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MR. RIDDER’S REMINDERS Nov 3 Fall Musical 6:30pm Parish Center
LINK TO JUMP ROPE FOR HEART INFORMATION FORGOTTEN ITEMS FROM HOME - There have been times this year when we (school and home) have
CALLING COPY MOMS/DADS/GRANDPARENTS/AUNTS/UNCLES -The St. Patrick’s School Copy Mom Team is searching for volunteers for in the mornings and/or afternoons. If you are interested in this fun and helpful volunteer opportunity please contact Deb Strumberger at dstrumberger@cox.net. PARISH MISSION - I Could Have Done More What is a Mission? Who is a Mission For? What Form will the Mission Take? We hope everyone will be able join in the Mission. Even if you can only attend one or a few of the evenings, it will be well worth your time. Everybody is welcome, but we will provide day care for the very young. If you would like to take advantage of the day care we ask that you pre-register with Mary McMahon at 402-289-4289 ext-1505 or mmcmahon@stpatselkhorn.org. CALLING ALL BABYSITTERS FOR MISSION - To accommodate the children who will be needing daycare during the Mission, we will need both adult, junior high and high school volunteers. If you are willing to share your time assisting in the daycare room one or more evenings the week of our parish mission, please contact Mary McMahon 402-289-4947, extension 1505 or email mmcmahon@stpatselkhorn.org. CATHOLIC 101 - You Shall Not Covet…Anything that is Your Neighbor’s ST. PAT’S APPAREL - St. Pat’s apparel is available to order – use the attached form – due in the school office by Thursday, November 10thif you are interest in a fun t-shirt, sweatshirt, etc for dress down days. Questions… contact Jane Chapman @402-553-6131 or kccjdc@cox.netor Joan Quinn @ 402-658-0120 or jquinn26@cox.net. Use this link to view what some of the items look like - http://stpatshs.gigabitprint.com/staticstoredesign/id/166351/tag/T-Shirts LINK TO ST. PATRICK’S APPAREL FORM WELLNESS COMMITTEE HEALTH TIP OF THE WEEK: Health Tip of the Week: The USDA recommends selecting fruits and vegetables with more potassium such as bananas, prunes and prune juice, dried peaches and apricots, cantaloupe, honeydew melon, orange juice, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, white beans, tomato products (paste, sauce, and juice) beet greens, soybeans, lima beans, spinach, lentils and kidney beans. Foods rich in potassium may lower blood pressure, and may also reduce the risk of kidney stones and help to decrease bone loss. Check out www.chosemyplate.gov for more healthy tips!
Community Day has been expanded to a 2 Day event! It will take place on Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2011 at Younker’s. Please contact Tina Jansen tina.jansen@target.com or Kelly Lanphier kelland87@msm.com to get your booklet today!
BOXTOPS = FREE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOL! Last year we earned approximately $4400 for St. Patrick's. This year our goal is $5300. To achieve this goal, we will be doing a monthly promotion. Each student will receive a sheet on which to attach boxtops. (They may cut slits to slide the boxtops in or place them in an envelope or baggie and staple it to the sheet). For each sheet turned in, the student's name will be placed in a drawing for a $10 scrip card of their choice. All sheets and boxtops should be turned in to me. I will take care of the paperwork. We plan to put a link on the website for extra sheets so that it will be the responsibility of the parents to get those extra sheets. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks for your help in getting our school a little extra money! ST. PATRICK’S WINTER BASKETBALL REGISTATION - Registration is now open for the 2012 Winter
The SPIRIT Raffle Committee is looking for eager volunteers to help distribute and sell raffle tickets after all masses beginning November 19th, 2011. Sign up will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. This year tickets sold after masses will be applied toward your family total! This is a great opportunity to be involved and reach your sales goal! For more information, please contact Kelly Barkmeier at 402-213-7851or barkmeier@gmail.com.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY - Our parish has an opening for a part-time Liturgy of the Word for Children/Sunday Morning Preschool Coordinator. This position is a 20 hour per week/40 week position. Applicants must be available Wednesday afternoon/evenings and Sunday Mornings. Remaining hours are flexible and will be agreed upon by the LWC/Sunday Morning Preschool Coordinator and the Director of Religious Formation based on program needs. If interested in this position, please contact Mary McMahon, Director of Religious Formation @ mmcmahon@stpatselkhorn.org or by calling 402-289-4947, extension 1505.
Principal's Notes Deadline: Please submit all items/information in final form. Principal's Notes deadline is Tuesday by 8:00am to the school or email to |
SCHOOL MUSICAL - We invite you to attend the performance of our 7th & 8th grade fall musical, “Once Upon A Mattress Jr.” The show will be performed on November 3 at 6:30pm in the Parish Center. Come see our talented students act, sing and dance in this hilarious musical!
HEART MINISTRY CLOTHING DRIVE - It's time to make a difference!! Student Council is starting our annual coat, gloves, hats, and shoedrive to help support the Heart Ministry! We will be accepting donations from now until November 4th. Coats, gloves, hats, and shoes of all sizescan be dropped off outside the office at any time. Last year, our St. Patrick's Community collected over 1,500 shoes! Within three months, all of those shoes were on the feet of people who depend on the Heart Ministry through our support and donations. The Heart Ministry's shelves are bare and they really need our help! Every little bit counts. Please be as generous as you can during this time! 
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART – Our school is proud to partner with the American Heart Association to help kids with special hearts! Mark your family calendars NOW for our upcoming Jump Rope For Heart event taking place on November 7-11, 2011. Please see the attached flyer in regards to the upcoming event!
been enabling the students by allowing forgotten items such as: backpacks, lunches and homework to be delivered to school. One of the most important things we can all teach our students is responsibility and we want to make sure everyone is following the same expectation. Therefore, if your child forgets something at home or in the car, he/she will be accountable for whatever the consequences are. I know that most of you already know and follow this rule. However, if you are new, you may not know this expectation. We would greatly appreciate it if you would please refrain from delivering forgotten items to school. In addition, students and parents are not allowed in the school (classrooms, lockers, or hallways) after 3:45 on Wednesday nights due to RF. Your assistance in teaching your child(ren) the important skill of being responsible is greatly appreciated. Thank you for working in cooperation with the school and your child's teacher to make this happen.
WELCOME DESK VOLUNTEERS – CALLING ALL PERSPECTIVE WELCOME DESK VOLUNTEERS – We need your help! We are looking for a volunteer for each afternoon while children are still in the building for after school activities from 3:00 – 6:00pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. You or your friends, parents, grandparents, could volunteer once a week, or once every two weeks, once a month or what works best for your schedule. We are very flexible! Don’t miss out; this could be a lot fun for you. If you have a friend or relative that might be interested, please let us know. If you or someone you know are interested, please email Deanna Timmerman at 
When is enough, enough? The proverbial keeping up with the Jones’ seems to be an assumed and acceptable way of life. It seems like we’re defined by what we have; what we drive; the size of our house; and on and on. One time my niece came home from school and begged my sister to buy her new shoes. There’s nothing wrong with the shoes you have, besides there almost new. But they’re the wrong brand, she cried. She was truly embarrassed and ashamed to wear the shoes she had. Not only do we define ourselves by what we have, we actually allow others to define us by what we don’t have. This last covenant concerns the intentions of the heart. Now, I’m sure most of us have seen something someone has and had a tinge of jealousy and desire to have it for ourselves. There is nothing wrong with that, it is what it is, a feeling. Feelings come and go and we can’t control them. But to covet, or be envious is what we call a capital sin, a sin that takes us down a slippery slope. Whatever we feed grows, and if we tend to it often it thrives, and if we fail to keep it in check it consumes us. This is the sin of the tenth commandment, envy, and envy destroys. St. Augustine saw envy as “the diabolical sin”: From envy are born hatred, detraction, calumny, joy by the misfortune of a neighbor, and displeasure caused by his prosperity. (CCC 2539) We read in the Book of Wisdom: For God created us for incorruption, and made us in the image of His own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it. Wisdom 2:23-24. Thus, this commandment is all about the intentions of our hearts. What do we desire? What is our treasure? We each must know the answer to that question for ourselves, because as our Lord tells us: where your treasure is, there will your heart will be also (Mt. 6:21). Desire for true happiness frees man from his immoderate attachment to the goods of this world so that he can find his fulfillment in the vision of the beatitude of God. (CCC 2548)
YOUNKERS COMMUNITY DAY BOOKLETS AVAILABLE - Since 1999, Community Day has partnered the Younker’s stores with local, non-profit organizations to raise over $80 Million for charity. Community Day allows you to give back to St. Patrick’s by purchasing coupon booklets, good toward store merchandise. With 100% of booklet sales benefiting ST. Patrick’s, shopping has never felt so good. The coupon books cost $5.00 and is filled with great savings coupons and exclusive offers — valued at more than $200!
HEY ST. PATRICK'S FRIENDS - LET’S GO FOR #1! Donate your Hy-Vee Smart points to St. Patrick's. St. Pat's is currently in 2nd place!Here is how it works: For every $20 of Procter & Gamble products you purchase at Hy-Vee from October 1, 2011– December 30, 2011 you earn 100 SMART Points to donate to the school of your choice. Get 100 additional points when you purchase two (2) or more Sara Lee Fresh Bakery products in the same transaction as your qualifying $20 Procter & Gamble purchase. Find the promotional code printed on your receipt of purchase, and enter it by clicking on the "Donate Points" button. From there, select the school for which you would like to make a donation. More than 200 schools with the most points will win! Win a SMART Board™ for your child's school. Just go to: 
Basketball Session for parish youth grades K-4. The grades will be separated as the following: Kindergarten, 1st/2nd grade boys, 1st/2nd grade girls, 3rd/4th grade boys, 3rd/4th grade girls. The season runs January 7th - February 25th. For any questions regarding this session please contact Scott Kubicek: 
ST. PATRICK’S BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL PROGRAM - As we move forward with the creation of a St. Patrick’s baseball and softball program it has been proposed the Athletic Committee to invest dollars in the St. Patrick’s T-ball field immediately North of the school. The proposal is to expand the infield so boys baseball 1st- 6thgrade and girls softball 1st- 8thgrade can have a home field for games. The Athletic Committee supports the creation of a baseball program; however, demand from parishioners must be quantified for such an investment in the field by November 15th(next Athletic Committee meeting). As such, registration for boys baseball 1st- 8thgrade and girls softball 1st- 8thgrade is now open 
SPIRIT - What can YOU give or offer? Items are now being collected for SPIRIT...On the Wild Side! Vacation homes, time shares, airline and hotel points would all help to build exciting getaways for the live auction! Event tickets, backstage passes, tours and autographed paraphernalia could be used to create unique, priceless memories! Contact Rene` Kremer at 289-0747 to discuss your donation. Please consider your time, talent and treasure and help make SPIRIT a successful parish-wide event! Should you wish to get connected to a volunteer team, please contact Jenn Copenhaver at 964-1313, or see the SPIRIT website: 
PARISH FOOD DRIVE - Watch those sales and purchase non-perishable grocery items for our 3rd annual parish-wide food drive. Our parish 7th graders and their parents will be coordinating the food drive again this year. Grocery bags will be distributed the weekend of October 29th/30th and food collected and sorted the weekend of November 5th/6th. All items will be delivered to the Western Douglas County Food Bank for distribution in our community. The wish list for the Western Douglas County Food Bank is as follows: canned fruit, muffin mixes, regular size toothpaste, regular size shampoo, canned pasta, pancake mix, regular size bar soap, Kleenex, evaporated milk, pancake syrup, ranch dressing, toilet paper, boxed potatoes, hamburger helper, tuna, canned vegetables, dry spaghetti, spaghetti sauce. COPE (Christian Outreach Program, Elkhorn) diapers, pull-ups, feminine products.
MARKET ON MAPLE STREET - Are you amazing behind a sewing machine, a master with a paint brush, or have a talent for exquisite jewelry design? The St. Patrick’s Ministry of Mothers Sharing invites experienced crafters to register for the Annual Market on Maple Street – a Fall Boutique! This year’s event will be on Friday, November 18, 2011, from 6p.m. to 9 p.m. in St. Patrick’s Boland Hall, and will offer unique handmade items for purchase! This “girls night out” will Be an experience in Elkhorn like no other – shop for a variety of beautiful handmade goods for self or loved ones, enjoy a relaxing glass of wine and light appetizer, and share time with good friends! If you are interested in applying to be a vendor for this event, please contact Nicole Lakeman (