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Nurse’s Notes – March 2010

Building Our Youth’s Developmental Assets

Each month, in addition to the Nurse’s Notes, I will include The Search Institute’s “Ideas for Parents” a mini-newsletter containing suggestions and ideas on how to build your child’s assets.  This month’s focus is Support: The Nurturing Nature of Support.  Click here to download. More information can be found at the Safe & Drug Free School’s link via the ASD website, The Search Institute www.search-institute.org, or by contacting me directly.  I also have a great book on developmental asset building in Alaskan youth if you are interested.

Spring Intensives & Travel

If your student is participating in travel or an overnight intensive, the health office will need updated medical and medication information.  Please check with your student as he/she should have paperwork for you to review and return to the health office prior to intensives.

Donations

Lunch, snack, and drink donations are needed for students who forget or don’t have lunch.  Lunch and snack items that do not require refrigeration or freezing and have a good shelf life work best.  Suggestions for donations include: soup cups, granola bars, oatmeal, juice boxes, etc.

Nurse Wendy

Choose Respect

These are real Alaskans, real faces,
real names, real souls.

Our people need us. And it’s time for Alaskans to make a difference
in our state – it’s time to Choose Respect.

Please join your fellow Alaskans
March 31, 2010
NOON
March from Delaney Park Strip to Town Square Park
Featured speakers include:

Attorney General Dan Sullivan
U.S. Senator Lisa MurkowskiDirector of Anchorage Health and Human Services Diane Ingle
Anchorage Assembly Member Elvi Gray-Jackson
Anchorage School District Superintendent Carol Comeau
AWAIC Executive Director Suzi Pearson
S.T.A.R. Executive Director Nancy Haag
Executive Director of Alaska Native Justice Center Denise Morris

Refreshments will be served

Governor Sean Parnell challenges Alaskans to step up – and take a stand against domestic violence and sexual assault in our state. Together, we can make a difference. Together, we can choose respect.

For more information, please contact Governor Parnell’s office:
907-269-7450
governor@alaska.gov
www.chooserespect.alaska.gov

Testing Week for Juniors and Seniors

Juniors and Seniors

If you have passed all three section of the HSGQE (reading, writing, & math) you are not required to come to school during the mornings of on the 6th, 7th, & 8th of April while other students are testing. There is school during the afternoons beginning at 12:35. You are required to attend school during the afternoons (right after lunch) of April 6th, 7th, & 8th.

So don’t come in the morning, do come in the afternoon. Sleep in, crash on the sofa with a box of Vanilla Wafers and kick back with a couple of good videos, enjoy your mornings…see you at 12:35.


Class 1 Food Recall

Class 1 Recall: a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.

WHAT PRODUCT:
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein ( HVP):  Used as a Flavor enhancer in multiple products nationwide.  These are some of the categories of items that may contain HVP:

Bouillon Products
Dip and Dip Mix Products
Dressing and Dressing Mix Products
Gravy Mix Products
Pre-Packaged Meal Products
Prepared Salad Products
Snack and Snack Mix Products
Soup Mix Products
Stuffing Products

Click here to see the most current  list of items and lot numbers as it is being updated continually:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively investigating findings of Salmonella Tennessee in hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) manufactured by Basic Food Flavors, Inc., in Las Vegas, NV. HVP is a flavor enhancer used in a wide variety of processed food products, such as soups, sauces, chilis, stews, hot dogs, gravies, seasoned snack foods, dips, and dressings. It is often blended with other spices to make seasonings that are used in or on foods.

WHY:
An ingredient used in the seasoning (HVP) has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

DISPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS:
Place product in a sealed container or trash bag for transport to a public landfill.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Use this web site to access detailed info: www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

Graduation

Attention Senior Parents:

Graduation will be May 18th at the Performing Arts Center. The senior class has been meeting on Tuesdays at lunch to discuss graduation and to plan the upcoming Activity Night. Seniors should be working on their graduation slideshows, which are due to Ken on April 2nd. Each senior will have three minutes to speak and present a slideshow if they wish.

If you would like to order graduation announcements, please email Danielle by April 2nd with the number of announcements you would like. The cost will be no more than a dollar per announcement. We are working with a local printer who will give us a discount if more than 1000 total announcements are ordered. Once we know how many we’re ordering, we will be able to give an exact price and will then collect money.

Thanks,
Ken, Danielle and Bob

Rural Alaska Honors Institute

For Junior and Senior High School Students

The deadline is fast approaching for interested students to apply to the RAHI summer program.  The summer program runs form June 1 to July 15, 2010 and is FREE to any accepted student.  The RAHI program can help you prepare for college and you can earn college credit for the courses you take.

Application and all attachments must be submitted to the RAHI office by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 31, 2010.

Please visit the website www.uaf.edu/rahi/ to download the brochures and the application or call 1-800-478-6886 if you have questions or need the application faxed or e-mailed to you.

Mark Your Calendar

Thu Mar 25 6pm – 7:30pm Ad Board Meeting
Fri Mar 26 No School – Inservice
5pm – 10pm Steller Auction
Thu Apr 1 8:30am 8th & 10th Grade SBA Science
Fri Apr 2 8:30am 8th &10th Grade Science make-up
Mon Apr 5 8:30am 8th &10th Grade Science make-up
Tue Apr 6 8:30am 7th-9th Grade Standards Based Assessments – Reading, Writing, Math
8:30am 10 Grade Exit Exam
Wed Apr 7 8:30am 7th-9th Grade Standards Based Assessments – Reading, Writing, Math
8:30am 10 Grade Exit Exam
Thu Apr 8 8:30am 7th-9th Grade Standards Based Assessments – Reading, Writing, Math
8:30am 10 Grade Exit Exam
Fri Apr 9 8:30am SBA Make-ups
Wed Apr 14 7pm – 8:30pm Parent Group Meeting
Fri Apr 16 TBA Sophomore Day
Wed Apr 21 6pm – 7:30pm Ad Board Meeting
Fri Apr 30 4th Qtr. Ends for Steller