PARENT NEWS:

• There is no school tomorrow, Friday, November 7. 
• A Parent Resource Cart of books is located in the hall near the trophy case.  Please “check out” the new titles.  The books are supplied by the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative.  Enclosed you will find a listing of the titles.
• Sample many different wines, enjoy good food and fellowship at The Hide Away on November 18^th from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.  All proceeds will be donated to the school:  $25.00 per person.  Owners Joan and Jim Spaulding are hosting the event.  Please email Joan at jspaconsult@yahoo.com to sign up.
• Please be timely with St. Watch payments. Thank you.
• We received 3 truckloads of Smead paper products as a donation. Now we need a volunteer to sort products at church. Please contact the school at 645-8136 if you can help for an hour or 2.
• Thank you for your donations of coats for the 7^th Grade Coat Drive! Five big boxes of coats were delivered to the Clothing Closet today.
• Referees and coaches wanted: Contact Cathy at cathykowalewski@churchofstdominic.org or 645-4978.
• Donald’s has a uniform exchange credit. Bring used uniform items to Donald’s and receive a cash credit towards the purchase of the same value new uniform items.  This exchange is effective November through March.  For more information, contact the office.
• A Mexican Buffet, a St. Dominic Athletic Fundraiser, will be Tuesday, November 18 from 5:00 – 7:00 in the O’Gara Social Hall. 

STUDENT NEWS:

• The-end-of-the-quarter popcorn party will be Friday, November 14th.  Students may bring a beverage of their choice to enjoy with the popcorn at the party.
• The 7^th Graders have begun another service project:  A Thanksgiving Food Drive. It will begin November 10 and collect through November 25.  They will accept canned and boxed foods.  They will bring the food to the Community Action Center.  Thank you.
• The top students in each grade for Marathon winners are as follows:

K – Grace Thurin – $500.00      1 – Anne Fossum – $400.00      2 – Bobby Winter – $270.00                           3 – Anna Sullivan – $250.00 3 – Bridget Sullivan – $250.00  4 – Matthew Thurin – $500.00

5 – Olivia Drew – $275.00        6 – Justin Raines – $1290.00     7 – John Pavek – $440.00

Everybody deserves a big thank you for the dollars earned for non-public schools!

• The Northfield Cannon Valley Lions sponsored a Peace Poster Contest with our 6^th graders. Savings bonds were awarded to the top 3 contestants plus 5 merit awards.  Congratulations to Amanda Stenzel for her first place poster.  It will be entered into the district competition.  Rachael Bartho and Sam Owens received 2^nd and 3^rd place respectively.   The posters are displayed in the hall near the trophy case:  Peace Begins With Me.

REMINDERS:

• Magazine Drive will be beginning November 12.  Ask friends and family to save their subscriptions.

NOVEMBER	DECEMBER	JANUARY
Nov. 3 & 6 – Parent-Teacher Conferences	Dec. 3 – 2 hour late start	Jan. 3 – School resumes
Nov. 7 – No School	Dec. 9 – Alum. can collection	Jan. 8 – Alum. can collection
Nov. 13 – Alum. can collection	Dec. 18 – Christmas Concert	Jan. 19 – No school- DMLK Day
Nov. 16 – VIRTUS Training	Dec. 22-Jan. 2 – No School	Jan. 23 – End of 2nd quarter
Nov.  18 – Mexican Buffet		Jan. 26 – No School
Nov. 26-28 – Thanksgiving break		Jan. 25 – 30 – Catholic School Wk.

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