First Place Special Olympics Bowling team.
The Special Olympics athletes competed in the State Special Olympics Bowling tournament on Saturday Nov. 23, at Bowlerama Lanes in Des Moines. The results are as follows:
Singles:
Dayton McDonald- 4th place
McKenze Lubbert- 5th place
Daniel Podhajsky- 1st place
Doubles teams:
Edwin Rodas and Chloe Whitehead- 1st place
Dakota Sinclair and Alexandrea Olinger- 1st place
Team: Isaac Youngblood, Colin Lura, Calvin Halvorsen, Tom Lura- 1st place
L to R: Martha Edgeton, Anel Garza, Ted Kalestad.
The PM Kiwanis Club donated $300 to Woodbury Elementary recently, continuing their annual tradition of providing funds for hats, mittens, shoes, socks and other supplies.
Martha Edgeton and Ted Kallestad from the PM Kiwanis presented the check to Principal Anel Garza.
MHS students saved nearly $700K in tuition and fees just by taking dual credit math classes while in high school!
Joe Carmicheal (MHS ’07), phlebotomist at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, shows MHS students in PLTW Biomedical Sciences class how to draw blood.
A recent graduate of Marshalltown High School went back to visit with needles, a fake arm and knowledge in the medical field to share with science classes.
Joe Carmichael, a 2007 MHS graduate, the 2012 Iowa Phlebotomist of the Year and a phlebotomist at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, taught the principles of biomedical science class Wednesday about what a phlebotomist does, showed them different types of needles and taught them how to draw blood.
Read the full story in today’s Marshalltown Times-Republican.
RICOCHET students from Lenihan deliver 851 non-perishable food items to the Emergency Food Box.
Lenihan’s student leaders are quite busy these days. During one week in November RICOCHET, a leadership/service-learning group at the school, sponsored a can drive netting 851 cans for the Emergency Food Box.
It’s not the first time these students have organized a charitable event. It certainly won’t be their last.
“We wanted to give food to people who didn’t have food,” said Emma Younkin, one of the RICOCHET students who organized the drive.
“Especially with Thanksgiving,” added fellow organizer Avery Case.
Nov. 18-22 Lenihan students were asked to bring non-perishable food items to benefit the Emergency Food Box. Leading the charge was RICOCHET, a student leadership program from the Iowa State University Extension. The group formed at Lenihan a year ago and since then they have raised money to sponsor swimming lessons at the Community Y, a successful food drive for House of Compassion, and the recent drive for the Emergency Food Box. Branded as the “Feeding Lenihan” campaign, the RICOCHET students hoped to collect 720 cans – one for each Lenihan student. It was a goal they easily surpassed.
To promote the drive, RICOCHET students created posters, shared a PowerPoint presentation for staff to use and offered to talk to classes themselves. The students also agreed to be the first to bring canned items on the Monday of the drive to encourage their classmates.
“I texted all my friends to bring cans and to forward it to all their friends,” Avery said.
RICOCHET students helped count cans and totals were announced daily. On Monday, Nov. 25, the students delivered the goods to the Emergency Food Box.
“I think it was a good experience because the faces of the people were happy for the people who don’t have food,” Emma said. “They were thankful.”
“It made me feel good inside to know I’m helping out my community,” Avery said.
Service to school and community is a big component of RICOCHET and the students are excited about projects on the horizon. Since the group formed last year they’ve grown, creating a more formal structure with officers and committees. The students say they’re now looking into a bake sale, Valentine’s Day candy-grams and placemats for nursing homes – among other things.
“We are extremely proud of the kids for looking for ways to help the community, setting goals, and reaching well beyond them,” said Diane Simpson, who teachers at Lenihan. Simpson helped the students with their project, along with Angie Lovell, Court Koch, Diane Simpson, Steve Simpson, Liz Jurgensen, Ada Brown, Lyle Niemyer, Mary Hines, Jackie Patterson, and Donna Patton. “We are also grateful to the community organizations who have been helpful to us as we reach out and practice our leadership skills.”
The Marshalltown High School Athletic Department is excited to announce that we will be hosting a Veterans Night on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013.
All veterans and any active member of the armed forces are invited to join us as we recognize the sacrifices that our military makes for us.
Richard Ortega, a veteran and current Woodbury Elementary teacher who recently returned home from Afghanistan, will be recognized between the varsity girls and varsity boys game (approximately 7:15pm).
All veterans and a spouse will be admitted free of charge as they enter the ticket gate area on the east side of the Roundhouse. The north bleacher area will be reserved for all veterans to be seated and recognized as a group in between games.
The MHS National Anthem Singers will present a special Armed Forces Salute, and the MHS pep band will be performing patriotic numbers during the games.
Before students embarked on Thanksgiving Break, third grade students at Fisher Elementary embarked on another journey – one through the history of Ellis Island and immigration in the early 20th Century.
Third grade students participated in a simulation Tuesday, Nov. 26, that took them through the different steps experienced by immigrants arriving at Ellis Island around the turn of the last century.
Read more about their experience in the Marshalltown Times-Republican.
Hoglan students organize donated food items for the Emergency Food Box.
Hoglan students and staff collected 1,031 items for the Emergency Food Box recently, more than doubling the 500-item challenge put forth by the school’s parent/teacher organization.
Team Hoglan charged the school with collecting 500 items between Nov. 11 and Nov. 22, promising a cookie treat for the class that collected the most. Students and staff easily doubled that goal, with Mrs. Graglia’s fourth grade collecting the most of any class (155 items).
Bennett Hageman is not the most outspoken student in his class at Lenihan Intermediate School, but his quiet way of leadership is appreciated by his teacher.
Sixth grade teacher Leah Mattox said Hageman leads in a positive, but quiet way.
Read Bennett’s full spotlight in today’s Marshalltown Times-Republican.
With 17 years of U.S. Army service including deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Sgt. First Class Kristina Smith has plenty of experiences to share.
She has been able to share some of these in a recently-published book, “The Ultimate Deployment Guide: Insight into a Deployed Soldier and Guide for the First-Time Deployed.” She wrote with the book along with Paul Smith (no relation).
Read the full story in today’s Marshalltown Times-Republican.
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