October 18, 2007

See Picture of Our New Gym Floor on the School Website  The floor installers set this coming Monday for sports activities to begin in the gym!  Still much work to be done on other portions of renovation as funds and time enable. 

Gym Use Cautions Being Exercised  We will exercise extra caution since some in our school family have expressed concern about presence of floor finish fumes needing to dissipate more.  Therefore on the part of caution, we for a time are making the following adjustments of gym use:

• Participation in the gym is not mandatory for maybe up to several weeks.
• Postponed the planned chapels in the gym for several weeks.
• Postponed the great and exciting awards ceremony for student gym efforts which was scheduled for Monday.
• PE which may start using the gym on Monday will be OPTIONAL if a parent writes an excuse note with preference for their child to exercise caution.  Any with such excuse will stay in a classroom to study.
• The season’s last middle school girls’  volleyball game is scheduled for Monday in our gym, and to exercise caution, it will be cold for spectators since some of our exhaust fans will be on during the game.
• Basketball practices beginning on Tuesday will be well ventilated.

Our gym circulating fans have been on continually since it was coated this last weekend, to further speed up curing of the finish.

It is great to have this improved facility, and we are thankful for each of us working together to make this a GREAT experience for the New Hope family!

Athletic Shoes Will Be Required for Gym Play

The Back Entries Into the Gym Will Only Be Used for Emergencies  This will be in effect until a protective back entry can be built.

No Food or Drinks in the Gym

New Hope Middle School Boys are District Cross Country Champions Again!

Thanks to the hard work of the boys, and the great coaching of Ken Bern and Dave Johnson, these boys not only took first in their district meet, but they also took first in two other large meets with large schools!  The Publications class will do a great job of picturing this talented group with a more detailed write-up in their next publication.

High School Cross Country District Championships, Tuesday at Valley of the Rogue State Park, 3:15 p.m.

We need 20 helpers!  This is New Hope’s year to run the meet.  To meet park requirements, we need 11 traffic control, parking, and facility watchers, plus we need almost 9 people to operate the meet.  Contact our school office if you can assist.

Monday - Saturday – Contact Terell Bowdoin, 660-6320, if you can assist with painting, cleaning, or construction at anytime.

Tuesday is the Start of Middle School Boys’ Basketball Practices

Tuesday is Also the Start of High School Basketball Open Gym

Another College Rep Visit Arranged  This Monday a George Fox representative will be in room 7 during 5^th period.

Academic Challenge to Be on TV  Last night our students participated in their first Academic Challenge.  For several years, NH students have been greatly successful with the spring Brain Bowls of a different format.  Now we are joining the Academic Challenge circuit.  Following are some notes e-mailed from Lisa Ward, our English teacher:

Our Academic Challenge team will be shown playing Brookings-Harbor HS on Sunday night at 9 p.m. on KOBI, channel 5.   Team members are:

• Jacob Bowdoin – captain
• John Bayley
• Bethany Matthews
• Amber Willingham
• Ryan Garcia

They played Brookings-Harbor who was 2^nd last year.     We lost, but we learned a lot.   We made a few mistakes because of the different rules from Brain Bowl.   It came down to who was faster on the buzzer.    We will do better next time.   They put the largest schools against the smallest schools in the first round.   It is double elimination so we get at least one more time.  

YOU Can Make Our Biggest Event of the Year, Harvest Festival, a Better Success! 

So far, one staff member has purchased 20 tickets, plus the 4 free tickets to give away.  We have families in school who were influenced by friends inviting them to the HF.

Do you have skills, services, or new items you can donate to be auctioned?. Contact Diana Hale

The past two years, parking was extremely crowded.  Contact the school if you can give any time for parking assistance.