From the desk of Sister Stella
PWC President
SPA Fall Festival News
PWC Function
Traffic Duty Assignments
Weekly Readings/Reflections
Playground Volunteer
Hot Lunch Volunteers
Stucent Activities
SPA Chess Club News

“Gratitude is the fairest flower that blossoms in the soul.”

From the Desk of Sister Stella Maria, Principal:

Today we express our sincere thanks to the Parents Working for Children. Under the inspiring and hardworking leadership of Mary Kay Lalli, you all have served us well during the 2006-2007 school year. Our community has grown, resources have been allocated, and an openness of heart and mind to new ventures has been achieved. Mary Kay, your leadership has been a blessing to us all! May God continue to bless you and your family.

The Faculty, Staff and Students of St. Paul’s offer our most sincere sympathy to Coach Eddie for the recent death of his mother. Mrs. Rosenberg’s life was celebrated last Sunday with many friends and family. She is laid to rest at Forest Lawn Cemetery where she may rest in peace.

We offer our congratulations to:

• Miss Newton and her incredible JUNGLE BOOK cast.
• Our advanced violin students who played with many other talented students across the city in the Schoenberg Auditorium at UCLA.
• Mrs. Alessi and her outstanding debate team that participated in the International Competition at Claremont College.
• Miss Hall and her students, from first through fourth grade, for a very beautiful and value oriented Spring Sing II.

We are so proud of and greatly appreciate our extra-circular programs!

TOGETHER IN MISSION:

Parents, as you know, the money for Together in Mission is allotted to the children of inner-city schools. A gentleman from our Parish, who does not have children at SPA, would like the students of St. Paul’s to be directly involved in helping less fortunate children. For each child who contributes ONE DOLLAR, this gentleman will match it with FIVE DOLLARS. To make this a fun experience for our children, the student council is sponsoring a Crazy Hat/Hair Day, and asks that each child contribute one dollar (only one) from his/her allowance. The Crazy Hat/Hair Day will be held on May 8th.

Please look for an alert reminder on Friday. It pertains to the mandatory meeting, which will be held in the classroom under the Church, on the morning of your choice. Sorry about the concern we inadvertently caused you last week when you could not open your Epistle.

 

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PWC President

Dear SPA Families:

Congratulations to 2007-2008 PWC President, Tina Cathcart and her Board. And many thanks to those parents who submitted a volunteer form and were selected to serve as a room parent.

To the Sister Margaret Mary Haller Fans

Many of you have expressed regret of not having the opportunity to thank Sister Margaret Mary for years of service as SPA school secretary.  You may send a card/note to her in care of the school.  Sister Margaret Mary is a delight and we will miss her.

SPA 2007 Annual Father Tom Golf Classic

A big thank you to Bill Butler and his committee, Michael Feeley, Kevin Harrigan and Adam Konrad for organizing the SPA Father Tom Jones Golf Classic at the Braemar Country Club.  It was a great event enjoyed by all!!!

Spring Sing II Installation Luncheon

Thank you to Miss Hall and our 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders for their wonderful performances at the Spring Sing II Installation and Luncheon. Thanks to all who helped make this fabulous event a success:  Head Room Parents, Kimberly Harold and Jewel Kracoff; room parents, Michelle Pierce, Gretchen Theodore, Barbara Carroll, Denise Kilroy, Christy Fearn and Georgette Kelsey; and Harold’s Catering.

2007 SPA Alumni & Parish High School Senior Gathering-May 6th
All graduating 2007 seniors from the Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Community are invited to a very special evening, Sunday May 6th at 6:00 PM in the JCPC.  If you have any questions, please contact JACKIE BROOKS, PWC Alumni Representative. (Phone number in the directory or obtain from the parish office)

Surfer Party for ALL St. Paul Boys-June 3rd

The Surfer Party, generously donated at the Festival by the Meyer-Whalley family, will be held on Sunday, June 3rd from 3:30 to 5:30pm.  Information was sent via email.  A friendly reminder to please send back RSVP FORM by Friday, May 11. 

1st Grade Liturgy and Potluck
1st Grade Parents, save the date for your Pot Luck, Wednesday, May 9th.  Food is to be dropped off in the JCPC by 6:15 PM. The prayer service will begin promptly at 6:30 PM in the church. Enjoy your special night with your child.

Special Programs for Moms-Wednesdays May 9th and May 23rd

Joan Doyle, SPA Director of Religious Education and Barbara Murphy, SPA Coordinator of Seniors Ministry will be presenting “Just a Little Mom-Time…To Breathe”.  Check out “Parish News” in this week’s epistle for more information.

Upcoming Events

May 4                         Racquette Luncheon at the Riviera Country Club

May 7-11                    Virtus Protecting God’s Children “Teaching Touching Safety”

                                    Parent Mandatory Meeting

May 9                         1st Grade Liturgy and Potluck

May 18-20                  SPA Campout

May 21                       Late Day

Mary Kay Lalli

PWC President

 

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SPA Fall Festival News

PIRATE’S COVE 2007

 

OOOH AARGGH!!  It is time to swab the decks and take care of business!!  The more you do now, the better we all will be.  Thar’ll be more time for fun and adventure as we sail the high seas in the fall.

Pirate Log Number II is coming your way this Thursday in the bright Lemon yellow envelope again.  Please read through it and take care of some of this business in May.  This is the last packet you will receive before school gets out—it is almost summer!  We will continue to update school families through the epistle and forms attached to the epistle.  We are encouraging the following involvement this month:

              Donations to Apostle’s Attic—call Cindy Williams or Brigid Hannon

              Donations to the Garden Booth—call Michelle Harper

              Pledges of bottles of wine over $20 value for the wine raffle—call Francine Jones or                                           Georgette Kelsey

              Begin selling raffle tickets—call Laura Saade with questions

              Send in your patron form—please contribute to this underwriting of the festival                                                        cost---call Jackie Smith-Hastie with questions

              Purchase more fun festival gear at school May 15th, a.m. and p.m.—call Kim Combs or                                           Ciara Lydon with questions

              Make campout sign using the festival theme—prizes awarded

              Donate to the live and silent auction.  Reach out to friends and family and places where                                    you do business.  Call Kathy O’Malley, Carrie Policella or Wendy Perkins.

              Wood booth is asking for pieces of scrap wood and plywood.  If you are doing a                        remodel or know someone who is, please try to get some of the wood for the  

                      wood booth. Call Susan Moffet or Jennifer Caspar.

              Consolation Booth will be collecting—save those party favors and small toys

Over the summer we want you to save books for the Book Nook.  They want books in good condition—also DVD’s and CD’s.  Beverly Wilkerson will be back and collecting in September.

We will have a coin drive this year.  We’ll send cups home later this month and want the children to save loose change all summer to be collected the first week of school.  Call Sharian Spencer with questions.

We will send a letter in June with the new, separate raffle with the huge prize of one year’s SPA tuition. Again, call Laura Saade with any questions.

EVERYONE WHO IS GOING ON THE CAMPOUT:  Please start making your family signs with a “Pirate’s Cove” theme.  We will be judging them Saturday and awarding prizes!!!!

 

BOOTH CAPTAINS MEETING THURSDAY, MAY 10TH AT 7:45 A.M. IN THE JCPC.

           

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Ahoy St. Paul’s!

A hearty thanks to the following families who have so generously contributed to the Patrons program so far.

Don’t forget - June 5th Out of Uniform Dress Day

for all Patrons!

Avalon, Michael and Connor Harold

Fischer Construction, Inc.

Janan, Kayla and Wendy Perkins

Nancy and Lawrence Wolf

Paul and Denise Freese

The Altshule Family

The Balfe Family

The Bird Family

The Catalano Family

The Crowley Family

The Deutsch Family

The Dixon Family

The Gaffney Family

The Hiney Family

The Johangten Family

The Linfesty Family

The McAllister Family

The McMillan Family

The McQueen Family

The O'Callahan Family

The O'Malley Family

The Pierce Family

The Plumb Family - George, Jill, Bennett, Gibson, Aidan

The Saade Family

The Scher Family

The Smith-Hastie Family

The Swashbuckling Spencer Family!

The Talamas Family

The Whitney Family

The Wilkerson Family

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Traffic Duty Assignments

Mmonth of MayTraffic Duty Assignment Kindergarten Parents

PARENT TRAFFIC RESPONSIBILITIES. 

Note:  Please arrive by 7:20 am or 2:30 pm to complete your assignment.  Should you have questions about your duty do not hesitate to contact your room parents or Liane Schirmer. 

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Weekly Readings/Reflections

Readings for Sunday May 6, 2007

Reading I
Acts 14:21-27

After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news
to that city
and made a considerable number of disciples,
they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.
They strengthened the spirits of the disciples
and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying,
“It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships
to enter the kingdom of God.”
They appointed elders for them in each church and,
with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord
in whom they had put their faith.
Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia.
After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia.
From there they sailed to Antioch,
where they had been commended to the grace of God
for the work they had now accomplished.
And when they arrived, they called the church together
and reported what God had done with them
and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles

Gospel
John 13:31-22a, 34-35
 
When Judas had left them, Jesus said,
“Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God is glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself,
and God will glorify him at once.
My children, I will be with you only a little while longer.
I give you a new commandment: love one another.
As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.
This is how all will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another.”

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Playgound Volunteer

Kindergarten: 11:45-12:15
May 2007

rd GRADE: 12:10-12:40
May 2007

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Hot Lunch Volunteers

Hot Lunch Volunteer Schedule May 2007

Kindergarten        11:20 – 11:45
Mondays                               Wednesday                         Thursdays

rd Grade        11:45 – 12:10
Mondays                                 Wednesday                          Thursdays

th Grade       12:20 – 12:45
Mondays                                  Wednesday                         Thursdays

		5/2	Lisa King	5/3	Carroll
5/7	Elizabeth Casey	5/9		5/10	Carroll
5/14	Elizabeth Casey	5/16		5/17	Carroll
5/21	Elizabeth Casey	5/23	Mary Ann McQueen	5/24	Claudia Fox
5/28	NO SCHOOL	5/30	Mary Ann McQueen	5/31	Jessica Yi

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             Congratulations Musical Theatre!

              Congratulations to the cast and crew in musical theatre for their wonderful production of “Disney’s the Jungle Book Kids”.  The production received rave reviews! Your hard work made this show an event you can be really be proud of!  If anyone took pictures of the show Ms. Newton would love copies!  When the DVD arrives, we may have a cast party/viewing of the show, so be on the look out for information coming your way about that.  Congratulations again!!

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St. Paul the Apostle Chess Club, 1987-2007:  20 Years of Thinking head

Attention ALL Students – Join the Fun - Saturday, May 5th, 5PM!

 Jack Peters & The Chess Club welcome one and all!  It’s time for the annual

ALL-St. Paul’s Chess Tournament & Pizza Party at 5:00 PM in the JCPC.

The fun begins with great raffle prizes.  You might win the 10th Edition of Chessmaster software or a great new book.  You might even win a free chess lesson with our very own International Chessmaster.  So bring your friends who don’t play chess – yet – and show them how much fun we’re having!

R.S.V.P. with an email at www.spachess.org
See you there!

John Walsh, Program Director
Brigid Heaney, Treasurer

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