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On Wednesday, February 20th, St. Anthony’s held its annual School Spelling Bee. All classrooms grades 1st – 8th held a classroom spelling bee. The winners from the classroom spelling bee then participated in the School Spelling Bee. The following students were our participants in the School Spelling Bee: Zachary Lopez Lincoln Ellorimo Naimah Vizhnay Chase Farris Mason Swartz Hailey Roberts Grace Duggins Sam Kays Bailey Cavanaugh Mark Nokes Hannah Cano Emma Scharre Bryce Lopez Congratulations to all of our participants; they all did an excellent job! Our school spelling bee winner is Lincoln Ellorimo. Lincoln will move onto the Regional Level of the National Scripps Spelling Bee competition. We wish Lincoln the best of luck!

We are in need of items for the Reverse Raffle. We are asking that Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade parents donate one or two 2-liters of Coke, Diet Coke, or Sprite for the dinner. We are asking that grades 2-8 donate gift cards or scratch off lottery tickets for our silent auction. You can donate money if you like and we can purchase the gift cards or lottery tickets for you. Please place your gift card, lottery tickets, or money in an envelope marked “Reverse Raffle Donation” on the envelope. We would like all donations to be turned into the office by Wednesday, February 20th. We appreciate your help in making our Reverse Raffle a success!

The New Albany Deanery will be holding auditions for the Deanery Musical Beauty and The Beast Jr. Auditions are open to any 5th-8th grade student who attends a school in the New Albany Deanery. Auditions will be held on Saturday, March 9th.

If you are a parish school family receiving the parish Stewardship Scholarship and/or plan to apply for the scholarship next year, then this update is for you. Make sure you stay eligible by meeting the service and Mass requirements. March is the final month to reach all requirements. Your 4th quarter service hours report is due at the end of March. • If you are still a little short of the minimum Mass requirement there are 5 weekends left to get to the 26 minimum requirements. • If you haven’t submitted your 2019 St. Anthony Parish Intention Card with the Parish Office please do so as soon as possible. • If you would like to know your Mass attendance on where your family stands after 11 months, send an e-mail to Jim Kenney at jimkenneyiii@gmail.com. Jim will e-mail your family's attendance number through the last weekend Mass in February to you.

It is now time to apply for the 2019-2020 St. Anthony Parish Stewardship Scholarship. If you are a registered family, please review the Scholarship requirements and apply online. Deadline is March 31st. Families will be advised by mid-April if they are eligible for the Scholarship for the 2019-20 school year.

The office is always in need of scrap paper. If you or your workplace has scrap paper, please send it in to the office. Thanks for your help.

I want to give a huge thank you to all of our families that filled out the Parent Satisfaction Survey. We had 97 families out of 179 families complete the Satisfaction Survey, which is 54% complete. We appreciate your feedback and we will be looking closely at the data to find our strengths and weaknesses. Our goal was to have 70% complete the survey to receive 2 out of uniform days. Even though we did not reach our 70%, I want to show my appreciation for reaching more than 50%. Students will receive 1 out of uniform day. All students may be out of uniform on Friday, February 22nd. Thanks again for your support and dedication to SAS!

Our Youth Ministry Planning Team would like to send out a big 'Thank You' to all who attended our recent Mother Son Masquerade Ball. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and made some wonderful memories to last a lifetime. For those who were not able to attend, check out the pictures at the Saint Anthony's Youth Ministry Facebook page or the parish website. Thanks to Mr. Dino and his crew for providing a yummy dinner. The Youth Planning Leadership Team would like to thank Charlene Uhl, Carmella & Vic Reyes, Maya Paris, Olivia Hyndman, Ethan Kerr, Camrynn Brown, Monica Nokes, Chloe Brown and Pat Gillenwater for helping make the Mother Son Dance a big success. Also a big shout out to our youth director, Stacy Gillenwater and her Youth Team for planning fun-filled events for our youth. Mrs. Gillenwater does a wonderful job of planning events to get our youth involved.

Because we had a snow day, we will use President’s Day as a snow make-up day. School will be in session on February 18th. If we have any more snow days, we will begin to make up days the 1st week of Spring Break.

I would like to give a shout out to parents and students that helped with our Open House this past Sunday. We appreciate you taking the time on a Sunday to support St. Anthony School. I know our visitors love to see the wonderful things that are happening at SAS. I would also like to give a shout out to all those who helped with our Catholic Schools Week. Thanks to our faculty and staff for planning and exciting week. Thanks to those parents who volunteered to sit with classes during our annual Volleyball Game. A huge thank you to Brian Fisher for setting up the gym for the game and for officiating the game. Thanks to Kim Fisher for keeping score during the game. Thank you to the many families who sent in items for the food pantry. Catholic Schools Week is a great way to celebrate the mission and the vision here at SAS.

We have come to the midway point of the 3rd quarter. Please check your child’s grades on Jupiter. Review the grades with your child and discuss ways to improve in areas that seem to be challenging.