CSS Newsletter
September 26, 2019
Produced by the CCS PTA
Submissions for the CCS Newsletter are due by 3 PM on Mondays prior.
Email to: news@ccspta.info
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This school year, CCS is participating in the Positivity Project. A different character trait or topic is highlighted and discussed at school each week. Families are encouraged to follow along with the weekly themes at home to further emphasize each topic. This week's character trait is "Teamwork". According to the Positivity Project's Weekly Roundup:
Teamwork is the ability and willingness to place overall group success as a higher priority than individual achievement. Citizenship is a willingness to work towards the common good as opposed to one's own self-interest. Those who demonstrate strengths in teamwork and citizenship often work to help all group members find success. These individuals are willing to commit time and resources in order to further group goals and help toward the greater good.
This strength is associated with naturally positive feelings that accompany being a member of a family, team, school, political party, ethnic group, or country. However, those positive feelings can come with bad behavior towards the "out-group" in the form of blind obedience, disparaging words, or prejudice. This is important to guard against by leveraging a person's other positive character strengths.
Visit The Positivity Project's website to learn more and to sign up for the weekly newsletter.
Click here to view the complete list of topics for the 2019 - 2020 school year.
At each school board meeting, CCS Superintendent Dr. Stephen Grimm presents "Bright Spots", highlighting activites at each of the schools and important information throughout the district. Below are the Bright Spots that were presented at this week's BOE meeting. The public is welcome to attend school board meetings to learn more.
Below you will find the dates of several upcoming school spirit days at Clinton Elementary:
| Date | Spirit Day | What to Wear |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, September 27 | Clinton Homecoming | Maroon |
| Friday, October 18 | Pink for Cancer Awareness | Anything pink |
| Friday, October 26 | Positive Spirit Day | Shirts with a positive message |
| Friday, Movember 1 | Movember Kickoff | Pink or blue to channel your inner Piggie or Gerald |
| Friday, Movember 8 | Veterans Day Celebration | Red, white, and blue or camouflage |
There are new regulations related to school safety, which involves the annual adoption of the plan by the Board of Education. Before adoption of the plan, it should be posted for at least 30 days for public inspection.
Here is a link to the draft plan that will be reviewed by the Districtwide Safety Team in the coming weeks and recommended for adoption at the October board meeting: Districtwide Safety Plan 2019 for Public Review
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.
4 pm Girls Tennis
5 pm Field Hockey "Pink Game"
5 pm - 7 pm Food trucks at Norton Avenue
9 am Boys and Girls Cross Country @ Proctor Park
for E.J. Herman Invitational
10 am Girls Soccer
12 pm Football with Powder Puff game at halftime
3 pm Boys Soccer
CCS Girls XC ranked 4th in NYS Class C!
The CCS Girls Cross Country team has enjoyed great early success so far this season.
On Saturday September 14th CCS won the New Hartford invitational (all classes and divisions) as Sophomore Madison Luke (Individual race winner!) and Junior Taylor Harvey (3rd place over-all!) led the Girls team to victory.
Saturday the 21st saw the CCS Girls travel to Plattsburgh for the annual NYS pre-state invitational. The meet was conducted in three separate races randomly divided amongst the best teams in the state of New York.
CCS drew NYS Class A #1 ranked Arlington (who won the team competition) yet CCS came up big for the second place award in their race!
Clinton has a 10-12 enrollment number of 286 students while Class A Arlington boasts a 10-12 enrollment of 2,214 (nearly EIGHT times CCS's enrollment!)
The CCS Girls team is currently ranked 4th in the state in class C.
In league news: The CCS Girls are continuing to defend their undefeated dual meet win streak (currently at 61 straight!) at 6-0 so far this season.
CCS boys are 5-2 (But undefeated in CSC Division one play so far) and had a respectable 3rd place finish (Missing 3 of their top 4 runners) in the small school division at the NH Invite on 9/14.
Clinton Community Churches, Service Organizations, and Educational Institutions are helping to provide 45,000 meals for hungry people around the world.
Rise Against Hunger’s meal packaging program is a volunteer-based initiative that coordinates the assembly-line packaging of highly nutritious dehydrated meals comprised of rice, soy, vegetables, and 23 essential vitamins and minerals. The program was created to give dedicated individuals and organizations — from businesses to civic clubs — the opportunity to participate in a hands-on international hunger relief program and to become educated, engaged advocates for the world’s hungry. The events also give volunteers hands-on experience in leadership development, team-building, relationship-building, creative problem-solving, and goal-setting and achievement.
While communities work toward a future in which they can thrive, vulnerable families and individuals around the globe still have basic, immediate needs. That’s why Rise Against Hunger supports safety net programs that provide nourishment, as well as additional skills training or services that support the difficult journey out of poverty.
Rise Against Hunger meals are provided in schools to encourage increased enrollment and attendance. For adults in community empowerment programs, the provision of meals offsets productive time lost while attending training sessions. Meals distributed in hospitals and clinics may support patients’ nutritional needs and complement their treatments.
For more information about Rise Against Hunger go to www.riseagainsthunger.org
The Community’s goal is to raise $15,000 or more to fund the meals
Community volunteers will help package the meals on Saturday, September 28th
For questions contact Beth Roy at royb03@gmail.com or Amy Bashant at amybashant@gmail.com
The Hamilton College Departments of Music and Dance and Movement Studies will offer a free Family Weekend performance featuring faculty choreography for student dancers, the Hamilton College Choir, Orchestra, and Jazz Ensemble in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center on the Hamilton College Camus on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 pm.
Hamilton College faculty Bruce Walczyk, Elaine Heekin, Paris Wilcox, and Sandra Stanton-Cotter will all present choreography for student dancers. Under the direction of Danan Tsan, the Hamilton College Choir and College Hill singers will perform. Ubaldo Valli will conduct the Hamilton College Orchestra in the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Closing the program “Doctuh” Michael Woods will conduct music for the Jazz Ensemble.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is general admission. For more information call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.
The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a guitar coffeehouse concert by Adam Dudding, aka The Ramblin’ Brooks on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Café Opus in Schambach Center on the Hamilton campus.
Adam Brooks Dudding, who teaches folk guitar at Hamilton College, is a performing songwriter, guitarist, and independent recording artist with over two decades of experience as a DIY touring musician and producer. His songs are well-crafted and heartfelt, showcasing his musicianship and eclectic range of styles and influences.
As The Ramblin’ Brooks, Dudding’s passion for storytelling and gritty, blues-based music merges folk, country, pop and psychedelic-rock with contagious grooves. From his Midwestern upbringing and musical dawning in Ohio, to his co-writing and performing adventures in Nashville, Tenn., to cross-cultural sonic explorations discovered in Shanghai, China, Dudding’s wanderlust weaves its way throughout the soundscape of his songs.
This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331.
The chamber players of Tempesta di Mare present A Tale of Two Italian Cities, chamber music from Venice and Naples on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts at Hamilton College.
The group includes Gwyn Roberts, recorder; Emlyn Ngai, violin; Rebecca Harris, violin; Lisa Terry, viola da gamba; Richard Stone, theorbo; and Adam Pearl, harpsichord.
Fanfare magazine recently hailed Tempesta di Mare for its “abundant energy, immaculate ensemble, and undeniable sense of purpose.” Tempesta di Mare performs baroque music on baroque instruments with a repertoire that ranges from staged opera to chamber music.
This program takes a look that early music from Naples and Venice. Naples is represented by the witty Renaissance music of Andrea Falconieri, and quartets by Francesco Mancini and Alessandro Scarlatti. Venice is represented by an opera-inspired sonata by Dario Castello. The program also includes a concerto by Antonio Vivaldi.
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 tickets or more information.
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.
More information can be found through these links:
