Good morning, Talawanda! Today is Monday, August 27, 2018
Students interested in Mock Trail: There will be a brief informational meeting in room 417 after school on Wednesday, August 29th immediately after school. If you cannot attend, see Mrs. Weatherwax for details.
Are you interested in learning more on how to write college essays? Come to the College Essay Workshop on Monday, September 10th, after school. starting 2:30 and ending at 4. There will be admission representatives from Miami University and the University of Cincinnati to provide you feedback on your essay.
Do you enjoy helping in the community? Or are you looking for a way to become more involved? Or even just looking for service hours? If so, join the Talawanda Key Club. We do many service projects throughout the year and will be holding our first meeting today right after school in Mr. Ruther’s room, 423. Come and learn about the club and meet the officers.
Do you have old books from when you were younger that you don’t read anymore? Donate them to the district wide book drive sponsored by the Butler Tech/Talawanda FCCLA Chapter. Anyone from any of these schools can donate. You can drop the books off to any of the Talawanda School’s Main Offices, in the designated boxes! The Book Drive will start today and run until September 7th! All of the books will go to our local Children’s Hospitals. If you have any questions feel free to ask Braelynn Wagers, Hannah Cress or Mrs. Gregory in room 611.
The drama club will be having an informational meeting after school on September 6 in the THS Performing Arts Center. Anyone who is interested in seeing what goes in to the fall play both onstage and backstage should come and see what drama is all about. If you cannot make it to the meeting and still want to audition, they will be there after school on September 11. If you have any other questions, please see Ms. Hudson or Mr. Steffen in room 317.
Anyone who would like to join Best Buddies this school year should plan to come to an informational meeting on Tuesday, August 28 right after school in Room 316. The meeting is a great way to learn more about the club and register for this year. Members from last year should plan to attend too!
Setting Stone will meet today, after school, in Mr. Areni’s room. If you are interested in being a part of Talawanda’s award-winning literary-art magazine, or of the Coffee Houses held throughout the year or just want to see what this club is all about, come out to today’s meeting!
Diversity Club is having our first meeting on Tuesday after school until 3:20 in room 312. We invite everyone interested to stop by to eat some snacks and discuss how we can make THS more inclusive this year!
And now for world news and then Patty G with sports.
For the first time since 2014, the Talawanda Braves football team is 1-0 following a 34-12 win over Preble Shawnee on Friday night. Adam Crank threw for 81 yards and rushed 139. Terrell Wills rushed 129 yards, and Tyler Prater received for 42. The Braves had 21 first downs as a team. It is great news for our football team that has worked so hard to improve over the summer, so this is great to see. The next game is at Badin at Hamilton High School on Friday, and of course we’ll get you all set up for that matchup on Thursday.
In other sports news, the Braves Cross Country team kicked off their season with an outstanding showing at the braves Invitational on Saturday. The girls team won the meet and the boys earned a second place trophy. For the girls, Maddy Iden placed 3rd, Libby Farmer in 4th, and hannah Lippincott in 5th, rounding out the top runners. Also breaking a personal record in their first race of the season was: Eva Motta, Zoe Morre, Brooke Hubbard, Alyssa Chaney, Madison Fantelli, and Dominique Withrow-Ibrahim. For the boys, top pacers were: Davit Kraushar in 3rd and Kiefer Bell in 4th. With personal records in their first race of the season were also: Jens Bartel, Quinn Kissel, Zeke Groom, Logan Murray, Luke and Owen West Poley, Ben Farmer, Josh Curry, Shae Dillingham, Connor Woodin, and Gregory Urayama. Congratulations for a great start to the season. The next meet will be on September 1st at Miamisburg.
There are no other results to report from over the weekend, the girls soccer home opener against Winton Woods Saturday was cancelled due to rain.
Home games for today: Girls Golf takes on Ross at the Oxford Country Club at 4 and Girls Varsity Tennis hosts Fenwick also at 4.
And that’s our broadcast on this Monday. I’m Patrick Geshan. Thanks so much for watching and we’ll see you tomorrow.