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  • April 24Lunch - Hot Ham & Cheese Pretzel Sandwich, Baked Beans, Sweet Potato Fries and Choice of Fruit and Milk!
  • April 22Buffalo Chicken Cheddar Hoagie, French Fries and Choice of Fruit and Milk!
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  • April 19Lunch - Pacifico Specialty Pizza, Sweet Potato Fries, Romaine Salad and Choice of Fruit and Milk!
  • April 18Tater Tot Casserole w/Roll, Steamed Broccoli and Choice of Fruit and Milk!
  • April 18Mini-Thon! Eighth grade tickets will be sold Thursday, April 18 during sixth period and Friday, April 19 during fourth period.
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  • April 17Lunch- Turkey, Bacon, Swiss croissant sandwich with french fries and a choice of fruit and milk!

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Sports:

TRACK: FRESHMAN

  • On Monday, April 28, the freshman took part in the Latrobe 9-10 Invitational

  • On Wednesday, April 29, they went head-to-head with Central Mountain

  • Ninth grade track meet to Central Mountain on April 29 got cancelled.

TRACK: VARSITY

  • On Tuesday, April 29, they also took on Central Mountain

TRACK: Seventh & Eighth

  • On Monday, April 28, the seventh and eighth grade track team, took on Penns Valley, and Northern Cambria. They beat Penns Valley 83-57 and lost to Northern Cambria, 60-77

 

BOY’S TENNIS

  • On Tuesday, April 29, the game against Indiana got cancelled

  • On Tuesday, April 29, the game against Dubois got cancelled

 

BOY’S BASEBALL

  • On Monday, April 28, the boys took on Dubois. They lost the first game and won the second game, 10-3

  • The game on Wednesday, April 30, versus Kiski got cancelled.

Music:

  • On Sunday, May 18, chamber, jazz band and vocal ensemble performs at the Penn State Altoona Arts Festival

 

  • On Saturday May 17 the Music department is going to New Jersey for adjudication and to Six Flags Afterwards

 

  • On April 29,  the junior varsity and varsity band performed their annual spring concert in the Jr. High School auditorium.

  • Chorus puts on concert on May 1 at the high schoo

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  •  There is a chorus and orchestra concert on May 13 at the Junior High

  • Chamber will be playing at the awards ceremony at the end of the year on May 20.

Clubs

 

  • TSA- Tim Dzurko and Rachel Manack held a fundraising night on April 27 at Texas Roadhouse. They named the event “Relay for Life” and all proceeds goes to the Blair Co. Chapter of the American Cancer Society as part of their TSA Community Service Project.

  • Literary Magazine sale ends on Friday, May 9. Turn in $6 for each magazine to your homeroom.

School events:

 

  • For every five Box Top students turn in to their homeroom, they will be entered to win 4 tickets to attend an Altoona Curves game. The homeroom with the most Box Tops collect, receives a pizza party. Box Top collection ends May 23.

  • Summer gym applications are available at first floor guidance. Application should be turned in by May 1.

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    NATHAN W.May 2, 2014 at 11:55 pm

    Guys in track good job and good luck and same for the rest of you peeps never give up in what you guys and gals do

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