April 25, 2013

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Upcoming Events

April 25—JFB Kindergarten Musical, 6 p.m. and 7:15

p.m.

April 25—KHS Community Service Night, 5-8 p.m. at

the high school.

April 29-May 8—3-8 Grade Ohio Achievement As-

sessments.

May 4—KHS Prom 5 p.m, After Prom 11:30 p.m.

May 4—Kings Kloset, 9-11 a.m, KEC

May 20—SLE Stewardship Fair, 5-8 p.m., SLE Cafete-

ria

May 21—Board of Education Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at

KEC

May 26-Graduation 1pm Cintas Center

More event information can be found at: http://www.kingslocal.net/Calendar/Pages/default.aspx

Kings High School Announces the Class of 2013 Valedictorian and Co-Salutatorian

Congratulations to Kings Bus Driver Bob Elfers who was recently

awarded the 2012 NX Values Award, sponsored by the National Ex-

press Corporation which is the company that supports Petermann,

Kings school bus provider. The award is intended for someone who

goes above and beyond what is needed as a bus driver. Bob was nom-

inated by Sharon Earnhart, Kings Transportation Manager. Bob drives

a special needs bus. Two parents on his run are going through bouts of cancer. Bob goes out

of his way to help a dad and a young mother by going to the door to pick up the children. He

has taken the family food and visited one of the parents in the hospital. Earnhart said, “Bob

is helpful with his special needs students and their families.” Bob has had some health issues

of his own, keeping him from traveling to England to accept his award. But through it all, he

has still continued to work and worry about others before himself.

Congratulations to Kings

High School’s Valedictorian

Claire Sadowski and Co-

Salutatorians Matthew

Drew and Chris Koloseike.

Click here for the full story.

Bus Driver Bob Elfers wins Special Award

SLE PTO /Reds Fund-

raiser

Join SLE PTO at the

2nd annual Cincinnati

Reds fundraising game

on Sunday, May 12th at

1:10 p.m. Tickets for the

Sun/Moon Deck section

are priced at 34% below

regular price. We invite

everyone within the

Kings Community to

join us for this fun after-

noon to show school

spirit & cheer on the

Reds! Orders/

payments received on

or before April 25th will

be guaranteed seats

within the section re-

served for Kings Com-

munity. For more infor-

mation click here.

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Kerry Wood from the William Howard Taft Home and

National Park visited the Second Grade classes at

South Lebanon Elementary last week. The children

learned how William Howard Taft and his siblings

spent their family recreations growing up in Mount

Auburn during the 1850’s time period. He explained to

the students how Taft and his family valued the simple

things in life from reading Aesop’s Fables, and playing

with old wooden toys to strong family values displayed

to him that would lead him to become a very im-

portant figure in American History.

Kindergarten Registration 2013-2014

It’s not too late to register for Kindergarten for the 2013-14

school year. Walk ins are accepted at the Kings Education Center,

1797 King Ave between 8:30-11:00am Monday thru Friday. Your

child must turn 5-years old on or before Sept. 30, 2013, in order to

register. Parents will be able to enroll for either full day or half day

Kindergarten programs. It is not required to bring your child to

registration. Packets are available online at www.kingslocal.net

under Student Registration.

Also, please note that if you need to change your address with the

school, you must make an appointment to see Central Registrar

Tammy Schnetzer. Contact her at 459-2932.

Students moving into either 7th or 8th grade next school

year will have the opportunity to purchase all of their school

supplies online through the Staples SchoolKidz program.

Supplies will be delivered to each student during schedule

pick-up night on Thursday, August

15th., just in time for next school

year! To learn more about it click

here. Contact KJH PTO President,

Mr. Dirk Doebereiner at

dirkd@fuse.net.

Help your student keep those memories sharp by buying a 2012-13 Kings High School Yearbook. For only $75 your student will have a book that will be enjoyed now, and 20, 30 or even 50 years from now. You also can make the yearbook extra special by purchasing namestamping and a protective plastic cover. It’s easy to order! Buy online at www.yearbookforever.com and enter the school name. Parents of seniors will also have the opportunity to buy a personal ad in the book. Imagine your son or daughter’s surprise when they open the yearbook and see their own baby photo and special message from you. Or honor the seniors of that special team, sport, or activity with a photo and message they will never forget. The last day to buy a Yearbook is TOMORROW, Friday April 26th. Order now, so your student won’t miss out when the yearbook is distributed in the Fall of 2013. Seniors who have graduated will have their books mailed home to the official address on record at Kings.

Toys, Tots and Tafts

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Seniors Zoe Rodriguez, Kelly Madison, and Emily Douglass entered the VANS

Custom Culture competition this year. They designed and created a pair of

custom Vans for each of the 4 categories, Art, Music, Action Sports, and Local

Flavor. Once they completed the shoes, they photographed their shoes and

uploaded them to be judged. Then, VANS had their judges narrow down the

submissions from the original 1000 to the top 50, 10 from each of 5 regions.

The grand prize winner will receive $50,000 and each runner up will receive

$4,000 for their school’s art program. Kings is in the top 50 for the SECOND

year in a row. Voting has started and will continue until May 13th. Only one

vote per IP address is allowed. Click here to vote. The shoes will be on display

in the display cases in the main hallway at KHS to check out! Let’s help Kings

win this. VOTE today!

Kings Junior High School music stu-dents participated in Solo and En-semble held at Clinton Massie Elementary School on Saturday, April 13. Students re-ceived Superior and Excellent rat-ings. Congratula-tions to all who participated!

Back row: Zach Groome, Nathan Frey, Ethan Cain, Ryan Hunt, Haley McCrory. Julliana Powers Middle row: Grace Nunns, Kortney Sayer, Eric Spicer, Erin Ryan, Morgan Reece, Tabitha Song Front row: Faith Shield, Adam Nunez, Nicholas Braun, Kyle Ward, Shannon Sullivan, Adrea Montenegro Not pictured: Emily Poole

KJH Singers

KHS Seniors Finalists In VANS Shoe Company Competition

Please spread the word! Mildred Boyce, JFB’s resident volunteer gardener, has applied for a grant

opportunity to expand JFB’s garden. We need as many votes as possible to help increase our chances

of winning!

Click the following link: https://www.facebook.com/seedsofchange/app_589705354373524 and “like”

the “Seeds of Change, Share the Good” Facebook page, enter 45039 as the zip code for our garden,

and select “Grandma Millie’s Garden” to vote for JFB! You can vote once a day until 5/17/13.

Grandma Millie's Garden would benefit greatly from tools such as a greenhouse, worm beds, grow lights, plant supports and

labels, compost tumblers, grow bed liners, a drip system, heavy-duty sprinklers, shovels, hoes, spades, garden forks, wheel-

barrows, materials for building raised beds, a rototiller, plants, natural fertilizers and top soil, utility buckets, and work gloves

for adults and children. An outbuilding for storage would be a dream come true with the addition of the above. A grant would

help to achieve these goals.

Vote For JF Burns’ Grandma Millie’s Garden!

Approximately 40 of KHS Art

Club students have painted

flower pots for the 2nd An-

nual Sowing the Seeds of

Hope to benefit the Pink

Ribbon Girls. The pots will be included in a giant

“Living Ribbon” filled with pink and blue flowers

to honor and remember those whose lives have

been touched by breast and ovarian cancer. The

event will take place this Saturday and Sunday at

Robben Florist and Garden Center, 352 Pedretti

Road in Cincinnati. Saturday’s event will include

an educational day with gardening seminars and

how to grow your own herbs. The Jewish Hospi-

tal Mammography van will be at the center from

10-2. For more infor-

mation click here.

Pictured is a flower

pot painted by KHS

Senior Sam Marner.

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Prom Letter

Prom Information

Prom Forms

Guest Request

After Prom Tickets

After Prom

tickets on

sale NOW!

What: The PARTY! – After the Prom

When: May 4, 2013 11:30 pm to 5:00

am

Where: Kings High School

Who: For KHS Seniors, Juniors and their Guest

Cost: $20 per student (includes food, entertainment & raffles)

Tickets on sale during lunch April 15th-19th with last chance ticket

sales on April 22nd.

o Don’t bring purses, backpacks, money, etc. you won’t need them.

o Students must arrive by 12:00 a.m. or parents will be notified.

o If students want to leave early, parents will be notified.

o Each student and their parents are required to fill out the form

below when buying an After Prom ticket (this includes guest for the

evening).

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The Kings Varsity Baseball Team will play in the third annual Trinity

Diamond Classic on Friday, April 26th against Mason High School at

the Prasco Park Baseball Complex with the first pitch being thrown

at 6:30 p.m. This is

our annual youth

night and we would

love to see the

Kings Community

come out to sup-

port the Varsity

Baseball Team on

this evening. Let’s

jam the stands with

Knights’ fans. It is

free admission and

there will be inflat-

ables, ice cream,

and a great base-

ball game for the

whole family to en-

joy at the beautiful

baseball complex

at Prasco Park.

Congratulations to Juniors Anna Ventre and

Kailynn Clark, who have both recently be se-

lected as one of the Top 20 Finalists for the

2013 Congressional Art competition. They were

selected out of over 135 pieces from high

schools in Hamilton and Warren Counties.

Now the voting goes to the public. These art-

ists need your help. Click here to vote for their

work at the bottom of the page. (#15 & #16)

Voting is open until April 26th. The winners will

be announced at a ceremony at Cincinnati Mu-

seum Center in May.

First Place: Artwork will hang in the U.S. Capi-

tol, along with pieces from students around the

country, for one year and invitation to the Na-

tional Winners’ Reception in Washington D.C.

for the First Place winning artist and one guest.

Second Place: Artwork will hang in Congress-

man Chabot’s D.C. office for one year.

Third Place: Artwork will hang in Congressman

Chabot’s Cincinnati office for one year.

Fourth Place: Artwork will hang in Congress-

There will be a Parent Meeting held on May 8 at

4:45pm at Cincinnati Golf Center on Columbia

Road.. Coach Fruhwirth will be handing out

next year’s schedule and other information for

the Fall. Hope to see you there!

SLE’s first graders recently participated

in Boonshoft Museum’s Exhibits To Go

program called “Slimy Science”. The

students learned first-hand about the

scientific method. They had the oppor-

tunity to participate in two experi-

ments. Here, the students made poly-

mers from glue and borax and were

taught to identify chemical and physi-

cal changes. Everyone was able to take

home a gooey sample of slime!

Boonshoft Museum Visits SLE

Students in Kristen Beckett’s class play with slime.

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All Proceeds benefit the American Heart Association

Kings Men’s Lacrosse “Red Out”

Jam the Stands to show your support for Kings

Lacrosse and the American Heart Association

Kings Knights vs Wyoming CowboysFriday, April 26th @ Kings Stadium

JV Face off 6:00 pmVarsity Face off @ 7:30 pm

Tee shirts are on sale at the High School or at the gate for $10

All fans purchasing a tee shirt will receive $2 off of the price of admission

For more registration forms and more information

Laffalot Summer Camp at Columbia click here.

The Kings High School Baseball Team participated

in the Red’s Futures Showcase Parade at the Great

American Ballpark last Sunday.

The Christian Howes Trio came to Kings Junior High this week to work with the

7th and 8th Grade Orchestra under the direction of KJH Orchestra Teacher, Rana

Southern. Howes, a former Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music,

has helped thousands of string players improvise, compose, and jam in fiddle

styles, jazz, blues, rock, and more. The students had the opportunity to learn and

play along with Mr. Howes. He showed them how to compose melodies and

bass lines, and how to improvise into bluegrass, reggae, waltz, rock and classical

styles.

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SLE Celebrates Earth Day

As an Earth Day project, third grade families from Mrs. Mur-

phy and Mrs. Blount’s classes at South Lebanon Elementary

have been working on creating a “Trash Robot” out of mate-

rials that can be recycled. Each robot was also to have a

special power that would promote world-wide recycling and

would help keep the Earth clean and green.

For 13 years, the EClub from South Lebanon Elementary has

been working hard making a difference for our environment.

Their efforts were recognized last Saturday at the Earth Day

Festivities at Sawyer Point. They were awarded the 2013

Student Environmental Award from the Greater Cincinnati

Earth Coalition (GCEC) . Matt Carter from the GCEC said,

“The competition was tough but the EClub’s work, passion,

and the commitment to the environment put them on top.”

This was the first time the GCEC has given the award to a

student group versus an individual. To learn more about the

GCEC click here.

SLE EClub wins Environmental Award

Members of SLE’s EClub with their award.

This spring, the South Lebanon Elementary Environmental Club will begin to focus their after school meetings and efforts

toward environmental stewardship in our community. They will be launching this focus through a screening of the docu-

mentary, What’s On Your Plate. This documentary follows two young girls, their families and their community engagement

campaign about kids and food politics.

In addition to the screening, they will be hosting an SLE Environmental Stewardship Fair. Their goal is to promote innova-

tive sustainable food system practices and how to make healthy local eating a priority for our families. The SLE Steward-

ship Fair will be established as a public viewing event. During the fair, families will be able to discuss with local company/

business owners how they have made a positive impact on influencing our community to think about what they’re eating

and where it comes from. There will also be hands on activities for the students to partake in, such as composting practice,

planting vegetable seeds to take home, and recognizing ingredients in food labels. There will be local businesses at the Fair

including Whole Foods, Wildflower Café, Warren County Soil and Water District, and Eddie Merlot’s with Veggie U, just to

name a few. There will also be an environmentally friendly raffle with items that promote the club’s ideals. All of the mon-

ey raised will go toward the development of our Outdoor Classroom, in partnership with the Kohl’s Cares program. The

hope is to break ground on this project at the end of this school year. Mark your calendar for Monday, May 20th from 5-8

p.m. in the SLE Cafeteria.

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Summer is just a few short months away! Start

thinking about what Sports Camps your children

might want to attend this year. Click the link below

for more information on the KABC Sports Camps.

Your kids can play football, bowling, baseball, soc-

cer, golf, lacrosse, and so much more!

KABC Sports Camps Brochure

Kings Kids Summer Camp Now Registering

Kings Kids offers a fun-filled Summer Camp Program for ages Preschool through 6th grade. This year Summer Camp is June 4 to August 16. This is an all-day program offered 5 days a week at the Kings Education Center.

Activities are planned around weekly themes. Curriculum includes unique age appropriate games and crafts to go along with each theme. Additional enrichment activities are planned including special visitors, museum outreach programs, zoo programs and

lots of field trips! In addition, Tuesdays are Beach Waterpark day for grades K-6th.

Registrations may be turned in at the Kings Kids Office located in the Kings Education Center. Information about this popular program is available at www.kingslocal.net under Departments/Preschool-Childcare. For additional information, call 398-8050

ext. 10040.

Attention bowling fans:

Need a fun way to start your summer break? Come to the Kings Bowling Camp. Be sure to check out the Kings Athletic website to register for summer bowling camp. All students grades 7-12 BOYS AND GIRLS are welcome to attend. Camp will be June 4-7 from 1-3 at Loveland Lanes. Grab a friend and plan on attending. Don’t miss out on the fun!! Questions? Contact Coach John Karabinus at Kings Junior High.

1797 King Ave. PO Box 910 Kings Mills , Ohio 45034

Kings Local School District

Dawn Gould Community Relations Coordinator Phone: 513.398.8050 ext. 10014 Fax: 513.229.7590 E-mail: dgould@kingslocal.net

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KEA Seeking Donations for Upcoming Silent Auction

Every year the Kings Education Association hosts a Banquet and Silent Auction

Fundraiser to raise money for their Kings Education Association Future Teacher

Scholarship. For the last 10 years this $750 scholarship has been awarded to a Kings

High School graduating senior who plans on entering the field of education.

The KEA still needs donations for the silent auction on May 10. The KEA is looking

for donations of gift cards, experiences, or items that can be auctioned off to Kings

staff. They are also accepting talent donations (piano lessons, swim lessons, pho-

tography sessions, etc.). If you or someone you know would like to make a dona-

tion, please contact Sheridan Pagan at 398-8050 ext. 15054 or

spagan@kingslocal.net.

The Miami Valley Tech Prep Consortium works with 51 area high

schools to create seamless career-technical educations programs that

begin in the junior year of high school and continue through an associ-

ate degree in college and beyond. Every year, students compete in the

Sinclair Tech Prep Showcase. Students develop contextual learning

projects based on the skills and knowledge they have gained in their

Tech Prep classes. The Showcase provide students with the oppor-

tunity to network with other consortium students and to interact with

judges from the business, industry, and labor. This year, KHS students

in Mr. Holtrey’s IT Program competed in the Showcase. The team of

Paul Koerbel, Paul Beeson, Christian Rosiak, and Tyler Patterson won

First Place in the IT division. The team of Collin Cooper, Jeff Martin,

and Jordan Rubinstein-Towler were Runner-Ups in the Media Arts

division. Congratulations on a job well done!

KHS Tech Prep Showcase Winners