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NEWS
from the West After School Center, Inc.

620 Garfield Avenue        Lancaster, OH  43130
740-653-5678  740-653-2402 FAX   Email:  westafterschool@westafterschoolcenter.org
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January 8, 2010

from the office of Julie Bibler, Executive Director

This weekly update is distributed via email to the WASC Board of Directors & Staff, Volunteers, School Staffs, Parents, State and National Afterschool Advocates, Providers, and Community Leaders

WE

ARE

21st CENTURY

COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS
 

Our mission to is provide programs and services that enrich the educational, social, and cultural opportunities of students in our community

See what we've been doing this week -- after-school, and meet some of the special people that make our programs work!

Cedar Community Learning Center

East Community Learning Center

Tallmadge Community Learning Center

The last week of school for 2009 was a fun week full of activities.  On Tuesday, the t.v. show, Healthy Living for Kids filmed at Tallmadge.  They filmed us in gym class, and interviewed Mr. Lawson and Mrs. Turner.  They also interviewed two students from Tallmadge, Lori Fritz and Jimmy Thompson.  Watch for this episode to air in February.  On Friday, we had our Holiday Party.  We painted ornaments and watched the Muppets Christmas Carol.  We hope everyone had a lovely holiday break and we are eager to get back to work this week.

West After School Center

The last few days before break were busy at WASC.  After the fun we had at the beginning of the week with “Believe” and Christmas Bingo, the rest of the week was sure to bring more excitement.  On Thursday, members from the Humane Society came to talk to the students about the importance of taking care of your pets and how much responsibility it takes to have a pet.  The students even got to meet Mack, a Great Dane, who was taller than most of them!  Friday brought more fun at WASC when Mrs. Diane Warner brought her children, Amy and Adam, back to do more cup stacking.  This time the students were able to do relay races to see who could stack cups the fastest.  The children even got the teachers to join in the very close races!

Meet Michelle Ritchlin

Michele is a 1994 graduate of William V. Fisher Catholic High School, and a 1998 graduate of The Ohio State University where she majored in International Studies.  After graduating from college, she returned to Lancaster and became a licensed real estate appraiser.  In 2007, Michele began working at St. Mary Elementary School and joined the staff of the Tallmadge Community Learning Center the next year. In August, 2009, she assumed the Site Administrator position. She and her husband, Brodie, live in Lancaster and have two dogs.

Children's Author Margaret Wolford (Newark, Ohio) will be visiting our centers in November and December

No Sugar Coating
by Margaret Wolford

"Alana thinks keeping a journal is just one more boring assignment until she realizes her life is anything but dull! Who really is Janamarie? Why does Kimmie act so strangely outside of school? Is making mashed potatoes that big of deal? Join Alana in No Sugar Coating as she solves a mystery or two, learns a lesson about friendship, and endures her mother's terrible cooking. A journal that at first seemed like a dumb idea becomes a place to record the mysterious, wonderful, and sometimes painful happenings in ten-year-old Alana Davis' life. No Sugar Coating may be her first journal, but it won't be her last."

Hear Ms. Wolford at Tallmadge CLC  January 15, 2010.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

You can help support the

West After School Center

every time you shop at your local Krogers.  It's simple.  Just sign up and every time you shop and have your Krogers Plus Card scanned, a portion of the amount comes to the West After School Center. Encourage your friends to help us - and support our mission!

Thanks to our supporters. 

We received over $100 during the second quarter of this rewards program!  (August, September & October).

TO USE THE KROGER COMMUNITY REWARDS PROGRAM:

1. Pick up a copy of the registration form from the WASC. It has the scan barcode on it.

2. Simply take the form to the Customer Service Desk at your local Kroger store. They will scan it and your Kroger Plus Card, and with 72 hours a percentage of everything purchased at Krogers comes to the WASC - between now and April 30, 2010.

ADVOCACY, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, and COLLABORATION

Join us in Washington, DC.

Register now for the best convention for professionals in the field!

Click HERE for a link for convention registration.

Watch  Healthy Living for Kids weekly on the Lancaster Schools Television Network

The Goals for our Television Program:

1. Create and sustain a community dialogue and awareness campaign that helps every individual learn to make healthy choices about what and how much they eat as well as how much daily exercise they get. 

2. Encourage children to engage in healthy and productive extra curricular activities at home and at school.

3. Teach families how to prepare foods and economical family meals and snacks.

4. Showcase the wealth of community resources and personnel that can help kids and families develop healthy lifestyles.

5. Demonstrate the positive impact and benefits that participation in before and after school programs can have on children's mental health and social development.

Kids You Should Know - look for this interview with Gerald Stratton and Brandon Mayhorn, 5th Graders at West School, coming soon to Healthy Living for Kids Show

Healthy Living for Kids Planning Meeting, Monday, January 11, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at WASC

Education and Vision Committee Mtg., Tuesday, January 19, 10:00 a.m.

WASC Board of Directors Meeting, Thursday, January 21, 9:30-11:00 a.m.

Education and Vision Committee Mtg., Tuesday, February 9, 11:30 a.m. lunch with principals

Childcare Program

Healthy Living for Kids Preview with Executive Director

Healthy Living for Kids Committee Meeting - at WASC

WASC Leadership Team Mtg.

21st CCLC/Childcare Program

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Martin Luther King, Jr.  Day

WASC is Closed

Childcare Program

Education & Vision Committee

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21st CCLC/Childcare Program

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Ronald McDonald visits  WASC

21st CCLC/Childcare Program

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