Mercy Says Goodbye to Beloved Athletic Director Candi Keller Mercy High School Above: Candi with assistant coach Maddy Coelho. Below: Congratulating Shane Rhodes on his class award. FFA Program Sends its First Show Animals to the Fair As the days grew closer and clos- er to fair, so did the anticipation of each student and excitement they felt. Mercy High School just added its FFA charter last year, and this is the first year students had the amazing opportunity to take animals to fair. FFA has been a great addition to the school, and many students have chosen to become involved by attending Shasta College Field Days, State Convention, COLC, and many other events. This year, the club had the oppor- tunity to take animals to the Te- hama District Fair. Wyatt and Shane Bronner, Hailey Coelho, and Crystal Pimentel all showed market hogs this year. The road to fair included overcoming many struggles and hardships, such as: hogs making weight, sick hogs, and being able to walk it without it running as fast as it could away from you. Although tricky, the experience taught the students many things, the most important being responsibility. Our students’ hogs sold well at the fair, and they even received a “Clean Barn Award” for barn maintenance in their area. While staying at the fair all week, they learned responsibility, such as waking up early to clean pens, and washing and grooming their hogs. FFA advisor, Mrs. Morgan Brock says, “My favorite part of the fair was watching my stu- dents truly enjoy themselves and see them succeed in their first year at the fair. The scariest part of Fair Week was my fear that their hogs wouldn't make weight, and the students wouldn't feel successful.” Although it took lots of hard work and dedication, Mercy High is so happy to have added FFA to the school and to the community. This club has brought students closer together and given the opportunity for students with common interests to come to- gether and show their love for agriculture. 134 Years of College Preparatory Catholic Education Junior Shane Bronner demonstrates his skills with pig Rosie “OD” in the show ring at the Tehama District Fair this fall. We hope you enjoy this latest edition of the Mercy High School Newsletter. Our Mis- sion, as a Catholic Diocesan College Preparatory School is to develop the whole person, empowering our graduates to affect positive change in the world. We form students in the Catholic tradition through the pursuit of academic excel- lence, spiritual growth, per- sonal integrity, and service to others. You will read in this newsletter edition how we are continuing to grow and devel- op as an educational institu- tion and the great things that our students are doing. We hope this publication keeps you apprised of what's going on at Mercy and our plans and aspirations for the fu- ture. Your feedback is always welcome. -Paul Weber, Principal Volume 1, December 2016 Junior Hailey Coelho pauses for a buyers photo with her gilt, Sarah Jessica Porker prior to the fair . This past September, the Keller and Sobieralski fami- lies, and our Mercy family, lost a very special wife, mother, daughter, sister, teacher, coach and friend. Candi first came to Mercy as a JV volleyball coach when her daughter Maggie started school here. She taught and coached for Bishop Quinn for many years prior to that. While coaching here, she remained the facilities coordina- tor for the Bishop Quinn campus in Redding. Candi became the Athletic Director in 2012 and poured her heart and soul into creating a solid program, where all opportunities were afforded ath- letes of any skill level and qualified coaches secured playoff berths. She had such enthusiasm and energy for sports, and attended every game she could, cheering on each individual player to reach their potential. As a coach, she was well loved by her players. Practice was her favorite part of the day. She had a plan and expected her players to be as excited as she was to execute it. Through her continued encouragement, the girls pushed themselves to be their best, and her teams were great. (see back)
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Mercy Says Goodbye to Beloved Athletic Director Candi Keller
Mercy High School
Above: Candi with assistant
coach Maddy Coelho.
Below: Congratulating Shane
Rhodes on his class award.
FFA Program Sends its First Show Animals to the Fair
As the days grew closer and clos-er to fair, so did the anticipation of each student and excitement they felt. Mercy High School just added its FFA charter last year, and this is the first year students had the amazing opportunity to take animals to fair. FFA has been a great addition to the school, and many students have chosen to become involved by attending Shasta College Field Days, State Convention, COLC, and many other events. This year, the club had the oppor-tunity to take animals to the Te-hama District Fair. Wyatt and Shane Bronner, Hailey Coelho, and Crystal Pimentel all showed market hogs this year. The road to fair included overcoming many struggles and hardships, such as: hogs making weight,
sick hogs, and being able to walk it without it running as fast as it could away from you. Although tricky, the experience taught the students many things, the most important being responsibility. Our students’ hogs sold well at the fair, and they even received a “Clean Barn Award” for barn maintenance in their area. While staying at the fair all week, they learned responsibility, such as waking up early to clean pens, and washing and grooming their hogs. FFA advisor, Mrs. Morgan Brock says, “My favorite part of the fair was watching my stu-dents truly enjoy themselves and see them succeed in their first year at the fair. The scariest part of Fair Week was my fear that their hogs wouldn't make weight, and the students wouldn't feel
successful.” Although it took lots of hard work and dedication, Mercy High is so happy to have added FFA to the school and to the community. This club has brought students closer together and given the opportunity for students with common interests to come to-gether and show their love for agriculture.
134 Years of College Preparatory Catholic Education
Junior Shane Bronner demonstrates
his skills with pig Rosie “OD” in the
show ring at the Tehama District Fair
this fall.
We hope you enjoy this latest edition of the Mercy High School Newsletter. Our Mis-sion, as a Catholic Diocesan College Preparatory School is to develop the whole person, empowering our graduates to affect positive change in the world. We form students in the Catholic tradition through the pursuit of academic excel-lence, spiritual growth, per-sonal integrity, and service to others. You will read in this newsletter edition how we are continuing to grow and devel-op as an educational institu-tion and the great things that our students are doing. We hope this publication keeps you apprised of what's going on at Mercy and our plans and aspirations for the fu-ture. Your feedback is always welcome. -Paul Weber, Principal
Volume 1, December 2016
Junior Hailey Coelho pauses for a
buyers photo with her gilt, Sarah
Jessica Porker prior to the fair .
This past September, the Keller and Sobieralski fami-lies, and our Mercy family, lost a very special wife, mother, daughter, sister, teacher, coach and friend. Candi first came to Mercy as a JV volleyball coach when her daughter Maggie started
school here. She taught and coached for Bishop Quinn for many years prior to that. While coaching here, she remained the facilities coordina-tor for the Bishop Quinn campus in Redding. Candi became the Athletic Director in 2012 and poured her heart and soul into creating a solid program, where all opportunities were afforded ath-letes of any skill level and qualified coaches secured playoff berths. She had such enthusiasm and energy for sports, and attended every game she could, cheering on each individual player to reach their potential. As a coach, she was well loved by her players. Practice was her favorite part of the day. She had a plan and expected her players to be as excited as she was to execute it. Through her continued encouragement, the girls pushed themselves to be their best, and her teams were great. (see back)
The Mercy High School Vol-leyball Program spent the month of October bringing awareness about breast cancer to all the fans in attendance at home games and fundraising for the Think Pink Campaign in Northern California. The Varsity and Junior Varsi-ty teams raised funds through baked goods and jewelry raf-fles, bracelet and lanyard sales, and a “Give Cancer the Boot” donation drive. For their Pink Out game with Liberty Christian, the gym was decked out top to bottom in pink. Fans wore pink to the game, and players sported
pink in their uniforms. Football and cheer teamed up during their Oct. 29 Pink Out home game with a boot drive. The teams presented a check for more than $400 to Think Pink early in November. We are proud of their efforts to affect positive change in their community.
Higher Education Group as a Client Relations Representa-tive. He is a member of Sa-cred Heart Parish and has been active as a Boy Scout Leader. Mr. Lyon will con-tinue to provide assistance to Mr. Arrowsmith and Mrs. Lindeman will be his Instruc-tional Coach as he begins this new endeavor. Please wel-come Mr. Arrowsmith to our Mercy community.
In early Novem-ber, Alek Arrowsmith began teaching the World Geogra-phy classes at Mercy High School in the capacity of a long term substitute teacher for the remainder of this school year. Many thanks to Mr. Lyon for filling in since the passing of Mrs. Kel-ler. Mr. Arrowsmith is a for-mer Mercy student who went on to attend Shasta College, then work for the Follett
Volleyball Hosts “Pink Out”
Welcome Back Alum Alek Arrowsmith
infrastructure, and Computer Science classes. Engineering is the next step to complete the STEM curriculum for Mercy to be considered a STEM school. We have cho-sen “Project Lead the Way” as our Engineering program, which has college and career pathways in Principles of Me-chanical and Electrical Engi-neering, Bio-Medical Engi-neering, and Robotics. Pro-ject Lead the Way, is spon-sored by CSU Chico. Our auction raised nearly $23,000
STEM Engineering Program Planned for the Fall of 2017 Universities and industries are telling us that the career path-ways that hold the most prom-ise for the future are the STEM areas (Science, Tech-nology, Engineering and Mathematics). Mercy High has always had a strong col-lege preparatory curriculum with A-G approved courses in the sciences and mathematics, plus Advanced Placement courses in Biology, Chemis-try, and Calculus. Recently we have invested heavily in technology with our iPads,
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Mercy alum and Social Science
teacher Alek Arrowsmith.
Above: The boys show their spirit.
Below: JV Volleyball sports tutus.
toward curriculum, kits, com-puters, software, and training to implement this program. We are very excited to offer our students a new and excit-ing top-notch, college prepar-atory Engineering program. If you would like to help get this ground-breaking program up and running, visit mercy-high.org and click on the STEM link to donate or go to https://www.pltw.org/our-programs/pltw-engineering to learn more.
Introduction to Engineering Design
Students dig deep into the engineering design process, applying math, science, and engineering standards to hands-on projects like de-signing a new toy or improv-ing an existing product.
Principles of Engineering
Students explore a broad range of engineering topics including mechanisms, strength of structure and materials, and automation, and then they apply what they know to take on chal-lenges like designing a self-powered car.
Since the early 1980’s, Mercy High School has been hosting its annual Winter Gala Auction Fundraiser. Over the years, the event has raised thousands of dollars to help support the school and keep tuition costs affordable. This year was no exception. Things were shaken up a bit this year: the event was moved to a new, amazing location, the Pres-cott Ballroom. Guests enjoyed a catered sit down dinner by Roots Catering of Chico, and all those in attendance seemed to have a wonderful time.
This year’s theme was a mas-querade ball and looking around the crowd, many who attended wore their masks (at least for part of the evening). The decorations were colorful and festive and reminded those in the room of a Mardi Gras party. The wine and beer flowed. Our platinum spon-sors were treated to curbside, reserved parking, free drinks at the bar all night long for them-selves and their guests, an amaz-ing homemade dessert and many other perks reserved just for them. (cont’d back page)
Spirit of Mercy Day
Annual Dinner Auction, “Masks On For Mercy”
Freshman and Sophomore Classes Kick off the Year at Retreats
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day life. Retreats are intentional periods of time where students can get away from schoolwork and reflect on their relationships with God and one another. The Freshman retreat theme was “Fully Alive” and how to find
true happiness in a world that frequently offers paths to false happiness. The theme for the Sophomores was “Anchored in Hope”, which uses the Paschal Mystery of Christ as the founda-tion for hope in a shaky world of uncertainty and instabil-ity. These themes are intention-ally chosen for the students’ age-level, common life experiences, and their connection to theology curriculum. We received positive feedback from the students who said that the NET team ought to be invited back in the future. Patty Landaker was kind in offer-ing her time to prepare a lovely
Earlier this month our Freshman and Sophomore classes partici-pated in their respective annual retreats. We were privileged to welcome a retreat team to Red Bluff from NET Ministries, a national team that puts on retreats at schools and parishes around the country. This group of a doz-en young people (teens to 20s) travel and put on fun, one-day, retreats for our underclassmen. Through personal witness talks, dramas, small group sharing, and games, the students came away with a deeper understanding of the connection of faith to every-
Top: Notre Dame students enjoy
their lunch.
Above: Jack Terrell and Tatiana
Addonizio address visiting parents.
Attendees Theresa Wood and
Stacey Frase show their
“Masquerade” spirit.
Rally Coordinator Hailey Coelho
leads students on a school
tour.
lunch on both days. Teachers also generously made a contribution of food. I’m moved each retreat by the parents and teachers who step up to volunteer to prepare food, chaper-one, or even offer scholarships for the retreat fees. The next retreats are weekend events for the Juniors and
Seniors in February and March. spectively. The next school retreats are weekend
The Prescott Ballroom was
decorated beautifully for the
event.
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barrel fire pit.
Overall, the event was a huge success. The guests had a great time and the evening raised over $30,000 for Mercy High. We look forward to seeing you at next year’s event!
Our auctioneer, Matt, kept the event lively and fun throughout the night. He helped us sell all of our jewelry box and shot glass raffle chances, and the winners of those raffles went home with an amazing prize at the end of the evening.
The live auction was a nice mix of destination packages and out-door fun from a pallet bar to
Of the seasons in recent memory, her teams came out on top of the league stand-ings, and they were fun to watch. Soon after Candi became Ath-letic Director, she began teaching social science and religion. She loved teaching and brought that same enthu-
Keller, continued……..
134 Years of Quality Catholic Education
Left: Senior quarterback Kavin
McClellan finds a hole.
Above: Varsity volleyball celebrates.
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Fall Athletes Named to All League Teams
beloved coach. Despite these odds, teams rose to that challenge firmly, with their strength of spirit and dedication of our coaching staff. Cheer was back in action for football this season. The squad of 7 were dynamic on the field. Football saw another playoff berth, finish-ing 3rd in league, only to be cut down early by Butte Valley. Kavin McClellan, Carlos Rosales, Noe Rodriguez and Dart Kingwell were named to the Nor Cal 8 man All League team. The tennis team was small but
tenacious. Senior Mary DiMag-gio qualified for SVL finals, finished 5th overall and was named to the All League team. The swim team of 8 sent several qualifiers to the masters meet. Senior Marcus Kuchle finished first in league in the 50 free. Varsity volleyball had a season of ups and downs, and with only 3 seniors on the team, were oh-so-close to reaching playoffs. Sen-ior Annie Feser was named to the All League team. Things are looking up for the future, as the JV squad finished 1st in league.
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Art 1A
students visit
the Crocker
Art Museum in
Sacramento
and gather for
a “Groupie”.
Auction continued……...
siasm from the court into the classroom. The halls of Mercy definitely feel empty without her physical presence there. She is missed dearly, but Candi will always be a Warrior and is in our hearts every day. Visit mercy-high.org and click on the link to make a donation to the scholarship endowment in Candi’s name set up with the Diocese of Sacramento.
This fall met with some challeng-es on the field, in the pool, and on the court. With a high number of players being seniors last year, teams adjusted to the test of younger squads, smaller rosters, and the early season loss of a
