March 28, 2007

Thanks to all of you who participated in the recent staff survey your principal has the results and will be glad to share or copy that for you. Look for more short surveys in the future for students, parents and staff.  This is a great way to evaluate where we are and where we need to go.  Susan Simmons, Public Relations

C.D. Franks Principal, James Jones, is shown awarding bikes to winners of the “Do Your Best on the Test” contest for 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th graders.  

2nd grade:  Caleb Richardson and Makenna Kuydendall	3rd grade:  Andy Daniels (Robin-CD) and Samantha Willis
4th grade:  Shelby Tipton (Shauna-AJHS) and Kade Mansfield (Melissa-MDP)	A Big thanks to all of the staff and students who participated in the city wide clean up day on Saturday.

Ashdown High School Beta Club hosted a Mock Birthday Party for Arkansas Children’s Hospital on Friday.  The party was held in the library and gifts for teenage patients were collected to be sent to Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Decorations for the event were provided by Wal-Mart and Will Harris, Chelsie Ellis and Jasmine Allen worked to create the party atmosphere.  The refreshments and a cake to serve 100 were donated by Brookshire’s and ice was provided by Sonic.  The party was recorded on video and will be sent to the hospital for teen patients to see.

AHS Student Council sponsored its Spring Blood Drive on Tuesday, March 27. 

Congratulations to the 7^th grade class at Ashdown Junior High for winning the 1^st Campbell’s Soup Labels and Box tops for Education contest.  They had 315, 8^th grade had 274, and 9^th grade had 229.  Sondra Cauthron reported, “We had a grand total of 818 turned in and we are beginning a new contest today; please continue to bring your box tops and soup labels.” Turn the labels in to your designated teacher; 7^th grade Mr. Leathers, 8^th grade Mrs. Barger, and 9^th grade Coach Barger or Mrs. Edmisten.  Mrs. Johnson said, “Thank you for your participation, and let’s collect more this nine weeks than we did in the last nine weeks.”

Congratulations to Shelby Fiegel (Joe-HS) and Bailey Teston.  They won a 2^nd place Silver Award       at the State FCCLA Star Events.

Congratulations to the 9^th grade Winners for the SAU Regional Science Fair:

                        Consumer Science:       1^st place           Caitlin Smith (Denise Smith-ALE)

                                                            2^nd place           Dee Ann Day (Teri Lynn-AJHS)

                        Physical Science:          1^st place           Amanda Ford

                        Biological Science:        1^st place           Kasharie Sanders

                        Math, Engineering,

                          &Computer Science   1^st place           Hank Bird

                        Earth Science:               2^nd place           Zach Deaton (Linda-MD)

Caitlin Smith was the overall 9^th thru 12^th grade winner and she won a scholarship and $250.  She is the daughter of Mark and Denise Smith.           She competed in the 9^th thru 12^th grade division and 1^st place winners won a 1 semester scholarship to SAU and all winners won money.           

Congratulations to the 7^th grade winners in the SAU Regional Science Fair:

                        Physical Science           1^st place           Jeffery Hadaway (Sarah-AJHS)

                        Earth Science               1^st place           Tre’Von O’Guinn

                        Consumer Science        2^nd place           Bradley Kilgore (Melissa-AHS)

Congratulations to Sierra Karambellas for placing 3^rd in the DeQueen-Mena regional science fair.

 Judy Dowdy has announced that the new slogan for the Ashdown School District is

"Building Bridges to Success for children."  You can see it used in the ad for the the Main Street Texarkana Magazine.

Former Ashdown Student Wins Award—The Ashdown School District has many graduates who go on to make a name for themselves at college and in the workplace.  This week we want to recognize Dustyn Priest , son of Lori Thrash (Special Services), who is the sports editor for the Texarkana College newspaper.  Dustyn won the top photographic award selected by the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association.