Community Newsletter January 2001

JanuaryParent/Board Meetings
This month's parent meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 25,beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Mark's classroom. Our monthly Board Meetingwill start around 8:30. All community members are invited andencouraged to attend these meetings.

We're GoingBowling!
We had somuch fun ice skating last month, that we have decided to plan anotherspecial activity for this transition week. On Friday, January 19, weare taking all of the students to Northland Bowl for the morning. CLCwill cover the cost of shoe rentals and bowling. We will leave CLC at10:30 a.m. and return at 12:30 for lunch. Please make sure you signand return the (pink) permission slip before Friday morning (itshould be in the envelope with this newsletter.)

GuestSpeakers
As part of hisindependent project, Nathan A. (Team 1) has arranged for Jake Corman,State Senator and Kerry Benninghoff, State Rep., to speak to thestudent body about their respective jobs and their positions on thecharter school movement. The guests will be here Friday, Jan. 19,from 1:00-2:30 in the "big room." You are welcome to join us.

Welcome NewCLC Students & Families
John M.,Jacob M., and Cory M. have recently joined our community. John andJacob, both 5th graders, are in Team 4. John transferred fromBellefonte in December and Jacob came to us in January from PennsValley. Cory is a 6th grader and the newest member of Team 3. Hetransferred from Bellefonte Middle School earlier this month. Thesethree spaces were created by the leaving of Leah M. and Kayla L. fromTeam 4 and Tyler G. from Team 3 during the past month.

FundraisingSuccess!
We did it! Our challenge fundraising campaign has come to asuccessful conclusion. We raised just over the $1,000 target ($1,040to be exact) so we received the entire matching contribution of$1,000. A grand total of $2,040!
These extra funds will help us enhance our existing programs. Becauseof your generosity, we can more easily afford an upcoming field trip,and funding for conference registration for our lead teachers. We arealso able to purchase some materials to help improve access to ourlibrary's materials.
We wish to acknowledge those who helped us reach our goal. Andespecially our original anonymous donor &endash; your challenge ofraising $1,000 not only has helped us financially, but the support itsparked (both monetary and the words of encouragement) is trulyrewarding.

Brenda & Aaron Bleznak
Cindy & Bill Brickley
Ingrid & Bill Colt
Sally & Giles Driscoll
Robin & Richard Haynes
Daniel and Lynn Parker Klees
Alis Rasmussen & Jay Silverstein
Jean Roman
Spiro E. Stefanou
Joseph Stitt and Susan McHale
Douglas Swope
Jean Yeatman & Claude Depamphilis
Julie Zettle
and three additional donors who wish to remain anonymous

OfficeMove
Just wanted to let you knowthat M.J. and the school office are now located on the 2nd floor ofthe white building between Mark's and Josephine's classrooms. AnnBolser and our business office have moved downstairs to the officeoff of the "big room." The phone numbers will remain the same. Themain office (M.J.'s) number is 861-7980 and the business office(Ann's) number is 689-2477. Of course, you can still use email toreach us, too. (mj@clccharter.org and ann@clccharter.org)

New SpanishTeacher
Holly Sechler has begun thenew year as our Spanish teacher on Thursdays. Holly has come to CLCfrom the Tyrone School District where she has been teaching Spanishfor the past several years. The students seem very excited by Holly'scurriculum plan and her fun and interesting activities.

HomeiMacs
A reminder that if you are having anyhardware problems with your CLC computer at home, you should take itto Keynet/Computerland in Bellefonte to have it repaired. All of ourcomputers are under warranty and Keynet is our service provider. Ifthe problem with the computer is with the software, please bring thecomputer in to our business office and let Ann (and your child's hometeam teacher) know the specific problem you are having with it.Keynet is located on Rt. 144 next to Capparella Furniture on the wayto Milesburg. When you take it in, please let them know that you arefrom CLC. The phone number for Keynet is 357-9000 (ext. 18 - Drew).

SkiClub
Just a reminderthat when we have off on a Monday during the winter, the ski clubwill make-up their day at Tussey on the Wednesday of that same week.The bus will pick them up at CLC at 2:40, just as usual.