Lapeer East girls will ‘Volley for A Cure’

Once again the Lapeer East Volleyball team is hosting a “Volley For A Cure” match against Linden on Tuesday, October 19th, at Lapeer East High School. The game tips off at 7 pm.


This year the team will donate the money to the charities of their wishes: two families that had daughters play on the Lapeer East volleyball team.

Jessica Knapp’s mother, Kathy, lost her battle to breast cancer this past June. Evie, Kari, and Lisa Dinsmore’s dad, Steve, lost his battle to stomach cancer this past August. At the game the team will honor both families and the memory of each of their parents.

Sponsors of the fundraiser include Dr. Aaron Fisher, DDS, Dr. Albert Smith Jr. and family, Dr. John Yap, Lapeer Medical Associates, Mott Community College, Ray C’s and Speedy Screen Printing.

Volleyball team members will sell T-shirts for $10.00 each to raise funds for this occasion.

Sign-up underway for popular Super Babysitter class

The popular Super Babysitter class will be offered next month by the Lapeer Community Schools Enrichment Program in a two-session program for students 12 and older.

Instructor Gloria Sherman and super sitter students, both boys and girls age 12 and older, discuss important safety issues and first aid, nutritious snacks, diapering, bottle preparation, and fun-filled games in this two-week course.

Helpful tips include advertising techniques and how to determine what wage to charge.
The two-week class runs Monday Nov. 1 and 8 from 6:30 to 8 pm at a city school location.

The fee for the class is $20, or 2 students for $30, and it includes a Certificate of
Completion.

For more information or to register by phone, please contact the Enrichment Office at 810-538-1622.

Lapeer Schools breakfast program is a winner

Lapeer Community Schools have been honored with a silver award in the State of Michigan Breakfast Challenge for significantly increasing participation in the District’s breakfast program in 2010.


The silver award brings with it a $2,500 cash prize that will be reinvested in the Lapeer Community Schools breakfast program. The award was handed out by State School Superintendent Mike Flanagan at the September Michigan Association of School Administrator’s Fall Conference in Traverse City.

District officials honored the LCS Food Services staff for its winning ways at its Oct. 7 meeting of the Lapeer Community Schools Board of Education.

“The goal of the program was to increase school breakfast participation by 50%,” said Dining Services Director Scott Smith. “This past school year we increased participation by 64%, which according to the Michigan Department of Education was ‘way up there.’” Twelve school districts earned awards this year for increasing participation in the school breakfast program: 4 overall champions (2-year-awards), 4 gold awards and 4 silver awards.

The Superintendent’s Breakfast Challenge is sponsored by the United Dairy Industry of Michigan. Over the past two years, 206 school districts met Flanagan’s challenge. The 52,145,702 school breakfasts served statewide during the 2009-10 school year marked a 30% increase from the 2007-08 school year.

The school breakfast program is important because research shows that students who eat a healthy breakfast improve their academic achievement, have fewer health issues, behave better in class and are more attentive.

Photo cutline: On hand for the presentation were (from left) Lapeer Community Schools Food Service Director Scott Smith, Assistant Food Services Director Jill McLaughlin, cook helper Emma Bugaski, head cooks Diane Ritter, Mary Holbrook and Jennifer Putnam; Food Services driver Steven Ritter and head cook Edie Hogan. (Photo courtesy Jeff Hogan)

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Lapeer East Girls Golf Coach is Regional Coach of the Year

Lapeer East Girls Golf Coach Steve Stearns has earned Regional Coach of the Year honors after his team finished second Oct. 7 in Regional play hosted by Lapeer West at Lapeer Country Club.


Coach Stearns has led both the girls and boys golf teams at Lapeer East for the last six years, and prior to that was the golf coach at Lapeer West for two years. The honors came from a vote of the 11 coaches whose teams participated in the Regional tournament.

This year’s second-place finish in Regional play is the best showing for the East girls golfers.
“All of the credit goes to the girls. They were the ones who won that. They made me look good by playing well,” said the coach.

“I really was surprised,” said Stearns of the honor. “I had a lot of fun watching the girls play and perform well.”

Stearns, a business and co-op teacher at East, is in his 27th year as a teacher in the Lapeer Community Schools. During that time he also has coached junior high and junior varsity football for 25 years. He is an avid golfer and spends his summers working at Devil’s Ridge golf course in Oxford.

The Lapeer East girls team shot 378 to earn a second-place finish and its first trip the State Finals. The MHSAA Girls Finals Tournament takes place on October 15-16 at Forest Akers West (MSU) in East Lansing.

Host Lapeer West girls golfers shot a 373 to earn first place in the Regional and advance to the state finals for the third year in a row.

Cutline for photo:
Coach Steve Stearns with East golfers Sierra Woodcum, Keely Turczyn, Kelsy Robinson, Meghan Gordon and Audrey Fleming.

Got a spare mini trampoline?

The Motor Moms at Maple Grove are looking for a mini trampoline. If anyone has one collecting dust in their basement that they would like to donate they can contact Julia or Brooke at Maple Grove Elementary. 810-667-2444.

Lynch PTC raises funds with Walk-A-Thon

Sunny skies greeted students at Lynch Elementary as they marched around the school playground throughout the day Monday, Oct. 4, to raise funds for the school’s PTC in the annual Lynch Walk-A-Thon.


The first students to put in their laps were kindergarteners and first graders who hit the “track” at 9 a.m. Students earned funds for the PTC programs for each lap they completed. This year’s theme was “Changing the world with each step we take.”

Parent volunteers and a crew of four helpers from Kohl’s were on hand to help out at the event. The Kohl’s volunteers also came bearing a $500 donation from the retailer.

Students in all grades, from Early-5s through fifth grade, participated in the Walk-A-Thon. The last students finished their laps at around 2 p.m. Grandparents also participated and donated $5 for the chance to put in some laps with their grandkids.
Rain on Sept. 28 postponed the Walk-A-Thon to Oct. 4.

The fundraiser is the biggest of the year at Lynch Elementary, and it helps to provide the bulk of funding for the PTC’s annual programs. The Walk-A-Thon came close to providing half of this year’s $10,000 budget.


Other sponsors of the Lynch Elementary Walk-A-Thon included: Columbiaville Flea Market, Hofman Shoes, Phil’s Tractor Repair, Delynn's Designs, Dinius Trucking, Farm House Family Eatery, Lee's Auto Repair, M3 Graphix, Tattoos At The Red Room, Use It Again Tools, Whispering Pines Adult Foster Care Home, Marz Food Service, Minkler Electric, Alaura's Portrait, Chilly Cow, Kaye Financial, Lapeer Sound Machine DJ Service, Mark Johnson Builder, Michaud Bookeeping, Outback Nails and Tanning, Performance Horses, Side Tracks Bar and Grill, Smith Refrigeration, Thorpe Animal Hospital, Wooden Nickel and Silver Screen.

All of the Lynch PTC funds raised are used in the school for a wide variety of programs, field trips and assemblies for students.

For a look at a photos from the Walk-A-Thon, go to the Lapeer Community Schools photo album at: http://picasaweb.google.com/LapeerCS/LynchElementaryWalkAThon102010#