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The Jackson-Milton Journal Jackson-Milton High School Jackson-Milton is a “School of Promise” January-March By Mrs. Morelli Volume 5, Issue 3 year Jackson-Milton High achievement. School is receiving this "This is a very honor, and it is the first special honor for the stu- Inside this issue: year for the middle school. dents, staff and community The 7-12 building is in a of Jackson-Milton," said prestigious group of 163 Mr. Vega, principal of Service Learning 2 Ohio schools that achieved Jackson-Milton Middle/ for Grade 10 this honor on the Local High Schools. He attrib- Report Card for the 2011- utes this success to “the Senior Class 4 Favorites 2012 academic school hard work and dedication year. of our staff and students, School Play: 6 without their efforts this The Ohio Depart- MacBeth honor would not be possi- ment of Education plans to ble." Newspaper: 8 spotlight Jackson-Milton Got News? Middle/High Schools as a The school re- Jackson-Milton strong example of what is ceived an official School of Winter Sports 10 High School and Middle possible when students, Wrap-up Promise banner to display school prove every day educators, parents, and that failure is not an op- community members come in the building with pride. Spring Sports 11 Preview tion. Because of this ef- together and believe that fort, the students, teachers, all students can succeed. Camp Fitch Fun 12 administrators and the The school takes great families in the 7-12 build- pride in the success of ing are being recognized as strategies employed which a 2012 School of Promise. closed the gap in both This is the second reading and mathematic Special points of interest: SADD promotes Anti-bullying Week • SADD hosts an Anti by Katie Phillips and Michael Gutterwill -bullying week to teach valuable SADD, also known as the theme of the day. skills Students Against Destructive SADD has responsible • Mahoning Valley Decisions, is an extracurricular and reliable leaders who are in Youth Leadership activity at Jackson-Milton High charge of making sure the stu- students close to School. There are 65 students in dents make good choices. The SADD who participate in many their graduation President of SADD is Colleen things including Anti- Bullying Maskarinec, Vice President is • Senior Spotlight: Week, Texting While Driving, Taylor Tharp, Secretary is Jordan Paije Kiraly (Senior Click it or Ticket and also Red Morelli and the Treasurer is Junior Becca Jones works on her Ribbon week. The weeks of Red Class Secretary) Olivia Wolfe. SADD also interacts Anti-bullying sign which hangs in Ribbon and Anti-bullying let you with the Middle School’s activity, the hallway as a reminder express yourself and dress with Cont. on page 2 Sophomore Service Learning Projects by Victoria Butcher Each student is doing his or her own or Some students will be raising working in a small group. Each group is money or collecting other things for their doing something to help an organization project; some groups have finished their about which they care. Some are working collections. A group activity called, “Cozy with animals at shelters, others collecting Coats,” collected over 200 coats over a books or coats for those who need, or can't short period of time and shared those coats afford it, for themselves. Several groups with those who couldn’t get their own in are working in different nursing homes Mahoning County. Another group held the doing different things. Some people are “5K Dog Walk.” All money raised from making baskets for the elderly, others just this event will be donated to Angels for going in to visit. Each of these projects will Animals. A group of boys will be hosting a L to R: Vicky Butcher, Mrs. Theis, Teresa Weakley, affect someone. Some will even affect the function, “Basketball for Boy Scouts,” and Jeffery Voland, and Jordan Morelli whole community positively. None of all money raised will be donated to the these students are selfish when it comes to local Boy Scout Troop. this project; each person is helping some- Mrs. Theis earned a Creative Mrs. Theis’s advanced English 10 one in a positive way. Classroom award for her efforts. class is doing a service learning project. Key Club by Mackenzie Ervin On Saturday, March 30 th , The Jackson-Milton Key Club held their annual Easter Egg Hunt at Liberty Park in North Jackson. The children were given the chance to search for eggs, hidden throughout the premises. The hunt was held for children through grade six. The plus side was that it wasn’t just kids from Jackson-Milton; children from all over were invited to come and join in on the festivities. Jackson-Milton Kiwanis Club was in charge of the event which took place at noon. The Key Club is aspiring to hold other events such as the Jackson Milton 2 nd Annual 5k Run/walk which will take place Sunday, May 26 th , 2013. Everyone from the community will be invited to participate for an entrance fee of $15 for community mem- bers, $10 for students. T- shirts will be awarded to the first 100 people to register; regis- tration forms are still available from Mrs. A in the Art Room. Key Club events are usually a group effort and are in great support of the com- munity and the school. Thinking about signing up for next year? We encourage you to make the deci- 2012-13 Key Club Members sion to help serve our community and get to know the other members. Volunteering for any of the up coming activities is also a great way to earn a positive reputation and get your name out there! SADD continued from pg. 1... STAND, also known as Students nice and “Dress for success.” life is not funny. It’s not funny and needs to Taking a New Direction. Both of these groups quit. There were also activities like voting are teaching students to be responsible and mature about the choices they make whether it on an anti bullying slogan, signing your name on may be with alcohol or drugs. the anti-bullying banner, acts of kindness and random drawings. Bullying is unwanted The week of March 18, aggressive behavior. Kids are bullied every day. SADD in Jackson-Milton High School did an Anti- In school, kids have to deal with other students bullying Week. For spirit day, each student is treating them poorly… like they don’t have supposed to wear what the theme is. Monday enough to deal with. Eventually it gets to the was wear a jersey and “Team up against bully- point where these kids don’t even want to ing,” Tuesday was wear red and “Put a stop to come to school anymore. bullying,” Wednesday was wear something with Bullying can lead to others hurting a super hero to “Be someone’s hero,” Thursday themselves or even suicide. Bullying is not was wear a bright/neon color and “Brighten funny. Hurting others is not funny. Making Junior Kali Sebastian also creates a sign for the someone’s day,” Friday was wear something others cry is not funny. Making others hate their week Page 2 The Jackson-Milton Journal Sophomore Mahoning Valley Youth Leadership Kelly McCorkle, Ryan Moore, Jordan Morelli and Jacqueline Vega will graduate from the Mahoning Valley Youth Leadership program in May. In the fall, these sopho- more students began the application process to be considered for the program. “The pro- gram identifies high school sophomores in Mahoning and Trumbull Counties who have demonstrated leadership potential, to provide opportunities to practice constructive leader- ship, committed involvement and responsible participation in the future of the commu- nity,” according to the Leadership Mahoning Valley organization. These students were selected in December to represent their sophomore class because they exude the aforemen- tioned traits. The sophomore group attended leadership activities each month which included an opening day retreat, business opportunities and challenges, health and societal issues, heritage and the arts, as well as government organizations and criminal justice. They will Jordan Morelli, Jacqueline Vega, participate in their graduation ceremony May 15 after having completed all of the require- Ryan Moore, and Kelly McKorkle ments placed before them. Congratulations to this young group of leaders for earning this opportunity and rising to the occasion to expand their leadership efforts. Junior Mahoning Valley Youth Leadership by Kristie Carson Youth Leadership Mahoning various skill building activities as part of Valley kicked off its 18th year in Septem- the program. By the end of the day, the ber by welcoming 48 new junior members students all knew one another and were into the program. The new members excited for the year to come. participated in a daylong retreat focusing Students attended a Business on teambuilding, leadership styles and Day which took place at Youngstown concepts. Facilitator Mary Wargo taught State University’s Williamson College of the importance of leadership during the Business. The juniors also participated in retreat. activities dealing with the arts, health, Class members met for the very and criminal justice. This group was part first time and were encouraged to venture of the fall session and finished their pro- out of their comfort zone performing gram in 2012. skits, creating art and participating in Anjelika Pizzuto and Robert Voland Boys and Girls State by Rachael Rendessy Every year, a handful of Jackson- The program is hosted at The Univer- for an office. Buckeye State is a full formed Milton juniors are chosen by the Lake Milton sity of Mount Union for the ladies and Bowling government that acts and comes together each American Legion Post to participate in the pres- Green for the gentlemen.