Students, volunteers honor local military unit

In preparation for the departure to Afghanistan of a local Michigan National Guard unit, students participating in Kid's Street, an after school program at Trinity United Methodist Church in Lapeer, prepared some unique table decorations.

The decorations will be used at a community send-off on Monday evening, April 6, 2009 at Lapeer East High School.

Students from Schickler, Maple Grove and Mayfield Elementary Schools, along with high school volunteers from Lapeer East and Lapeer West and Schickler teacher Mrs. Beth Shemanski made the soldier figurines from tin foil and camouflage cloth.

Retired elementary school teacher Mrs. Phyllis Lange, who volunteers at the Kid's Street Program said the students enjoyed making the decorations to honor the local men and women who will be going off to Afghanistan.

The project was particularly meaningful to Mrs. Lange, who lost her father when he was killed fighting during the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. Lange taught at Irwin Elementary School for 35 years, after teaching five years in Imlay City. She retired in 2005.

To see the students and their hand made creations go to this photo album.

Star Lab: Out of this world

Students in the Lapeer Community Schools are privileged to share Star Lab, a portable planetarium made available through the help of the Lapeer County Intermediate School District.

Lapeer West teacher Mr. Ted Tomczyk coordinates the program for the District with assistance from Ms. Dawn Mosher at the ISD. The program began about seven years ago at the request of elementary school teachers who needed a reliable, trained group of people to run the expensive equipment.

Students from Lapeer West, who are trained and selected by Mr. Tomczyk, set up and lead the planetarium programs throughout the District. The 16 students' volunteer work is not for school credit, but to help younger students learn about science.

The students who volunteer to help with Star Lab are: Seniors, Brad Grobbel, Claire Athmer, Pat LaJoie; uniors, Catherine Benscoter, Landon Warren, Jarrett Peplinski; sophomores, Eric Birkle, Kendall Clair, Elizabeth Jolly, Alayna Klinke, Nathan Irelan; freshmen, Trevor Krehel, Christian Knoerr, Jeff Acton, Harrison Andrezik; and eighth-grader, Spencer Ferrell.

"On average, we present to over 2,500 kids through out Lapeer County every year," Mr. Tomczyk said. "This year, the number should be even higher."

On Thursday, students at Maple Grove Elementary School spent one half hour in the Star Lab learning about the planets, stars, constellations and universe.

To see a small album of photos on the event click here.

Lapeer West's Andy Serrels to dive at State Finals at Eastern Michigan University

Lapeer West High School senior Andy Serrels is going where no other Lapeer student diver has ever gone before – The State Finals.

Andy will be competing against 36 of the best high school divers in Michigan on Friday at Eastern Michigan University.

Congratulations and good luck to Andy in the competition.

Updated total on Lapeer East "Spirit" donations to the Food Bank

The latest tally on the donations by Lapeer East High School to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan is 17,162 pounds of food. So far, East is ahead of all the schools. You can see all the donations of all the schools at the website for the Food Bank.

You can see the WJRT-TV, Channel 12 coverage of Lapeer East here.

The Lapeer West event is accessible here.

Jazz Band Concert holds American Cancer Society benefit tonight

There will be a Jazz Band Concert tonight at Lapeer East to benefit the American Cancer Society.

This concert was put together by two senior students at Lapeer East for their senior project.
The concert begins at 7:30. Donations will be taken at the door.

This is your chance to check out the Lapeer East Jazz Band and donate to a great cause! Hope to see you there!

New Rolland-Warner construction photos taken

New photos of the progress of the construction work at the Rolland-Warner Middle School site were taken Monday, March 9, 2009. Those pictures, and others from the school construction that began last May can be found here on the District's photo gallery.

Hadley-Murphy hosts "Chili & Dogs" dinner fund raiser on March 20th

Supporters of Hadley-Murphy Elementary School have found a great diversion from winter and cabin fever with a “Chili & Dogs” dinner at the Murphy campus on Friday, March 20th, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

In addition to great food and fun, there will be a 50/50 drawing and a chocolate sale.

Money raised from the dinner will help eliminate some of the door-to-door fund raisers and continue to provide worthwhile projects for the school, such as busing for field trips, scholastic learning magazines, student scholarships, assemblies, science and art fair awards, classroom allowances, education materials and much more.

“It’s also just a fun way to bring the community together for a night out,” said Debbie Bridges, one of the event’s organizers.

The dinner, which will be catered by E.G. Nick’s, will include a main menu choice of chili, minestrone or a hot dog. All dinners will include salad, breadsticks and a beverage. Tickets are $5 and children 2 and under are free. Tickets will be sold in advance and at the door. The 50/50 raffle tickets will be sold the night of the dinner for $1 each or 6 tickets for $5. There will be no carry out orders.
For more information contact Debbie Bridges at (810) 441-3023 or Missy Olejniczak at (810) 678-3737.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new LCS weblog, or blog as it is called.

The new blog will be another place to obtain important information about the District, its offerings and activities. We plan to offer stories, pictures and links to videos on interesting people and activities in our District. From time-to-time you will hear from our board of education (picture above), superintendent, principals, teachers, students and parents on this forum.

In our various surveys, parents have always told us that school communication was high on the list of priorities for them. A blog is just one more tool in the communications toolbox to make that happen.

A blog is a two-way communication. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Because we anticipate a wide audience for this blog, we simply ask that comments be civil. Because it is an open type forum, we will moderate comments before posting them.

We hope you will make us one of your "favorites."

A tough loss for the Lapeer West Girls' Basketball Team

Coverage of the game can be found here at the Flint Journal.

Phones at A&SC out this morning - Now back up!

Phone service at the Administration & Services Center is out this morning due to a technical problem which is being worked on. As soon as service is restored, we'll let you know. Until then, the e-mail system is working.

AT&T has restored phone service to the A&SC as of 10:45 a.m. today.