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February 7, 2008

Newer TVs Needed: As you replace your TV, the school may be able to use your older one if it is new enough to include the DVD/RCA jacks.

Grandparents’ Tea – February 12^th

Your elementary students are looking forward to campus visits by grandparents this coming Tuesday, February 12^th, between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Invitation were sent for this special tea is hosted by Elementary Students 1^st thru 6^th grades, but so far response has been slow. Grandparent substitutes are very welcome. RSVP

Moms In Touch This prayer group meets Wednesday mornings to pray for your children and teachers. They will appreciate your school related prayer requests if you get those into Patty Cloud before each Wednesday morning. They will also love to have more join them in this vital ministry.

School Calendar Adjustments Snow days have prompted a revision of calendar for the balance of the school year. Enclosed is calendar with yellow hi-lights showing areas of change.

ACSI District Spelling Bee at Grace Christian School this Friday, Feb. 8

1^st grade Jacob Dryden, Megan Pritchett

2^nd grade Justin Estes, Caleb Parker

3^rd grade Caleb Moore, Casey Ross

4^th grade Tianna Bowman, Ben Shields

5^th grade Bryanna Moore, Charity Schmidt

6^th grade James Akinleye, Baylee Hill

7^th grade Ariana Cooper, Connor Lauffenburger

8^th grade Jacob Lundgren, Cristian Padilla

Junior High Brain Bowl For several years we have done so remarkably well with our high school brain bowls, it is great to add junior high to our brain bowl competitions! The junior high students team members are: Cathy Cunningham, Nicole Park, Cristian Padilla, Brandi Ewart, Rachel Kostrna, Bailey Bars, Jacob Lundgren David Johnson. Dane Scott, Pierce Prozy

Junior High Brain Bowl Competitions:

Location	Date	Time
@ New Hope v. South Middle School, week 3	Tuesday, February 5	12:45 in cafeteria
@Hanby Middle School, Gold Hill, week 4	Thursday, February 7	Leave NH @ 9:00
@ Ruch Middle School, Ruch, week 5	Wed., February 13	Leave NH @ 9:20
@ New Hope v. Lorna Byrn, week 6	Thursday, February 21	1:30 in cafeteria
@ Fleming, Merlin, week 7	Thursday, February 28	Leave NH @ 8:45

The Freshman-Sophomore match is Tuesday, Feb. 19. Practices are during 7^th period on February 7, 12, and 14^th

The Master’s Brain Bowl is Sat. Feb. 23. Practices are during 4^th period on February 8, 11, 15, and 22^nd

Frosh/Soph Team Members are: Alex Heater, Jon Matthews, Sarah Johnson, Barocha Stone, Helen Na, Tyler Parks, Kevin Payne, Marc Nicholes, Stephen Kostrna, Yoonie Chung, Eli Cunningham, Courtney Colvin

Master’s Brain Bowl Members are: Andrew Kostrna, Amber Willingham, Tim Hillier, Brett Jaynes, Jacob Bowdoin, John Bayley, Nika Payne, John Mundy, Lauran Woodruff, Jessica Heryford, Ryan Garcia, Bethany Matthews

COME SUPPORT YOUR WARRIORS: Last regular season home games for high school are this Saturday, February 9 against Umpqua Valley Christian. Girl’s JV starts at 3:00, Boy’s JV at 4:30, Girl’s Varsity 6:00 and Boy’s Varsity at 7:30. A ceremony honoring our senior athlete’s to be held immediately following the Girl’s Varsity game.

Bless your family and friends with gifts this Valentine’s Day and support Warrior Basketball. A silent auction of gifts for men, women, teens and children will be available during the home games this Saturday. Proceeds will help with traveling expenses for our Boy’s Varsity Basketball team as they head to the District Playoffs in Bandon next week. Go Warriors!

NEEDED: This Saturday we have NO one to do concessions! The two ladies who have done this the past weeks need a break. IF you can help, please contact Terell Bowdoin, 660-6320. Concessions help defray huge game expenses, besides being desirable during this long stretch of time, 3:00 – 9:15 p.m.

Israel Trip The Israel committee reminds students/parents need they need to sign up for the Israel trip by this Friday, February 8^th, which includes a $250 sign-up fee. After this, the slots will be opened up to outside students, thus the seats may fill up. Thank you.

20 MPH Zone Around New Hope Parents and students, please observe the 20 MPH school safety zone around NHCS. It is tough to make yourself slow down, but please observe this safety law. Congratulations to Copeland trucks that frequent New Hope Rd in front of our school – I notice that they ALWAYS carefully observe the safety speed limit.

Campus Improvement Needs to Start Considering These are not in budget, but will be a GREAT addition for our students if some parents or grandparents feel able and led to contribute the funds:

Washington State Track & Field Coach’s Association Honors New Hope Track Coach

NHC track coach David Bowdoin recently attended the Olympia, WA WSTFCA convention, all expenses paid, to receive their Contributor of the Year 2007 award. Each year, that state association chooses one coach to honor for “Outstanding devotion to the support and promotion of track in field in Washington State”. At the convention, they not only awarded the New Hope Christian School’s track coach, but asked David to lead a 50 minute seminar with many track coaches in attendance. The association also asked David if he might place on his website their logo as being the official Washington State track statistics site.

Why choose a coach from a private Christian school in Grants Pass, Oregon for the state of Washington track contribution award? Coach David’s www.Athletic.net was a huge help for Washington coaches, athletes, and newspapers in Washington during last spring’s track season. Introduced to Washington coaches during the previous year’s track season, it now saves their coaches uncountable hours of coaching duties, keeping stats keeping stats for their athletes, their leagues, their state, etc.. Furthermore it has revolutionized the making of track meet entries, now seconds instead of days for the old method of typing in meet entries!

Athletic.net was developed by coach David to keep track of his own athlete’s meet marks. Every meet mark made by his athletes since middle school are on permanent visible record. Four seasons ago, spring 2004, David made his program available to all of Oregon’s track coaches by his website. By word of mouth it’s use quickly spread until last year all of Oregon’s high schools participating in track used Athletic.net to some extent. Naturally, to save immense amounts of time, all the large track meets in the state except the State Championships, require meet entries via www.Athletic.net .

With the February 18^th start of Oregon’s spring track season only days away, coach David Bowdoin is not only seeking a repeat of a 2^nd place showing by his boys’ team in the 1 A Oregon State Championships, but he hopes to double the current number of coaches, 5,300+, who have made use of his site this past year. Already Athletic.net has at least partial profiles for 220,673 athletes with 1,712,000 event marks recorded!

Last year in addition to expanding nationally for high school, middle school was added. Now added for this coming track season, college use for their own track programs.