This year's Halloween parade at the elementary school was lots of fun and the costumes were great! We need your help getting photos for the elementary school yearbook! If you took any pictures at the parade or during the classroom parties, we would love for you to submit them for possible use in the yearbook. We have set up drop boxes for each grade level, where you can simply drag and drop your photos to upload them for review. The links are available below. Thank you for your support!

• Kindergarten Drop Box
• 1st Grade Drop Box
• 2nd Grade Drop Box
• 3rd Grade Drop Box
• 4th Grade Drop Box
• 5th Grade Drop Box
• Unsorted Drop Box

Click here to fill out your PTA Membership Form for the 2017-2018 school year. Volunteering and attending PTA meetings are completely optional. By joining our local unit, you also become a member of the New York State PTA and National PTA, which are both very active child advocacy groups. National PTA teams up with businesses committed to supporting PTA's mission of serving all children by offering its members special discounts, fundraising opportunities and other unique deals. You can look at some of those deals here. Thank you for your continued support!

Clinton Boys Youth Basketball, sponsored by the Optimist Club, is holding signups for boys in grades K-6 in the atrium outside the high school gym.

Signups:
Thursday, Nov 9th, 7pm-8pm
Tuesday, Nov 14th, 7pm-8pm

Basketball sessions are scheduled to begin on Saturday, December 2nd and conclude on January 28th. The K-3 session will run from 9-10:15, and the 4-6 session will run from 10:30-11:45. No sessions will be held over the holiday break.

Sessions will meet in the High School Gym. Please use the entrance by the tennis court parking lot next to the football field. The cost is $30 per child for the season, which includes a Clinton Youth Basketball t-shirt. Your child should wear sneakers and shorts or sweatpants and bring water to each session. If you have any questions, please contact Jim Sojda at clintonwarriorsbball@yahoo.com. Signup information is also available at http://clintonbball.wix.com/warriors.

If you are unable to make signups, but would still like to have your child participate, please send an email to clintonwarriorsbball@yahoo.com.

We look forward to an exciting year of working with our future Warriors Basketball Players!

-Coach Sojda and the Varsity Boys Basketball Staff and Team

• Submit Entries to:
  Mrs. Lillibridge in the Computer Lab


• All entries must be submitted by:
  Friday, November 17, 2017 in order to be judged and tagged.
  
  (We then need to submit our school's entries to the contest by December 1st)


• No late submissions will be accepted!


• Please read all rules carefully! Click here to view the rules and specifications.


• DO NOT put your name on it... we will do it with a special tag when you turn it in.


• Have fun and show your creative side!!! This is a voluntary activity that should be done at home. Mrs. Hall will be available during 4th and 5th grade recess for creative help by appointment.

Registration for the First 2 Sessions is open at- www.cnystem.com/careers. (Times may vary... See website for details)

Questions? Contact Yael Miller, CNY STEM Program Coordinator at ymiller@macny.org or info@cnystem.com

Clinton Central School is taking part in a Plastic Film Recycling Challenge to celebrate American Recycles Day (November 15th). For this Challenge, students will be asked to collect plastic film (i.e. grocery bags, bread bags, Ziploc bags and more) which can only be recycled through take-back programs offered by grocery stores and retailers in NYS.

The goal of this Challenge is to educate the community on proper recycling of plastic grocery bags and other plastic film items, which cannot be recycled through regular curbside recycling programs. This initiative focuses on collecting clean, dry plastic film in order to keep it out of our region's landfill.

Clinton is competing against other schools in Oneida and Herkimer Counties to collect the most plastic film per capita. We will be collecting plastic film from November 15th - December 22nd.

Please begin saving the items listed below and sending them to school with students for proper recycling!

Acceptable Items (must be CLEAN and DRY):

• Grocery bags
• Bread bags
• Case overwrap
• Dry cleaning bags
• Newspaper sleeves
• Ice bags
• Wood pellet bags
• Ziploc & other reclosable bags
• Produce bags
• Bubble wrap
• Salt bags
• Cereal bags

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Meredith Callaghan (mcallaghan@ccs.edu) or Denise Toia-Kramer (dtoiakramer@ccs.edu)

Thank you in advance for helping our students keep plastic film out of the landfill!

Have a pizza and help a student go to college! Every Wednesday during the fall and winter months, when you purchase a pizza from Alteri’s Restaurant in Clinton (dine in or take out), $2 of the price will go to Clinton Dollars for Scholars to support a scholarship to honor Mr. and Mrs. Alteri. The local chapter matches up to $500 to make this a $1,000 scholarship. For more information, go to clinton.dollarsforscholars.org.

Hamilton College Performing Arts in partnership with the Fillius Jazz Archive present DIVA Jazz Orchestra on Friday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Headed by swinging drummer Sherrie Maricle, DIVA is an ensemble of 15 extremely talented and versatile female musicians, With New York as their home base, DIVA performs all over the world playing contemporary, mainstream big band jazz composed and arranged to fit the individual personalities and styles of the musicians themselves. Audiences can expect to hear high-energy performances packed with unique improvisation, spontaneity and fun.

Since their premiere performance over 21 years ago, DIVA has toured the world to critical and popular acclaim. They have performed around the world and have appeared on several television shows.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens, and $5 for students. For more information, call the box office at 859-4331 or visit us at www.hamilton.edu/performingarts or on Facebook at Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Kirkland Community Red Cross Bloodmobile
Saturday, December 2, 2017, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

VFW Post 9591
48 Franklin Avenue
Clinton, NY 13323

Mark your calendar! Donors needed - especially because of loss of donation sites due to natural disasters. Donors will receive light pens and tasty, homemade refreshments. Make appointments by calling 315-853-6300.