The Amazon Smile triple donation promotion is going on now! Amazon is tripling the donation amount to 1.5% when customers make their first eligible smile.amazon.com purchase from March 12 - 31.

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!

Orders from the Gertrude Hawk Chocolate sale will be available to pick up on March 22 from 5pm - 7pm at the theater box office. Thank you for participating in this fundraiser!

The next General PTA Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 28 at 7pm in the secondary media center. Join us to participate in our discussions about upcoming events. We will also be voting on the nominating committee for next year's PTA board.

If you have any questions, please email the PTA at ccsnypta@gmail.com

Buy your 2018 elementary yearbook today!

Reserve your copy in one of these 3 ways:

1. Online at jostensyearbooks.com ***All Personalization must be done online***
2. Call 1-877-767-5217
3. Bring in order form that came home with your child & cash/check made out to Clinton PTA to the main office. (Orders must be in a sealed envelope marked: YEARBOOK)

Order Today! Don't Delay!

It's not too late to join the PTA! 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!

The honored students exhibit excellence in academics, citizenship, and the core values of Clinton Middle School. Each student selected exemplifies a specific character trait that supports our positive school community. Their grade level teachers consider the character trait of the month and the values of our school in the selection process.

The Green Team Recycling Message of the week was read by Amelia Russell.

This week, our message is about recycling crayons and markers. Do you usually throw away crayons when they are too small? Do you throw away markers when they dry out? Did you know that you can recycle those crayons and markers right in the elementary school front hallway?

The PTA has set up two boxes to collect crayons and markers. When we have collected a lot we will send them away to be recycled. The crayons will be made into new crayons for children who are in the hospital. Markers can be recycled and turned into energy.

For more information on The Crayon Initiative, please visit https://thecrayoninitiative.org/. To learn more about marker recycling, visit Crayola's ColorCycle website: http://www.crayola.com/colorcycle.

The Green Team will continue to work on making our school and community greener. For more information, please contact Denise Toia-Kramer at dtoiakramer@ccs.edu.

This year's Elementary School Science Fair was held on March 14. Students from Kindergarten to 5th grade explored a wide variety of topics including volcanoes, evaporation, electricity, friction and everything in between! Each student that participated created a display board and presented their findings to the judges. It was a great opportunity for students to dig deeper and learn more about topics that interest them. Congratulations to all of the students that participated!

2nd grader, Gabriel Kapes VanSlyke and his project about foods that are healthy for dogs

Did you know you can create an account with MySchoolBucks to track the amount of money in your child's lunch account? You can even sign up to receive low balance notifications. Sign up at https://www.myschoolbucks.com or download the free app. (Note: It is free to view account balances and purchases, but there is a charge if you use the app to add money to your children's account.)

Buy your 2018 High School yearbook today! The last day to order is April 15th.

Reserve your copy in one of these 3 ways:

• Online at balfour.com
• Call 1-800-853-1337
• Bring in order form that was mailed home & cash/check made out to Balfour to Mrs. Pavone.

Clinton Middle School American Heart Association Fundraiser:

Hello Families! Our middle school is proud to partner with the American Heart Association with Hoops For Heart. Over the next few weeks, our students will be having fun learning about their heart with the Scare Squad while raising money to help fund lifesaving research. Our middle school goal is to raise $2,000, and in addition to helping the American Heart Association, our school can earn free PE equipment.

Students can earn their own Scare Squad Monsters this year by using our new mobile app (download the Jump/Hoops App (App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android) or by visiting heart.org/jump to sign up and raise money online!

Just for signing up to save lives, your students will earn a glow in the dark wristband! PLUS this year, the mobile app unlocks even more fun and the Scare Squad Monsters and wristband come to life!

All donations are due on Friday March 23, 2018 and our event day(s) is Monday, February 26th-Friday, March 23rd. Thank you for helping a great cause!

Below you will find the dates of the upcoming school spirit days at Clinton Elementary:

• Monday, April 2 - Light it up! Wear blue for Autism awareness.
• Friday, April 20 - Arbor Day! Wear green and brown.
• Monday, May 7 - Art festival Day! Wear all the colors in the rainbow at once.
• Thursday, May 10 - Musical Madness Day! Wear something from your favorite concert, band, or musical or something with musical notes! If you are in the concert, wear your concert attire.
• Monday, May 21 - Disney Day! Wear something with your favorite Disney character on it.
• Monday, June 4 - Crazy Sock Day! Wear the most fun socks you can find.
• Wednesday, June 13 - Fifth Grade moving up day! Everyone wear maroon.
• Thursday, June 14 - Flag Day! Wear red, white, and blue.

Tickets are now on sale for Clinton Dollars for Scholars 12th annual Raffle. A $20 raffle ticket provides a chance to win a new Ferris IS600Z riding mower or a $3,000 cash prize. Only 700 tickets will be sold. The drawing will be held on April 21 st at 1 p.m. during Clinton Tractor’s Open House. Ticket holders do not have to be present to win. Tickets are available at Alteri’s Restaurant, Clinton Agway and Clinton Tractor or any DFS board member. All proceeds from the raffle go toward supporting scholarships for graduating Clinton Central School students. For more information, visit http://clinton.dollarsforscholars.org.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a recital by bass-baritone Carl DuPont on Friday, April 6, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

DuPont, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, presents an evening of art songs by black composers for bass and baritone voice. This performance brings rare and neglected works to the concert stage.

DuPont is a vocalist equally engaged in teaching, performing, and research. He made his first operatic appearance as a boy soprano in the title role of Amahl and the Night Visitors in his hometown of Daytona Beach, FL, and has been singing ever since. Lately, he has been celebrated for his “dramatic, dark tones” (South Florida Classical Review) on stage as Leporello in Don Giovanni, the title character in Dennis Rodman in North Korea, and Jim in Porgy and Bess at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He has performed as a soloist with the Winston Salem Symphony, Rochester Oratorio Society, Southwest Florida Symphony, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

This concert is free and open to the public. All seating is general admission. For tickets or information, call the box office at 315-859-4331 or visit hamilton.edu/performingarts.

The Hamilton College Department of Music, along with The Society for New Music presents Vision of Sound, a program of live new music and dance, on Saturday, April 7, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Now in its 12th year, Vision of Sound is committed to promoting the work of living composers and choreographers from across upstate New York, including Utica, New Hartford, Clinton, Chittenango, Syracuse, Ithaca, Geneva, Canandaigua, Pittsford, Fairport and Rochester. All six of the choreographed works are premieres, and three of the pieces of music are world premieres.

The composers for this project are Peter Allen, Diane Jones, Sally Lamb McCune, Mark Olivieri, Octavio Vazquez, and Michael “Doc” Woods. The choreographers working with the composers are Paige Cummings, Christina D’Amico, Lynea D’Aprix, Zachary Frazee, Molly Naef, and Caitlyn Schrader.

Musicians for this program include Hamilton faculty members Sar Shalom Strong, piano, and Peter Rovit, violin.

This concert is free and open to the public. All seating is general admission. For tickets or information, call the box office at 315-859-4331 or visit hamilton.edu/performingarts.

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