CSS Newsletter
April 4, 2019
Produced by the CCS PTA
Submissions for the CCS Newsletter are due by 3 PM on Mondays prior.
Email to: news@ccspta.info
Email to: news@ccspta.info
The CCS PTA was so excited to welcome The Brain Show to our school last week! 120 students were chosen from the audience of Clinton Elementary students to be contestants on the show. They buzzed in and answered questions about math, pop culture, science, and more! The students especially enjoyed watching their teachers participate and act silly on stage. Thank you so much to Glenn and Carl from The Brain Show for 2 fantastic shows and to the students and teachers for being an amazing audience and enthusiastic contestants!
We would also like to thank everyone in the Clinton community that has joined PTA, volunteered, or participated in fundraisers this school year! Your support allows us to offer fun and memorable events like this for our children!
The CCS PTA Farm to School Committee, working with OHM BOCES Food Service and the Mohawk Valley Farm to School Initiative, has launched a new Harvest of the Month sampling program. Harvest of the Month is a Farm to School initiative that promotes a seasonal, locally grown item each month. A day or two before the Harvest of the Month is listed on the menu each month, the elementary school kitchen staff will prepare a batch of the menu item for volunteers to serve samples to students in the cafeteria. The idea is to encourage the students to try something new and maybe even choose it for lunch later in the week. Below is our sample schedule:
| Menu Item | Sample Date | Date Listed on Menu |
|---|---|---|
| Black Bean and Corn Salsa | April 30 | April 30 |
| Cheesy Kale Bake | May 21 | May 23 |
| Cucumber Yogurt Dip | June 4 | June 6 |
If you would like to join the Farm to School committee, please email us at farmtoschool@ccspta.info You can also help by encouraging your child to try the samples offered! Thank you for your support!
Humor is a sense of playfulness and lightness. It is a way of looking at and describing the world that brings laughter to people. A person with the strength of humor is skilled at seeing at the funny side of things, bringing smiles and laughter to others, and identifying and communicating the absurdities in life. People with this strength don't specifically need to be joke tellers, although many are. Humor can have a dark side, depending on how it's used. Some humor is mean spirited and bullying. The strength of humor that the character strength focuses on is that which raises the spirits of other people.
Visit The Positivity Project's website to learn more and to sign up for the weekly newsletter.
The fifth grade Green Team met this week to work on thinning out our seedlings. We are excited to see how many plants we have so far, and we are looking forward to planting them outside when the weather is warmer.
My name is Celso Vasquez. I am a Junior at Clinton High School. I was a student in Guatemala until I was 13 years old. Many of the children in Guatemala lack equipment to play soccer and resort to playing with grocery bags rolled into a ball.
For a class project I would like to send these unfortunate children used soccer equipment that your children have outgrown. There is a drop off box located at Access Federal Credit Union in Clinton, NY and at the Clinton Elementary School and High School.
Collection will be starting on March 1st lasting through April 30th.
Items should fit students ages 6 - 11.
Nominating petitions for any CCS district resident wishing to run for a seat on the Board of Education are now available in the Superintendent's Office. Petitions must be filed by 5:00 pm on April 22nd.
The qualifications for a member of the Board of Education are that the individual:
Below you will find the dates of several upcoming school spirit days at Clinton Elementary:
The 2018 - 2019 Clinton Elementary School yearbook is on sale now! Hurry, don't delay, order today! We only have a select number of books to sell. Reserve your copy online at jostensyearbooks.com Prices start at $25.
Thank you to all who have supported Clinton Cub Scout Pack 9 over the last year. Our community’s support enables the scouts to continue to learn valuable skills while they follow the Scout Oath and Law.
Donations to the Scouting for Food program, collected by the scouts during November, were much appreciated by The Country Pantry. Clothing donations received at the shed adjacent to the Life in Christ Family Church on Robinson Road amounted to around 29,000 garments. Not only do your clothing donations support the pack monetarily, but these garments are calculated to clothe 3500 people. A special thank you to Clinton High School senior Robert Musante, son of Karen and Bob, for collecting the donations throughout the years. His reliable organization of the donated items will be difficult to replace.
While the pack is chartered to and enjoys the support of our VFW Post 9591, Schilling-Burns-Young Post, the pack has undertaken programs or has received support over the past year from the following organizations:
With the help of these organizations, the enthusiasm of the scouts, and service of our volunteer leaders, Pack 9 became a 2018 Silver Journey to Excellence Unit. This is a national award to encourage and recognize units within the Scouting program. Interested individuals will also be happy to know that Pack 9 was a recipient of a National Summertime Pack Award in 2018 for activities conducted and participation of the scouts during the summer.
The pack looks forward to enabling the youth of our community to continue growing through scouting program adventures. New members, including adult leaders, are welcome throughout the year. No experience is necessary. Training is offered at introductory to advanced levels. Families are welcome to pick their level of involvement. Interested individuals should e-mail us at clintonnycubscouts@gmail.com.
Thank you to all,
BRENDAN KELLY, Cubmaster
Pack 9, A 2018 Silver Journey to Excellence Unit
Hamilton College Performing Arts presents Cantus Vocal Ensemble on Friday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.
The men’s vocal ensemble Cantus is widely known for its trademark warmth and blend, innovative programming, and engaging performances of music ranging from the Renaissance to the 21st century. As one of the nation’s few full-time vocal ensembles, Cantus has grown in prominence with its distinctive approach to creating music. Working without a conductor, the members of Cantus rehearse and perform as chamber musicians, each contributing to the entirety of the artistic process.
In their 2018–19 touring program Alone Together, Cantus explores what it means to connect in a modern world where our ability to communicate has never been easier or more advanced, but where the rifts between nations, among communities, and in individual relationships only seem to widen. The program is anchored by three works written for Cantus specifically around themes of technology and connection in our modern world. The program, weaving in music by Jennifer Higdon, Laura Mvula, McCartney and Lennon, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, and Sydney Guillaume, will be presented in 36 cities and 21 states and provinces including New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
Committed to the expansion of the vocal music repertoire, Cantus actively commissions new music and seeks to unearth rarely performed repertoire for men’s voices. Cantus has received commissioning grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Chamber Music America. Additionally, Cantus has a rich history of collaborations with other performing arts organizations, including the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. The ensemble is heard frequently on classical public radio nationwide. Cantus has released 18 recordings on the group’s self-titled label. Cantus was also an Artist in Residence on Minnesota Public Radio and on American Public Media’s Performance Today.
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit hamilton.edu/performingarts.
The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a faculty recital with Monk Rowe, saxophone, and Rick Montalbano, piano, on Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.
Rowe and Montalbano are members of the adjunct music faculty at Hamilton College. They first performed together in the mid 1970’s and have been at the forefront of the Central New York music scene since then as instrumentalists, composers, and band leaders. Their Wellin program will include jazz standards and original songs, including premier performances of new compositions.
Monk Rowe is the Joe Williams Director of the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College. He has directed this project since its inception in 1995. As a composer, Rowe writes original work and commissioned arrangements for a variety of ensembles, including the Utica Symphony, the Fredonia Alumni Jazz Ensemble, the Allegria Trio, and numerous scholastic bands.
Rick Montalbano is a pianist, organist, composer, and arranger. He started his career in the early 1960’s, and has performed with a long list of jazz greats. He currently plays solo piano at The Savoy in Rome and is much demand as an accompanist. Montalbano is the assistant director of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra.
This concert is free and open to the public. All seats are general admission. For more information call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit hamilton.edu/performingarts.
Hamilton College Performing Arts concludes its spring series with the original opera Pushed Aside: Reclaiming Gage on Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.
Commissioned and produced by the Society for New Music, Pushed Aside is the story of Matilda Joslyn Gage, the lesser known third member of the triumvirate of early women suffragists, the other two being Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This opera tells how they came together in the early 1850’s, then had their great split in 1890, resulting in Gage being “pushed aside” and right out of the history books. Along the way, we also discover how Matilda fought for others who had been pushed aside including African-Americans and Native Americans, and how she came to believe that all freedom struggles are equal and interconnected.
This production is a fully-staged opera with projections. Hamilton faculty Heather Buchman conducts the chamber orchestra and interim choir director Danan Tsan plays the lead role of Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Richard Fields, education director for the Society for New Music writes, “Matilda Joslyn Gage was a visionary of women’s rights and human liberation, who – with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony -- wrote the arguments for, inspired the passions, and organized the political action of the 19th century women’s suffrage movement in the United States. This opera tells the story of a woman of courage and integrity publicly defying 19th century laws that forced complicity with slavery and denied women their autonomy and liberty – including the right to vote. This is also the story of a remarkable corner of the world, now known as Central New York that became a fount of free thought and radical activism for social justice.”
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit hamilton.edu/performingarts.
Spring is here and it is finally that time of year for your chance to win a choice of a brand-new Ferris IS600Z riding mower or $3,000 cash prize!
Raffle tickets are $20 each and only 700 are sold. Tickets are available for sale at Clinton Tractor, Alteri’s Restaurant and Clinton Agway, or from any Clinton Dollars for Scholars Board members until the drawing.
We will also be holding some additional community sales for tickets Saturday, April 6 at Cliff’s Market, from 10 am until 2 pm, located on the corner of Routes 5 and 233 in Kirkland and Saturday, April 13 at ACCESS Federal Credit Union in Clinton from 9 am until 12 noon.
All proceeds from the raffle sale stay local and go towards supporting scholarships for graduating Clinton Central School students.
Raffle drawing will be held Saturday, April 27, 2019 at Clinton Tractor’s Open House at 1pm. Ticket holders do not need to be present to win.
For more information, visit http://clinton.dollarsforscholars.org
