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FATIMA FALCON CONNECTION November 2012 May God bless us with the wisdom to acknowledge His blessings around us and to be thankful for His infinite expressions of love! 320 Jim Money Road Biloxi, MS 39531 (228) 388-3602 School A note from our Principal…. (228) 388-7980 Cafeteria (228) 385-1140 Fax My many thanks to our PTO officers, parents, Principal: Susie Bass friends from Keesler and all of our volunteers for working [email protected] Website: www.olfschool.org so hard to make our Halloween Carnival and Chili Cook- Please email newsletter items to off a success. It was a beautiful day and a fun time was [email protected] had by all. Great Job!! by the 25th of each month. The entire month of November this year falls in the liturgical season of Ordinary Time. The month is Reminders dedicated to all souls and all saints. On November 1st, we Be on time for school celebrate All Saint’s Day and November 2nd, we celebrate All Soul’s Day. These feast days are a great time to Remember Mass uniform on Thursdays—Girls are to wear plaid celebrate as a family, significant others who have passed skorts. Boys may continue to wear away and to pray for ourselves as we strive to model the shorts through November. spirituality that the saints exercised. We can achieve this When sending money to school, with the help of the Holy Spirit. please clearly mark an envelope with Thanksgiving is a great time to unite with all your child’s name, grade, teacher and what the money is for. Americans in a festival of gratitude and acknowledgment of all the blessings God has bestowed on our nation. I read Please note: OLF does not collect Nestle water bottle labels. Thank recently that the Pilgrims who sailed to the New World in you! 1620, decided to celebrate a three days’ thanksgiving in autumn of 1621. They went in search of geese (a tradition kept in Holland after the Reformation). They not only ate Ham & geese, but also deer, lobsters, oysters, fish, wild turkeys Turkey Bingo and ducks. Several years later the turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day became one of the most cherished The cafeteria will American Traditions. Today it is celebrated nationally on sponsor it’s annual the fourth Thursday of November. Ham & Turkey Bingo This year please pray together the Prayer of Faith on Sunday, November Prayer we sent home for the family and let us teach our 18th. The staff is in need of ham children that the giver of all these wonderful things is God and/or turkey donations which will Our Father. Our nation is in desperate need of prayer and be given as prizes. Lunch will be spiritual transformation. served beginning at 11:00 a.m. and children may play bingo with a parent or an adult. Games will begin after the 11:30 a.m. Mass. Be on the lookout on how you can help (12:30 Early Bird / 1:00 Regular Bingo) Come support your OLF School win $50,000!!! More info to cafeteria ladies! follow! PTO NEWS A BIG Thank You is in order to so many Grandparents who worked all day in the Thanks to Greg Lawrence for another people who helped make our Halloween sweet booth. year of getting the lights up and Carnival & Chili Cook-off a success! Thanks to Anne Pizzetta for driving the running. Special thanks to Yates Thanks to Mrs. Bass and all the bus and transporting our KAFB Construction and the City of Biloxi for teachers and staff for their support, volunteers. lighting our carnival. encouragement and patience during Thanks to Jennifer Mavar for help with Thanks to Carolyn and Morris Handler Halloween Carnival week and for creating Carnival posters and publicity. for handling the security details for the helping to run all the PTO booths during PTO and for securing the barricades the Carnival. Thanks to Nicky Filipich for another year and additional lights. of doing a wonderful job emceeing Thanks to Malcolm Smith, Jennifer the carnival—year after year he keeps Thanks to M&M Processing & Gulf Mavar, Mireya Alexander, Berta Carter, things running smoothly during the Coast Produce for supplying ice & Michelle Beck & Stephen Pechawer for entire event! refrigerated trucks. stuffing Halloween Carnival flyers into Thanks to the parents who assisted the church bulletins. Thanks to Missy Lawrence, Michelle Wood and Tara Yates for coordinating with break down and clean up. This is Thanks to Cecilia Schmidt and Jinx the beautiful children’s pottery. a huge task and your help made it go Chaney for all of their communications much quicker. Thanks to Mike and hard work coordinating the classes Thanks to the Teachers and Monica Williams for providing the clean up with the carnival tasks and for otherwise Gee for designing and executing the crew. jumping in to help whenever needed. children’s art projects. Thanks to Missy O’Keefe, Cecilia Schmidt and Michelle Thanks to Mrs. Michelle Beck and Mrs. Thanks to our 2012-2013 Room Wood for coordinating the awesome Michelle Moak and for loading our Coordinators and Assistant Room class paintings . What a great new shed with all the games, decorations Coordinators: Renee Schoerner, addition to our silent auction. and props. Ashlee Yard, Ginger Maxwell, Tiffany Thanks to Michelle Wood and Marissa Thanks to Biloxi High Key Club, CCD, Donoian, Diane Dore, Carol Shinn, Jackie & Scott Cooper and the OLF Ashley Lott, Dianne Renkas, Sheri Trochesset and their check-out crew for another extremely successful Silent CYO for another year of running the Krause, Linda Creel, Tasha Thomas, Cake Walk. Missy Lawrence, Tara Rice, Pam Lee, Auction. Thank you to Sheri Krause for Meschell Brascia, Jodie Knight and your hard work with picking up items, Thanks to Mrs. Kopszywa’s 6th Courtney Myers. These wonderful mailing letters and making calls. These graders for their help with preparation ladies scheduled, created and executed ladies exceeded their goal of $20,000!!! and set-up. the awesome class game booths. A Thanks to Laney Butler for the beautiful special thanks to each and every parent booth signs. who volunteered and worked your child/ Thanks to Mrs. Becky Collins and Tara children’s classroom game booth(s)! Yates for help in the PTO Ticket Tent. Thanks to Thanks to Michelle Beck for coordinat- Thanks to Mr. Charlie Fink and for the Ashlee Yard, ing and arranging transportation for our beautiful yard art and Mr. Mike Williams Renee Schoerner, outside volunteers. We could not have for donating the mums sold at the OLF Mrs. Laney Butler done it without all the additional help! Pumpkin Patch. and the following Thanks also to Mireya Alexander, Pre-K 3 parents & Tasha Thomas, Cecilia Schmidt & Jinx Thanks to ALL the members of the families for serving Chaney for their help with coordinating Men’s Club for running the beer booth coffee and donuts in October: the many KAFB airmen and airwomen and for their assistance with setup, The Butler Family and St. Patrick Students who volun- clean-up and for helping with all the Tara & Jason White teered. Thanks to Elberta Carter and other manual labor tasks asked of them. Linda Mosgrove Yanira Ochoa for working the Volunteer Thanks to Jeri Johnson and Jamie Karen Lorona booth. Bourgeois for judging the costume Randy Ellis Thanks to Tara Yates for a wonderful contest and best decorated booth. Spirit Week 2012 and for chairing the Thanks to Mrs. Lada Alley & Terri PTO confetti egg booth. Davis for coordinating the donations Thanks to Malcolm and Nicole Smith, and running of the Poisonous Potions Ophelia Abrhams, Sylvia Cenac, Kaitlyn Booth and Dr. James Stanovich for Overstreet, Lucy Morange and the donating the Halloween wine goblets many Keesler volunteers who helped sold. run the concessions booths. Thanks to Mrs. Gerry Orgler and all of our HONOR ROLL STUDENTS CITIZENSHIP Congratulations to the following students who made AWARDS FIRST HONORS (all A’s) for the 1st quarter: 1st Grade—Moore The following students were selected to re- Dalton Anderson, Emmaleigh Gary, Hanna Greenstreet, Cameron ceive the Citizenship Award for the 1st Gremillion, Julia Guice, Chloe Hall, Ben Hall, Kate Ledet, Seth Lott, Tyler Lott, Brodie Mandal, Christopher Mavar, Linda Mustered, Dylan Nguyen, Quarter: Matthew Roland, Nolan Schruff, Heith Shinn, Cooper Wack, Addison K—de los Santos Yelverton, Taylor Jernigan British Boles & Ella Renkas 2nd Grade—Spires 1st Grade—Moore Gia Alley, Caroline Dellenger, Caden DeMers,, Mary Lange, Julia Kate Ben Hall & Addison Yelverton Massey, Parker O’Keefe, Ashley Rice, Ava Sabatini, Anna Claire 2nd Grade—Spires Schoerner, Sara Vyverberg, Henry Williams Ava Sabatini & Austin Lee 3rd Grade—Delcambre 3rd Grade—Delcambre Joshua Bowman, Gillian Butler, Maxcy Chaney, Garrison Creel, Emily Ann Lauren Schmidt & Gully Yates Delano, Isaiah Jefferson, Olivia Myers, London O’Keefe, Ann Lauren 4th Grade—Moak Schmidt, Aden Smith, Alyssa Thomas, Xavier Williams, Gully Yates, Emilee Nolte & Dale Edwardson Gracyn Yelverton 4th Grade—Torricelli 4th Grade—Moak Braleigh Moak & Garrett Eckert Anthony Bui, Lauren Clark, Dale Edwardson, Maren Kate Nadolski, 5th Grade—Grammar Emilee Nolte, Emily Overstreet, Ryan Smith Dominic Domingue & Emily Sago 4th Grade—Torricelli 6th Grade—Kopszywa Sarah Alexander, Craig Brown, Garrett Eckert, Jordan Gill, Olivia Stephen Azar & Maddie Moak Grammar, Grace Kirby, Lexie Lee, Braleigh Moak, Ryan Schepens, Austin Spinner, Macy Wasilenko, Kate Williams 5th Grade—Grammar PERFECT ATTENDANCE Anna Brascia, Tyler Gerretse, Daniel Hogan, Christopher Rivera, Jacob Roberts The following students were awarded 6th Grade—Kopszywa David Alexander, Stephen Azar, Cecilia Bowman, Malia Butler, Liliana Perfect