Dear District Residents:

I’d like to share with you a few pieces of news about our district.

School Safety

The safety com-mittee meets throughout the year and looks at our safety plan and ways we can improve. Each time something violent hap-pens at a school or place of public congregation in our nation we learn of ways to change what we do to keep our children safe. Having said that, beginning this month we will be extending our locked campus policy to 7:00 a.m. Prior to this the school was only locked between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. All doors were opened at 7:00 a.m. with no super-vision in the building. We will now have only the front entrance doors open at 7:00 a.m. and we will have a greeter in the main hall.

Parent/Grandparent Luncheons

An exception to

the policy discussed above will be any func-tions in our cafeteria dur-ing schools hours, Senior Citizens luncheons, Par-ent/Grandparent lunch-eons, etc. For these events we ask that you park in the back parking lot of the school and enter the building through the cafeteria doors. There will be a staff member there to greet you.

Winter School Closings

It won’t be long before the snow and cold will be upon us. Again this year we will be using multiple methods of com-municating any closings or delays to you. You can access this informa-tion from WWNY-TV Channel 7, WWTI-TV Channel 50, all area radio stations, and our auto-mated phone system, School Messenger. We will also post this on our website and Facebook page. As you know, the North Country/Tug Hill weather is extremely un-predictable, and we will always put the safety of

your children first. We will also attempt to make these decisions as early as possible to allow you time to plan.

Special Congratulations

Congratulations go out to Ms. Gleason, the cast, and everyone involved in the produc-tion of the musical, “The Wizard of Oz”. I hope everyone got out to see this outstanding show. It’s just another example of the hard working and talented students we have at CCS.

Thank you for your continued support of our district and our stu-dents. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday sea-son.

Sincerely,

Scott N. Connell

Superintendent

From the Desk of the Superintendent

Inside this issue:

Principally Speaking 2

Mr. Munn’s Message 3

The Classroom Connec-tion

4

Career & College Plan-ning Center News

8

Music Department News & Notes

13

PTO News 14

Fall Sports Wrap-up 18

Module Minutes 7

December 1, 2013

Volume 51, Issue 4

Copenhagen Central School December, 2013 Newsletter

Board of Education Robert F. Stackel, President Lynn A. Murray, Vice President Troy W. Buckley Koreen G. Freeman Prudence L. Kunert Alfred E. Tomaselli Kim R. Vogt Administration Scott N. Connell, Superintendent Nadine M. O’Shaughnessy, K-12 Principal Dale R. Munn, Jr., Director of

Student Services

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December Events to Mark on Your Calendar Dec 2-13 - Student Council Canned Food Drive Dec 4 - Band Concert Dec 11 - Chorus Concert Dec 13 - PTO Evening with Santa Dec 18 - Senior Citizen Luncheon Dec 20 - Interim Reports Go Home Dec 20 - 6-12 Dance/Activity Night

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According to an article in the “Connecting Lewis County” newsletter, parents who give young people meaningful roles help children feel like an important resource. This is an important asset for your child to grow up healthy. Ways to develop this empowering asset include: Ask your child to teach you something Ask your child’s input on a family decision Give your child an important role in the family For the entire article, go to this link. http://blogs.cornell.edu/ccelewis/files/2013/07/November-December-2013-188nnn7.pdf BOCES Names “Students of the Quarter”

Howard G. Sackett and Bohlen Techni-cal Centers have named their “Students of the Quarter.” Each instructor is al-lowed to select one student who has ex-hibited “outstanding qualities” in their program. This quarter Kristen Fleming

was selected for her outstanding achievement in the development of professional skills. Cheyenne Rose was chosen for her great effort and for al-ways being positive and attentive in Cosmetology. Congratulations, Kristen and Cheyenne!

Random Acts of Kindness Have you committed an unexpected good deed lately? This is the perfect season to make it a point to go out of your way to be kind to family members, friends and even complete strangers. Here is a resource with some excellent ideas. http://www.randomactsofkindness.org/kindness-ideas

L. Graves

M. Thomas

D. Larsen

D. Rose

C. Moser

J. Granger

C. Cannan

Dear Parents/Guardians and Copenhagen Community, 

This month I wanted to take some time to familiarize you with the range of programs in the district designed to assist students with social/emotional issues. Many are already aware of the counseling services provided by Mrs. Gillette, Mrs. Pe-tersen and myself as well as the Student Assistance Program from Mountain View Prevention Services supervised by Sheryl Hutton. Some are also aware of the Social Work Services pro-vided by BOCES staff member Melissa Rookman. However, there are a few other programs that are available to our students that are somewhat lesser known as well as a couple others that we expect to be coming soon.

Transitional Living Service In collaboration with Lewis County, Transitional Living Services is currently providing school based mental health services here on Thursdays by Joanna Daily. These services are provided to anyone with mental health needs and designed for those that may have difficulties accessing community based services either due to difficulties getting access to services or transportation difficulties. For referral information parents are encouraged to contact Mrs. Gillette or my-self.

Primary Project Primary Project is a school-based prevention program using expressive play. Research has shown that this program helps K-3 grade students adjust to school, gain confidence and focus on learning. Our Child Associate, Christina Petersen, provides weekly support and encourage-ment to students in an effort to help them become more successful learners. Currently this pro-gram exists in over 2,000 schools across the country and is supported by a grant. Children are selected for participation in the program through a variety of methods. Teachers will be completing a universal screening measure to help identify students that are showing

signs of difficulty in the classroom or with dealing with a myriad of life-stressors. Screening tools are not perfect and students can also be referred to the program by parents, teachers or other school staff. Parental consent is required to par-ticipate.

Youth Advocate Program Sheryl Hutton and Mountain View Prevention Services also provide our elementary students with a Youth Ad-vocate program. This program assists students with any number of school related difficulties including attention and behavioral difficulties, academic difficulties and difficulties coping with various life stressors. Services are provided on Tuesdays in 30 minute individual sessions as well as through parent communications. This grant based program will run through January 1st pending the renewal of our grant.

Fort Drum Military Family Life Consultant The MFLC program has been available to the three largest local school districts for quite some time and will be coming to Copenhagen on Thursdays and Fridays very soon. This program is designed to assist students and families with the various stressors that come with Military living. The MFLC consultant will work with both military and non-military students both individually and in small groups on a variety of topics. Interested individuals are encouraged to contact Mrs. Gillette or myself.

Northern Regional Center for Independent Living Home School Coordinator NRCIL has long been associated with assisting families of students with disabilities with the various difficulties that accompany their child’s individual needs. Recently they have committed to hiring a Home School Coordinator to assist students, parents and the school in communicating needed information and community program availabilities. Stay tuned as this person should begin working here in the very near future. If you have any questions, please contact me at 688-4411 or at dmunn@ccsknights.org. Sincerely, 

Dale Munn, Jr., Director of Student Services 

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Please remember to return your child’s reading list at the end of the month.

We are still in the first math module. We have spent much time working on hidden partners (the two numbers used to make a whole number), num-ber formation, beginning addi-tion and word problems. In addi-tion, we are working on count-ing aloud to 50 in the classroom and recognizing groups of ob-jects from 1 to 10.

In ELA, we have started out third skills module, which consists of letter formation. We have just completed our Stories and Folktales Unit. We will spend some time working on this skill. In addition, please con-tinue to work on buttoning, zip-ping and shoe tying to help pre-pare for arrival, recess and dis-missal.

We will be having a class-room Christmas Party on the last day of school before Christ-mas Vacation, December 20. We would like it if students can please bring in the same items for each of the other children in their class. It can be a pencil for each friend; an eraser; a home-made bookmark, or ornament for each friend; a small plastic animal; a pack of gum or candy canes for each friend, etc… For

Universal Pre-K

Mrs. Rarick and Mrs. Virkler

In November the chil-dren learned about the meaning of Thanksgiving. They learned who was present at the first Thanksgiving (Native Ameri-cans and Pilgrims) and learned a bit about how they lived. We made many fun crafts such as shape turkeys, Indian corn, and Thanksgiving hats. Pre-k boys and girls were also able to tell us what they are thankful for. We had some wonderful class dis-cussions about that!

In December, we will make ornaments and decorate our class tree. We are very ex-cited to read books about Christ-mas, make many crafts, and sing Christmas songs! We plan to make the entire month of De-cember very festive!

Pre-k children have been learning to rhyme, to count up to ten objects, to cut with scis-sors, and to recognize numerals 0-10. They’ve been putting to-gether name puzzles and are mostly able to recognize the let-ters in their own names. We’ve been working on having the chil-dren put on their own outerwear independently. They’ve been doing a great job, so please en-courage this at home! Have a wonderful holi-day season!

Pre-K Favorite Apple Muffins

cooking spray

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

3 cups apples - peeled, cored, and chopped

1 cup vegetable oil

2 cups white sugar

3 eggs, beaten

2 teaspoons ground cin-namon

Directions Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Prepare 2 muf-fin tins or 2 loaf pans (8 1/2x4 1/2-inch loaf pans) with cooking spray. Mix flour, baking soda, and ap-ples in a large bowl. Whisk oil, sugar, eggs, and cinnamon to-gether in a small bowl; add to flour mixture and mix until just moistened. Evenly divide mix-ture between prepared loaf pans. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 90 min-utes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Substitutions: Cut sugar in half, add one cup of applesauce in place of vegetable oil.

Kindergarten

Mrs. Scholler and Ms. Houppert

It was very nice to see so many of you at the Parent Teacher Conferences last month. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.

We are off to a great start with the Book It! Program.

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Our 2nd grades will be taking a trip to Syracuse on De-cember 5th to see the Nutcracker Ballet. More information will be provided when we have the de-tails.

Our Christmas party will be held on Friday, December 20th. More information will be sent home at a later time.

In the spirit of giving, we will be collecting canned goods for the local food pantry. Please be generous and send in as many canned goods as you can spare. We will be collecting the food items during most of December.

Looking Ahead to January:

Flat Stanley………Get ready for Flat Stanley! We will be reading Flat Stanley in Janu-ary and he should be ready to travel by February. Every stu-dent will make a Flat Stanley and mail him to a family mem-ber or friend that is willing to take him places. Please send Stanley to a person that you think will be willing to take the time to take pictures and send them back for all to enjoy. Once all the Stanleys are back, they will be put up on the large bulle-tin board in the elementary wing for all to enjoy.

example, one child brought in a bulk package of toy telescopes, one for each friend. ***Many homemade items can be made in quantities or other gift items can be bought in bulk packages at stores like Big Lots or Dollar Tree which can make this way of gift-giving less expensive and also equal.

The letters for the month of December are Ww(continued), Tt and Ee. The sight words for the month are white, a, the, and to and I. Please continue to read books daily and ask your child to point out vocabulary words in the text.

We will be having a craft day in the first week or two of December. We will send home more information as soon as we solidify plans. The plan is to have one adult per student, Mom or Dad or Grandparent. We will spend the morning mak-ing crafts. Listening to Christ-mas music and enjoying a snack together.

Please look for details for our annual tree farm visit.

1st Grade

Mrs. Hefferon and Ms. Strianese

December is our craft month. Parents are invited to come into the first grade class-rooms on Friday, December 13 from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. to help the children make Christmas crafts. More information will be com-ing home with the children.

Please keep practicing the sight words. With more words coming home each week it is important that your child does not fall behind.

It is also a good time to start reviewing addition facts to ten. With the new Common Core Standards the children are supposed to be fluent with addi-tion facts to 20 by the end of first grade.

Please make sure your child has a warm jacket, snow pants, hat and gloves. They will be going outside every day that the wind chill is above 0.

2nd Grade

Mrs. Reed and Mrs. B. Zehr

We are working on our 2nd Math Module from the Core Curriculum. It is called Addi-tion and Subtraction of Length Units (Measurement). Look for homework assignments. We will use the metric system and not the U.S. standard system for measurement.

As always, look over the Friday work folder. If you do this each week, you will get a good idea of how your child is doing in second grade. The win-ter months are a good time to read together as a family. It also helps our students learn to enjoy books and getting their free pizza from Pizza Hut is an added bonus. Any reading at home with our students is greatly appreciated.

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tem. We have been studying the planets, our moon, the sun and how our earth is connected to other objects in the sky. Ask your child if shooting stars really exist. We learned some amaz-ing facts.

As we continue to move through our math units, we would like to ask parents to practice math facts (multiplying and dividing) with their children. The basic fact families should be at a student’s fingertips when we start multiplying and dividing greater numbers.

With Christmas right around the corner we will be sending home a letter to explain our Christmas gift exchange and other Christmas activities. It will be sent out the first week of December.

3rd Grade

Mrs. Ratliff/ Mrs. Farney and Mrs. Muncy

Happy Holidays from third grade! With the holidays upon us, third graders are learn-ing about how people from com-munities around the world cele-brate Christmas. They are work-ing towards creating Power-Points, reading picture books, and making crafts from 14 differ-ent countries. We are also hop-ing to have a guest come in and speak about Christmas in Den-mark!

In math, students are working on time and measure-ment. This is a great hands-on module as students time them-selves doing various activities, and weigh and measure a variety of materials.

Christmas parties will be held on Friday, December 20th. Information has been sent home regarding our gift exchange, and reminders for those who signed up for refreshments will be sent home as the party date ap-proaches.

As always, keep watch of our classroom websites, as they provide a wealth of information on classroom activities, common core vocabulary, and fun links to practice spelling, vocabulary and math skills! (These will keep students’ skills sharp over the long winter break!)

4th Grade

Mrs. McCabe and Ms. Burns

Thank you to all the par-ents that made treats for our bake sale. Our classes made $150.00 dollars. That money will be used by the library to buy RIF books for the children to keep. A special thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Bogert and Mrs. Souva for their help selling the treats during lunch.

Last month the Jefferson County Historical Society vis-ited our classroom. Mrs. Melissa Widrick came to our classes and talked about the Na-tive Americans that lived in this area long ago. She brought in items used by the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. The stu-dents enjoyed the artifacts such as spearheads and arrowheads that were found in this area. She also showed the students repro-ductions of dolls, baskets and instruments the Indians would have used.

We are well into the new marking period. Parent confer-ences were very helpful, espe-cially with the new report card. This report card is very similar to last year’s and it tells us ex-actly how the student is pro-gressing. With the new state tests being such a big part of our education program, it is impor-tant for parents to know their child’s averages in all areas.

In science, we are discov-ering more about our Solar Sys-

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help support the 6 Shifts in ELA/Literacy and Math at home.

App of the Month for Decem-ber: WordlyWise 3000 can be found for FREE on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordly-wise-3000-vocabulary/id632074934?mt=8 . Requires iOS 4.3 or later, com-patible with iPad. Description is as follows: - NEW: TRACK YOUR PROGRESS – the app now stores your progress as you study new words - 3,000 ACADEMIC VOCABULARY WORDS - as found in literature, texts, and high-stakes tests - 11 GRADE LEVELS - from elemen-tary to high school - 210 WORD LISTS - in manageable sets of 10 to 15 words - 100+ ILLUSTRATIONS - for vo-cabulary words at the elementary levels - MULTIPLE MEANINGS - for each vocabulary word, not just single mean-ings - SAMPLE SENTENCES – to provide a rich context for each definition - FULL AUDIO SUPPORT - with the ability to hear all text on screen read aloud - “QUICK CHECK” QUIZ QUES-TIONS - to give you more word prac-tice and reinforce meanings - CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK - to coach you toward, or to confirm, cor-rect answers

It is of the utmost impor-tance to CCS teachers and ad-ministrators to include parents, families, and the community in the changes taking place in the education of students. To that end, we established our school’s first annual Parent Information Night/Module Expo (see photos below). It was held on Tuesday, November 19 from 6-7:30, and it was a terrific success! We had a substantial turnout of parents and families, which enabled a productive, thoughtful, engag-ing, and informative conversa-tion among parents, teachers, and administrators. Teachers were represented from kinder-garten through middle school English and high school Math, and they provided sample mate-rials and lessons at their individ-ual tables that exhibited how the Common Core Learning Stan-dards are being met. A few of the exhibits included: a hands-on learning demonstration in dividing decimals, explanations of tape diagrams, sample reken-reks (similar to an abacus), a li-brary of Grade 3 texts to browse, practice with number bonds, Grade 1 “Human Body” module

extension activities, and sample student reader and workbooks in Grade 2.

If you weren’t able to at-tend the Expo, some highlights from the conversation are: The Common Core Learning Standards, the teacher evaluation system (APPR), and Data-Driven Instruction are part of the Reform Agenda which provided money to districts such as Copenhagen that aligned to these criteria in an effort to increase student achievement. There are 6 Shifts in both ELA/Literacy and Math instruction. Shifts refer to new ways of teaching and learning. To learn more about the shifts in ELA and Math, visit our CCS Common Core and More webpage at http://common-core.ccsknights.schoolfusion.us/modules/groups/integrated_home.phtml?gid=4019839 . Parents helping students with homework is not expected, and some teachers sug-gest to not help. This is to provide stu-dents the opportunity to problem-solve independently, to feel a minimal amount of stress which will help deal with situa-tions throughout life, and to avoid confu-sion regarding how and what is being taught. Helping with homework is a multi-generational concern, and the Common Core Learning Standards and the New York State Learning Modules are no different. Teachers were provided with ideas and suggestions from parents on the impor-tance of incorporating their own creative, hands-on ideas to supplement the Com-mon Core Learning Standards, and par-ents received ideas and suggestions to

Module Minutes from Mrs. Farney and Mrs. Ratliff

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Volume 51, Issue 4 Page 8 CAREER AND COLLEGE PLANNING NEWS

M arinda Allen, daughter of Eric and Michelle Allen, has been accepted at the University

of Missouri in the Pre-Veterinary Science program. Congratulations Marinda!

D allas Church, son of Daniel and Kathy Church, has been accepted at the University

of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) Automotive High Performance Technician program. Congratula-tions Dallas!

A shley Crandall, daughter of Mark and Loretta Crandall, has been accepted at Jeffer-

son Community College in the Math & Science program. Congratulations Ashley!

R eba Earle, daughter of Amy Earle, has been accepted at Marymount Manhattan College

in the Dance program. Congratulations Reba!

S ara Goutremout, daughter of Carol Goutre-mout and George Goutremout, has been ac-

cepted at Roberts Wesleyan College in the Music Performance-Voice program. Congratulations Sara!

G regory Kunert, son of Prudence Kunert and Chris Kunert, has been accepted at Jefferson

Community College in the Criminal Justice pro-gram. Congratulations Gregory!

C heyenne Rose, daughter of Ken and Kelly Rose, has been accepted at Jefferson Commu-

nity College in the Human Services program. Congratulations Cheyenne!

T aylor St. Louis, daughter of Douglas and Dawn St. Louis, has been accepted at Jeffer-

son Community College in the Liberal Arts pro-gram. Congratulations Taylor!

A dam Woodruff, son of David M. Woodruff and Diane Woodruff, has been accepted at

Florida Atlantic University in the Engineering pro-gram. Congratulations Adam!

The 2013/2014 BURGER KING Scholars Pro-gram Honoring Jim McLamore offers $1,000 scholarships to eligible high school seniors who maintain a part-time job. The Burger King Scholars scholarship application period opens

November 15, 2013. Applications are available online at:

https://www.scholarshipamerica.org/burgerkingscholars. Transcripts should be uploaded with your appli-cation or can be mailed in. Application data must be submitted electronically by January 10, 2014!

A ll college applications should be handed in to Mrs. Gillette as soon as possible. Please stop

by the Counseling Center if you need any assis-tance.

Also, please bring all acceptance letters and awards letters to the counseling Center upon receipt. Thank you!

S ara Goutremout, daughter of Carol Goutre-mout and George Goutremout, has been

awarded Roberts Wesleyan College’s Dean’s Scholarship valued at $28,000 ($7,000 per year for up to 4 years). Sara was awarded this scholarship because of her high academic cali-ber, drive for excellence, and love for learning. Congratulations Sara!

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P arents of Juniors are asked to call the Counsel-ing Center to schedule a meeting with Mrs.

Gillette. The purpose of the meeting is for all three parties, (parent, student, counselor) to review the students’ plans for after graduation, whether it be college, workforce, or military. We will review your child’s grades and assessment scores (PSAT,ASVAB, ACT Plan) to help in selecting the best post-secondary choices. Mrs. Gillette is avail-able to meet during or after school, and on certain evenings by request. The meetings generally take 30—45 minutes, and are most often scheduled dur-ing the students’ study hall period. Please call Mrs. Prince at 688-2573 to schedule your appoint-ment.

Congratulations to the following CCS students, who were awarded the BOCES “Student of the Quarter” honor for the first quarter of the 2013-2014 school year:

H.G. SACKETT TECHNICAL CENTER:

Cheyenne Rose—Cosmetology

BOHLEN TECHNICAL CENTER:

Kristin Fleming—Business Computer Technology

https://careerzone.ny.gov offers a free career ex-ploration and planning system that helps kids dream and plan for their future. Over 1 million students use this website each year to research over 900 occupational profiles, view 400 career videos, and review up-to-date labor market information. Check it out!

W e would like to once again extend an invita-tion to any current undergraduate college

students to participate in a question and answer fo-rum for high school seniors. We find this forum to be very informative for students planning to attend college. Any former CCS students interested in sharing his/her college experiences with our stu-dents is encouraged to contact the school. Parents, please share this information with your children in college. If your son or daughter is interested, please have him or her e-mail Ms. Evans at hevans@ccsknights.org or Mrs. Gillette at bgil-lette@ccsknights.org by December 6th. The forum will be held on Friday, January 17th at 1:30 p.m., while the college students are between semesters.

We have updated our website and we want YOU to check it out! On our website you can find valuable information such as links to current scholarships available, financial aid information, and a host of websites to research careers and colleges alike. So, go to the main page> Departments > Counseling Center to find Transcript Request forms, gradua-tion requirements, and much more. You’ll be glad you did!

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A ll parents of students in grades 6-12 are encour-aged to attend this informational program. It will

be held on Tuesday, January 14th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Instrumental Band Room. A financial advisor from Jefferson Community College will present an overview of financial aid and will also be available to answer any questions on applying for financial aid, who quali-fies, and what to look for, etc.

Financial Aid Forms: The Free Application for Fed-eral Student Aid (FAFSA) is required by all colleges and will be available online at www.fafsa.gov mid-December. Some colleges require additional financial aid forms, such as the CSS Profile. Students should check with the college to which they are applying to determine if they require such forms. Important things to remember:

FAFSA cannot be completed until after January 1, 2014;

Parents and students save your year-end payment stub if it shows your yearly earnings. You may need it for financial aid eligibility review by schools;

The FAFSA must be completed to receive need based aid and even to receive Federal Stafford Loans;

Financial Aid is mostly awarded based on need as determined by parents’ and students’ income.

Grants & Scholarships: Generally known as FREE MONEY! The federal government offers several grants based on financial need while most scholarships are from private organizations and colleges.

Work Study: Part-time work, arranged by your school, that helps to pay for college. You don’t need to repay the money you earn through work-study.

Student Loans: Money that can be make up the differ-ence between the cost of education and your other fi-nancial aid. Loans are available for students and par-ents.

O n December 9th, several instructors from the Howard G. Sackett Technical Center will

visit Copenhagen to meet with all sophomores in their Consumer and Financial Management (CFM) class. This presentation will introduce sophomores to the vocational programs offered at BOCES. In January, they will have the opportu-nity to visit the Technical Center to learn more about two programs. This spring, sophomores will need to decide whether they will choose to attend BOCES for a vocational program next year or stay at CCS for more college preparatory courses. The courses presently offered at the technical center are as follows:

Applied Business Technology;

Auto Body Technology;

Automotive Technology;

Business Computer Technology;

Carpentry;

Cosmetology;

Criminal Justice;

Culinary Arts;

Early Childhood Education;

Electrical Wiring Technology;

Forestry & Natural Resource Technology;

Gas & Diesel Mechanics;

Introduction to Health Occupations;

New Vision: Health Career Exploration (Seniors);

Small Animal Care

Visual Communications/Computer Art and Animation.

If you would like more information, please call Mrs. Gillette in the Counseling Center at 688-2573 or Linda Smith, Coordinator of Work Based Learning Programs at the Technical Center at 377-7300.

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Any students who are interested in retaking a Regents exam in January must let Mrs. Gil-lette know ASAP. High school classes will continue to be in session during the January Regents, which are being held on

Tuesday, January 27th through Thursday, January 30th.

Monday,

January 27

Tuesday,

January 28

Wednesday,

January 29

Thursday,

January 30

8:15 AM 8:15AM 8:15 AM 8:15AM

Living

Environment

RCT in

Global Studies

Global History & Geography

RCT in Writing

U.S.

History and Gov’t

Geometry

RCT in Science

Integrated Alge-bra

RCT in U. S.

History and Gov’t

12:15 PM 12:15 PM 12:15 PM

Comprehensive

English

Physical Set-ting/Physics

Algebra 2/

Trigonometry

RCT in

Mathematics

Physical Set-ting/Chemistry

Physical Set-ting/Earth Sci-

ence

RCT in Reading

January 2014 Regents Exam Schedule

The Copenhagen Central School Youth Advi-sory Council (YAC) would like to extend it warmest gratitude to the following individuals and companies for their donations made to sup-port the Backpack program (food and supply donations, monetary donations). Their contri-butions will be used to aid CCS families and school children with financial need, providing non-perishable food to be taken home each weekend. Without such support YAC would be unable to maintain this worthy program. Thank you!

Mary & Jenny Snyder

Judith Eisel

Carolyn Alberry

Mary Jane and Terrance Fleming (Memorial Donation in memory of Charlie Fanning and Helen Harmych Bowman)

Copenhagen Central School Staff

Car-Freshener Corporation

Fidelis Care (Chelsea Rowsam)

Lowville Lions Club

Carthage Federal Savings & Loan Associa-tion

T’s Embroidery & Screening & Printing

Designs By Knight!

Community Bank (c/o Lowville Branch)

Walmart (Lowville)

For more information about our Back-pack Program, contact Brigitte Gillette at the Copenhagen Central School Counseling Center at 688-2573.

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High Honor Roll

(94.5—100)

Grade 6: Morgan Smith

Grade 7: Alicia Berghorn, Adrianna Bodruk, Taylor Rids-dale, Emily Scholler, Alita White

Grade 8: Jalynne Granger

Grade 9: Drew Baker, Ashley Gardner, Cassandra Kunert, Brian Rice, Dylan Rose, Erica Sawyer, Maci Spaulding, Michaela Thomas, Hope Wood-ruff

Grade 10: Brandon Buckley, Sydney Greene, Emma Roberts, Claire Stackel, Nicole Tanner, Christie Thomas

Grade 11: Antonio Figueroa, Nicole Gardner, Emily Griffin, Ryan Smith

Grade 12: Sara Goutremout, Brandon Moser, Brianna Muncy, Carlo Tan-Alberto

Honor Roll

(89.5—94.4)

Grade 6: Olivia Buckley, Riley-Dalrymple, Mason Davis, Ke-yan Deom, Chelsey Hancock, Adam Hermanson, Joseph Johnston, Emma Spaulding, Drew Witham

Grade 7: Ean Allen, Olivia Aubin, Dempsey Carroll, Mor-gan Clarke, Tristan Cole, Madi-son Freeman, Roderic Galster, Logan Marcinko, Shania Mulder, Dakota Petrie, Samuel Robinson, Skylar Sowers, Aaron Tan-Alberto

Grade 8: Stephanie Aubin, Cody Buckley, Olivia Carroll, Emily Frith, Alexandra Greene, Kiersten Hancock, Zachary Herbert, Derek Micek, Caleb Moser, Spencer Strife, Lukas Sullivan, Hailey Tweedy, Jay-den Waugh

Grade 9: Eric Allen, Jenna Doolittle, Katlin Hayden, Daw-son Moser, Andrea Travis

Grade 10: Connor Eddy, Laura Graves, Isaac Widrick, Jordan Young

Grade 11: Kevin Carroll, Kris-tin Fleming, Harley Hancock, Breven Jacobs, Cory Moser, Ian Sawyer, Brooke Spaulding, Tessa Tanner

Grade 12: Marinda Allen, Abraham Gingerich, Christian Hamilton, Karlee Herzig, Samantha Kallen, Kelsey Pitts, Cheyenne Rose, Adam Wood-ruff

Merit Roll

(84.5—89.4)

Grade 6: Samantha Aubin, Shannon Aubin, Abbigail Carroll, Tucker Carroll,

Johnathan Fitzpatrick, Gun-nar Freeman, Joshua Gard-ner, Keegan Morrow, Shyla Rumble, Connor Staplin

Grade 7: Matthew Breyette, Courtney Micek, Brian Rich-ards, Levi Spinner, Taejon Turner, Jory Wood, Ashley Young

Grade 8: Katie Best, Jacob Graves, Logan Johnson, Sophia Martin, Skylar Muncy, Danielle Thomas, Sarah Wilder, Cody Zubrzy-cki

Grade 9: Erica Culver, Shane Cummings, Kylie Guyette, Katlyn Richards, Robyn Scraper, Dustin Sny-der, James Uhlinger

Grade 10: Haley Baisden, Madison Furgison, Olivia Morrow, Andrew Pierce, Klaire Sullivan, Alexis Trainham, Mackenzie Wheeler

Grade 11: Makenzie Carr, Damian Green, Ana Herrera, Brenden Jacobs, Justine Malbouf, Emily Si-pher, Mackenzie St.Louis, Samuel Williams

Grade 12: Nathaniel Aubin, Travis Clarke, Ashley Cran-dall, Reba Earle, Alicia Ev-ans, Summer Freeman, Kas-sandra Huerta– McDonald, Gregory Kunert, Chelsea Lortie, Jayna Mono, Chris-topher Thompson

Bi-County News

Several students in both band and chorus participated in the Fall Bi-County Festival in early November. Senior High Choral members were Sara Goutremout, Cheyenne Rose, Reba Earle, Emily Sipher, Nick Harris, and Christopher Thomp-son. Junior High Band mem-bers were Stephanie Aubin, clarinet; Tristan Cole, bass clari-net; Zach Herbert, tenor saxo-phone; and Ashley Young, clari-net. It was a fine performance for both groups!

Upcoming Music Depart-ment events include: Winter Band Concert, December 4th at 6:00 pm; Winter Choral Con-cert, December 11th at 6:00 pm; 2nd and 3rd Grade trip to see the Nutcracker Ballet, December 5th; and the Holiday Mall Perform-ance for choral and select instru-mental students, date TBA.

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Left to right: Reba Earle, Christopher Thompson, Emily Sipher and Sara Goutremout

Area All-State

Reba Earle, Christopher Thomp-son, Emily Sipher, and Sara Goutremout were selected to sing in the 2013 Zone 5 Area All-State

Concert which was held on No-vember 16. This select ensemble was made up of students from Jef-ferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties, chosen from NYSSMA solo scores.

Bi-County Band Members, left to right: Stephanie Aubin, Zachary Herbert, Tristan Cole and Ashley Young

Bi-County Choral Members, Sitting Cheyanne Rose, Standing left to right: Christopher Thompson, Reba Earle, Emily Sipher, Sara Goutremout and Nick Harris

right now, our teachers have been working very hard, many spending hours beyond the school day to pre-pare to teach our children. If you get a chance, send a thank you note or an email to your child's teacher letting them know how much you appreciate what they do for your child. Sometimes a little thanks goes a long way on a stressful day. :-)

* The next Community Book Group book is Free Range Kids, by Lenore Skenazy. We will be skipping the busy month of December but will meet again on Thursday, January 16 at 6 pm in the library.

* We are still getting to-gether on Tuesday mornings at 8 am to help teachers with prep work. We meet in the faculty room and appreciate any amount of time you can give.

*Date Change: Our regu-larly scheduled PTO meeting for December has been moved to No-vember 26 at 6 pm. We will focus mainly on planning and preparing for Evening with Santa.

Anytime you have ques-tions or would like to know more about the PTO or offer suggestions, feel free to contact any of our offi-cers or email copenhagen-pto@gmail.com.

Christina Petersen, President

Ashley Lee, Vice President

Sarah Parker, Acting Secretary

Shawna Johnston, Treasurer

Beckie Scholler, Teacher Rep

Wow! Thanks everyone for a fun Fall Festival. We had many wonderful volunteers and would like to thank Andrea Simmons and Copenhagen Carvers, Brittany De-nesha-Jackson and DBK for their generous donations of prizes for the Freaky Finger Food contest. If you didn't get a chance to see the freaky creations, trust me, they were FREAKY! Another thanks to Nikki MacDonald Photography for taking photos of our Mummy Mommies and families. We have so much creativity in our community! Be sure and check out the pictures on the Copenhagen PTO facebook page. While you're there, go ahead and like our page so you can get updates on all our events.

Once again, we had a great time bowling at Lewis Lanes. The owners are so generous. Our CCS families have some mad skills! Fu-ture pro bowlers in the mix? Thanks to Ashley Lee for organiz-ing and planning this event. Where can you find pictures of this event? The Copenhagen PTO facebook page!

Our annual Frozen Pie fundraiser was quite successful. The top selling class was the 1st Grade and our top sellers were Gavin Parker, 3rd Grade, Courtney Johns-ton, 4th Grade and Julia Richard-son, 1st Grade. We know that there a lot of fundraisers in our commu-nity and not everyone wants a fro-zen pie. We are deeply grateful for the support of the CCS community as we continue to help our school, teachers and students. Already this year we have been able to provide a portion of the meal at Back to School night, fund a field trip for 2nd graders to Windy Hollow Farm, provide funds for supplies for module implementation

(including 80 ELA modules and 35 math modules!), provide dinner for the cast of the Wizard of Oz during dress rehearsal, provide a meal for teachers during Parent/Teacher conference, give the faculty room a little face-lift, donate canned goods to the YAC backpack program, and will be funding a field trip for 2nd and 3rd graders to the Nutcracker Ballet, the annual Kindergarten field trip to the Christmas Tree Farm, buses for the Spanish and Art club students to attend an Art Show as well as a Spanish show at Syracuse Stage, buses for a K-5 field trip to Maple Ridge Snow Park and purchasing a video cam-era for the college level Video Pro-ductions class. We could not do any of this without your support. Our community is the heart of our PTO!

Evening with Santa is com-ing right up on Friday, December 13 from 6 pm - 8 pm. We are cur-rently accepting donations for our popular Copenhagen Community raffle basket. If you would like your business to be represented in the basket or if your business would like to donate its own basket, we would love to accommodate you. We are also taking reservations for vendor tables for the holiday gift shop. Students are able to purchase inexpensive gifts for their family and friends in the holiday shop. We will be accepting baked good dona-tions for the cake wheel on the night of Evening with Santa. For any Evening with Santa related questions, please contact Liz Hard-ing at

copenhagenmom@hotmail.com or Beckie Scholler at bscholler@ccsknights.org.

A final thought, with all of the changes occurring in education

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kitchen on October 24 from 5:00 to 9:30 p.m. to host the Lewis County School Food Service Association’s bi-annual meeting. (d) Request from Andrea Mercurio, Forester, NYS DEC, to use the cafeteria on Decem-ber 4th from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. for public meeting to present a draft of Unit Management Plan for Tug Hill

Approved the following substitutes: Kristine Baker, substitute teacher, substitute teaching assistant/aide; Austen LaBarge, substitute teacher, pending fingerprint clearance

Approved motion to allow Alexis LaBarge and Emma Roberts to par-ticipate as independent athletes on the Carthage Central Girls’ Track and Field Team in the spring of 2014.

Approved the appointment of Kim-berly Hayden and Sandy Sheitz to supervise the Fitness Room three nights per week, pending fingerprint clearance.

October 28, 2013 Regular Meeting

Approved previous minutes (September 23, 2013).

Approved Treasurer’s Report, War-rants and School Lunch Report

Accepted Revised Agenda

Approved second Reading of 4000 Board Policies and first reading of the 7000, 8000 and 9000 Board Policies

Approved request of Michelle Castor for maternity leave to commence De-cember 12 until January 31, 2014

Approved the following winter coach-ing staff: a. Girls Varsity Basketball – Natalie Scott; b. Girls Junior Varsity Basketball - Tamie Muncy; c. Girls Modified Basketball – Molly Curtis; d. Boys Varsity Bas-ketball – Scott Randall; e. Boys Junior Varsity Basketball – Logan Spaulding; f. Boys Modified Bas-ketball – Logan Spaulding; g. Var-sity Cheerleading – Jennifer Spaulding; h. Varsity Wrestling –

Neil Freeman; i. Modified Wres-tling – Gerald Snyder

Approved volunteer assistant coaches for wrestling: Ken Clarke and Victor Montalvo

Approved recommendations from the Committee on Special Education

Accepted the 2012—2013 school year Audit Report of Mr. Thomas Bowie, District External auditor of Bowers & Company, CPAs, PLLC

Approved Applications for Use of Facilities: (a) Request from Maren Farney for use of Guidance Office Conference Room on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 for SUNY Oswego EAD 695 Class Cohort Seminar; (b) Request from Tracy Gyoerkoe, Di-rector of Career, Technical, Adult & Continuing Education at Jefferson Lewis BOCES for use of the Library on 11/13, 3/12 and 4/23 for joint faculty meetings from 3:15 to 5:00

Request from Shelley Waugh School Lunch Manager, to use cafeteria and

Board Actions

The following are examples of how to stimulate discussion:

What is special about our fam-ily?

What’s a favorite family mem-ory?

What do you enjoy most about the holidays, and what you do not like about them?

What are your favorite holiday foods and why?

While holidays are often a time of joy and celebration, for many they can be a source of stress and anxiety.

Expectations about what should happen around the holidays can collide with the reality of what actually does happen, causing dis-appointment, anger, and sadness.

The holidays are the perfect time to develop your family rituals so that traditions are remembered by all family members with fond-ness and alleviate some stress. More importantly, children learn from family traditions.

Traditions help reinforce fam-ily values and beliefs.

For those in a divorce and step situation, realize that move-ment between homes is a part of life, especially during the holidays.

If this is your situation, let your children know that the good news about a holiday is that your kids get to celebrate with more people in their life, though it may seem like they get less time to spend with their core family. Holidays typically represent a time for for-giveness and new beginnings espe-cially for divorce and stepfamilies.

Get close and create a lov-ing atmosphere. Bake pies and cookies, or share eggnog and pop-corn by the fire. Shut off the T.V and Phones.

Tradition does not draw its power from a price tag, but from the sense of continuity.

As you prepare for the holi-days, engage in conversations that will connect family members.

Holiday Traditions Strengthen Family Ties, Sheryl Hutton, Student Assistance Counselor

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A Big Huge Thank You to Emily Griffin and Ashley Crandall for the great job they did on the new mural located across from the library. The two girls worked on it every day for about 3 weeks and did a wonderful job painting, as well as selecting excellent pieces of literature for their "Tree of Books". Be sure to take a closer look next time you are in the school building.

recommended by a student rep-resentative whose term of office is slated to end, and then ap-pointed to the Lewis County Youth Advisory Board by the Board of Legislators. In their capacity, the student representa-tives provide a youth perspec-tive, engage in discussions about issues facing our youth, conduct program monitoring, review funding applications, and ulti-mately make recommendations to fund future projects within

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STUDENT VOICE – ARTICLE

What’s wrong with our youth today? Maybe it’s how we as adults don’t seek the posi-tive side of that question by ask-ing, “What is right with youth today?” We often fail to see the great attributes of our youth be-cause it can sometimes be hid-den by an unhealthy emphasis on the negative. The commu-nity however, is blessed with youth serving in many capaci-ties. Take for instance the Lewis County Youth Bureau Advisory

Board. The following youth serve as student representatives for their respective schools on this board: Serena Vargulick and Ryan Rubenzahl (Lowville Academy), Gaelyn Bronson and Nathan DeSantis (South Lewis Central), Christian Hamilton and Antonio Figueroa (Copenhagen Central), Jesse Campbell (Harrisville Cen-tral), and Jake Ledoux (Beaver River Central). These students are se-lected by their schools and or

STUDENT VOICE – ARTICLE

Volume 51, Issue 4 Page 17 cles selected for publishing will credit the author and we would love to have a picture of the stu-dent to place with the column that will be in the Lowville Jour-nal & Republican. The published articles will also be posted on the Youth Bureau website at www.lewiscountyny.org/youth and on the Journal & Republi-can Face Book Page. Anony-mous articles are welcome as well. Please send submissions or general questions to the Youth Bureau at Penny.Demo@dfa.state.ny.us or

our community. In addition, these student representatives as-sist with various activities throughout the year such as Na-tional Night Out and the Home-less Christmas Tree initiative. Without the input offered from these students, we would lose the voice of youth in our deci-sion making. With that in mind, we all could benefit from hearing about what youth are struggling with today, or how they are contrib-uting to our community, or just what is on their minds. That’s the intent behind “The Student

(Continued from page 16) Voice”. The Student Voice is a weekly column that will be a collection of student-written lit-erature that highlights real-world challenges facing our youth to-day. We will showcase essays, fictional stories, awareness pro-jects, poems, or other variants of their choosing. Please check back weekly to delve into the minds of our youth. The col-umn will begin December 2013 and will run throughout the school year. If you are a young person and would like to contribute to The Student Voice, we invite you to submit an article. Arti-

Leadership Day, Mrs. Cathy Snyder, Director of Student Activities

David Garibaldi and a picture he painted during his performance.

Eighteen Junior and Senior class leaders went to Jefferson Community College on October 24th to attend Leadership Day.

What an amazing day they had with all the presenters, Frank Warren , PLAYFAIR and David Garibaldi! Here they are with

In crossover action, the girls played extremely tough against the larger opponents they faced. The girls also had a huge victory over Thousand Islands beating them 1-0. They also had great wins versus Sandy Creek, one of which included our “pink” game! The team saw that hard work can pay off! The girls showed much improvement this year in their trapping, moving with the ball, seeing the field, and communicat-ing. Team play, the will to im-prove themselves, and a little pride and heart can take a team a long way! I’m very proud of you girls!!!!!

Members of the team in-cluded sophomores, Laura Graves (captain), Olivia Morrow, Matilde Huerta-McDonald and Alexis Trainham. Ninth graders included Hope Woodruff (captain), Kylie Guyette (captain), Andrea Travis, Tiana Witham, Ashley Gardner, Cassandra Kunert, Katlyn Hayden and Hallie Freeman. Eight graders included Emily Frith and our goal-keeper, Kiersten Hancock. All showed improvement in their game and real heart! Thank you all girls!!!!!!

First, I would like to thank Michelle Castor, our assistant coach, and Jillann Micek, our goalie coach. I would like to thank Madison Trainham, Carlos Huerta-McDonald, Lucas Graves and Josh Gardner for their much needed help being ball people. You all put in a lot of time and effort. We appreciate you!

Modified Girls Soccer

Coach Cathy Snyder

The modified girl’s soccer team ended their season 3-3-5. With such a young and inexperi-enced squad the team worked very hard to improve their skills and knowledge. Several teams which we played against had ninth grad-ers and we would play with only 11 or 12 players so we had to be-come stronger, more determined and have lots of heart. It was al-ways an intense game with only allowing 5 goals during the season and scoring 6.

Our team was very strong in the center with Danielle Tho-mas, Olivia Carroll , Hailey Tweedy and Katie Best. They not only were the leaders but also the core unit which had flexibility to play each other’s position when needed. Being her first year in the goal, Taylor Ridsdale did a phe-nomenal job with spectacular saves. Madison Freeman and Ash-ley Dunakin grew stronger as de-fenders and always looked to go offensively. Sophie Martin, Gabby Goutermout, Courtney Micek, Brooke Snyder, Alicia Berghorn and Emily Scholler, each became physically stronger in passing, creating combinations and just the understanding of the game.

Thank you to our manag-ers Abbi Carroll and Charli Car-roll for all of your efforts at all of the games and practices. Your help in filling in for partners, chasing balls and putting up with all of us was stupendous.

Special thank you to Emily Sipher and Coach Jill Micek for all of the support at practices and games for without your help the team would not have grown to become the successful team it is.

I have enjoyed this team tremendously; they are very good to each other with positive rein-forcement and teaching each other the game of soccer. I will miss them all but I know that the future of Copenhagen soccer is still strong.

Also thank you to all of the parents and fans. The players and I greatly appreciate you taking time to come to our games and supporting us.

JV Girls Soccer

Coach Natalie Scott

The JV Girls Soccer Team had a learning season in 2013 add-ing many new faces to the squad. The girls had success even though they were young (4 sophomores, 8 freshman, and 2 eighth graders). The team’s overall record ended up 3-7. The team’s attitude was superb, their work ethic tremen-dous, and they found out that hard work can really pay off!

There was only one team in our division this year, Sackets Harbor. We played three hard fought battles against them, that all ended up with a 1 point deci-sion. All other games were played against bigger schools. The girls played a competitive game versus South Jefferson and came up a little short losing 2-1.

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into this past off-season. Time spent in the gym, in the weight room, and summer leagues really paid off for this group. I am proud of the way they played throughout the season and I look forward to working with the underclassmen in the future. Seniors Greg Kunert and Travis Clarke have left a posi-tive legacy on the program and we sincerely appreciate their efforts.

Thank you to assistant coaches Troy Buckley, Jill Micek, and Matt Hayden for your dedica-tion and hard work. Another thank you goes out to managers Drew Witham, Joe Johnson, and Tanion Jacobs, and scorekeeper Ken Clarke. I would like to ex-tend a special thank you to all par-ents and family members for your support throughout the season.

Modified Boys Soccer

Coach Gerald Snyder

What a wonderful and amazing season! As a coach, you always hope that the boys will buy into what you are teaching them and expecting them to learn and do. This year’s team was very young with little or no experience about soccer. None of the seventh graders had any field or team ex-perience. In the end, the boys put it all together and finished the sea-son with 10 wins and only one loss.

JD Uhlinger led the way with 10 goals; Dustin Snyder re-corded 6 shutouts in the goal; and Zach Herbert recorded a perfect 5

Lastly, thanks to our great fans/parents for their support this sea-son. Getting your children to and from practice and games was greatly appreciated!!! Seeing all of your positive support of our team helped us progress through-out the season. Thanks again!!!

Varsity Boys’ Soccer 2013

Coach Scott Randall

The Copenhagen Boys’ Varsity Soccer team finished their 2013 season with a record of 18-1. The boys had a notable season finishing 1st in the Frontier League regular season as well as 1st in the Frontier League Playoffs. The Golden Knights made it as far as 7th in the New York State Rank-ings. The team drew the 3rd seed in the Section 3 Tournament and won their First Round game against Madison with a score of 6-1. The Knights continued their winning ways in the Sectional Quarterfinals with a hard fought victory against a tough opponent in Blessed Virgin Mary. However the season ended with a semi-final loss to 2nd seeded IHC. Key wins came against league rival Alexan-dria in the first game of the season 3-1 and a 2-0 victory over “C” Division power Thousand Islands. The boys’ also crossed over to beat South Jefferson and perennial power Mt. Markham. The boys showed their resolve in the Mt. Markham game scoring in the fi-nal 10 seconds of regulation on a restart to win 1-0. The regular season was punctuated by beating

long time rival Lyme twice within one week to secure both the league and playoff champion-ships.

Team scoring was led by junior Frontier League All-Stars Brenden Jacobs (14 Goals, 15 As-sists) and Antonio Figueroa (12 Goals, 14 Assists). Sophomore Connor Eddy, who added 10 Goals and 1 Assist was also named as Frontier League All-Star, and Senior Travis Clarke (3 Goals, 3 Assists) and junior Garrett Munden (6 goals) were named Honorable Mention. The Golden Knights outscored oppo-nents 63-10 throughout the sea-son. Our goal at the beginning of the season was to only allow 10 goals. All-Star sophomore goal-keepers Brandon Buckley and Robbie Groff, who split time in the goal throughout the season helped the team post 11 shutouts. Other notables on defense in-cluded Senior Greg Kunert (5 Goals, 4 Assists) and Junior Bre-ven Jacobs (3 Goals, 5 Assists) receiving Frontier League All-Star. Other team members in-cluded:

Sam Williams Josh Snyder (3 Goals) Kevin Carroll (1 Goal) Cory Moser (3 Goals) Caleb Hatch (1 Goal) Ian Sawyer (1 Assist) Cody Buckley (2 Goals, 1 Assist)

This season’s successes can be attributed to the hard work and dedication that the boys put

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teer Assistant, for a great job. It made my job a lot easier knowing that I could count on him. To all the parents and fans, you may not think much about it but your sup-port means more to the soccer players and coaches than you will ever know.

penalty shots. The rest of the team played great team ball mov-ing the ball very well on offense and stopping the other team defen-sively, allowing only 6 goals all season while making 25 goals for themselves.

As a coach, I was very pleased and proud of each and every soccer player on the team—the way they played, the good sportsmanship they displayed and the way they played team ball.

A big thank you goes to Mr. Herbert, my District Volun-

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Varsity Girls Soccer

Coach Katherine Stackel

Congratulations to the Varsity Girls’ Soccer Team on a very successful season finishing with an over-all record of 18-1. The team captured first place in the Frontier League and won the D Division Tournament with wins over Alex Bay and Lyme. In sectional play, the girls defeated Stockbridge Valley 6-0 and Remsen 2-1 to advance to the Class D Section III Finals. The season ended with a 4-2 loss to Poland in the finals. The team was awarded the NYPHSAA Scholar Athlete Award for exceptional performance in the classroom.

Over the course of the season, the team scored 104 total goals, allowed 16 goals, and recorded 9 shut-outs in 19 games. All in all, it was a great season full of many memories.

The following players were selected as Frontier League All-Stars: Emma Roberts, Claire Stackel, Brooke Spaulding, Christie Thomas, Lexie LaBarge, Morgan Moore, and Maci Spaulding. Alicia Evans was named Honorable Mention. Midfielders Emma Roberts and Claire Stackel were named as Section III Class D All–Stars. Claire Stackel was named the NSCAA/TDS National High School Player of the Week and cho-sen as the Watertown Savings Bank Athlete of the Week.

The team would like to thank Logan Spaulding for serving as volunteer assistant throughout the sea-son. Renee Eisel did a great job keeping score and supporting the team. Special thanks to our four managers: Brooke and Aubree Smykla and Meaghen and Alyssa Fitzpatrick. Good luck to senior Alicia Evans.

Player Goals Assists Points Saves Goals On Save %

Drew Baker 1 3 4 --- --- ---

Alicia Evans 11 8 19 --- --- ---

Nicole Gardner 2 0 2 --- --- ---

Lexie Greene 6 5 11 --- --- ---

Sydney Greene 1 4 5

Lexie LaBarge 0 2 2 --- --- ---

Morgan Moore 0 2 2 --- --- ---

Emma Roberts 18 22 40 --- --- ---

Brooke Spaulding 7 3 10 11 3 0.786

Maci Spaulding 10 6 16 --- --- ---

Claire Stackel 48 28 76 --- --- ---

Mackenzie Wheeler --- --- --- 54 13 0.806

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Team Date Opponent Location Time

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 2, 2013 General Brown Central @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Modified Wrestling December 3, 2013 South Jefferson Central @ South Jeff 5:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 3, 2013 Belleville Henderson Central @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling December 4, 2013 Immaculate Heart Central @ IHC 7:00 p.m.

JV & V Boys Basketball December 5, 2013 LaFargeville Central School @ LaFargeville 6:00 p.m.

JV & V Girls Basketball December 6, 2013 LaFargeville Central School @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling December 6, 2013 Columbia Duels @ Columbia Duels 4:00 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling December 7, 2013 Columbia Dues @ Columbia Duels 9:30 a.m.

Modified Wrestling December 7, 2013 Lowville Academy & Central @ Lowville 10:00 a.m.

JV & V Boys Basketball December 7, 2013 Alexandria Central School @ Alex Bay 1:00 p.m.

Modified Wrestling December 9, 2013 Beaver River, Carthage, Lowville, South Lewis

@ Copenhagen 5:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 10, 2013 Sackets Harbor Central School @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 10, 2013 Sackets Harbor Central School @ Sackets 6:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 12, 2013 Lyme Central School @ Lyme 6:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 12, 2013 Lyme Central School @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Modified Wrestling December 14, 2013 Beaver River Central School @ Beaver River 10:00 a.m.

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 14, 2013 Alexandria Central School @ Copenhagen 11:00 a.m.

JV& Varsity Girls Basketball December 16, 2013 Beaver River Central School @ Beaver River 6:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 17, 2013 Beaver River Central School @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Modified Wrestling December 18, 2013 South Lewis Central School @ South Lewis 5:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 19, 2013 Thousand Islands Central School @ Copenhagen 6:00 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling December 19, 2013 General Brown Central School @ General Brown 6:00 p.m.

Modified Wrestling December 20, 2013 General Brown Central School @ General Brown 5:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 20, 2013 Thousand Islands Central School @ Thousand Islands 6:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Girls Basketball December 27, 2013 South Lewis Central School @ Copenhagen 1:00 p.m.

JV & Varsity Boys Basketball December 27, 2013 South Lewis Central School @ Copenhagen 2:30 p.m.

Varsity Wrestling December 28, 2013 Lewis County Duels @ South Lewis 10:00 a.m. All Day

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Holiday musical presen-tations by the Copenhagen Central Music Department will add to a festive day. We also want to thank the art depart-ment for making holiday place mats and centerpieces. For res-ervations, call school at 688-4411 by Friday, December 13.

Christmas dinner will be served to our school district’s very special senior citizens on Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at Copenhagen Central School. Punch will be served from 12:30 to 12:45 with guests seated for a delicious holiday dinner at 12:45.

Please indicate if you would like a ride to school on that day. See you on Wednesday, the 18th!

For your convenience, you are requested to park in the back parking lot and enter through the double doors by the dumpster.

Senior Citizens are Invited for Christmas Dinner

Hometown Christmas Parade

The Copenhagen Volunteer Fire Department will once again sponsor a Christmas Parade on Sunday, December 1st, starting promptly at 2:00 p.m. The parade will line up on Washington Street, pass the gazebo and proceed to the Copenhagen Fire Hall. Following the parade, there will be refreshments at the fire hall and an opportunity to visit with Santa Claus.

2013 Memory Tree

The Copenhagen Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary will sponsor a Memory Tree. If you would like to purchase a memory bulb in memory or in honor of a loved one, please write Mrs. Pat Wheeler (P.O. Box 99, Copenhagen) or call 688-4440. Memory bulbs cost $1.00 each. The Memory Tree, which will be located at the Village Bandstand, will be lit on Sunday, December 1st. The names will be posted at the Fire Hall following the parade on December 1st. The monies collected for the Memory Lights are used to purchase and maintain the holiday lights in the village as well as the summertime banners that welcome people to our community. Please light a bulb on the Christmas Tree in Memory of: __________________________________________________________

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