CSS Newsletter
September 12, 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
Your PTA is made up of CCS parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and our wonderful teachers! Without your help and donations, some of the below events wouldn't be possible.
Clinton PTA Sponsored Events:
If you would like to join the PTA this year or renew your membership, please visit ccsnypta.memberhub.store. It is NOT mandatory that you volunteer or attend meetings.
Please join us for the first Clinton PTA General Meeting of the school year on Wednesday, September 25 at 7 pm in the *Senior Lounge. We will discuss upcoming events and vote on our budget for the 2019-2020 school year. If you have any ideas or just want to find out what the CCS PTA is all about, we'd love for you to join us!
** Please note that this location is not the usual location due to construction. If you enter the high school from the bus circle and go in the doors under the “blue ribbon school” banner, the senior lounge is the first door on the left. (Alternately, you can access the senior lounge through the cafeteria.)
| WHEN? The entire month of September |
| WHICH HANNAFORD? 55 Meadow Street, Clinton, NY |
| HOW DOES IT WORK? For every Community Bag sold during the month of September, the CCS PTA will receive a $1 donation! |
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1. Shop Look for the shelf tags on more than 1500 products to earn money for your school! |
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2. Check Out Get 3 school dollars for every 4 participating products you purchase. |
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3. Submit Deposit your school dollars in the collection tower in the Clinton Hannaford store. |
Started at the University of Rochester in 2004 with support from the Kauffman Foundation, YEA is now in 168 communities across America with classes also in Shanghai, China and India. More than 4,000 students nationwide have launched over 3,000 businesses and social movements. This will be the eighth year that Mohawk Valley Community College has hosted it in the greater Utica area and applications are now open for the upcoming class.
Students from all local school districts are encouraged to apply and educators are invited to nominate students they believe will excel in the program. Full and partial scholarships are available to qualifying students.
The class is open to students in grades 6-12 (ages 11 to 18) from any local school district and class size is limited.
Classes are held on Wednesday evenings from October 16, 2019 - May 13, 2020 from 4:30-7:30pm at Mohawk Valley Community College's Utica campus, with no classes held during school breaks.
During the class, students:
Student will need to complete
YEA! USA is made possible by the Kauffman Foundation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and the E. Philip Saunders Foundation. We also thank our national supporters - Sam's Club and Southwest Airlines.
As a member of The Mohawk Valley for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital committee I would like to ask that your district students and families consider participating in our 2019 St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer.
Our walk is held each year in September in Whitesboro as we strive to educate the people in this area about St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Although St. Jude hospital in in Memphis their research is shared worldwide, for free, and the money raised helps fund not only the research but also the treatment for children with cancer and life threatening diseases. All children are treated for free and all of the family travel, lodging and meals are covered at no cost to them.
On September 14, 2019 we will be walking/running from Whitesboro High School to the Village Green on Main Street (roughly a 5K) to support St. Jude. It would be awesome to see the students/school sports teams and families attend this great event. There will be both food and ice cream vendors in the Village Green at the finish, along with many raffles. Big Frog will be broadcasting from the gazebo at that time and the Utica College Men's Hockey team will be available to sign autographs.
Below you will find the flyer for this year's walk/run as it includes the details on time and location along with contact information should you have any questions.
Thank you for your time,
Deb Manley
Mohawk Valley for St. Jude committee
deb3246814@msn.com
The Clinton Central School District participates in the MySchoolBucks lunch account program. You can go to https://www.myschoolbucks.com, where you can create a free account to view recent cafeteria purchases, check balances, add funds, and set up low balance alerts. There is also a mobile app for your iPhone, Android or Windows phone! If you prefer, you can still send in checks to load your child's account and just use MySchoolBucks to monitor the balance.
Some healthy swaps to try this week:
Many health experts believe that eating more whole foods is our best bet for improving health and preventing disease. Whole foods – like vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and legumes -- retain their fiber as well as the whole portfolio of beneficial phytochemicals and nutrients that are often removed in processed foods.
From WebMD
The Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY is delighted to announce a new partnership with Ballet Arts of CNY that will provide a full program of ballet instruction for young dancers in the KAC dance studio. The owner and principleballet instructor at Ballet Arts of CNY, Melissa Larish, will lead the program, Ballet Arts at KAC, which starts in early September.
Larish, who is also Artist Director of Mohawk Valley Ballet, has been teaching ballet locally for over ten years and took ownership of Ballet Arts in 2010. She is a registered instructor for The Royal Academy of Dance and loves to share her extensive training and professional performance experience with the next generation of ballet dancers.
"We love partnering with local arts groups, and we are so delighted to welcome Ballet Arts to the KAC," said Marilee Ensign, KAC executive director. Larish states, "Ballet Arts is delighted to establish a residency agreement with the Kirkland Art Center. With its wonderful reputation as a learning institution, the KAC is a perfect fit for a Ballet Arts."
Larish will focus the program at the Kirkland Art Center on younger dancers. Starting with Dance to Your Own Tune, Larish brings a sense of movement, rhythm and music appreciation to 4 ½ - 6 year-year-olds through beginning ballet steps and positions. Next, the Primary Class establishes strong foundations in ballet, while maintaining an atmosphere of fun for children ages 6 – 9. Further ballet training will also be offered for Grades 1 – 3. Online registration for these classes is available through http://www.balletartsofcny.com.
The mission of the Kirkland Art Center is to educate children and adults to advocate for artists and the arts, and to engage the community in a range or cultural experience and opportunities.
Hamilton College Performing Arts opens the fall season with a concert of sitar and tabla with Ustad Shafaat Khan on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on the Hamilton College campus.
World-renowned Indian classical musician Ustad Shafaat Khan presents a concert of classical and folk music from India dating back to the 13th century. The first half of the concert features the tabla and a recitation of ancient tabla language. The second half of the concert includes sitar and vocals with accompaniment on tabla. Lyrics include the poetry of Rumi and Hazrat Ameer Khusru. Khan is joined by Mariah Del Rio, tanpura and vocals; Rishy Mehrotra, tabla; and Daniel Johnson, folk percussion.
In additon to extensive touring in the United States, Khan has performed in India, Pakistan, Japan, Russia, China, Malaysia, UK, Germany, France, and Italy, and other European countries. He shared a television performance with Ray Charles in Germany and recently performed alongside Stevie Wonder at the Bonaroo Festival. Khan was presented with the Professional Excellence Award for an outstanding musician, performer, and teacher by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens and $5 for students. Visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts or call the box office at (315) 859-4331 for more information.
Join Chelsea Opera (co-founded by Leonarda Priore and Lynne Hayden-Findlay) as they kickstart their 16th Season with a special solo organ performance by internationally renowned organist Paul Jacobs in Utica, NY. Local audiences will not want to miss this opportunity to hear this celebration of a unique instrument, played by the only organist to win a Grammy. Mr. Jacobs will perform on Grace Church's thirty-six year old Holtkamp Organ, with sixty-four ranks. The concert will also feature a guest solo by Utica born-and-raised Mezzo-Soprano (and Chelsea Opera founder/president!) Leonarda Priore. There will be one performance on Sunday, September 22nd at 3:00pm at Grace Church (6 Elizabeth Street, Utica, NY). The concert, which is supported in part by the Central New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists in Utica, New York and Grace Church, is free to the public, with free will donations accepted. Visit http://www.chelseaopera.org/events.html for more information or call 917-797-3152.
Maestro Octavio Mas-Arocas is our guest conductor, and will present a pre-concert lecture at 1:30.
Our featured guest artist will be pianist David Kim, well-known to audiences in the greater Clinton area. He will perform the Piano Concerto No. 2, c minor, op.18 of Serge Rachmaninoff, in memory of his mother, Susan Kim. “We enthusiastically welcome him back,” stated Music Director Charles Schneider. “He was the soloist on our very first concert and enjoyed a rousing success!”
The orchestra will open the concert with the renowned epic tone poem of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
Open-seating Tickets are $35 for adults and FREE for all students with ID.
For reservations, please call 315-404-2016 or mail payments to CSOMV, PO Box 270, Clinton, NY 13323
Also, tax-deductible donations may be made to “Clinton Symphony Orchestra” and mailed to the PO Box above.