St. Patrick's Day Youth Dance rescheduled
for April 11
The "St. Patrick's Day Community Youth Dance" originally scheduled for March 7 but was canceled due to a winter snowstorm has been rescheduled for April 11.
The event, for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade residents of Tallmadge, will run from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Tallmadge Middle School, 76 North Ave.
Cost to attend the dance is $5 presale and $6 at the door. All tickets sold prior to the cancellation will be honored on April 11. Students who still wish to purchase tickets may buy them at TMS on April 10.
Music will be provided by NRG Entertainment, a disc jockey who interacts with youth while playing their favorite songs. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the event. The ticket price includes a slice of pizza and a beverage, however, additional snacks and beverages may be purchased at the dance. All proceeds from the dance will be used to plan future activities and events for Tallmadge youth.
To alleviate traffic congestion, parents are requested to drop their students off and pick them up at the north door of TMS, observing one-way traffic flow by entering the TMS north parking lot from North Avenue and exiting onto Northeast Avenue. Students will be dismissed from the dance on a staggered schedule with sixth-graders being dismissed at 9:10 p.m., seventh-graders at 9:20 and eighth-graders at 9:30.
For information about CAN, contact President Linda Sasanecki at 330-630-9718.
After School Hours
set for April 7
After School Hours with the Tallmadge Board of Education is set for April 7 from 5 to 6 p.m. in the McCombs Education Center, 486 East Ave.
Two members of the Board and district administrators will be on hand to meet with Tallmadge residents in an informal dialogue setting. Personnel matters and issues involving an individual student must be addressed through previously established protocol. Regular After School Hours sessions are scheduled the first Monday of the month, at the same time and location. The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board of Education is set for April 16 at 6 p.m. in the Les Bennett Center at Tallmadge High School.
Athletic Boosters
to host fundraiser
April 25 at Tangier
Tallmadge Athletic Booster Club will host its annual auction "Jeans & Jewels" fundraiser April 25 at the Tangier. The $40 per person or $75 per couple cost includes open bar, dinner and silent/live auctions. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
"This is our third year sponsoring the auction and we are really excited about it," said Athletic Booster President Kevin Armbruster. "Our turnout and proceeds exceeded our expectations before and we are anticipating some additional needs for our student athletes next school year." Boosters fundraiser to help with new uniforms, equipment, banquets and awards for high school and middle school athletes and Armbruster said proceeds from this auction will be also be used to enhance the new facilities at the new high school, scheduled to open in the fall.
Boosters are busy gathering items for the auction and Armbruster mentioned some that he suspects will generate great interest among bidders: preferred student parking spaces, vacation condos, Indians tickets, restaurant dinners and overnight stays, front-row seats at graduation, Principal for the Day honors, as well as prom, party, college and other themed baskets. All high school and middle school sports teams are contributing items to be auctioned.
The "Jeans & Jewels" auction is Tallmadge Athletic Booster Club's major fundraiser with funds generated spent on student athletes in grades 7 through 12. Athletic Boosters contributed more than $50,000 in 2007 for needed athletic items.
Tickets for the April 25 auction are available from Athletic Boosters selling tickets or by calling Kevin Armbruster at 330-733-8090 or Carolyn Raybuck at 330-634-1559.
Students participate in Global Issues
Seminar at KSU
Tallmadge Middle School seventh- and eighth-graders were among students from Northeast Ohio schools who participated in the 2008 Global Issues Seminar at Kent State University March 12.
Each participating school sends one or two teams to the seminar who represent an assigned country in the UN General Assembly.
The following Tallmadge Middle School students were selected to attend: Seventh-grade team: Jacob Wood, Alex Bryan, Mandy Lamtman, Kelsey Knutty and Joe Testa.
The following students represented Belarus in the General Assembly: Eighth-grade Team: Jim Ritz, Skye Jarvis, Danny Nicolino, Shawn Mercer and Paige Schertzinger.
These students represented Iraq in the General Assembly.
Helping the students to prepare for the event were teachers Lindsay Bolender and Amy Bauknecht. Kent State University students and staff served as group facilitators. The middle school students determined from their assigned nation's point of view how the world's resources should be spent in stopping terrorism, educating the world's children, fighting poverty, controlling HIV/AIDS and protecting the environment and basic human rights around the globe.
This model UN program is also conducted annually at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. and beginning next winter in Las Vegas, as well.
The program is co-sponsored by the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at Kent State University and American Educational Consultants.