Submitted by Jeanine Cockerham

On Friday, October 7th, Fr. Mike Moroney and the Vocations team at St. Alphonsus  Liguori Catholic Church hosted a “Vocations Breakfast” for St. Alphonsus School  seventh and  eighth grade students.  The group enjoyed fruit, pancakes, biscuits, bacon and eggs.  Fr. Matt Lorrain, Vocation Director for the Diocese of Baton Rouge, was a guest celebrant for the School Mass and spoke at the breakfast. Fr. Matt explained to the students the importance of each one of us being open to what God has in store for us and that while there are many vocations in life, the vocation to priesthood or religious life is indeed a special call.  We were honored to have St. Alphonsus Alumni, Holly Smith, a senior at St. Josephs Academy join us to encourage the students to be positive and uplifting if a friend were to mention a possible calling.  Deacons Phil BeJeaux and Ronnie Hebert were also in attendance.  The breakfast was a takeoff of the monthly Vocations lunch Fr. Mike host at the rectory each month. During the school year, 12 students from the 7th & 8th grades enjoy walking across the street to the rectory for a lunch of homemade burgers and ice cream prepared by the vocations team.  The students are encouraged to ask any question they may have and discuss future possibilities.  The vocations team hopes that this continued interaction will fan the flames from the sparks of The Holy Spirit. We would like to thank Ms. Jackie Goudeau of Kleinpeter Dairy for the donation of dairy products.   The Vocations Team: Tony & Jeannine Cockerham, Mike & Jennifer Breaux, Eric Frank, David Boudreaux and Brenda Vaughn.

Submitted by the Central High School PTO

2          Jostens Sr. Supplies 9:00 am
2          FR/JV FB Live Oak-H-6pm
3          Senior Night Pep Rally (Gym) 6pm
3          Beta District Rally @ Zachary 8:30 am
3          School Law Day Embassy Suites
3          Peter Pan Auditions-Theater 4-7pm
4          End of 2nd 6 Weeks
4          Varsity FB Live Oak-A-7pm
4          Peter Pan Auditions 4-7pm Theater
4          Club Day
5          Childrens Theatre Workshop 9-4
7          Play Production 2:30-5 Theatre
8          Play Production 2:30-5 Theatre
9          Jostens Sr. Supply orders 6:30am
9          Play Production 2:30-5 Theatre
10        Childrens Production 9:30am-Theatre
10        Play Production-Parents 7:00
11        Childrens Production 9:30am-Theatre
14        PLAN testing
16        Club Day
15-17   Central High School Library Book Fair
18        Early Dismissal for Holidays 12:00
21-22   11&12 Month Emp. Scheduled to work
21-25 Thanksgiving Holidays

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From the Central Community School System

The Facilities/Equipment Committee will meet on Monday, October 24, 2011 at the Central High School Theatre located at 10200 E. Brookside Drive, City of Central, LA at 5:15 p.m.  The meeting has been called to consider the following agenda item:

To receive and review information relative to equipment to be included when the Request for Qualifications is issued to conduct a Maintenance Program Study (Requested by Mr. Faulk, presented by Mr. Bogan)

From the CCSS website

Tonight's CCSS School Board meeting will be held at the Central High School Theatre (10200 East Brookside Drive) at 6 PM.  The agenda is as follows:

1. Call to order
2. Prayer
3. Pledge
4. Roll call
5. To consider spproval of the minutes from the regular School Board meeting held on October 10, 2011

6. To receive a report from the HR/Policies Committee meeting held on October 17, 2011 and take appropriate action related to the following:
a. Consider a request from staff regarding the addition of a School Psychologist position
b. Consideration of guiding principles, guidelines for use and payment schedules for use in a Facilities Policy

7. To receive a report from the Finance Committee meeting held on October 19, 2011 and take appropriate action relative to the following:
a. To consider a Revised General Fund Budget and take appropriate action
b. To review information relative to the Title I, Title IIA and Title III Budgets approved by the State Department

8. To consider an extension of the Superintendent's existing contract on the same terms and conditions until December 2015 and take appropriate action (Mr. Easley)

9. Construction Coordinator's Report (Mr. Bogan)

10. Superintendent's Report (Mr. Faulk)

11. Announcements

12. Adjourn

Wednesday, Mrs. Bordelon and other CHS faculty and staff honored Lucky and Juanita Ross for their contribution of monogrammed polo shirts for the Reading Coaches Program.  The Rosses have donated the shirts for the last three years.  Reading Coaches monitor students’ reading and comprehension and are examples themselves of good reading habits.  The Rosses said they do this because they are proud of our school system and wish to show gratitude to the teachers whose hard work and devotion make it successful.

Submitted by CMS 8th Grade Teacher Jessica Mitchell

    Congratulations to the following Central Middle School students who have been invited to participate in the Duke Talent Search!  These students are given the opportunity to take the ACT or SAT.  Those with the highest scores in Duke’s 16-state region are invited to the 2011 grand recognition ceremony on May 23 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. 

The students are:
Shelby Achord
Darrian Bozeman
Marie Guidry
Grant Mayers
Haley McGraw
Mary McPhate
Susan Merrill
Kensey Shaffer
Kierstyn Sutherland
Kari Termini
Catela Ware
Rebecca Westberg
Abigail Wootan
Kristen Defreitas
Dylan Teat
Celeste Clark
Garrett Dietrich
Emily Henagen
Ramey Payne
Vaylen Clark

Story by Paden Mouton (class treasurer/reporter);  Photo by Katherine Nijoka
 
During the week of September 5, members of the Central Private School senior class began campaigning for positions as class officers. The students campaigned on September 7-9 before voting on the morning of September 9. Candidates spent time creating pins, handing out candies with creative slogans attached, and hanging up posters in the hallways in hopes of getting their fellow classmates to vote for them. In the end, only four came out on top. The Class of 2012 officers are pictured above: Victoria Brian, president; Luke Fryoux, vice president; Jill King, secretary; & Paden Mouton, treasurer/reporter.On September 30, the senior class took the time to vote for senior superlatives. The winners were announced at the annual Senior Breakfast held the morning of October 7. 

Superlative winners are:
Mr. and Miss CPS – Luke Fryoux and Victoria Brian
Most Likely to Succeed – Lance Wicker and Jill King
Most Athletic – Seth Stevens and Victoria Brian
Most School Spirit – Luke Fryoux and Jada Pocorello
Class Rebel – Austin Pierce and Corinne Mack
Most Easy Going – Tyler Brown and Erika Wittenburg
Born in the Wrong Decade – Tom Harrell and Mary Leavines

Submitted by Karen Hill

     Central Intermediate School is hosting a blood drive for United Blood Services on Wednesday, October 26, 2011, from 2:30 P.M. until 6:30 P.M. on the school campus, 10510 Joor Road.  You may sign up online at www.bloodhero.com or simply stop by the United Blood Services Mobile on the school campus Wednesday to donate blood.  Please come support the effort to save lives and find the HERO in YOU!

There will be a Human Resources/Policies Committee meeting tonight at 6 PM at City Hall (13421 Hooper Road).  This is a public meeting.  The item for discussion is as follows:

To consider guiding principles, guidelines for use and payment schedules for the use in a Facilities Use Policy (Requested by Me. Faulk, presented by Mr. Faulk).