DC Fundraiser Info

Information for those of you that volunteered to help out with the Texas Hold'em fundraiser is on it's way. I should get it the volunteer schedule mailed out by the end of the week. Please take a look at the day/time slot that you have been assigned and let me know as soon as you can if I've plugged you into a time slot that doesn't work. As hopefully you can appreciate, giving everyone the exact day and time that they asked for was impossible...but if anyone can understand that you have other things already planned (ball games, vacations, camps, etc...) it's me. Let me know and I'll do my best to work something else out. Thanks in advance for all your help with this.

Cy Bastian Memorial Fundraiser

A Co-Ed Soccer game will be held as a fundraiser to help the family of Cy Bastian, a SCHS Sophomore who passed away on Friday June 4th. The game is scheduled for Monday, June 14th 5:30 pm at East China Stadium. Entrance fees will be by donation.

Grief/Loss Support Program

As I'm sure everyone knows, our East China Family has suffered many tragedies in the past year. In an effort to help our students cope with these losses, a Grief and Loss Support Program will be held at Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Clair, on Wed June 16th. A program for teens is scheduled to begin at 7pm. A separate program for parents helping teens starts at 7:30pm. For further information, please go to the St. Clair High School Web Site.

Football Meeting

The date for Tuesday's 8th grade/soon to be 9th grade football meeting was wrong in an earlier post and has been corrected. The correct date and time is Tuesday, June 8th from 6:30 to 7:30 @ the high school.

Goodbye Mrs. Zydek

Last night was our end of the year Choir Concert and as in years past, the kids did an amazing job. What made last night extra special was that it was the last concert for Mrs. Zydek as she will be retiring at the end of the year. Mrs. Zydek started in the district in 1989 and has been an inspiration to countless young musicians. Congrats to everyone involved last night and a special thank you to Mrs. Zydek for all of her hard work.....you'll be missed.

SCHS Meet the Coaches

The Meet the Coaches Night that was scheduled for June 9TH 2010 at the high school has been canceled....but......the Football meeting for current 8th graders, soon to be 9th graders, that is scheduled for Tuesday night, June 8th, from 6:30 to 7:30 is still on.

New Skate Park Project.

Anyone that has been down Carny Drive has seen a new addition to our community that has been getting a lot of use by our middle schoolers. I just received this flyer....looks like they could use our help.

The City of St. Clair Skate-Bike Park
Community Build – Thursday, June 10, 2010

Work with the Home Depot Crew to beautify our park.
Community and Student volunteers needed!!!

Tree Plantings, landscaping, benches, planter boxes, Butterfly Garden install all in one day!!!

Community helping hands!! Student volunteers are needed after school!!! Please contact the City of St. Clair Recreation Department and/or Trice Hawkins, Recreation Director at 329-7121 phawkins@cityofstclair.com to volunteer.

Watching History....Almost

Over the past few years, through the hard work of Mrs. VanTroostenberghe and the generosity of the Detroit Tigers, we have been able to take all of our students that make Student of the Month to a Tiger game. Last night, our Student of the Month kids came within one out of seeing the Tigers make history. In all of sports, one of the rarest feats is the perfect game in baseball. No hits, no walks, no errors. With two outs in the 9th inning, a weak ground ball was hit and I was sure history was made....I had already planned how I was going to frame my ticket stub with the next day's Detroit Free Press front page. Then, the umpire makes one of the worse calls I have ever seen and calls the runner safe at first. By the time we got home, the umpire's poor call was the talk on every local and national news station..and probably will be for a few days. I'm still a little stunned, but even without the perfect game, the weather was great, the kids had a good time and memories were made...what else could you ask for (except maybe for instant reply)?

Band Concert....Wow

Hats off to Mr. Decker and all of our bands as they preformed last night. It seems that I say this every year, but the improvement from the start of the year to the end of the year in each of the bands is amazing. This year we had an extra treat when our Middle School Jazz Band performed during an intermission. Great job to all involved....just another example that we've got talented kids at SCMS.

Great Weekend

Could the weekend have been any better? The weather was a tad rocky Monday afternoon but other than that we couldn't of asked for anything better. I did learn that it isn't a very smart idea to put oil on your face and fall asleep in a lounge chair in the heat of the day (chasing grand kids around wears you out).

As the light at the end of the tunnel gets brighter and brighter we're going to make one last push to get all assignments turned in. As you can probably imagine, as the finish line gets closer, our ability to keep everyone focused gets tougher and tougher. Any and all help you can give us is appreciated.