Happenings

The Saint Rose Academy

Mock Trial team is now

preparing for the upcoming

competition that will take

place in January.

The students meet once a

week to practice.

A second year member of

mock trial, Patrick Ryan

explained that the teams

receives a case and has a

few months to prepare for

the actual competition.

Students prepare to

compete as defense or

prosecution attorneys or as

witnesses.

Eventually the mock

Mock Trial Team

According to the

website of the

Pennsylvania

Department of

Conservation and

Natural Resources,

“Watershed Education is

an educational program

for students and teachers

… It promotes classroom

and field research, as

well as hands-on

ecological investigations,

in an effort to produce

environmentally literate

citizens.”

Science teacher, Mr.

Andrew Genovese directs

the Watershed Program for

St. Rose Academy.

The purpose of watershed

is to get students involved

in their environment.

At the beginning of the

2009-2010 school year,

Mrs. Fonash, English and

journalism teacher at St.

Rose Academy High

School, created the St. Rose

Academy library for the

students to have an

opportunity to expand their

minds outside of the

classroom.

Some work on the library

was begun during the

summer. Senior Joe

Marchese helped to carry in

bookcases and books.

Amanda Marchese helped

to sort books. St. Rose

Academy staff members

helped to transfer larger

bookcases and tables.

Mr. Imbalzano arranged

the acquisition of two

computer stations.

Located in the former

Main Office, the library has

had many books donated.

trial team competes against

other schools to see which

team presents the case more

efficiently.

An actual judge hears the

cases and actual attorneys

work with the teams.

The competition takes

CANDICE TOMSKY, BIANCA CARLSON,NINA SHAYKA, AND JOSEPH MARCHESE

place at the Federal Court

House in Scranton or the

County Court House.

Attorney Joe Sileo assists

the St. Rose Academy team.

Social studies teacher Mr.

Tim Micek is the club

advisor.

For the 2009 – 2010

basketball season, Saint

Rose has acquired a new

gym for practices as well as

a new gym for home games.

For practices the boys’

and girls’ teams travel just

down the road from the

Saint Rose Academy

campus to Racqueteers

Fitness and Health which is

located on Route 6 in

Mayfield.

“We switched to

Raqueteers because it is

right down the road from

Saint Rose. When we

practiced and played at

City students had to drive

down there every day and it

was too much of a hassle,”

said Joe Walsh, Saint Rose

Academy’s Athletic

Director.

As for home games,

Saint Rose will be playing

at Camp Ladore which is

located in Waymart. Camp

Ladore is a retreat and

conference center that is run

and maintained by the

Salvation Army.

The reasoning behind

practicing at Raqueteer’s

and playing games at Camp

Ladore is because the gym

at Raqueteer’s is not a full

sized gym, whereas the

gym at Ladore is regulation

size.

Because Camp Ladore is

nearby in Waymart, players

will drive themselves to

home games this year, just

as they had before to all

home games at Hoop City.

As for away games bus

transportation will be

provided for the basketball

teams and cheerleaders.

Saint Rose seems to be

gaining many new things

this year for athletics, such

as two new coaches and

two new gyms.

Saint Rose Academy acquires new gymnasium

BY JACKIE CULOTTA

Ms. Urzo, religion

teacher at Saint Rose

Academy, is not only

helping students learn in the

classroom, but she is also

trying to make a difference

in the community.

Ms. Urzo is quite busy

trying to help others.

She has organized many

events including a coat

drive, a sock drive, the

living rosary, and the

cemetery cleanup.

The coat drive was a huge

success according to Ms.

Urzo. The coats were

collected in the months of

November and December.

Catholic Social Services

was the organization

through which Saint Rose

Academy sponsored the

coat drive.

Ms. Urzo also enlisted

the help of Saint Rose

Academy students to

present The Living Rosary.

This event took place on the

evening of October 2, 2009.

Both the Service Club and

the Spiritual Life

Committee coordinated

this ceremony.

Members of these clubs

carved pumpkins and

created a bonfire to make

the

Students anymore, don't

understand the importance

of what’s going on in the

environment. That is where

watershed comes in: to

make students aware of the

dangers causing problems

in the environment.

Mr. Genovese thinks that

the Watershed Education

Program is a necessary

program because it takes

students out of the

classroom and gets them

involved in learning hands–

on.

Watershed includes

things like planting trees,

testing water, and visiting

the coal mines.

Schools from many area

schools are involved in

watershed, including Valley

View, Mountain View, Old

Forge, and Riverside.

Students from grades 9– 12

can be involved with

watershed and there is a

separate program for grades

7– 8 involving “Building

Connections.”

Alissa Wahlers, a

sophomore, is one of the

students involved in

Watershed. Alissa has had

superb experiences such as

learning about windmills

and how they help the

environment.

She has visited water and

sewage treatment plants,

and she has also observed

hawks.

Alissa finds watershed

important because of the

many interesting things she

learns.

The Parents Club

provided assistance through

a gift card to Barnes and

Noble.

Kim Shinners and Pam

Robertson, owners of EJB

Publishing Services have

also donated new, up-to-

date reference books

including Bloom’s critical

reference collections.

The Library Club and

the Introduction to

Research

class have been diligently

working on cataloging the

collections according to the

Dewey Decimal System

and labeling the books.

Library Club members

include Amanda Marchese,

Kelsey Taylor, Jaclyn

Risboskin, and Crystal

Yaskulski.

LIBRARY CLUB MEMBERS: CRYSTAL YASKULSKI, KELSEY TAYLOR, JACLYN RISBOSKIN, AND ARIANNA

COLLINS

ceremony come alive.

November is a time to

remember the dead so when

Ms. Urzo overheard a few

students talking about a

cemetery cleanup, she

thought that it would be a

perfect service opportunity.

On December 5, 2009,

Saint Rose Academy

students traveled with Ms.

Urzo to the Maplewood

Cemetery in Carbondale.

Through this project,

service club members

provided assistance to the

Lacka

wanna County Historical

Society.

Ms. Urzo and other

students also helped with

the Carbondale Christmas

Parade.

Recently, Ms. Urzo

worked with students in her

classes to prepare and

present Advent ceremonies

every Monday during

Advent.

The Advent season is a

time during which

Catholics prepare for

Christmas.

Each week each class,

grades 7 through 12, led the

rest of the student body in

song and prayer. The

traditional lighting of the

candles on the Advent

Wreath was also a part of

the ceremony.

So for whoever thought

religion was only about

reading the bible, think

again because Ms. Jasmine

Urzo makes it about so

much more.

She is actually showing

students how to make a

difference in their own

community.

BY ZACH WHITE

Ms. Urzo inspires students to accomplish many things

Watershed makes students aware of the environment

Miss Jasmine Urzo

BY NINA SHAYKA

BY JACKIE CULOTTA

Library Club is organized