This isn’t your mother’s fundraiser. Unless you mother is a tech-savvy media maven who’s more at home doing social networking than decorating cupcakes for a bake sale. Then maybe this is
Immaculate Conception School in Port Clinton is putting the final touches on their biggest fundraiser event of the year. The school’s spring auction will take place on April 20 with the theme “Kentucky Derby…Run for the Roses”.
There will be a live auction with items such as trips, a jar full of money, a basket of lottery tickets, donations of gifts and services from various local businesses and much more. Dinner will be catered by the Nor Easter Club. A live auction, a silent auction, horse races to bet on, 50/50’s, a fishbowl auction, and grab bags will be held throughout the evening.
Tickets are available at the school office at 109 W. 4th Street for $25 per person. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Ladies are invited to wear their Derby hats.
Port Clinton High School juniors Noah Cross and Jake Prosser have been selected to participate in the American Legion Buckeye Boys State. American Legion Post 113 selected the students to participate at event to be held June 9-16 on the campus of Bowling Green State University.
Buckeye Boys State is an eight day intensive education program on Ohio government for high school students. American Legion Buckeye Boys State is a program where each participant becomes a part of the operation of local, county and state governments. During Boys State students experience the rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities of a franchised citizen. The students are elected to the various offices and participate in activities such as legislative sessions, court proceedings, law enforcement presentations, assemblies, band and recreation. High School juniors are selected by their local American Legion Posts.
Recently the Oak Harbor High School DECA program's financial literacy promotion project, which included high school students Austin Wiegand, Nathan Segaard and Samantha Durivage, partnered with two of Mrs. Krieger’s fifth grade mathematics classes at Oak Harbor Middle School. Krieger spearheaded the activity by registering her students into the Toledo Blade’s Stock Market Contest, sponsored and judged by Fifth Third Bank and the Toledo Blade.
Wednesday was Dinosaur Day for Mrs. Rita McNutt’s first graders at Immaculate Conception School. It was a day full of hands on learning about the prehistoric beasts of the past. The children visited several stations that allowed them to explore, experience, and create.
Kayden Shrader makes fossils with colorful clay.
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There was a clay station that allowed the students to make fossils with plastic dinosaurs. The class ate like dinosaurs as they enjoyed beef jerky, broccoli, cauliflower, and celery stalks and peanut butter. Each young paleontologist was given a chocolate chip cookie, a toothpick, and a small paint brush to carefully remove “fossils” or chocolate chips from the cookie- a tedious and precise process. The students each were given dinosaur activity books that incorporated many areas of learning, such as math, spelling, reading, and writing, with the dinosaur theme. At the conclusion of the day, Mr. Gregory Fox entertained the class with song.
