Congratulations to both our boy’s and girl’s Cross Country teams. Both qualified for State. Girls are District champs and Boys finished 3rd. Ben Haggar finished 2nd with Jake Haggar not far behind in 4th place. Taya Skelton finished 2nd, Avery McKennan was 4th and Katie Barta was 8th. Wish them luck at the State
District Runners were – Girls Savanah Lukasiewicz, Morgan Miller, Tessa Skelton, Katie Barta, Avery McKennan
Thank you to all the Corporate Sponsors for the 2018 Fort Calhoun Elementary Walk-A-Thon!
This year, the Elementary Walkathon was a huge success. The PFE raised $10,800 for our school. The amazing t-shirts, water bottles, and prizes would not have been possible without the support of business donations. Please consider supporting the following businesses as they did such an amazing job supporting us!
Abe’s Trash Service Countryside Small Animal Clinic
The Rustic Restaurant Seal Rite Insulation
Steiner Dental PC Zig Drywall
Able Transport Solutions AP Plumbing, LLC
Autumn Pointe Assisted Living Calhoun Oil
Cummings & Son Construction D & W Fine Pack, LLC
Estiage Spa Exterior Remodel & Design
Geiger Built Homes Iwen Exposures
The Longhorn Bar & Restaurant Nuttelman Construction
Rock Hard Concrete Scooters
Simone’s Suds Stick & Stone Bakery
Big Green Tomato Sarah Billesbach, DDS
Florence Food Mart Lycos, Inc
Northwest Feed & Grain Washington County Bank
Boulder Creek Carnes Collective
FC Booster Club Niche Spa & Airbrush Tanning
Skinny Bones Pumpkin Patch SkyZone
Urban Air Vala’s Pumpkin Patch
Also, thank you to our amazing volunteers, faculty
Michelle Tjardes, Walk-A-Thon Chair
The fifth graders at Fort Calhoun Elementary wrote letters to thank local police officers as part of Embrace Blue “Thank An Officer Day”. These will be disbursed to officers in the Omaha area next week.
Peering at the wonders inside of the human body was the experience shared by students from Mrs. Young’s Physiology and Health Occupations classes. Other interested juniors and seniors joined the excursion to downtown Omaha on Friday morning, August 24th. Preserved and injected with polymers, the human specimens on display provided minute details about contents of the skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems. An opportunity to touch a human heart, kidney, liver
It was a beautiful day for the Fall Sports Kick-Off. Please come to support our football team tomorrow, August 24th for our first home game against Ashland-Greenwood at 7:00 pm. If you can’t make it, check out FC Live Radio with Grant Hansen by following the link on the top banner of the Fort Calhoun Schools Homepage or click here https://www.fortcalhounschools.org Click here to see all of our Fall sports schedules. https://www.fortcalhounschools.org/calendars/sport-schedules/
Fort Calhoun Booster Club Apparel and gear~
We are no longer taking special orders at this time. The next period for special orders will be in November. The Booster club does keep many items from the order form “generally” in stock and will gladly check our remaining stock for your requests.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
We will be selling apparel during all the Home Varsity Football games, and during Fort Calhoun Heritage days at St. John’s Catholic church craft show on Oct. 6th at Schwertley Hall.
During Winter~ we sell apparel at all home Varsity Boys’ and Girls’ Basketball games in the High School Commons.
Thank you for supporting your child’s school athletics and activities programs!!!
NOTICE:
100% OF YOUR PURCHASE from the Fort Calhoun Booster Club goes to support the Fort Calhoun Students’ Athletic and Activity Programs. The Pioneer logo and art designs are property of the Fort Calhoun Community Schools and duplication or altering images for profit is strictly prohibited. All apparel items are property of the Fort Calhoun Community Schools and Booster Club Organization.
Our Kid’s Club students enjoyed getting creative during Drama week. They took a field trip to the Omaha Community Playhouse and performed their puppet show titled “The Dragon Who Ate the Library” for the residents at Autumn Pointe in Fort Calhoun.
Photos by Ann Klemm
