Greetings,

This will be the final newsletter for the year.  Please mark the following dates on your calendars:

• April 30        Mr. Brouillette’s (Mr. B) Carnival/Bingo/Supper – 5:00-8:00.  Students are to bring a 2 liter bottle of pop for the ring toss.  Staff will bring a cake for the cake walk.  This is to help offset the cost of Mr. Brouillette’s surgeries from his Crohn’s Disease.  Thank you to Heidi Rivers who is gathering all of the donations for this event.  If you can donate, please call the school.
• May 8           5:00-7:00 – Cafeteria - Culture Family Night.  Come and eat and be exposed to many cultures of the world.
• May 15         6:00 – 8:00 – Student Talent Show – Cafeteria.  $2.00 admission. 
• May 16 and 17 – ASA Softball Rummage Sale – Cafeteria.  May 16 – 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. $5 admission.  May 17 – 7:00 – 3:00 free admission.
• May 17 – last Saturday School
• May 21 – last Early Release
• May 28 and 29 – May Madness – Natural High Activities for all students
• May 28 – Gym – Honor’s Assembly – 6:00 p.m.  You will be notified by letter if your child is receiving an award.
• May 30 – 8th grade Formal Graduation.  You will be notified by May 21 via mail if your child is graduating.  They must have a 2.0 GPA for the year.  If you need help dressing your child formally for the event, please contact Jackie Swanson at school.
• June 9 – the start of 6th and 7th grade Gear Up.  If you would like your child to participate in an enrichment program for the summer, 4 weeks, mornings, please contact Mike Deming at North.

Operation Nest Egg, our student work program, has started and is being funded by the following attorneys in Rapid City.  They have donated a total of $5,660 in two weeks. 

• Wendy T. McGowan - $50
• Greg Sperlich, Demerssemen, Jensen, Christianson, Stanton & Huffman - $100
• The Honorable Judge Karen E. Schreier - $100
• Daniel Pahlke - $100
• Margo Julius of Julius & Simpson - $100
• Joel Landeen, City Attorney’s Office - $50
• Jerry Johnson of Banks, Johnson - $100
• Gary Jensen of Beardsley, Jensen & Von Wald - $25
• Robert Van Norman of Nooney, Solay & Van Norman - $250
• John R. Murphy of Murphy Law Office - $2,500
• Karen Sopher of Law Office of Patrick K. Duffy - $50
• Jeffries Law Office - $250
• Honorable Judge Janine M. Kern - $50
• Patrick K. Duffy - $1,000
• Anonymous donation of $100
• Jeremiah J. Davis, Pennington Co. Public Defender’s Office - $60

Thank you for their generosity to get this awesome program going.  A special thank you to John Murphy Law Office for helping us with this fundraiser.  Please ask your child about the program today!!

Thank you to the following people and businesses for donating to the Eagle Cash store:
Victor and Dorothy Burckhard, Alvino Davila, Carmen Fuss of The Glitz, Mark and Kim Burckhard, Jackie and Bret Swanson, Rebecca Kline, Deb Van Skike of Albertson’s, Lois Moose, Larry Mintzlaff.

Thank you to everyone who helped with our magazine fundraiser.  I will keep you posted when we receive a total amount raised.

Thank you to those of you using your Target charge card.  We received a check for $74.86 which will help pay for our next Honor Roll celebration.

Just a heads up on some of our students who are sharing contact lenses.  This is very dangerous and can cause serious infections of the eye.  We will continue to contact parents when we see this happening.

www.myfuturemydecision.com – Using streamline videos, radio spots and information resources, this site features testimonials from former dropouts and highlights the benefits of completing a high school diploma. 

Make sure you get your daughters into the doctor to receive their series of Human Papillomavirus vaccine.  This is a vaccine that can guard your daughters against diseases caused by HPV which causes 70% of cervical cancer cases and 90% of genital warts cases.  This is for women between 9-26 years of age.  The state is helping defray the cost of the vaccine.  Contact your doctor soon, before this opportunity passes.

Thank you to Independent Insurance Agents of Rapid City who donated a total of $16,500 to our Food Backpack program.  We now have 10 schools participating with over 800 students being fed every weekend.  We have 150 spots here at North.  If you would like your child to receive a backpack of food for the weekend, please call Vanessa at North.

Thank you to the Altrusa Club who donated $1,000 to our Food Backpack program.

Our Student Gang Task Force has designed a t-shirt to wear for all members in black and lime green.  Officer Dan Rude will be doing a gang presentation to our group on May 13.  Parents are invited.  This will be from 3:10-4:30 in the library.  Once we have some nice weather, students will also be painting over gang graffiti in our neighborhood.  If you would like some graffiti painted over, please call the office and give your address and what you would like painted.  We will be helping the police department with this.

Please make sure you are monitoring your children’s Bebo, MySpace and Face Book.  We are finding several fights that have been initiated and posted on these sites by some of our students.  We are working with the Sheriff’s Office and making arrests for this illegal behavior.  This is a growing problem in our nation, and we, as parents, have the right to monitor these sites. We need your help!!

Thank you for a good year at North Middle School.  We couldn’t have done it without your support of your children’s education.

Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Burckhard
Principal

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