling Room. grades PreK4, 5:306:30pm. Grades 58, 6:307:30pm. Wear gym shoes, shirt, shorts, wrestling shoes if you already have the. Headgear, optional. No preregistration is required, just bring form and check on 1st day. Forms are available in the St. Charles School Office. Cost is $25.00, checks payable to John Tone, BD Head Wrestling Coach. Contact Coach Tone at 4964701 or [email protected] or [email protected]. TRIVIA NIGHT, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, SAVE THE DATE! FEELIN’ GREEN? TRIVIA NIGHT Saturday, March 14 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m in the school cafeteria. Mark your calendar now and kickoff the feast of St. Patrick with fellow parishioners in celebration, with some trivia to stretch the brain! Start forming your table of 8 people who will lead you to victory. Registration forms are included in this newsletter. Must be 21 or older to attend.
WOMEN’S CARE CENTER COLLECTION The 7th grade class will be collecting items for the annual Women’s Care Center Baby Shower the week of February 913. Please check the list below to see what each grade level should bring. Thanks in advance for your generosity for this service project! Kindergarten: pullups (2T/3T), pacifiers, cotton sleepers (any size) Grade 1: pullups (4T/5T), sippie cups, fleece blanket sleepers (any size) Grade 2: diapers (newborn), receiving blankets, onsies/shorts/pants (36 months) Grade 3: diapers (size 1), wipes, onesies/shorts/pants (912 months) Grade 4: diapers (size 2), wipes, onesies/shorts/pants (1824 months) Grade 5: diapers (size 3), crib blankets, any season shirts/ shorts/ pants (2T) Grade 6: diapers (size 4), white booties/socks, any season shirts/ shorts/pants (3T) Grade 7: diapers (size 5), baby soap, lotion, shampoo, any season shirts/shorts/pants (4T) Grade 8: diapers (size 6), pacifiers, hooded bath towels/washcloths
