Soldier Hollow Charter School

Christmas break: Begins after school on Friday, Dec 18th.

Portable Building Update: Finally! We experienced fabulous progress last week!

• CODE APPROVAL. The buildings have been approved by the State Fire Marshal and the State Division of Facilities and Construction Management. This will allow us to start construction, which will take 4-6 weeks once the factory starts.
• LOAN APPROVAL. We found a second lender, and now have enough financing to purchase all three buildings immediately.
• TIMING. Now that we’re into the winter ski season, we need to coordinate with Soldier Hollow the timing on when we’ll be able to install the buildings. We probably won’t be able to start digging to connect to the utilities until at least February 8, allowing the buildings to come on site the last week of February. This is the earliest possible date — and we still need to coordinate with Soldier Hollow about when they can allow us to dig up their race course finish line. The actual date may be later.

Jordanelle State Park Winter Program: Great winter activities for the entire family that are being offered by the State Park.  Join a Park Naturalist and snowshoe through the park while learning about things like animal tracking, birding, the moon’s phases, and wildlife technology.  There are also some moonlit snowshoe adventures that sound like a lot of fun for the family.

Skiing opportunity at Park City Resort: In an effort to get more Utah residents out on the slopes, Park City Mountain Resort is offering a great new program called StartNow! This is a great way to get your family out in the snow this winter for $25 (for equipment, lessons, and lift tickets) and can be used 5 times!   http://startnow.parkcitymountain.com/site/index.html

Rewards Program: Thank you for sending in your Campbell’s Labels For Education!  I’m so happy to say that every class brought some in – that’s so good for the school!  Please remember THE UPC CODES MUST BE INCLUDED OR CAMPBELL’S WILL NOT ACCEPT THE LABEL and it won’t be counted!  Every label will count as one item, regardless of its value.  On V-8 juice only – send in the cap, not the label.  For those of you who are so kindly raiding your food storage for these, you don’t have to send in the entire label – only the part with the upc code and the “labels for education” stamp.  I don’t want everyone eating mystery soup for the next year.  I especially want to thank Xander Valentiner (and his mom Julie) for bringing in 178 labels!  That’s amazing!  Of course, it put Mrs. Drake’s class in first place, but there is still a chance for all of the classes to win the tubing prize.  I also want to thank Jessica O’Hara (and her mom Lori) for bringing in 70 labels.

Since Christmas break will be starting early and most of the classrooms are being moved, I am extending the deadline for this contest until January 8th to make sure everyone has a chance to participate.

Campbell’s Labels for Education are on many items (including Campbell’s soup, beans, chili and tomato juice).  Please look for these on Swanson’s broth, Prego pasta sauce, Pepperidge Farm products (goldfish crackers, bread, croutons, stuffing, rolls, puff pastry, turnovers and cake), V8 Juice, Spaghetti-O’s and Franco-American Gravy.

See the bulletin board at the bottom of the stairs for current information, and to see the snowmen as they’re being built.  If you have any questions, please call or email me.  Thank you so much! — J. Johnson  at  gljill1@msn.com