Do you know of a high school senior looking to become an educator? Have them apply for a Jenkins Memorial Scholarship for Teacher Education! The application is due to the NYS PTA office no later than December 15. Seniors - don't miss out on this incredible opportunity!

Amazon Smile is an Amazon program that allows a percentage (.5%) of your purchase to be donated to a charitable organization without any additional cost to the customer! Using this program is easy...

Step 1 - Select your charitable organization. Click here to select the Clinton Central School PTA as your organization to support.

Step 2 - Remember to go to smile.amazon.com whenever you shop on Amazon.

Thank you for your support!

Select CCS PTA

Would you like to purchase a fantastic CCS gift for the holidays?

The sophomore class will be selling this CCS suncatcher ornament at each of the winter school concerts.

Middle School - Thursday, December 14
High School - Wednesday, December 20

The cost is only $5.00.

Natalie Cortright is an incredible fourth grade student with a huge heart! She won the Santoli Award last school year and she used the money she was awarded to "pay it forward" by starting Change for Change in the elementary school!!! Change for Change is a program where students, parents, and faculty members gave their loose change to be donated to a charity. The elementary school raised $602.04 and the students voted to donate the money to Spring Farm Cares!!! Thank you to Natalie and all the generosity that made this fundraiser possible!!!

In this time of giving please remember we have many families in our community that will be facing financial difficulties. Our middle and high school offices are sponsoring several families for Christmas. If you would like to give to our community, please consider a monetary donation or gift card. Either can be dropped off in the high school guidance office. Thank you in advance!

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!

The Clinton Central School District Foundation is conducting its Annual Fund Drive to continue to support student programs that are not funded through the school budget.

Your tax deductible contribution is much appreciated. The Foundation accepts check, credit card, and PayPal payments.

For more information about the CCSD Foundation and how to make a donation, please visit our website.

California continues to battle the raging wildfires that plague many residents' homes and businesses. It is a natural disaster that has caused individuals to lose not only their homes and belongings but their memories and lives as they know it. Between the months of January and November more than 500,000 acres have burned and that number continues to grow. Recently more than 110,000 people have been forced to evacuate and almost 9,000 homes are without power. Winds are reaching speeds of nearly 85 MPH which is causing the raging fires to spread even further across the state.

Rachel's Warriors strives to help organizations both locally and around the world. We want to make a difference for those in need. In an effort to do this we are collecting monetary donations to help the California wildfire victims. Many of these individuals have faced great devastation and any contribution will help aid victims in their road to recovery.

Donations will be accepted through Wednesday, December 20th. All monetary donations can be given to Mrs. Ford in room 213 or Mrs. Hosey Pardi in the guidance office. We hope that you will join Rachel's Warriors in an effort to make a difference for the wildfire victims!

This year the Clinton Boys Varsity Hockey team wants to help those in need in our community have a Merry Christmas. They will be collecting non-perishable food items and unwrapped toys at Friday's game against Ontario Bay. Please come cheer the boys on and bring a food item or toy with you. The puck drops at 7:30!

ESPN will broadcast the following athletic contests on 1310 AM

Wednesday, January 3, 7:00	Boys Basketball vs Westmoreland
Friday, January 12, 7:30	Girls Hockey vs Skaneateles
Saturday, January 13, 3:00	Boys Basketball vs CVA
Friday, February 8, 7:30	Boys Hockey vs RFA

Indoor Track Teams score major victory in first outing of the season!

The boys and girls Indoor Track teams both won their respective divisions at the 2017 John DiMao memorial invitational on Friday 12/8/17 @ Colgate University.

19 schools from Binghamton to Syracuse & Buffalo competed in 2 divisions based on school size.

On the girls end CCS had NINE sectional qualifying performances (one of which achieved state qualifier status).

The boys notched 8 sectional qualifiers (3 of which were state qualifier level).

17 girls scored for the Warriors while 20 boys made the scoreboard.

Clinton	114
Cazenovia	102
Skaneateles	75
Oneonta	50
South Lewis	43
Canastota	31
Sidney	29
Bishop-Ludden	6
Sherburne	5

Clinton	108
Sidney	89
Cazenovia	85
Skaneateles	66
Oneonta	28
Canastota	16
South Lewis	14
Sherburne	14
Bishop-Ludden	0

School records set:
2x1500 Relay 9:59.81 Eva Borton & Taylor Harvey
old record was 10:07.23 set in 2016-17 by Borton & Emma Novak

2x800 Relay 5:00.52 by Borton & Harvey
old record was 5:09.4 set in 2001-02 by Jenny Ryan & Meghan Dunn

2x500 Relay 2:25.21 Robert Musante & Chris Rivera
old record was 2:25.65 set in 2012-13 by Joe Moda & Mike Sykes

"It was a great first outing by both squads. The hard pre-season work put in by the kids in the weightroom and on the track really paid off for CCS".

Next up for CCS is a 4-way meet at MVCC on Wednesday 12/13 with limited events against RFA, CNS & NHT

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.