HOOVER MIDDLE SCHOOL: Bands steal the show!

The Hoover Middle School bands performed their annual Winter Concert on December 12.  

The Hoover Concert Band, Varsity Band and Jazz Band were featured.

Mr. Bergler invited Ms. Kim Williams, the new band director at Truman High School, to conduct the eighth grade concert band in one of their selections.  

The host of the concert was Mrs. Tocco, the principal of Hoover.  

The bands and choirs put on three concerts the next day and did an excellent job entertaining parents, teachers and students.

TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL: DECA Club makes its mark at EMU

By Carly Lundgren-Barnard

Truman DECA Advisor

The Truman High School DECA Club competed at Eastern Michigan University recently and, despite having 21 days off school including the four days before competition, it had 79 students show up on Friday January 21 to compete.

The students were deprived of getting their normal preparation time in the classroom for almost a month and still came out strong at the competition. The club usually spends the week before competition working during lunches and having afterschool practices. With school being closed for the week before competition and then two weeks before that for Christmas break, the students were not as prepared as they could have been, but yet you would have never known.

They were all dressed in business professional attire and represented Truman proudly with their behavior.

Truman had 26 kids qualify for the state competition and brought home 38 medals. Below is a list of kids who qualified and won medals.

Special thanks to:

• My husband Daniel Barnard
• Truman staff: Marie (mom of Brittany, Keyonna and Derrick Daniels), Mary Rita Zalewski and Mike Weaver, for coming as chaperones and volunteering their time and expertise and judges
• The Taylor transportation department for getting the group to Eastern on time in crazy weather with days off
• The Truman administration for supporting our club and communicating with me, even on days off, about getting this organized and put together

Students that will move on to the state competition March 14-16 in Detroit are the following:

• Autumn Carson
• Caprice Gonzalez
• John Jabro
• Ronald Richardson Jr
• Roderick Peterson
• Kendarius Slaughter
• jacquii Tilley
• Sydney Tripp
• William Long
• Tiffany Zoyiopoulos
• Ryan Mccllough
• Megan Dupree
• Tresean Johnson
• Monik Shepherd
• Bianca Warner
• Emily Mullins
• John Byrd
• Amber Wright
• Devin Edwards
• Megan Johnson
• Cherokee Arnold
• Tiffany Zurawski
• Massaddiq Muhammed
• William Darby
• Katrina Potter
• Sierra Hines

Justin Littleton and Quinn Wurmlinger also medaled in their events.

Carly Lundgren-Barnard of Truman High School is a Marketing teacher and DECA advisor.

LITTLE SNOWFLAKE: A simple song for the little ones

Here's a fun one for the little ones .... 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE TASK FORCE: Meeting January 13

The Taylor Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force's next meeting is Monday, January 13. It will be held from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Journey of Hope Church, 8900 Pardee, in Taylor.

Topics for discussion will include:

• Partnership for Success update (TVLA and WCCC follow up)
• Media campaign against underage drinking, billboards
• Downriver children's program
• Celebration for Drug Free Taylor
• Rx abuse update (pharmacy roundtable in the spring)
• Tobacco, Hookah pens, police compliance checks
• Synthetic drug update

MYERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: HOSA students continue tradition

The Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) organization, along with the Health Science classes, collected donations of mittens/gloves for the students at Myers Elementary School.

They have been doing this for many years. The Health Science students wanted to do something for the students in their school district. They collected money from other students at the Career Center and from workers at the Board Office Annex.

Students also brought in donations of gloves and mittens. They are excited and proud to say that we were able to donate over 200 pairs of gloves to Myers Elementary School.

The HOSA students presented the gloves to the students at Myers Elementary weekly tribe meeting on December 16.

PRACTICE AT HOME: Try this math website

Looking for some fun learning Websites for your children during the holiday break?

Try this by clicking here.

MYERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: St. Constance members to the rescue!

St. Constance Church of Taylor generously donated 28 large Christmas gift bags full of basic needs items such as snacks, school supplies and umbrellas to students at Myers Elementary School.

They were dropped off and distributed on December 18, just in time for students to use over the holiday break.

Students were very excited to look in their bags and take them home.

The school is very appreciative of the time and effort St. Constance Church members put forth to make this holiday very special for 28 of our students!