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It's time for the Bulldog bite Chris Elani is here in the studio with us today.
How are you
doing?
Good morning, Sam doing very well.
Thank you as always for asking.
How are you doing?
I'm doing well good Wednesday.
That's right down
First and foremost, November 11th, I want to send a happy Veterans Day to all members, veterans as well as active military, service members, et cetera, on this day of recognition.
so vital and we're so thankful and later I'll make comments probably later here but we are having our annual ceremony in recognition in our high school gymnasium this morning at officially starting at 11am excuse me at which time you know we have members of our entire student body at the high school middle school as well as our fourth and fifth grade
students will be traveling up and being part of our ceremony as well and recognizing the veterans that we have in the building with us.
We have a guest speaker, our own school resource officer, Mr. Darren Olson, who is a veteran himself is helping lead the organization this year as far as our event today.
And so just want to put a shout out to him and thank him for our service as well.
And so hopefully we get a good group of our local military veterans and active members.
Come into the gym as we always have and post Event we host those that want to remain intense to lunch and so hopefully you'll be able to have a good number participating today So just want to get that out there first and foremost We do have with us.
I believe we have principal miss Karen Eddie from Brackell with us on the phone.
Good morning miss Eddie.
How are
you?
Good morning, how are you?
Good, thank you.
We're very fortunate to have you and I'll let you kind of give us the 30,000 foot here in a minute as far as who you have with you there at Barquel on the phone, but we're talking everything, TV6 Canathon.
And so it's an activity, it's an exercise, it's a partnership that our folks at Barr Calendar and Principal Eddie's leadership, they do a wonderful job of and they really take it to a level of, I don't want to say extreme, but to a level of pride.
And so with that, Ms.
Eddie, I'm going to turn it over to you to basically kind of give us the breakdown of what the TV6 Canathon is for us at Barquale, the processes.
And then if you want to turn it over to the staff there or students, if all by and all means, please do so.
Yeah, we've probably participated in the TV6 Canathon for, goodness, a number of years, well over 10 years.
the students, you know, everyone getting together and, you know, working together to help our community.
It's a great thing, like I said, that we've probably participated in for many years.
Also with me here today is Ellie Davatella, a second grade teacher, and then also a second grade teacher, Sarah Wettelinen, and they are the leaders of Student Council.
We also have three students from Student Council, and I'm going to let them introduce themselves.
My name is Malcolm Pinar.
My name is Nellie Jarbson.
My name is Alina Fizaco.
All right, and these students here are going to just give a little extra information on what our canathon looks like this year.
We will be collecting unopened goods from November 2nd through November 30th.
Donations from the community can be brought to the school office during school hours.
All the items we collect will be brought to the local food banks to help people in the community.
We're trying to get as many boxes of cereal as possible so we can do the cereal box dumb.
On November 30th, we will be lining all of our cereal boxes up in the hallway of
always up of our gym, the gym.
At two o'clock that day, we will all gather around the halls or in the gym to watch as the dominoes travels from start to finish.
So the canathon is just a great way to get our students involved in giving back to the community.
And this year, we've added kind of a fun twist to the canathon where we're collecting
Serial boxes so we can do this serial box dominoes event
So I'm gonna go off here a little bit of attention as well so just I you know with the headphones on I'm thinking that was miss Ellie that was just speaking so just from a standpoint of kind of giving our listeners kind of the process of Engagement that we have miss Ellie and miss Sarah with us.
Of course principle any
The planning, you know, this is an activity you just referenced the the the cereal box Activity this year is a first time Can you just take us through just the process of planning?
You know as you both are leaders of our our Cal student council Are there any pieces the puzzle that you know the students are directly involved with leading up to you know the planning organization of this November month and having the canathon Works or how is that typically just handled from a day-to-day standpoint each year?
Yeah, so each year we've participated in the TV6 canason and this year we wanted to kind of add a fun twist with a little more involvement from the students.
Our student council members met and we've worked together to kind of organize the collection of the material or of the donations that students bring in and then the display that we have in our school hallways.
So a few mornings a week student council members will go around and collect the
donations that are brought in and
then
we have a nice big display in our entryway so that we can really get excited about you know how many donations we've collected and looking forward to this event on November 30th where we're going to take all those donations and line them up and set them off like dominoes so it's just a great way to get the whole school involved and excited about you know collecting as many donations as possible to give back to the food banks.
Absolutely.
And, you know, you referenced the student council.
Can you just give us a little bit of an overview or how the student council, what the makeup it is at Barquel?
You know, I think some of our listeners might be surprised a little bit that we actually have a student council component at the elementary setting.
So can you just talk a little bit about the consistency of the format and the structure of the student council at Barquel?
We started student council at Barquel.
last school year.
So this is our second school year and we take applications from any third, fourth, and fifth graders that are interested in joining Student Council.
And then looking over those applications, we select students who we feel have the best interest for school improvement and, you know, bringing exciting things to Barquel and we meet once a week.
This month we're kind of tackling the canathon and this
We've helped with recycling and we do a big reading month in March where we kind of help plan assemblies and just fun events for the school.
We're always looking at ways we can give back to the community so student council members have helped with.
making cards for the elderly at nursing homes
and
just different fun ways to involve the kids.
And there are so many students who are interested in being on the student council that so many applications that actually we kind of had to divide up.
So we have a group of students for the first part of the year who are student council and then we switch off and then another group So we'd like to try to get as many students involved as possible so that everyone has a voice and Let's make decisions on them.
Oh, we what kind of things we do up our calendar how we run thing
And this has been a great representation of the student engagement.
You referenced that word engagement, helping identify opportunities for our students to be active, not only within the Barquel setting, but also that community outreach perspective.
And so, you know, with there's also another note we have out there in our socials, you know, the month of November.
is our family engagement month.
And so this is another extension of how we're able to reach out and have those pieces of communication and dialogue and opportunities to share and different things to create opportunities for students and their families.
And the canathon here is certainly one of those.
And we are very appreciative of the efforts of our staff, obviously, Ms.
Sarah and Ms.
Ellie and, of course, Principal Karen here with everything to do with our students.
And certainly the
students that we had on here this morning, we certainly appreciate their time in giving us that readout of the activities themselves.
And then, you know, the cereal box challenge, as you said, it's going to be coming up at the end of the month on November 30th.
And the big display will be in the gym.
And I'm sure the students are looking forward to it and excited for that event and opportunity.
So with that, is there anything else you'd like to add, Principal Karen or Miss Ellie or Miss Sarah or students about the Canathon?
You can drop off items at the school office.
Yeah.
If anyone in the community has any donations they would like to bring in, as Nellie just said, you can bring in items to the school office during school hours, any day during the week.
Yep.
And if you'd like to come check out the final knockdown there of our zero boxes.
Everyone's more than welcome to come on and check it out.
It'll be on November 30th at 2
o'clock.
Excellent.
Well, thank you very much for your time this morning and for sharing all the efforts that you're putting forth with our TV6 Canathon.
And of course, with the big announcement of the cereal box domino challenge, that's going to take effect at the end of the month.
So Principal Karen, Eddie, Ms.
Ellie and Ms.
Sarah and students, thank you for your time this morning very much.
And then we'll all see you later.
Thank you.
Thank you.
See ya make sure to bring lots of cereal boxes
Very good, so a lot of effort goes into it in any of the activities we do But you know we've been doing the Kenneth on thing is miss up idea has referenced for quite some time We actually also have it at the middle school
as well, but the elementary setting has really taken off.
And this new challenge that the students have come up with, the Cerebox challenge, it's certainly going to be a fun event and we'll soon get some filming of that, I'm sure, and be able to put that on social media.
And you can, for any of those interested, we do have postings out there on our official HANCOC Public Schools Facebook page.
That's referenced to our November month of family engagement as well as our Cerebox challenge.
And many other things included on our Facebook page.
So please, if you're interested, you can go up.
and look for that for Hancock public schools.
And we do push those out via listservs as well.
So just a fun time.
And the thing about the month of November, it's called the...
The tweener month, you know, we just had the ramp up with October with all the activities of fall coming to completion Halloween in which our students are always very engaged at the elementary setting November we have You know, it's it's the end of a marking period.
We have parent teacher conferences actually Coming up tomorrow and so just a reminder for all those folks out there in the afternoon We only have a half day of school for our students tomorrow morning and then the afternoon from one to six are designated times for parent teacher
conferences.
And so then we have a full day off on Friday because we're having a faculty staff in service for training for professional development.
So the students are going to get a nice long weekend this weekend.
And for some of those older students who are itching to get out in the woods, perhaps an opening weekend as well, it will prove to be very good for them.
I'll be at that.
I don't know about the weather.
The next couple of days look a little bit on the edgy side, but then warming back up and being clear so we don't know what the effect will have on our
Harvesting opportunities, I guess I'll put that way on the weekend, but I'm getting back to this tweener month You know the month of November is so quick in a lot of ways because we have Thanksgiving We know we have these intermittent breaks in between the change of marking period, you know These other opportunities then you look forward to December
and December is a short month because of Christmas of course so these next two months always fly by and so you know being able to get to have opportunities to reach out and have some engagement series with our students with their families with the community is very important so
Yeah, just if you want to reach out, you know, any questions, always feel free to call as well at any, either of our offices, the Barca Elementary with Ms.
Tammy Buzner or up at the High School Middle School with Ms.
Trina Barrett.
They're always willing and able to help direct and or provide information that's necessary.
So, you know, feel free to reach out.
So the canathon, and then I also talked at the front end about our veteran today's ceremony this morning.
Again at the Hancock High School Gymnasium, Hancock Central High Gymnasium, where we have our entire middle school and high school student body in attendance in the gym.
As a reference, we have the fourth and fifth grade coming up to be part of that ceremony.
We have a very nice itinerary of events.
that we're gonna have, you know, I referenced our school resource officer, Mr. Darren Olson, who's a veteran himself.
He's leading the organization, the efforts for this today's ceremony.
You know, we have, you know, I'll have a quick welcome to everybody.
And then we're gonna have one of our students sing the national anthem.
We're gonna have another student to give us the history of Veterans Day or Armistice Day.
And then we're gonna have a special guest, a veteran, who's a
parent of one of our students.
Ms.
Varen will be in attendance and she'll be our guest of honor for the morning.
And then we have a wonderful video that Ms.
Sarah Pelty and her students put together that we put up on our video board in gymnasium.
It's always exceptionally done by the students.
our band will be playing as well.
And then yeah, we'll have that finishing touch with our luncheon in the cafeteria with our students and so all the veterans and active military as well as first responders, anybody in the community who's first responder wants to come get a lunch with us and be part of the so many, absolutely feel free to do so.
And so we're welcoming everybody that can attend to be, please be in attendance.
So it's a wonderful event every year for us.
Running out of time looks like.
Couple other tidbits so referenced tomorrow parent-teacher conferences half-day referenced Friday being a full day off for our students Next week is a you know the the next full week of the month and then we looked of course Thanksgiving Coming up so it's another short week.
So a lot of a lot of things going on The winter sports are gonna be in full swing and I'd be remiss to say that without
getting too far ahead about talking about winter sports.
Congratulations to our girls volleyball team last night.
They played against ishwimming in the regional semi-final.
They were game one.
They did beat ishwimming in three games as a 3-0 shutout.
They will be playing tomorrow evening, Thursday.
in Ishming for the regional championship.
And I looked this morning, I think there was an expected outcome of Crystal Falls.
So it'll be Hancock versus Crystal in the regional championship Thursday, tomorrow night in Ishming.
Opening serve at 6 p.m.
And so we are at the moment organizing a fan bus for students to travel down if they'd so attend.
And hopefully we can have a good little crowd go down and support the girls.
Coach Lampa again we've had on and have identified their accomplishments thus far this season and hopefully they can continue to muster what they need as far as performance and bulldog grit and performance and look to a positive outcome tomorrow night in the regional championship and make a you know what we don't want to get ahead of ourselves but you know hopefully have a similar opportunity that the team was in last year with Coach Lampa making it downstate so again it should be an exceptional match we did
play crystal.
Early in the year was a very well fought match.
Crystal did take us.
well into, into the game.
And so we will, you know, they, they, for the last couple of years have been a predominant team within division four and they, you know, a couple of years ago, they beat us for the, the regionals.
And now we're, we're coming back once again, we beat them last year for the regional final.
So the rematch is set for tomorrow night.
And so we'll see how it goes, but best of luck to coach lamp on the team.
And, and certainly hoping everybody that can go down, who may have an interest to go down, we'll do that and support the team.
at Eshbin High School, 6 p.m.
Yeah, I know we're looking like I keep going.
I mean we've got all kinds of stuff, but I know time I think I'll leave it there You know we can come back next week.
You know, we'll talk about the updates just with reference to volleyball Hockey is playing this weekend the basketball start next week officially so a lot of things rolling from that standpoint And then we will that's true.
Yeah, we will continue to push forward here with a quick month of November as I keep referencing
all right So yeah as always I appreciate you come again
Thank you very much.
And thank you very much for Genos, for sponsoring this segment, and I really do wish the volleyball team the best of luck tomorrow.
That's a very exciting opportunity to have.
Yep, absolutely.
As well, Sam, thank you for your time, the stations, and of course, your reference Genos.
All right, this has been the Bulldog Bite, right here on Mixed93.