Tag: Susan B English School
Day One of the Regional Tournament – Seldovia Teams are on FIRE!!!
by Jenny Chissus
UPDATE FRIDAY March 7, 2014:
Girls will start today at 3:00pm
Boys will play for the championship at 8:00pm!
Go HERE for the LIVE broadcast!
Thanks to the Peninsula Clarion for this great recap of the games yesterday! Please click here or on the image to the left to read the full article. Our Seldovia Sea Otters are Super Stars!!!
If you didn’t see yesterday’s Girls game in person, you really missed out! It was a nail biter! Our girls, who have only won ONE game all season were on fire and scored the most points they’ve ever scored in a game this season – and in overtime!!! We were fortunate to be able to watch from home since Coach Janes set up his video equipment and the games were streamed live.
Regions Tournament Bracket for Girls Thursday March 6
Regions Tournament Bracket for Boys Thursday March 6
I want to give a big shout out to Chance Haller, a junior on the Seldovia Boys team who was gracious enough to announce the girl’s game as it played out! It is so great for us here at home to get the play-by-play (and the enthusiasm)! So Thanks Chance! Coach Tiffany Haller has done the announcing for the boys games, and so that skill, energy and enthusiasm must run in the family!!
Today, Thursday, the Lady Otters will play Cook Inlet Academy at 1:30pm and the boys will also be playing CIA at 8:00pm tonight. You can click HERE to go to view the games live! Thanks Mark for making that possible!
I have posted today’s brackets for your review – you can click on each one to view full size!
GOOD LUCK OTTERS!
Michael “Hawkeye” Herman to Perform in Seldovia!
by Tania Spurkland
Here is a concert you don’t want to miss, an evening of the Blues with Michael “Hawkeye” Herman. He is performing in Seldovia this Saturday evening, March 1st at 7:30 pm at SBE School. He will be here in Seldovia as part of “Blues in the Schools” which is sponsored by Jack and Debbie Oudiz, Ocean Shores Seaside Lodging, Boss Hoggz, the Charlotte Martin Foundation, Conoco Phillips, Rasmuson Foundation , the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Homer Council on the Arts, and the Seldovia Arts Council. Tickets are $5 at the door. There is free admission for youth (ages 18 and under).
We are also excited to announce that Hawkeye will be presenting workshops at SBE School with our students on both Monday and Tuesday, March 2nd and 3rd !
With over 40 years of performing experience, Michael “Hawkeye” Herman exemplifies the range of possibilities in acoustic blues, and personifies versatile musicianship, originality, and compelling artistry as a blues storyteller. His dynamic performances have won him a faithful following, and he leads a very active touring schedule of performances at festivals, concerts, school programs, and workshops.
Hawkeye performs a wide variety of traditional blues, ballads, swing, and original tunes, on six-string and twelve-string guitar, and is an adept and exciting practitioner of slide guitar and slide mandolin. His music has been included in video documentaries and in three hit theatrical productions, and his solo CD, Blues Alive!, released in 1998, was greeted by rave reviews and greatly increased the demand for his live performances at major blues and folk festivals. His newest CD, It’s All Blues To Me!, was released in May of 2005.
Hope to see you there!
Win A Kindle Fire HDX – Support Our Kids
by Jenny Chissus
Are you looking for that great gift for a family member, friend or loved one? You will definitely make all kinds of points when you are the winner of this fabulous Kindle Fire HDX!! Click here to see all the AMAZING things you can enjoy on your Kindle!
This year we have 7 students who have been working hard to earn their trip to Washington DC to participate in the Close Up program. Aidan Philpot, Calem Collier, Devin Chissus, Marina Chissus, Olivia Turner, Thor Burt and Xandria Swick. Vivian Rojas, along with Justin Derks will be accompanying them on this great educational trip!
CLOSE UP MISSION – taken from the Closeup.org website
Close Up informs, inspires, and empowers young people to exercise the rights and accept the responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
We believe that a strong democracy requires active and informed participation by all citizens; therefore we seek to reach participants of every race, creed, geographical community, socio-economic level, and academic standing. To carry out our mission, we partner with educators, schools, and youth organizations throughout the country to help young people develop the skills and attitudes to become informed and engaged citizens. Since 1971, nearly 800,000 participants have participated in Close Up programs.
Vivian Rojas has led this trip 4 times, and they have gone every 3 years or so. It is great to have an experienced chaperone who knows the ins and outs of getting around Washington DC and who will ensure that our students get the most out of the week that they will be spending on the East Coast.
We also want to take this opportunity to thank you for your great support in purchasing tickets for the last raffle for the beautiful hand-made throw by Alta Colberg! Folks were very enthusiastic about that raffle, and we earned $574.00 towards the Close Up trip!
Thank you Alta for your generous donation!
To the right is a photo of our raffle winner, Ruth Sensenig with the prize!
This month, who is going to win the NEW Kindle Fire HDX?
Tickets will be $5.00 a piece or 5 for $20! This is not just an E Reader – it is a tablet – capable of games, touch screen, camera and the big one – 24 hour video help chat line called “MayDay”! Coolest thing ever!
Click Here or on the image above to go directly to Amazon, and be sure to click on the arrow that states “PRODUCT TOUR” and see all the amazing things this Kindle Fire can do! It truly is on many folks wish list!
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Perfect-color HDX display, plus powerful quad-core processor for fast, fluid performance and immersive entertainment
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In addition to Free Two-Day Shipping, Prime members can stream tens of thousands of Prime Instant Video titles at no additional cost, over half of which can be downloaded to the latest generation of Kindle Fire tablets.The Drawing will take place at the Susan B English basketball games on February 22, 2014. You do not need to be present to win.
To purchase your tickets:
- If you live locally, please contact any one of the students involved in Close Up – they all have tickets to sell!
- If you are out of town, please Contact Vivian at vrojas@kpbsd.k12.ak.us and put KINDLE in the Subject line!
- You can always go on up to the school and talk directly to the students or Vivian – they will get you taken care of!
- The Close Up students will be going around town, as they must to sell their allotment of tickets – so keep a lookout!
- If you are purchasing the tickets long distance: After you have confirmed your purchase of tickets (via a method above – limited availability) please send a check made out to “Susan B English” with “Close Up Kindle” in the memo line to the school at: Vivian Rojas, Susan B English School, PO Box 171, Seldovia, Alaska 99663. Please indicate who you purchased the tickets from – for our records!
This small group of 7 students have held car washes, bake sales, a community dinner, pumpkin pie sale, sponsored a knit throw raffle and have received various donations equaling $2,793 thus far! The expense for our students to be able to go on such a learning adventure is extensive! Each student’s tuition for the Close Up program alone is $1,304, there is also airfare to Washington DC from Anchorage, 3 nights stay in Washington DC for the nights not included in the Close Up program (anyone have some great connections with a hotel?), and then we must also cover the costs for the two chaperones to accompany them on the trip!
THANKS TO the Booster Club, who is assisting with the costs associated with getting the group out of Seldovia (most likely by boat out of Jakolof) and the trip to Anchorage. (We aren’t sure if we are driving in private cars or renting a vehicle…still open to ideas on this!) We are also so appreciative of the Dimond Center Hotel who will put up the entire group for the night before and after the flights, as both the departure and arrival out of Anchorage is in the very early morning!
We are so thankful to the community’s generous support thus far – we are thrilled that our students have this opportunity to participate in such a great program – as it is quite the endeavor to get them from Seldovia to Washington DC – and
We couldn’t do it without you!
Basketball Games tonight in Anchorage – Streaming live!
by Jenny Chissus
Coach Mark Janes has arranged to have the games this weekend from Anchorage streaming live for our viewing pleasure down here in Seldovia! Check out the link http://www.ustream.tv/channel/seldovia-basketball it is working!
Tonight at 6:00pm and 7:30pm and tomorrow – Saturday, January 11th at 10:00am and 11:30am! Thanks Mark for working on this – there are a lot of away games this year – and we LOVE watching the Otters play! Both the boys and girls teams are playing – tonight at West, and tomorrow at Grace! If you are in Anchorage – stop on by and cheer on the teams!!!
Update: This is the first time that Mark has done this for us and it is awesome!!! GO OTTERS!!!
Good luck Otters!
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