Preschool Roundup will be held at Elkhorn Valley Elementary School on Friday, March 17.
All children in the Elkhorn Valley School District who will turn 4 years of age by July 31, 2017, are welcome to attend. Because we are expecting such a large class of Preschoolers for this coming school year, we will be splitting Preschool Roundup into two sessions. Families who have last names beginning with A through M are asked to attend from 9:00 to 10:00 am and those with last names beginning N through Z are asked to attend from 10:00 to 11:00 am. Preschool Roundup provides parents and children an opportunity to meet the Preschool teachers and tour the classroom. While children enjoy the Preschool experience in the classroom, parents will have the opportunity to meet with school personnel and talk about the Preschool program. Enrollment forms will also be completed so parents are asked to bring their child’s certified birth certificate, current immunizations and your child’s social security number. Elkhorn Valley Elementary looks forward to meeting the new little faces in our school district. If parents have any questions or are unable to attend Preschool Roundup, please be sure to contact the elementary office at 368-5301. There will be a Kindergarten Class Visit on Friday, March 17, from 9:00 to 10:30. Parents will need to provide their child’s transportation to and from the school on this day. Parents do not need to attend this classroom visit. There will be no Kindergarten classes for our current students on this day. Information regarding the Kindergarten visit has been sent home with our current Preschool students but we welcome all children in the school district who will be age 5 as of July 31, 2017. Elkhorn Valley Schools took part in the US92 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Radiothon last week.
On Thursday, February 23rd the EV staff was encouraged to participate in the “Falcons for St. Jude” day for a minimum $10 donation. The staff could wear any or all Falcon gear for their donation. The students that participated brought a minimum $1 donation and wore a hat to school. Altogether, the Falcons raised a total of $831.65 for St. Jude. Elkhorn Valley speech team members brought home several medals from the NVC East Speech Meet in Ewing on Monday. The team placed seventh overall.
Complete results from the speech meet: Oral Interpretation of Serious Prose: 1. Brianna Hupp, Pope John 2. Megan Leasure, Verdigre 3. Emily Eacker, Ewing 4. Madison Dilly, Pope John 5. Rachel Higgins, Neligh-Oakdale 6. Sarah Hawk, Ewing Informative Speaking: 1. Danni Anderson, Ewing 2. Marie Meis, Pope John 3. Wenting Yu, Pope John 4. Ashley Williams, Clearwater-Orchard 5. Alison Stineman, Elkhorn Valley 6. Alexis Hrbeck, Verdigre Entertainment Speaking: 1. Lydia Behnk, Elgin Public 2. Megan Cook, Verdigre 3. Bre Bartak, Pope John 4. Bailey Frank, Verdigre 5. Erin Schwager, Clearwater-Orchard 6. Skylar Eacker, Ewing Persuasive Speaking: 1. Marie Meis, Pope John 2. Morgan Hrbek, Verdigre 3. Blake Bartling, Verdigre 4. Sierra Centamore, Neligh-Oakdale Oral Interpretation of Drama: 1. Verdigre - Megan Cook, Isaac Cook, Austin Burkhardt, Haylee Klawitter and Madi Randa 2. Elgin Public - Hunter Reestman, Lydia Behnk, Taya Voborny, Zoey Bergman and Kenny Bush 3. Pope John - Sydney Kerkman, Nicki Payne, Shantel Preister, Erin Beckman and Emily Seier 4. Verdigre - Blake Bartling, Morgan Hrbek, Ashlyn Hamilton, Stephanie Shakespaere and Bailey Frank 5. Elgin Public - Shelby Dohmen, Ashton Evans, Adam Dreger and Kira Widger 6. Neligh-Oakdale - Hannah Schrader, Hailey Bixler, Emma Bixler, Sierra Centamore and Kyle Snodgrass Extemporaneous Speaking: 1. P.J. Miguelino, Elkhorn Valley 2. Brody Hupp, Pope John 3. Brea Carr, Elgin Public 4. Mateo Kirstine, Elgin Public Duet Acting: 1. Hunter Reestman and Kenny Bush, Elgin Public 2. Allison Kerkman and Grace Rittscher, Clearwater-Orchard 3. Brooke Swanson and Abby Swanson, Niobrara 4. Haylee Klawitter and Madi Randa, Verdigre 5. Taya Voborny and Zoey Bergman, Elgin Public 6. Alyssa Moser and Pammela Maxwell, Clearwater-Orchard Oral Interpretation of Poetry: 1. Danni Anderson, Ewing 2. Adrian Love, Clearwater-Orchard 3. Stephanie Shakespaere, Verdigre 4. Alexis Hrbek, Verdigre 5. Kira Widger, Elgin Public 6. Samantha Wright, Neligh-Oakdale Oral Interpretation of Humorous Prose: 1. Alyssa Moser, Clearwater-Orchard 2. Cole Belitz, Neligh-Oakdale 3. Grace Rittscher, Clearwater-Orchard 4. Emily Eacker, Ewing 5. Isaac Cook, Verdigre 6. Skylar Eacker, Ewing Tyler Miller, a senior at Elkhorn Valley Schools, was recently honored by the NSAA at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha as a Believer and Achiever.
U.S. Bank and the Nebraska School Activities Association honored six Believers & Achievers recipients with an award on Friday night during the Nebraska State Wrestling Championships. Believers & Achievers is a state-wide program designed by U.S. Bank and the NSAA to give recognition to Nebraska’s future leaders. Believers & Achievers has been designed to reward high school students in Nebraska for their excellence in academics and participation in NSAA activities. The Orchard-Clearwater-Ewing grade basketball team won the seventh and eighth grade division in the Cyclone Tournament over the weekend. They are (from left) Maryssa Long, Taelyn Switzer, Brenna Wagner, Gracie Maxwell, Emma Kerkman, (bottom) Cassidy Bearinger and Emily Nordby. Not pictured is Avery Cheatum. Jarrod Long coached the team.
The Elgin Public/Pope John fifth- and sixth-grade boys basketball team picked up a championship over the weekend. They are (from left) coach Greg Wemhoff, Nick Anderson, Linus Borer, Ethan Hinkle, Blake Henn, coach Jeremy Hoefer, (bottom) Paiton Hoefer, Cale Kinney, Jack Wemhoff and Camryn Pelster.
Senior year is a very important year for soon-to-be-graduates. And there are a lot of major decisions for the teenagers to make about their futures.
Shortly, Elkhorn Valley senior Elizabeth Osborn will finalize a huge decision: whether she will go to nursing school or join the Young Americans in California. “It’s a group that travels around the world influencing kids, teaching them music,” Osborn explained. “They teach these kids a show and they perform it at the end. It’s seriously just a miracle.” In 1962, the Young Americans performance group was founded to reflect a positive and honest image of our nation’s youth through music and dance. Today, 15-24 year olds tour to promote educational initiatives and theatrical performances. “The first time I did it (a Young Americans workshop) was in fifth grade, and I was totally in love with it. So every year I expected it would be like that, like overwhelming,” Osborn explained. “You feel so free and it’s the most beautiful thing. You can expect to feel at home.” Osborn has been involved in several activities at Elkhorn Valley including choir, show choir, band, jazz band, and has served as the drum major of the marching and pep band. She has always had passion for music and she never hid her love for it. “We used to sit on my roof at night and I would just sing to her, for hours and hours,” Osborn said as she reminisced about her best friend and herself. “I just sang all the time. I was trying to dance all the time. I was always in peoples faces singing and singing.” Osborn attended every Young American workshop in the area that she could. She was even awarded a scholarship to go to one of the workshops this past summer. “I went to Norfolk, I went to Fremont, I went to Tilden, I went to O’Neill,” she explained. “And then this last workshop I did I got accepted for a $400 scholarship to attend their summer program in Fremont. So I was awarded that out of everybody and that was amazing.” Since the first camp, Osborn knew Young Americans was something she wanted to do. When given the chance to audition to join Young Americans, Osborn jumped at the chance. “After one of the shows, you actually go up to a room, and they’ll have you sing for 45 seconds,” she described. “And I think throughout the three days, they are just watching your personality and watching how you interact with them.” Osborn did not hear whether or not she got in until weeks after she originally was supposed to thanks to an email issue. But when the results finally arrived, she made the cut. “When I got accepted it was overwhelming,” she said. “It was honestly the best thing ever. I’ve always wanted to be a part of them, something so beautiful and big. And now that I am accepted it doesn’t even really seem real right now.” Osborn said that because she found out about her acceptance late, she started applying to nursing school. Now that she has options, she is torn about her future. “I’m definitely going to make my deposit on the Young Americans just to secure a spot. But if I get accepted into the nursing program then it will be a little more difficult, but if I don’t get accepted into the nursing program then there is probably going to be a one way ticket.” Even though her future has two possible options, Osborn says one thing is certain. “Definitely stay involved with music as much as I can,” she said. If you are ever at Subs and Suds in Tilden and suddenly see the need for CPR, look for your nearest Elkhorn Valley student.
More specifically, a seventh grader or a senior. That’s because they spent the day Monday learning the basics of CPR thanks to a partnership from Nucor and Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. The two companies have teamed up to provide CPR training kits to various schools across the area, including Elkhorn Valley. “Faith Regional and Nucor worked together in a fundraiser,” explained Jenny Simmons, chest pain and stroke coordinator at Faith Regional. “We combined forces and wanted to get involved in the community initiative. So we decided to get involved with the schools and used the money to purchase, from the Heart Association, these hands on CPR kits.” Simmons, along with two nurse practitioners, used the kits to help teach students the basics of CPR in a 40 minute course. The class begins with an instructional video and the students spend their time working with the mannequins provided in the kit, practicing compressions. Learning CPR is nothing new for Elkhorn Valley students, as all freshman are required to go through a CPR course during their first year of high school. However, Nebraska is one of 16 schools across the country that does not make CPR training mandatory for high school graduation. Simmons sees that changing soon. “I do think Nebraska will see a bill to try to mandate that high schools make it mandatory to provide CPR certification for their graduating seniors,” she said. “The more community awareness that people have and the importance of why you’d want this will hopefully make that bill successful.” Citizens in Tilden may have noticed some exciting activity north of Elkhorn Valley schools recently, as construction has now officially begun on the school’s new $17.2 million facility.
Monday morning, BD Construction out of Columbus arrived and began the first stages of construction, moving various objects out of the way and beginning digging on the north side of the current building. Superintendent Keith Leckron said the school expects to have construction completed by next spring, but until then, students and staff will have to deal with a few changes to their current routines. “We’ll be making a lot of adjustments,” he explained. “I think the key word is flexibility among the staff because there is going to be changes in where we do things. For example, things like which door to use to go into the cafeteria, where bus drop off and pick up is going to be and some parts of our campus is no longer available to us.” The area where the new building will be built was previously the spot for bus drop off and pick off for students. Leckron explained that it will now happen on sixth street and the school has already talked with the city to make sure precautions are taken to keep the students safe on the street. A green space will be set up for recess for the elementary students, but Leckron explained that the school will be flexible with what they do to give the kids their playtime. “We plan to bus students to the playground up by the city swimming pool. We’ve talked to the city about that and they’ve been very gracious in working with us to allow us to use their playground by the swimming pool,” he said. Teachers are also able to simply take their students on walks or use the playground at Horseshoe Park if they choose. |
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