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This Week & Beyond… Monday, November 4 Hot Lunch: Asian Bar or Chicken Rice Burrito or Homemade Pizza or Asian Noodle Shaker or Turkey Wrap Tuesday, November 5 Hot Lunch: Palo Mesa Pizza, pep-peroni or cheese & fruit Wednesday, November 6 Hot Lunch: Pork Chili Verde or Chicken Tornados or Homemade Pizza or Spicy Chef Shaker Thursday, November 7 Hot Lunch: Panda Express Orange Chicken, Chow Mein & Cookie Friday, November 8 Hot Lunch: Spicy Chicken Tenders or Chicken Taquito or Homemade Pizza or Sub Sandwich or BLT Cobb Shaker First Friday Breakfast & Awards Monday, November 11 NO SCHOOL-TEACHER WORKDAY Tuesday, November 12 Hot Lunch: Palo Mesa Pizza, pep-peroni or cheese & fruit Veterans’ Day Prayer Service, 9:30 Dismissal 12:45 for P/T Confer-ences Wednesday, November 13 Hot Lunch: Chicken Nachos or Chicken Tornados or Homemade Pizza or Spicy Chef Shaker Canned Food-each item gets you one item of Alternative Dress Picture Re-takes Dismissal 12:45 for P/T Confer-ences BBB vs Paulding 3:00/4:00 Mom/Daughter VB in gym, 6:30PM Thursday, November 14 Hot Lunch: Panda Express Honey Sesame Chicken, Fried Rice & cookie Dismissal 12:45 for P/T Confer-ences Friday, November 15 Hot Lunch: Pizza Special or Chick-en Taquito or Homemade Pizza or Sub Sandwich or BLT Cobb Shaker Dismissal 12:45 for P/T Confer-ences

2019-2020 Year of Integrity

School Phone (805) 489-1210 Fax (805) 489-7662 www.stpatschoolag.com gjohnson@stpatschoolag.com Volume 23 Issue 11

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Dear Parents,

I hope that you enjoy a restful weekend after all of the excitement from this past week. Halloween was a wonderful success here at St. Patrick School and our students showed wonderful spirit during our annual Halloween Parade!

The week ended on a high note with our school and parish communi-ties joining together to celebrate All Saints Day Mass and honor our family and friends who have passed away with our Dìa De Los Muer-tos altar. All Saints Day is one which really strikes a chord with me as we honor those saints that came before us. Saints were not born saints…they worked hard to become so holy! Looking toward our stu-dents, and the kind and generous moments that I see on our campus and within our Mercy Projects, I often wonder if we have future saints walking among us.

All Saints Day, as one person wrote, is a day that brings hope and possibility. Who knows who among us will take on the challenge of sainthood? All Saints Day reminds me of the great potential in our children. They have the world ahead of them and in partnership with you, their parents; we hope to help them fulfill their greatest aspira-tions and goals. Nurturing spirituality and potential will certainly bring greatness to their futures. Futures filled with grace, kindness, and hope and quite possibly a saintly life. Here’s to our children and all things possible within them!

Have a great weekend!

Maureen Halderman

November 1, 2019

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES are the week of Novem-ber 11. Emails were sent with the link for you to sign up for your time slot. If you have not gotten an email, please notify the of-fice. Slots are still open so don’t forget to go on the site and sign up. PICTURE RE-TAKE DAY will be on November 13. If your stu-dent needs a picture re-take, or they were absent on Picture Day, they can wear Alternative Dress, appropriate for church. If you are not happy with your original pictures, please have your student bring them to re-take day to give to the photographer.

St. Patrick’s School Prayer Corner… Prayers are requested for:  

Frank & Marie Petro a, Great Grandparents of Hank & Adelaide Richards, who are in need of prayers 

Tom, a friend of Michele Penner, who is in ICU 

For the Short Family 

Rebecca Prokopchuk, who is recovering from surgery 

Be y Maloney, who is struggling with the move to assisted living 

In Thanksgiving for prayers answered for the Orr Family 

Alumnus Paul Karp, who is being treated for lympho‐ma 

Denny Ward, Grandfather of Levi & Maggie MacCrea‐dy, who has suffered a stroke 

Kris ne Guiang , Natalie & Chase Untal’s Aunt, who is ill and needs our prayers 

Rachel McKenna, Principal at Sacred Heart, Hollister, who is being treated for leukemia 

Joe  Alig, friend of Mrs. Johnson, who has been diag‐nosed with cancer. 

Judy Gaye, Great Grandmother of Eaden Garcia, who has suffered a stroke. 

Grandfather of Taylor & Chris an Kim, who is ba ling cancer 

Bill Portzel, father of Mrs. Vaccaro, who is ill. 

Jim Lyle and Bill Lyle, both Uncles of Eaden Garcia, who have been diagnosed with cancer. 

Carl Hassler, father of Alumni Kevin & Jimmy, who is being treated for cancer 

Marge Gist, sister of Mrs. Laursen, who had a          stroke and needs our prayers 

Nick Barnick, Alumnus, who is ill and needs          our prayers. 

Shani Diehl, friend of the Montoya family, who          is being treated for a brain tumor 

Patricia Schueller, friend of Miss Schrom, who          is very ill 

Alumnus Lynne & her husband Clay Artsdalen,         who is undergoing surgery this week as part of         his cancer treatment. 

Stephanie Ward, cousins of Cole & Blake Pimentel who has cancer. 

Chris Calprice, who is suffering from pancrea c can‐cer 

Christy Carroll, Mrs. Carroll’s Daughter‐in‐law,          who is being treated for cancer and needs our          prayers. 

J.D. O’Meara, friend of the Orlando family, who          has a brain aneurysm 

Beth Parish, friend of Miss D, who needs our          prayers 

Daniell Gularte‐Miller, Alumnus, who is suffering from ovarian cancer 

Delores Ramirez, Grandmother of Alejandro          Reynoso, who is being treated for cancer 

Beth Carroll, alumnus, who works with Catholic          Relief Services in Hai .

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CHANGE IN OFFICE Gail Johnson is now working Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. If you need to email the office and want it to be seen on Monday or Friday, please also send your email to Kendra, at kbrownlee@stpatschoolag.com THANKSGIVING FOOD DRIVE will be on Nov. 13. St. Patrick’s Church will benefit from the food drive this time. They would like TG items such as canned yams, cranberry sauce, stuffing mic, cake mixes and frozen turkeys. For each item your student brings, they get one item of Alternative Dress. PARENTS & TEACHERS are invited to a Monday morning rosary each Monday at 7:30AM, in the chap-el above the Preschool, beginning Monday, Novem-ber 4

ANNUAL FUND 2019/2020 is now open and accep ng your dona ons. Also, please consider naming St. Patrick School in your legacy plans, knowing that your dona on will help carry our tradi ons of Mercy into the future for our students’ benefit. The money raised from the Annual Fund helps us with projects to update our facili es & resources for our students each year.

UPCOMING EVENTS IN 19-20 SCHOOL YEAR 11.11.19 NO SCHOOL - Veterans’ Day 11.12.19 Veterans’ Prayer Service in gym 9:30 11.12-11.15 Parent/Teacher Conferences, 12:45 Dis missal on all 4 days for all students! 11.13.19 Picture Retakes 11.22.19 Thanksgiving Mass at 10:30, in gym 11.23-12.1.19 Thanksgiving Break 12.9.19 Immaculate Conception Mass in gym 12.12.19 Gr. K-4 Christmas Program in gym 12.20.19 Christmas Prayer Service in gym,9:30 12.21.-1.5.20 Christmas Break 1.20.20 NO SCHOOL— Martin Luther King Day 1.26-1.31.20 Catholic Schools Week 1.31.20 Grandparents’ Mass in gym @ 10:30, Dismissal at noon for all students 2.11.20 ‘Blue’ Mass 2.17.20 NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day 2.19.20 Panoramic Picture Day 2.26.20 Ash Wednesday Mass, 9:30

ADVANCE MILK SALE PRICES No refunds on milk not used.

Oct. $6.60 - Nov. $3.30 - Dec. $4.20 Jan. $5.70 - Feb. $5.40 - Mar.$6.00

Apr. $4.50 - May/June $7.20

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CURRICULUM & ACTIVITY CORNER

We have Celtic Pride green slips that our students can earn by: Acting responsibly

Serving others willingly Respecting others in word and actions

Recipients are then acknowledged by the entire student body at flag! This week’s recipients of these Celtic Pride Slips are:

Russell Hohman—Gr. 3 Josie Sandoval—Gr. 2

Congratulations to these students for making a positive impact

on those around them!

FREE DRESS FOR RAFFLE SALES

Those of you who won a FREE DRESS week, it will begin November 4. If you won more than one week of FREE DRESS, it will continue for you until you have used

up all of your FREE DRESS weeks!!

The Solvang Library had a Scary Story Competition that was open to all age groups. Some of our Junior High students participated. Here are the winners for the Scary Story Competition!! They are.... Most Original: I'll Show You How to Die by Kate Kilmer Writers' Craft: tie: Clownz, by Luke Goodwin and A Devil of a Child by Sam Murphy Best Plot: Mechanical Bride, by Devyn Dyar Best Dialogue: Get Out, by Emmerson Reynolds

Congratulations to all of the students who participated!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ‘STEELERS’! This 5 Cities Flag Football team, which is mostly made up of St. Pat’s students won the Championship this week! So kudos to the following boys who worked hard to make that happen: Sam Stoddard James Rodriguez Massimo Anelli Jack Marsalek Cole Pimentel Cody Amarillas Sam Ward

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Celtic Sports

BOYS’ BASKETBALL Gr. 6 Gr. 7 Gr. 8 11.13.09 vs Paulding 11.14.19 @ Los Osos 11.18.19 vs Atascadero 11.19.19 @ Templeton 11.20.19 vs Mesa 11.21.19 vs Judkins 12.2.19 @ Laguna 12.4-12.7 SP7th Gr. Tourney 12.5-12.7 Mesa 8th Gr. Tourney 12.9.19 @ Atascadero 12.11.19 @ Mesa 12.17.19 @ Paulding 12.18.19 @ Judkins 1.7.20 @ Flamson 1.8.20 vs OMS 1.9.20 @ Cayucos 1.13.20 vs Laguna 1.21.20 @ OMS(SLONaz) 1.23-24 7th Gr. Lions Tourney @ Mesa 1.29-2.1 8th Gr.Tourney @ Laguna/LosOsos

CROSS COUNTRY

9.28 Mountain Goat Run @ Judkins 10.9 @ Paulding (SEE NEXT PAGE) 1st Place! 10.15 Mesa Challenge @ Nipomo Regional Park 10.26 @ Laguna, Laguna Lake Golf Course 11.2 County Championship @ Fairbanks Course

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Ways to fulfill your scrip obligation: Reminder: the Scrip year ends on April 30, 2020 Office: You can come into the office and shop the cards we have on hand. You can also place an order for

anything that Great Lakes Scrip offers that we do not have in the office. We will be ordering on THURSDAY (if needed!) so call or email gjohnson@stpatschoolag.com with your order to find out if we are ordering that THURSDAY. Orders placed on THURSDAY are received on the following Monday or Tuesday.

Email: You are welcome to email the office ladies with your order. They will fill it as soon as all of the cards you want are available, and then call you. You can then either pick the order up with the payment, or we can send the order home with your student, once payment is received.

Online: Go to www.glscrip.com and set up your family account to place your order directly with Great Lakes Scrip. You can then pay for them when they arrive with the order that the office places on Fridays, or, you can set up a Presto Pay Account with Great Lakes Scrip and pay them directly. Then your order will be released when we order on Fridays. Let us know if you want us to send it home with your student.

Re-loadable Cards. If you have a Presto Pay Account set up, you can go online to reload some of the cards you already have! Our Scrip program makes money for our school and helps keep your tuition affordable! The $210.00/$235.00 scrip profit and the additional scrip purchased above those amounts, all help with the budget. Our school ID# can be obtained from the school office. If you still have questions, please call the office @ 489-1210.

Don’t forget to get your Scrip! Orders go in on Thursdays as needed.

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