A nominating committee will meet in May to come up with a slate of candidates for the PTA officer positions for the 2018-2019 school year. If you are interested in volunteering for an officer position or if you have any questions, please send an email to ccsnypta@gmail.com. For more information about the nominating and election process, please refer to pages 6 and 7 of our unit bylaws.

Mrs. Hall is looking for help hanging up student artwork in the halls for the Elementary Art Show. She plans on hanging the art on Thursday, May 3rd, immediately after school. Volunteers should meet in the art room at 2:50 pm.

Please send an email to ccsnypta@gmail.com if you can help out. With enough volunteers, this should take less than an hour. Thanks!

Dear Parents,

Each year in celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week, the Clinton Central School PTA hosts a luncheon to honor and celebrate our teachers, faculty, and staff. Everyone who is employed by the district, from administrators to crossing guards, is invited to attend and the PTA provides a beautifully catered multi-course lunch buffet. It is one of our favorite events of the year and we always look forward to honoring our wonderful school employees on this day.

One of the highlights of the luncheon is a long-standing tradition of raffling off door prizes. Each person who attends the luncheon is given a ticket upon entering and throughout the meal volunteers draw tickets to select the winners. It is an extremely fun part of the day and we love being able to send our favorite people home with a gift of appreciation.

Now that you know a little about the event, here is where we are asking for your help. The PTA provides all of the food and supplies for the event, but we are in need of door prizes to raffle off. Anything that you can send in will be greatly appreciated and the more gifts we receive, the more we can raffle off. Some years we have been able to give each guest a gift - that’s about 200 gifts!

This year if you would like to contribute, you have two choices the PTA website has a new link where you can donate directly

https://ccs-appreciation.cheddarup.com/

Or you can send your donation to the Elementary School Office and they will be picked up by one of our volunteers. The date of this year’s luncheon is May 10th and we would need all items by Monday May, 7th. Please be aware that your donation may not go to your child’s teacher, we raffle all donations off so everyone who attends has a chance to go home with a thank you gift.

Listed below are some ideas of what can be sent in, but please feel free to be creative. If it’s easier, you can even send in money and we’ll do the shopping for you!

If you would like more information about this event or if you would like to help out in other ways, please email us at ccsnypta@gmail.com and once again, THANK YOU for your continued support.

Sincerely,

The CCS PTA

GIFT IDEAS

• Gift cards (Dunkin’ Donuts, gas card, area shops/restaurants/etc.)
• Car Wash Tickets
• Coffee/Tea items
• Gardening Items
• School Supplies
• Small Home Decor Items
• Books
• Craft Supplies
• Stationary
• Candles
• Tech Accessories
• Lottery Tickets
• Flowers/Plants
• Cash (we’ll buy a gift for you)

Save the date!

Square 1 art orders will be handed out during the Elementary Art Show on May 7. More details to come! Also, it’s not too late to purchase art work. You can still order online. (You will have to pay for shipping since it’s not part of the group order.)

If, by May 24, 2018 the District has not been forced to use the one remaining emergency day, then school will be closed on Friday, May 25, 2018. Should an additional emergency day be used before May 24, 2018, then May 25, 2018 will be a day of instruction. Information will be circulated immediately if that becomes necessary.

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.

Congratulations Upstanders!

Rachel’s Warriors proudly awarded and recognized our middle school upstanders for the months of January and March on Tuesday, March 27th at our Board of Education meeting. These students were awarded with a certificate, a pizza party and a free dance admission ticket.

An upstander is an individual who notices something wrong and acts on it. It is a person who takes a stand against an act of injustice or intolerance. All of these students did this in some way and were anonymously nominated by a peer.

Congratulations to these students for creating a kind and caring community at Clinton Central Middle School!


(From Left to right: Hanna Turk, Lauren Chesebro, Angelika Budyano)


(From Left to right: James Klein, Caniel Richardson, David Oduwa) (Absent: Alec Emery)

No one Sits Alone Day/Start with Hello Kick Off

On Friday, April 6th Rachel’s Warriors hosted “no one sits alone day” during lunch for our middle school students. It was a huge success! The purpose of the event was to encourage students to include each other and by doing so will help others who may feel isolated and help spread kindness.

Various activities were set up at each table for students to participate in. Some of these activities included hello cards written in different languages, students wore name tags to help with introductions, kindness message strips that students could randomly choose and implement throughout the day, and a fun photo booth.

Rachel’s Warriors will be encouraging students to be involved in the “start with hello” program throughout the remainder of the year. We hope that students will help spread kindness and prevent social isolation by following these three easy steps:

1. See someone alone
2. Reach out and help
3. Start with “hello”

Clinton students are changing the world for the better! Each fall and spring, students are nominated by their teachers and CCS staff members to receive the Frank Santoli Memorial Award. Students are recognized for their good citizenship and acts of kindness in memory of a beloved middle school science teacher. The award was created and funded by Mrs. Genevieve Santoli, who was inspired not only by her husband’s legacy of kindness, but also by the late Chris Rosati and the butterfly effect: “this idea that a single butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the globe can, in theory, start a hurricane on the other.” In the spirit of positive impact, selected students from are awarded $50 to “pay it forward” within their communities. All nominated students are celebrated in May with cupcakes and a butterfly release. While so many awards are focused on achievement in academics or athletics, the Santoli award is an opportunity for students to be recognized for their integrity and strength of character.

Through the award Clinton students have:

• Sold raffle tickets to raise over $1,000 for the Golisano Center wish list items
• Started a coin drive to raise over $600 for a local animal shelter
• Bought items and brought volunteers to stock local food pantry
• Created a raffle to raise money to benefit the fire department
• Bought supplies for ongoing curriculum to teach kindergartners about the lifecycle of chickens
• Donated toys/supplies to local pet shelter
• Donated recreational items to local nursing home

In the fall, Charlotte Gale, Landon Stilz, and Bozhena Samoshuk were selected as Santoli award winners. Spring recipients will be announced in May.

The Santoli Scholarship is run through Rachel’s Warriors. Advisors Kathleen Washburn and Amie Johnson are deeply grateful to Mrs. Genevieve Santoli and other donors who make this award possible. It is exciting to see CCS students empowered to make such positive change. For more information on this award, please contact kwashburn@ccs.edu or ajohnson@ccs.edu

Absentee ballot applications for the May 15th budget vote are now available in the Superintendent's Office. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter. Absentee ballots must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 PM, prevailing time, on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.

Green Team Message of the Week

Molly Call and Leah Alteri presented this week’s Green Team message to the elementary school.

Earth Day is coming up on April 22. This year, Earth Day is focused on ending plastic pollution.

Look around you. From water bottles to plastic silverware to all those plastic bags from the grocery store, plastic is everywhere. Plastic does make our lives easier, but it can also harm our environment.

The problem is that a lot of the plastic we use never gets recycled. Instead it ends up as pollution on our ground and in our oceans where it can harm wildlife like whales, birds, seals, and turtles.

Here are some easy things that you can do to use less plastic. Buy a reusable water bottle instead of using plastic water bottles. Bring your own cloth bags to the grocery store. Pack your lunch with reusable containers and silverware instead of plastic. Please help us reduce the plastic pollution in our environment.

Let’s continue to recycle and make our school and community greener!

Crayon and Marker Recycling

Dear Families,

Our annual Elementary Arbor Day ceremony will take place on the morning of April 20th at 10:00. Once again Hamilton College is donating the tree for us to plant. You are welcome to attend and we encourage you to stay and be a "cheerleader".

This year our ceremony will include a school wide lap around the track to raise money to give to our school's "Green Team". The "Green Team" is made up of students and teachers that generate ideas to make our school more environmentally friendly. This money will be used to buy items to make our school more "green" including purchasing rain barrels and composting bins. If you would like to help your child raise money, please consider sponsoring him/her to "walk a lap for the Green Team." If your child feels comfortable asking other people (grandparents, close family friends, etc.) to sponsor him/her that would be great! The monetary donation is up to you. All children will participate in the walk after our ceremony is complete. The ceremony will take place outside so please make sure your child is prepared for the weather with an umbrella or raincoat.

Please send all donations in an envelope marked "Arbor Day" with your child's name on it to school by Monday, April 30th.

Our ceremony will take place near our playground by the nature trail. We will cross the wooden bridge to our track to complete our lap. We are asking that family members that attend find a spot on the outside of the track to cheer us on! When we complete our lap we will go back into our classrooms.

Thank you for being an active supporter of our school events and for helping to make this ceremony even more special. Your donation will make the world a greener, cleaner place for many generations to come.

Thank you,

The Arbor Day Team

Attending a summer music camp or taking music lessons over the summer? Students who will be in grades 6-12 next year can apply for a summer music scholarship from the Clinton Music Parents to help defray the cost of their summer music study. Download and complete the scholarship application and return it to your teacher by Thursday, May 10th.

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

• 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.

Clinton results so far this season

Click Here to download the following results:
CCS V. HPT (Holland Patent)
CCS V. UAS (Utica Academy of Science)
CCS V. ADK (Adirondack)
CCS V. SEV (Sherburne-Earlville)

CCS V. Waterville & Oriskany can be found at www.csctrack.com (meet was at Waterville)

Clinton boys & girls are both 6-0 on the season (3-0 CSC D1)

Sherburne has joined CSC D1 this season.

Clinton boys just defeated Holland Patent to extend their winning streak to 45 straight dual meets since 2014 (last lost was on 4/18/14 to West Canada Valley 78-63).

Clinton girls just defeated Holland Patent to extend their winning streak to 56 straight dual meets since 2013 (last lost was on 4/17/13 to Adirondack 94-47).

Both streaks are school records.

The last boys winning streak ended at 43 and lasted from from 2001-2004.

The Clinton Arena had the highest number of votes of the four finalist and has won Kraft Hockeyville 2018! The Clinton Arena will host an NHL Pre-Season Game and receive $150,000 in upgrades!

Thank you to everyone that voted and supported the Clinton Arena. It was wonderful to see kids, teachers, parents, residents and former residents of Clinton, and neighboring communities come together in support of the Clinton Arena!

Thanks to Nancy Lillibridge for providing these photos of Clinton Elementary School showing its support!

The purchase of a $20 Clinton Dollars for Scholars raffle ticket provides the chance to win a new Ferris IS600Z riding mower or a cash prize of $3,000. Only 700 tickets will be sold and the winning ticket holder does not have to be present to win. The drawing will be held at 1pm on April 21st during Clinton Tractor’s Open House. All proceeds from the raffle go toward supporting scholarships for graduating Clinton Central School students. For more information, visit http://clinton.dollarsforscholars.org.

Tickets can be purchased at:

• Alteri’s Restaurant
• Clinton Agway
• Clinton Tractor
• Any DFS board member

The Clinton Youth Foundation (CYF) will hold its Wine Tasting Fundraiser Party on May 4 from 7-10 pm at the Kirkland Art Center, East Park Row, Clinton. This annual community event will feature live music and food plus beer and wine, and a silent auction.

This is the primary fundraiser for the Clinton Youth Foundation, the non-profit organization which operates and maintains the Jack Boynton Community Pool on Norton Avenue in Clinton. The mission of the CYF is to provide a safe, healthy, welcoming environment to all members of our community, especially its children; while offering swim instruction, leisure, and physical activities to inspire personal growth, self-esteem, and respect. Opening day for the pool is scheduled for June 16.

Tickets for this popular event are $30 per person in advance and $35 at the door. Tickets are available at clintonpool.com. Attendees must be 21 or older.

April 2018 Workshops

Clinton Schools Community Fitness Center

• SPINNING 5:30AM-6:15AM Mon/Wed Apr 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 30. Instructor Susie Hamilton. Cost $45.
• TORCH 5:30-6:15 AM Tue/Thur Apr 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19. Instructor Susie Hamilton. Cost $39
• EXHALE YOGA 5:30-6:15AM Fri Apr 6, 13, 20. Instructor Susie Hamilton. Cost $20.
• MAT PILATES 6:20-7:00AM Mon/Wed Apr 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 30. Instructor Pam King. Cost $45.

HOURS OF OPERATION:

Monday - Thursday	5:00 am - 7:00 am
Monday - Thursday	5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Saturday	7:00 am - 10:00 am

Click Here for more information or register for classes online (be sure to choose "Clinton" from the "Facility" drop down).

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Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Spektral Quartet on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The program includes George Lewis’s String Quartet No.1.5, Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet, and Johannes Brahms’s Quartet No.1 in C minor, op.51.

Known for creating seamless connections across centuries, the Chicago-based Spektral Quartet performs both traditional classical music and new music by contemporary composers. Their latest album, Serious Business, was nominated for a 2017 Grammy award. Currently ensemble in-residence at the University of Chicago, the quartet has also participated in residencies at the New World Symphony, Stanford University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the Walden School, among others.

Tickets of this event are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students. All seating is general admission. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with Symphoria will perform on Tuesday, April 24, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College.

The performance is conducted by G. Roberts Kolb with Kathleen Puccio, soprano; Jonathan English, tenor; Darcy Meadows, mezzo-soprano; David Kolb, baritone; and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano.

The program includes Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Elegischer Gesang.

Tickets for this performance are $10 for adults and $8 for senior citizens and students. It is free for Hamilton College students. For more information call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

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