School Highlights Mid-term 2019

In This Issue SONJ UCS Greatest Successes Antheil Elementary School...... 15 For Mid-term reporting, UCS liaisons were asked to describe the Arthur L. Johnson High School...... 2 greatest successes they’ve had in implementing their Unified Brookside Elementary School...... 21 Club and Unified Sports programs. Following is a small sampling Burlington City High School...... 6 of the AMAZING responses. Read more on page 22. Burnet Middle School...... 2 We started our program with a work to the other sports programs Central Regional Middle School...... 17 total of 12 students and at the in the school. Clayton...... 18 end of the month our numbers Delsea High School...... 20 are up to 22 students. We were about 30-35 students last year and this year we have Delsea Regional Middle School...... 8 This year we have had so much close to 55 East Hanover Middle School...... 2 more school-wide participa- students. ECLC Chatham High School...... 18 tion with our activities. More Our program Fountain Woods Elementary School...... 17 students are seeking to join rather than having to be asked. is a part of the Galloway Township Middle School...... 14 Students are meeting up even school com- Gregory Elementary School...... 16 when meetings haven’t been munity. Unified High Bridge Middle School...... 6 officially scheduled. Kids in the Sports is finally an institution Hoptacong High School...... 19 club are taking on leadership roles in planning and implement- embedded within the fabric of Kingsway Regional High School...... 9 ing activities. our school. Unified is something Lyndhurst Public School District...... 4, 5 that everyone knows. This has Matawan Regional High School...... 18 The relationships that have been afforded us opportunities like formed are not only endearing but joining our Parent Athletic As- ...... 10 amazing. The sociation, recognition in local Mill Lake Elementary School...... 21 true meaning newspapers, full support from the Monroe Township High School...... 13 of inclusion district, and community accep- Montgomery High School...... 2 becomes tance. more pres- Mount Olive High School...... 11 ent within Our student body is becoming North Hunterdon High School...... 8 each activity Unified. We are seeing a range of students connect and socialize Old Bridge...... 19 we do. Our beyond the club. Overbrook High School...... 8 students have grown in their socialization ability Parsippany Hills High School...... 8 Lifelong friendships have been and have made true friends. formed and barriers have been Pond Road Middle School...... 6 demolished. Randolph High School...... 12 Our club went from 15 students the first year to 48 students. Our club is huge! We expand more Ridge High School...... 15 and more each year. Our success is Rutherford High School...... 15 Our greatest success is the growth that we have experi- our ability to spread our message Somerville High School...... 7 enced. We have expanded our in our school and community. SONJ UCS Greatest Successes...... 1 Unified philosophy district-wide. SONJ UCS Greatest Successes – more quotes.....22 We have students moving back Union City High School...... 12 into our district to participate in our Unified programs. Union High School...... 3 Woodland Elementary School (Morris)...... 16 We are bringing more awareness Woodlynne Elementary School...... 14 of what it means to play Unified and the true meaning of team- Woodrow Wilson Middle School (Clifton)...... 16

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Montgomery High School On Thursday, December 12, Montgomery High School’s Unified Club met after school to play backyard games. Students enjoyed listening to holiday music as they played ladder ball, Baggo, Spike Ball, and danced! It was a fun way to spend time with friends and get into the holiday spirit.

East Hanover Middle Arthur L. Johnson Burnet Middle School High School School Students at East Hanover Middle During December, Burnet Middle School is School had fun rotating movement Arthur L. Johnson High off to a great start. The stations. Every ten minutes they School students played students practice every rotated from station to station. Sta- board games and inter- Monday after school tions included chair yoga, Zoom ball, acted with each other and have buddy lunch Jenga, scooter racing, the swing, during lunch and free on Wednesdays. They go to gym, play games and and Toss Across bean bag tic-tac-toe. period. They also had a work on social activities. Each station had an athlete and play- movie day where they On December 19, they ers to support them. watched “Elf,” mingled with each other and had a Unified Dodgeball In the spirit of the holiday season, enjoyed snacks. Other tournament and cel- some activities centered around December activities ebrated with a holiday winter and Christmas and Hanukkah. included playing games party. They ordered pizza, played games, exchanged The students constructed ginger- in rotation (Hang Man, Secret Santa gifts and bread houses in groups of three or Uno, and Life) and bak- ing cookies. They had a enjoyed the holiday spirit. four students using icing, candy, and Student athletes will start pictures to guide the students. In ad- good time. On Decem- ber 10, they met to see to plan Respect Week, dition, they sang holiday classics, and practice for the Unified who would be interested each student took a turn singing on Bowling tournament and in playing basketball. the microphone. create a video.

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Union High School For the month of December, Union High School did a holiday Unified event week. On Tuesday, they made sugar cookie dough and baked it in holiday shapes. On Wednesday, they decorated the cookies and enjoyed eating them while play- ing games and making 3-D snowflakes. On Thursday, they had a holiday brunch and Friday was holiday karaoke day. The kids enjoyed the holiday fun.

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Lyndhurst Public School District Lyndhurst Public School District Unified Clubs met for their monthly meetings. Each school participated in various indoor and outdoor games and enjoyed holiday themed activities with their new friends. The leadership committees worked to plan a January 10 Open Rec Event. They are very excited to create a winter wonderland themed event for Club members grades four through twelve. Additionally, their coaches began recruiting for Middle and High School bowling and basketball teams. Practices will begin in the new year. Below are recaps from each school’s activities. Also, follow them at lyndhurst_play_unified to check out all the exciting events Lyndhurst is doing.

Washington School K-2: Unified Club students danced and sung holiday songs to start off the Club meeting. Following this, students had a snowball fight in the school gym.

Roosevelt 4-5: during Unified Club at Roosevelt School, students were inside the gym located in the basement of the school. They were fortunate to have this space as it was too cold to go outside. Students rotated through three activities during the meeting. They participated in relay races, giant jenga and STEM tower building activities. Students had a great time completing each activity together.

Lincoln 4-5: Unified students played a series of board games in a classroom. This was the only indoor location Lincoln School was able to get for this month’s Club meeting. The advisors made the best of this situation to make sure all students were having fun. In fact, students had a blast playing games with friends.

Jefferson 4-5: Unified Club students par- ticipated in a series of relay races in the gym. This Unified Club enjoys starting with a friendly relay race. Following this stu- dents played kickball.

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Lyndhurst (continued) Roosevelt, Lincoln and Jefferson 6/7/8: Unified Club students at Roosevelt, Jefferson, and Lin- coln School Unified Club competed in a friendly game of knockout, sideline soccer and relay races. Students rotated to each activity during the club meeting. The relay races were winter- themed with specific activities for students to complete as a team. Students had a great time participating in all the indoor activities.

Lyndhurst High School: The High School Uni- fied Club had a holiday party. Students played holiday games and decorated ornaments in the High School cafeteria. Students were divided into groups of five and given a task to create a snowman. They selected one person to wrap in toilet paper and were given props to decorate the snowman. Each group had a blast working together to complete this activity.

Leadership Committee: The Leadership Com- mittee began planning their Open Rec Event. This event will be in the Jefferson School gym. They are assuming it will take place indoors, so they came up with four indoor activities. They decided the event theme will be a winter won- derland and students will compete in snowball relay races, STEM build a snowman challenge with gym equipment, snowball fight game, and a snowman game created by the leadership com- mittees. Each committee is creating a snowman game with a trifold for this event. Each school was given the same directions and materials to do this and will reveal their game at the Open Rec Event.

Unified Bowling and Basketball: The Lynd- hurst coaches have begun recruiting athletes and partners for their middle school and high school teams. Practices and a student/parent information meeting will be held.

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High Bridge Middle School Burlington City High High Bridge Middle School has had two meetings so far. Their School numbers are much higher than last year, which is awesome. They It’s been an exciting year for even have Unified leaders this year! They are working to have the Unified program at Burl- their Club become more student run and less adviser run. ington City High school. The On December 17, the students split into three small groups. They Unified Soccer team was a played “Snowball,” a getting to know you game where they wrote success and was celebrated three truths about themselves on a piece of paper, crumbled up in front of the entire school. the paper, and then students picked a snowball and tried to guess This brought attention to the who it was about Unified Club, which enjoyed The students also played Dodgeball Domination, signed rules its very first Youth Summit in agreement and gave suggestions about activities for upcom- November. ing meetings. At the Burlington City HS December 16 meeting, the students discussed the upcom- ing year and the basketball season, but most importantly they celebrated the holidays. They gave out candy canes to the teachers, administrators and classmates that they felt were important to them this year and made sure they knew how much they cared. They topped the year off with a Pond Road Middle School holiday party. The Pond Road Middle School Unified Club had a busy meeting. They started by taking attendance and had about 50 students. The Unified Basketball is just be- students handed out Red Robin flyers, because they are having a ginning and they are looking fundraiser there to raise money for their Unified Club. They then forward to the season, with distributed field trip forms for the 6th annual Kickball tournament a full schedule of games, and for the entire district. At the previous meeting the students de- the ultimate goal of reaching signed ideas for t-shirts, and at this meeting they voted on what the State final. They had three they wanted. basketball practices in the December and the turn out The students then had a “break out box” activity where they cut wasn’t bad, four athletes and out a gingerbread man, frosty the snowman, the lyrics to “Frosty four partners began practic- the Snowman” and the lyrics to “Rudolph the Red Nosed Rein- ing. They would have liked deer” and put the pieces in an envelope. They had to work to- more participation, but overall gether to put all the pieces together and they did a fantastic job. Their meeting ended with singing. they had a good December.

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Somerville High School December was the official start to the Unified Bowling Season at Somerville High School with weekly practices beginning on December 9th. On December 12, they had their first match vs. SCESC at their home venue, Bowl- Mor. Since the SCESC program is considerably smaller, Somerville HS shared their athlete partners to make competition more equi- table. This is an incredibly friendly relationship and the match was like a reunion with old friends!!

This month several Unified bowl- ers and the advisors volunteered at the SONJ Jingle All The Way fundraising event. One of the freshman volunteered as a runner while the rest were course mar- shals. They had a wonderful time cheering on the athletes.

As part of Somerville’s dedica- tion to community service, the club collected items (food, treats, blankets, toys) for a local ani- mal rescue program. Items were delivered on 12/20. The Unified Club also created holiday cards for nursing home patients. These were delivered on 12/21.

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Delsea Regional Middle School Parsippany Hills High School Delsea Regional Middle School Unified Club was active One of the students who is a part of in December. They shopped, wrapped presents, made the Parsippany Hills High School Uni- snowflakes and had a Unified Renaissance rally. fied Club, has an aversion to micro- waves. This aversion has been present for years. It was a goal to have him slowly exposed and to work through this aversion This student really enjoys the company of one particular Unified partner. One day, with a couple minutes left after cleaning up, this student asked the partner to go look at the microwave with him. The partner gladly obliged.

To the surprise of the Unified Club Overbrook High School the student was not only shown the Overbrook High School had a Unified Club meeting microwave, but asked to use it as well. on December 10. At this meeting, the students wrote Everyone was in shock and very excited candy grams for all the teachers and administration thanking them for all that they do. Afterwards, they to see what could be accomplished with went to the main office and delivered them. The stu- the presence of a partner. It really goes dents also participated in the Overbrook HS winter pep to show the power that individuals can rally where they demonstrated a game of bowling in front of the entire school. have in other people’s lives.

North Hunterdon High School The students in the North Hunterdon High School Unified special class programs came together to celebrate the holidays with staff and administration. Students played holiday Bingo where they had to talk to each other and staff members to see if they could find out various holiday facts. It was fun and helped every- one socialize and move around. Students and Unified partners baked cookies and prepped for the social. Students in the career program made invitations. Everyone had a great time celebrating the holiday season!

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Kingsway Regional High School The Unified program at King- Unified message of inclusion November 15. The students sway High School is up and throughout Kingsway HS. enjoyed games that provided running! The Unified Club has Their circle of friends club par- team building and coop- expanded to over 60 members ticipants enjoyed a scarecrow eration, as well as “getting to and has met at least twice a building activity. The scare- know you” activities that sup- month during their “SMART” crows turned out awesome! ported communication skills. lunch period, (which takes The Kingsway Unified P.E. class Students discussed the suc- place for an hour in the middle was well represented at the cesses they have had this year of the school day). SMART Fall pep rally. Unified P.E. and and the challenges they face. lunch provides the opportuni- the rest of the Unified group They also had the opportunity ty for students to play basket- prepared a full Thanksgiving to hear from students in other ball, dance, watch movies, and meal. The students not only schools. just hang out together and has enjoyed great food, but were been wildly successful! The able to build on the camarade- Toward the end of December students also made treat/ gift rie begun during Unified P.E. the Kingsway HS Unified Bowl- bags that they shared with ing team met to form their the Kingsway staff (guidance, Eighteen Unify Club members team. They begin bowling in secretaries, teachers custodi- attended the South Youth January. Go Team! ans and more) spreading the Summit at Riverwinds on

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Metuchen High School December was a short month for Metuchen High School stu- dents, but they managed to do quite a bit and enjoyed every bit of it. Their Unified Physical Education class prepared for their shopping trip to the local mall by going over expected and unex- pected behaviors and safety needed for a fun trip. While at the mall, they took photos to create social stories. They even man- aged to get a group picture with Santa.

The Unified PE class also played some fun PE games to help them with volleyball techniques. This included and a team target and strategy game called Castle-ball. They had a class holiday party and watched friends play instruments and sing in the holi- day concert.

The Metuchen HS Unified Club joined the Cooking Club after school and baked cookies.

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Mount Olive High School Mount Olive High School Unified is having a great year!

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Union City High School Union City High School ended The students had a great club To end the year the right way, 2019 with a great Unified meeting/wii party where they they held another Unified Secret month! They started indoor soc- brainstormed on the new Club Santa party. This is the fourth cer and basketball on Saturday’s shirt and also worked on their year in a row that they have and had some new members bulletin board. done this and it’s something to come practice with them. that everyone looks forward to.

Randolph High School The Randolph High School Unified Basketball season is in full swing. The team had two practices and one scrimmage. In ad- dition, they hosted and participated in holiday activities with other districts.

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Monroe Township High School The Monroe Township High School (MTHS) Unified Township Unified PE classes enjoyed winter PE classes celebrated the holiday season together themed games. Their community-based fitness by sharing in various ways. Their 3A Falcon P.A.L.S. class celebrated with a secret snowman exchange, PE class visited East Brunswick to go shopping for where classmates anonymously exchanged nice gifts with their peers. The 3b class enjoyed the notes and little gifts to each other. Their Unified movie “Frozen 2” and had lunch at the Freehold partnership program visited elementary schools Raceway mall. MTHS 18-21 year old Unified part- during the school day to share in the winter fun nership leaders learned how to use Strider bikes and helped run a Unified parent/child Winterfest with the elementary Unified students. Monroe on December 12.

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Galloway Township Middle School

Woodlynne Elementary School

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Rutherford High School Antheil Elementary On December 4, the Rutherford School High School Unified Club met in Due to snow, the Antheil the auditorium. The students dis- Elementary School Uni- cussed how their lunch meetings fied Club first meeting of have been going, ways to improve the experience and how to stream- the month was canceled. line the sign-up process. The At the next meeting, students also discussed some pos- students participated in a sible events that the Club could partake in outside of school. They cooperation building ac- decided that they will plan events at their local movie theater, The tivity called the Elf Train- Williams Center, and a local painting shop, Painting on Park. In the ing game. works are possible trips to Monster (mini) golf and possibly another kickball game with one of the Unified Clubs in the immediate area. Two teams were given a bucket of snowballs and At the next meeting, the students built gingerbread houses togeth- two scooters. The first er in the cafeteria after school. Special needs students and non-spe- student in line on the cial needs students combined to create the houses together. The scooters and took a snow students listened to holiday music and ate snacks together. They ball. The student next in took pictures of their gingerbread houses and took them home line pushed the student when they were finished. The students had a lot of fun together with the snowball to the and said they would do it again next year. opposite end of the gym to a second bucket. They took turns on the scoot- ers and pushing until all the snowballs in one bucket were placed in the opposite bucket. Another activity during this meeting was mak- ing snow slime. Students were given visual recipes and worked together to combine ingredients to Ridge High School make the snow slimes. For Ridge High School, December was based around the Unified At the end of the activ- Club, since they were transitioning into Unified Basketball. Their ity, students shared what Club activities consisted of cooking, games and karaoke. They had a they liked about making the snow slime. movie trip after school and a holiday shopping trip to the mall.

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Woodrow Wilson Middle School (Clifton) On Thursday, November 21, the Woodrow Wilson Unified Club held their 7th Annual Unified Thanksgiving Feast. Club mem- bers, along with self-contained classes, support staff, teachers, supervisors and administration, enjoyed a delicious Thanksgiv- ing feast of yummy food together. They sat at long tables so the students and adults could chat, mingle and feast.

After the meal was completed, the students had their annual dance party. They formed the longest conga line in Woodrow Wilson’s history and boogied to Cotton Eye Joe, the Cuban Shuffle, YMCA, Beyonce and many, many more. They had a dance off, with 7th graders versus the 8th graders, to Queen’s “We Will Rock You.” It was a wonderful afternoon of friendship and camaraderie.

Gregory Elementary School Woodland Elementary School (Morris)

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Fountain Woods Elementary School Central Regional Middle On December 3, there School was a very special as- Right before Christmas break, the sembly at Fountain Central Regional Middle School Woods School. The Unified Club gathered together in fourth grade students the cafeteria for a holiday activity. had special visitors, The students all worked together in Christopher Hannah groups to create gingerbread hous- and his dog, Cole. es that they were able to take home. Christopher is an el- There was a lot of loud chatter, ementary teacher from holiday music and fun had by all of Vineland, , the participants! There was a greater who adopted Cole from turn out than expected and the stu- a shelter with the hope dents had fun working together on a that Cole would be an holiday favorite activity! inspiration to his 10- year old nephew who is deaf. Cole is deaf, as well. During their visit, Christopher and Cole educated the students about special needs animals and promoting the importance of empathy and acceptance for others. Chris also talked about building confidence in children and not giving up. He told stories of how Cole overcame his fears and how they can do anything when they set their minds to it. The students were very receptive to this visit and important message.

The students at Fountain Woods ES worked together with a 5th grade to record a skit that will air on their morning news in January. The students practiced their skit and then taped it. The skit explains what they are doing with the Kindness Rocks that they made. Once students find the “rocks” hidden around the school, they will fill out a form, and then they will take a picture that will be dis- played in the school.

Fourth graders also had sign language lessons. The classes met and reviewed a sign language ABC video and then, 12 students in the self-contained classes (who take ASL class) moved into 4 groups with the students to help them learn how to practice signing their names. It was a great lesson and they look forward to more opportunities to work with this class. The students were also included in the winter chorus concert on January 7th. They learned a song with sign language in it, which they sang and signed in the finale of the concert. It was beautiful!

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Matawan Regional High School Clayton Clayton will be starting the bowling unit in PE classes, as well as starting practice with the Unified Bowling team. They are working on scheduling bowling matches with other Unified schools in the Tri-County Confer- ence. The Clayton Unified PE classes are excited about the activities that they have planned and continue to work on promoting the Uni- fied movement.

ECLC Chatham High School ECLC Chatham High School Unified Club had their first ever HOLIDAY PARTY! Since the enthusiasm for social nights were so high, many students wanted to find ways for them to get together through the winter. On December 12, Chatham High School hosted a Holiday Party in the evening. They made cards to donate to the hospital for sick patients and danced the night away to Christmas tunes! They also had another great Learn Unified event and Unified Basketball practice!

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Hoptacong High School Here are photos from the Hoptacong High School dance event.

Old Bridge Old Bridge had a Unified night out and breakfast with Santa.

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Delsea High School Delsea High School has had a very busy last few months. The Unified group has done so many great activities!

The Delsea HS Unified Club attended the Youth Summit where they learned and spoke about leadership, school-wide activities and participated in Unified PE activities.

The students also had a Unified activity with another school. They had a great day with their friends from Williamstown High School. Delsea HS hosted and showed Williamstown HS the dress rehearsal of their play “Gobble Gobble.” Williamstown gave Delsea feed- back to make their performance better. The students ended the day with some pizza and conversation. On November 26 they per- formed the play for the entire student body. This Unified activity was awesome!

Delsea had a great time on their field trip to 5 Below, the Dollar Tree and the Dept- ford Mall food court. Some of their “Unified Friends of SAVE” came with them to help find items to buy for their Secret Santa gift exchange. They practiced using money, or- dering, socializing and many other skills. All of the gifts were wrapped and placed under the classroom tree.

On December 19 Delsea held their Unified Friends of SAVE ALUMNI DAY!!! They were SO excited to have some graduates come and visit. They did so many fun activities. Their alumni also had the opportunity to share about how important it is to create an inclusive environment at Delsea, the lessons they took with them from their students and how they are involved in Unified at the col- lege level. It was a great learning experience.

Delsea is grateful to the entire Gaetano Family at Gaetano’s Indoor Soccer for treat- ing them to a delicious pizza party. It was so generous! What a wonderful day it was!

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Brookside Elementary School Mill Lake Elementary School Unified students at Brookside Elementary Mill Lake Elementary School Unified students School met for the first time through partner showed off their partner yoga moves: double yoga moves: a very cool double dance pose, dance yoga move, tangle foot pose, everyone smooth sailing with the sailboat stretch, tangle loves the stick pose, the sailboat stretch and foot pose and silent tree pose. the boat pose.

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SONJ UCS Greatest Successes – more quotes We have built an inclusive support- This year we have started a Unified The greatest success has been the ive environment for our students. Soccer team and were able to play improvement in relationships be- Both our club and sports program 6 home and away games together tween special education and general are very successful and all of our with over 25 Athletes and partners. education students. Students with students have bought into the Uni- We have continued to add Unified disabilities are accepted as equals fied message. We have witnessed throughout the school with more among students without disabilities. natural friendships grow and leaders Unified classes in Phys Ed and next The support from our athletic be fostered out of the program. year with Unified Electives added department has grown immensely. officially. Our Unified Connect club The Unified Club allows everyone to This year we were allotted the meets every Friday with over 200 work with one another in a support- opportunity to run our first ever Uni- students officially part of that. ive and compassionate environment. fied Basketball tournament. It promotes student self-confidence It was not easy to implement Uni- Providing opportunities for all and self-esteem as they expand their fied sports clubs, but we are doing students to be leaders in the school! relationships and experiences. it! Before, this district never had a The club members have built confi- program to include special needs We are in the process of redesign- dence and enjoy the responsibilities students into a sports or club set- ing the program at the elementary and leadership roles of the club. ting. I believe the greatest success level. The principal and vice principal so far is educating the students, Our students with disabilities have have been wonderful to work with. staff, and community on the positive made so many more peer acquain- They have helped create a team of benefits these activities have. The tances. The students (all of them) are teachers who are passionate about student athletes are starting to get excited for the programs to happen. the program. more comfortable supporting each We had a waiting list for our general We have literally doubled our par- other and working together. ed. students this year. We have begun ticipation this year in basketball. We to use the lottery system because went from 16 members to 30. Unified sports is so popular.

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