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Thursday, October 20, 2005
The Albany News
Pace 3
Final plans made for Fall Fest
Nancy S
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* LUNCH MENUS
Menus are for elementary and
junior/senior high
October 24 - 28
Monday - pizza, tossed salad,
corn, fresh fruit cup
Tuesday - nachos, tossed
salad, apple, crackers
Wednesday - chicken nuggets,
mashed potatoes, green beans,
gravy, hot roll, Jello
Thursday - stuffed potato,
broccoli/ ranch, Texas toast, fruit
cobbler.
Friday - corn dog, waffle fries,
baked beans, orange quarters,
cookie
1 RED RIBBON WEEK
Co-chairmen Twana Davis
and Tisha Wilkins have
planned Red Ribbon Week
activities for next week. Stu-
dents of all ages are encour-
aged to participate in the
poster contest, dress-up
themes and hall decorating
in the coming week.
Students may enter the
poster contest by bringing
their entry to Mrs. Davis's
classroom no later than Fri-
day, October 28. Winners will
be announced on Monday,
October 31. There will be four
categories for youngest chil-
dren, first and second grad-
ers, third and fourth graders,
and fifth and sixth graders.
Posters must be no larger
than 12"xl8".
Students may dress up
next week according to the
themes selected for Red Rib-
bon Week. Monday will be
"Fight the War on Drugs" with
students wearing camouflage.
Tuesday will be "Be True to
You," a patriotic time for stu-
dents to wear red, white and
blue. Wednesday will be
"Bling-Out Drugs" when stu-
dents may wear big jewelry
and sunglasses. Thursday is
"You Snooze, You Loose," and
students are encouraged to
wear pajamas to school for
the day. On Friday, chairmen
are encouraging students to
I wear Albany Lion jerseys, t-
| shirts and red and white for
, "Team Up Against Drugs—
Go Big Red Day."
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Brookshire's Food Stores
has adopted our campus this
year! The store already as-
sisted with a kindergarten
project last week and will be
giving support to students and
teachers all year.
Without community sup-
port, Nancy Smith Elemen-
tary would not be able4to ex- ]
tend the learning for our stu- j
dents. Thanks, Brookshire's!
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Author David Sargent, Jr.
and friends will be visiting
our campus tomorrow at 8:30
a.m., in the elementary caf-
eteria. Mr. Sargent will speak
to the audience on under-
standing achievement and
pride that comes with success
and will be sharing the expe-
riences of his four furry friends
and how they inspired him to
become an author.
Sargent lives in Arkansas
and is sponsored by Ozark
Publishing in Prairie Grove,
Arkansas. All parents and
community members are en-
couraged to visit the campus
tomorrow and hear Sargent
speak. He will offer books and
posters for sale and will gladly
autograph purchases.
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The elementary library
was built in 1980. Prior to
that date, the library that pri-
marily serviced the "junior
high" was housed in Room 18
on the fourth wing with small
collections of books in each of
the primary classrooms.
The new library was lo-
cated south of the cafeteria
and east of the wings and, like
the other sections of the cam-
pus, was a freestanding build-
ing. Books were moved from
Room 18 and the classrooms
to at last create an elemen-
tary library that would ser-
vice all students on campus.
When the new elementary
buildings were constructed,
an L-shaped hallway was also
built to connect the library
with the new classrooms and
the library's exterior doors
were retained.
After 25 years of service
and many, many coats of
paint, the exterior doors are
being replaced with attrac-
tive, wooden interior doors
that will be compatible with
the doors used in the class-
rooms.
Third graders are currently
displaying their projects on
the solar system.
Just one week remains to
make final plans for the annual
PTO Fall Fest event, which will
take place on Saturday, October
29 on the campus of Nancy Smith
Elementary School.
PTO president Tammy Brown
is sharing the duties of organiz-
ing the Fall Fest with chairman
Jennie Bailey and other room
parents, and she asked that ad-
ditional volunteers make plans
to help with the booth setup on
October 29.
The Albany High School ag
classes, instructed by Chris
Beard, will assemble the frame-
work for the outdoor booths be-
fore the school week ends, but
signage and decorations will be
left for volunteers, said Brown.
"It won't take long if enough
people show up. It usually only
takes an hour or so." She added
that Marilyn Thompson is paint-
ing permanent names on each
booth, so that will make the vol-
unteers' job even easier.
The 2005 Fall Fest will begin
at 5:30 p.m. and end around
9:00 p.m. Tickets this year will
again sell for 50 cents apiece
instead of 10 cents, but it will
only take one ticket to partici-
pate in various activities. "We
just decided last year to require
one ticket rather than five, since
all the events are the same price,"
explained Brown. That requires
less counting, fewer tickets and
will be easier for kids and par-
ents to keep up with."
The PTO president added that
parents who haven't already
been contacted by their room
mothers should call to find out
when they need to work during
the actual event. "If you don't
know who the room mothers are,
we are providing a list so you
can check. There are other room
parents besides the ones listed,
but these are just suggested con-
tacts," she added. "In order for
this to be a success, we need
everyone's help."
Brown also reminded moth-
ers of freshmen and seniors that
they are responsible for bring-
ing two desserts that evening, to
the dessert walk for freshmen
and to the cafeteria for seniors.
The desserts for the dessert walk
can be left in the teachers work-
room, where pie boxes will be
available.
Room Parents
The following is a list of room
parents for kindergarten through
high school.
Kindergarten - Gaye Davis
(Fairchild), Kim Waters (Vier-
tel).
First grade - Twana Davis
(Alonzo), Susie Beard (Chap-
man).
Second grade - Belinda Perez
(King), Tami Masters (Tanker-
Sheryl Spore / Aibany News
Volunteer Marilyn Thompson begins the process of paint-
ing names on the Fall Fest booths that were used for the first
time last year.
sley).
Third grade - Jana Kitchens
(Fields), Tanya Petree (Martin).
Fourth grade - Teri Hudson
(Vinson), Amy Kelly (Willen).
Fifth grade - Susan Montgom-
ery (Hise), Ricia Pleasant
(Waller).
Sixth grade - Karma Nixon
(Wiloth), Leslie Little (Floyd/
Walker), Lori Schooler (Wilson).
Seventh grade - Dee Walter.
Eighth grade - Stephanie
VanZant.
Freshmen - Wendy Tinkle.
Sophomores - Shelly Bartee.
Juniors - Susan Waller.
Seniors - Melissa Mosley.
4-Hers recognized at annual banquet
The Shackelford County 4-H
Banquet was held Monday night
at the NSES cafeteria. The
theme for this year's banquet
was "Wild About 4-H."
For the second year, the Foods
and Nutrition members deco-
rated the tables for the banquet.
Prizes were awarded for the top
three tables receiving the most
votes. First place winner was
Madison Jones; second team,
Taryn Brown and Hannah Cope;
and third place team, Rachel
Kitchens and Shelbie Barton.
Club president Lauren Wil-
len, and vice-president Laci Boy-
ett handed out year pins to mem-
bers as they introduced them-
selves and stated their favorite
4-H project for the 2004-2005
year.
Rocky Vinson recognized
Temperatures
.
October 12 - 18
DATE HIGH LOW PREC.
10-12 82 49
10-13 77 49
10-14 83 52
10-15 84 53
10-16 84 53
10-17 88 55
10-18 90 57
October total 1.90
Year to date 20.97
NSES adopts school in Louisiana
Students at Nancy Smith El-
ementary School received word
this week that they have been
assigned a sister school in Loui-
siana to which they can forward
assistance for hurricane victims.
The NSES students and staff
have been collecting for hurri-
cane relief since Katrina hit the
Louisiana and Mississippi coast-
line last month.
Math teacher Luanne Walker
contacted the National Educa-
tion Agency soon after the hur-
ricane to see if there was some
way that local students could
help with the relief effort. Even
before they learned that they
could "Adopt-a-School" through
NEA, classes began the collec-
tion process.
The NSES Hurricane Relief
Fund has grown to $1,500, in-
cluding a portion that was con-
tributed by students in lieu of
eating ice cream during their
lunch periods and a matching
amount from Blue Bell.
"The kids have taken this se-
riously and have worked hard to
raise money for a school that
was affected by the hurricane,"
said Walker.
Nancy Smith Elementary has
been matched by NEA with
Acadian Elementary School, a
preK-5 elementary school in Al-
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Benefitting the
Shackelford County Youth & Livestock Show Association
members who were involved in
district and/or state level com-
petitions.
Layne Little, Jacinda Mo-
rales, Jordan Lucas, Cody
Petree, Grace Bumguardner,
Amanda Vinson and Casady
Jones participated in the Foods
& Nutrition district food show.
Logan Keller, Harli Holland,
Dakota Sullivan, Orrin Vinson,
Colt Keller, Marcus Nabors,
Emily Van Zant, Ryane Camp-
bell, Ryan Preslar, Kassidy
Sullivan and Madeline Van Zant
entered district rifle competition.
Orrin Vinson and Wade Mont-
gomery were at the state out-
door archery match.
Heather Patterson and Harli
Holland entered the district
horse show.
Laci Boyett and Lauren
Willen participated in both the
district and state horse show.
Amanda Vinson, Bailie Hill,
Shelby LaBonte and Courtney
Wheeler went to the district Teen
Leader Lab.
Harli Holland entered the dis-
trict method demonstration, dis-
trict record book and state dog
show.
is hosting about 45 students from
the Gulf coast area who were
displaced as a result of both
Katrina and Rita.
According to correspondence
from Faye Northcutt at NEA,
Acadian Elementary is an ur-
ban school in a high poverty area
with a total of around 350 stu-
dents, including evacuees.
The NSES contributions will
probably help the Acadian hur-
ricane victims with basic neces-
sities and school supplies.
Donations are still being
taken to send to Louisiana and
can be left at the NSES office.
More information is available
by calling 762-3384.
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