 
S.A.C. The Notre Dame SITE ADVISORY COUNCIL is an active leadership group working in collaboration with our parishes and the GRACE System to set the strategic direction for our school. Members of the SAC include: Site Advisory Council Members:
Fr. Richard Getchel
Rev. Patrick Beno
Mike Cuene
Annie Bongiorno
Julie Van Straten
Sue Van Gheem
Marv Wall
Paul Schierl
Lisa Urick
Kathy Nordeen Matt Giese
Beth Simonet
Jeff Kaftan
Lois Schumacher 2011-2012 School Calendar Link Volume 1 Issue 5 newsletter Volume 1, Issue 6 newsletter |
|
|
|
| |
October 5, 2011
Dear Notre Dame Families:
Just a reminder the pet blessing will be tomorrow after school on the elementary school playground. For details click on pet blessing.
Friday marks the mid-point of the first trimester. Conferences are scheduled for Tuesday evening, October 25th and all day on Thursday October 27th. Information about scheduling conferences will be coming soon.
We know there has been some difficulty with Powerschool for Middle School parents. We can merely note that Powerschool has had some tecnical difficulties this week that are simply beyond our control. Please be aware that your children can sign into Powerschool with their user names and passwords, allowing you to see their grades.
We have multiple volunteer opportunities to help in he elementary school. To find out where you are needed click on volunteer opportunities.
Key club, our largest fundraiser, is just around the corner (November 4th). If you would like to volunteer, donate, or buy tickets click here. To learn more about key club click here: Key Club
The last day for the Innisbrook fundraiser will be Friday, October 7. Don't miss your opportunity to get some great items and help ND raise money at the same time. Click Innisbrook to find out more.
Mr. Joe Giganti, a Notre Dame parent, has been involved in the promotion of a film titled the Greatest Miracle. The film received two thumbs up from Bishop Ricken. It will be premiering in Green Bay on October 14th. The first 100 people to attend the premiere and say "We Believe" will receive free admission. To find out more click We Believe.
SCRIP News: If you wish to receive your SCRIP order on Wednesday, then you MUST get your order in by 8:45 on Monday morning. Failing this, your order will be in the following week.
SCRIP hours have changed since last year. The Middle School office sells SCRIP only on Wednesdays from 12:00 until 2:30. You can purchase SCRIP in the SCRIP office from 7:45 until 8:45 on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays (if there are SCRIP volunteers at that time), or from 2:30 to 3:30 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (if there are SCRIP volunteers at that time).
Please note that you can now use SCRIP at Broadway Automotive! A 2.5% contribution will be given on service and maintenance, parts and accessories, Collision Center deductibles, and Green Bay Hertz rental cars. A 1.5% contribution will be given on pre-owned/used vehicle purchases. (These SCRIP offerings will be sold in $5,000 increments).
The last few newsletters will now be archived on the left hand side of the current newsletter. Just click on the link to take you to the newsletter you missed.
In Spirit,
Jeff
Upcoming Events and Important Dates:
Thursday, October 6th- Pet Blessing @ 3:00 Notre Dame Elementary Playground
Friday, October 7th - Early Dismissal (11:30), In-Service
Friday, October 7th - Mid-point of the tri-mester.
October 20th through October27th- The Middle School Scholastic Book Fair
Tuesday, October 25th- Conferences (evening)
Wednesday, October 26th- Fall Fest
Thursday, October 27th- Conferences (no school)
Friday, October 28th- no school
Additional Links:
Faith
Key Club
Athletics and Booster Club
Innisbrook Fundraiser
The Uniform Closet
Market Day
Family Service Hour Requirements
Guru Wanted
Scouting Corner
Family Fun
Volunteer Opportunities
Shop With Scrip.com |
|
 
21st Annual Notre Dame/Our Lady of Lourdes Key Club
Friday, November 4th at the Swan Club in De Pere
Here is a sneak peak at some of the Oral Auction items!
"PUPPY POWER"
That's right! Once again we will have an adorable little bundle of furry joy with a full puppy vet package in this year's auction! We will do our best to get the little pup to school before the auction to make sure all the parents and your children can cuddle, nozzle, and fall in love with our furry friend! The only question to ask is the one people have been pondering for ages -"How much is that doggy in the window?" - and that, my friends, is up to you!
"ST. MAARTEN CONDO: January 7th - 14th"
This is one of a handful of Condo Packages that we will have to offer in this year's Oral Auction. So let me break down the basics. One week in St. Maarten in January....Need I remind you what January is like in Wisconsin? Need I tell you what it could be like if you were on the beach in St. Maarten? I mean seriously folks, this just sells itself!
"FULL ORTHODONTIC PACKAGE"
You know it's coming! You have been talking about it with your dentist/orthodontist for months, maybe years. Why not spend the money and let the schools benefit? Full package from Dr. Lin at Orthodontic Specialists of Green Bay! Enough to make anyone smile!
"MIKE McCARTHY'S BOX AT LAMBEAU"
Why not enjoy the Packers vs. Vikings game on Monday night (Nov 14) from a whole new vantage point? Sixteen (16) lucky people can enjoy the game from the comfort of the McCarthy Box with food and drinks included. GO PACK GO!!!!
"BREWERS DIAMOND BOX SEATS"
Four prime Diamond box seats, second row behind the visitor's dugout. Includes 4 passes to the private NYCE Stadium Club to use before, during and after the game! "Almost to the door" parking pass included.
Too bad the Brewers aren't any good....oh, wait! It's our job to provide the tickets, parking, and access to the awesome Stadium Club for one mutually agreed upon game next season. It's your job to decide who to invite to these seats of a lifetime! These seats are so close that you really have to think about that heckle you usually yell from the nose bleed section! This time the players will actually hear and can reach you!!!!
Please fill out and send in the attached Key Club Support Form to help!
Co-Chairs:
Kelly Smullen (OLoL) kelly.a.smullen@gmail.com
Alisa Conway (Notre Dame) alisa.conway@gmail.com
|
|
|
INNISBROOK FUNDRAISER | |
If you have not placed your Innisbrook order yet, it is NOT too late. The sale has been extended for the final time and will last through next Monday, October 10. There are several items available for purchase in the catalog, many of which would make great Christmas gifts. Our school earns 50% of all catalog sales, so the profit we can make through this fundraiser can add up quickly. If you are interested in looking at some of the wrapping paper, there is a table set up with samples inside the playground doors. At this point our sales is just under half of our school's goal of $20,000. Please help, by taking part in this new fundraiser.
Mr. Kaftan has agreed to spend the night in a tent on the roof of the middle school.
Click the link below to order!
http://www.orderinnisbrook.com/external/schoollink.php?id=102824
Innisbrook Gift Catalog
September 12th - OCTOBER 10th
Innisbrook Fundraiser Facts
Any Questions: Kari Jossart - Innisbrook Chair
kkjoss@tds.net |
|
ATHLETICS & BOOSTER CLUB (ABCC)
| |
GET YOUR GAME ON!
ND Family Football Night
Save the Date: Sunday October 9
Packers VS Falcons
Click here for all the details
|
GuruWanted: | |
Looking for an experienced social networking guru. The Marketing Committee is looking for someone who has experience utilizing multiple social media outlets to share the Notre Dame of De Pere story. This is a GREAT way to fulfill your family service hours! Email us @ ndnewsletterteam@gmail.com if you are interested. |
|
Scouting Corner: | |
In Spring of 2011 many Notre Dame scouts worked with the help of their families to earn various scouting religious medals. Those scouts were invited to celebrate their accomplishments with Bishop Ricken at the Cathedral. Pictured are the scouts that were able to attend the September mass.
Girl Scouts representing Troop 4038 with Bishop Ricken.
3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th grade Troops chose to participate in a Notre Dame Girl Scout overnight at Camp Winnecomac in Kaukauna.
Girl Scout moms helped make the event a success.
 
Different age groups work together on the low ropes team building course.
|
|
Family fun: | |
Izaak Walton Youth Conservation Day
October 8, 2011
A Great way to enjoy the outdoors as a family.
Click here for more details
|
|
FUNDRAISING
| |
Delicious, convenient food
that raises money for our school!
Thank you so much to all those who ordered last month and all of our volunteers. Order forms for the October sale will be arriving in your child's backpack next week. The next order deadline is Monday, Oct. 10. Pick-up will be Thursday, Oct. 13 in the Doski Center ( attached to the ND Middle School) between 3 - 4 p.m.. Yummy specials for the month of October include: Free Breadsticks and seasoning with a $40 order and Free Cheese Ravioli with a $90 purchase. Starting with your October order of $40 or more you can begin qualifying for a free insulated cooler ( Great for picking up your monthly orders !) Check the Market Day website for more details. You can reach Market Day through our school website or www.marketday.com .
*If you have not ordered before, you can enter Promo Code: NEWFIVE at checkout for $5 off when you spend $25 or more.
(Only applies to online orders from new customers)
Volunteers still needed for delivery day! 1-2 hours, once a month. We are in desperate need of volunteers for our October 15th delivery.
If interested please contact: Lisa Urick - lonepine4@tds.net
Thank you for supporting Market Day!
Click the Market Day Logo for additional info
|
|
$crip Program
| |
$crip is a giftcard program...a painless fundraiser. You purchase giftcards online (or through the $crip office) and earn 1% for Notre Dame, with the remaining percentage going toward your $crip commitment.
You must get your SCRIP order in by early Monday morning (by 8:45 a.m.) in order to receive it on Wednesday.
Please find additional information on the links below:
$crip Program Overview
$crip Registration and Shopping Steps
$crip Now Brands
$crip Reload Brands
|
|
Volunteer Opportunity | |
Playground/Lunch Supervision
We are in great need of volunteers to help with supervision during
recesses. We have several opportunities for you to earn your
volunteer hours.
We need help for the following times:
-Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9:00-10:15
-Kindergarten parents to help with lunch on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30-12:35
-Preschool parents to help with lunch on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays from 11:25-12:35
-Lunch help for the 1st-5th grade lunch recess Monday-Friday from 11:25-12:15
Please help us to fill these times so that we do not have to use
teachers to fill them.
|
|
Pet Blessing
October 4th is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (also Mrs. Agen's birthday). Because of scheduling conflicts we will have a pet blessing on October 6th. This custom is conducted in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi's love for all creatures. Please bring your pets and cameras to the elementary school playground at 3:00. (please keep your pets secured and ask permission before approaching another animial). Father Patrick will conduct the blessing.
Blessing of Animals
by Kevin E. Mackin, O.F.M.
As autumn arrives, people in various places may notice something odd.
A procession of animals, everything from dogs and cats to hamsters and even horses, is led to churches for a special ceremony called the Blessing of Pets.
This custom is conducted in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi's love for all creatures.
Francis, whose feast day is October 4th, loved the larks flying about his hilltop town. He and his early brothers, staying in a small hovel, allowed themselves to be displaced by a donkey.
Francis wrote a Canticle of the Creatures, an ode to God's living things. "All praise to you, Oh Lord, for all these brother and sister creatures." And there was testimony in the cause for St. Clare of Assisi's canonization that referred to her little cat!
That there are today over 62 million cats in the U.S. attests to the continuing affection we have for our furry, feathered or finned friends. We've even had a cat called Socks in the White House. Other popular presidential pets range from Abraham Lincoln's Fido to Lyndon Johnson's beagles, named Him and Her.
For single householders, a pet can be a true companion. Many people arrive home from work to find a furry friend overjoyed at their return. Many a senior has a lap filled with a purring fellow creature.
The bond between person and pet is like no other relationship, because the communication between fellow creatures is at its most basic. Eye-to-eye, a man and his dog, or a woman and her cat, are two creatures of love.
No wonder people enjoy the opportunity to take their animal companions to church for a special blessing. Church is the place where the bond of creation is celebrated.
At Franciscan churches, a friar with brown robe and white cord often welcomes each animal with a special prayer. The Blessing of Pets usually goes like this:
"Blessed are you, Lord God, maker of all living creatures. You called forth fish in the sea, birds in the air and animals on the land. You inspired St. Francis to call all of them his brothers and sisters. We ask you to bless this pet. By the power of your love, enable it to live according to your plan. May we always praise you for all your beauty in creation. Blessed are you, Lord our God, in all your creatures! Amen."
|
Attention All Moms:
You are invited to join the Notre Dame Mothers In Prayer group--MIP.
This is a mothers' prayer group that meets weekly to pray together for the ND community needs. The community is welcomed to submit prayer intentions to the group. In addition to praying together the group has Mass intentions prayed for those in the community who lose a loved one, Spiritual bouquets are presented to those with special intentions and the Rosary is lead by the group 25 mins. before the school Masses. In order for us to fully reach out spiritually to our community your help is needed in informing us of those who lose a loved one, are going through a challenging time, or expecting a new family member through pregnancy, adoption or foster care.
To contact us about spiritual needs in our community, growing families, prayer intentions you would like for us to pray for or to get more information about joining MIP please contact ndmomsprayer@gmail.com
"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them."
|
|
Rosary Prayer Group
St. Francis Xavier and St. Mary Catholic Community
are pleased to announce that they will begin a rosary prayer group for an end of the culture of death and to promote the Gospel of Life. All are invited to come! Those who participated in Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary last Lent may find this a nice complement and follow up.
Click here for more information.
|
|
New Roman Missal Translation | |
Introducing the New Roman Missal Translation - at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish. 5 week training sessions based on the USCCB are Mon. 8:45am, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10; Wed. 6:30pm Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28; Thurs. 6:30pm Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; Sat. 8:45am Sept. 10, 17, 24, Oct. 1, 8.
|
|
Christians throughout Green Bay are invited to take part in the international 40 Days for Life effort from September 28 through November 6. In addition to 40 days of peaceful prayer and fasting for an end to abortion, please consider volunteering to pray outside of OB-GYN Associates of Green Bay in the Medical Arts Building at 704 South Webster Avenue during the 40 days, and spread the word to others about this important life-saving effort. This is a 24/7 peaceful campaign of prayer, fasting and walking. Notre Dame, St. Francis and St. Mary has a designated time slot on every Monday in the month of October from 4-6 p.m. To get more information, or to volunteer to help, please contact: Jen Budde 337-6614 or Marie Challe 336-4442. All are welcome!
|
|
***Marian Eucharistic Conference
Bishop Ricken invites participation in event focusing on Mary, Mother of the Eucharist
Bishop David Ricken is inviting Catholics to participate October 7-8, 2011, in a Marian Eucharistic Conference -- "an event that is sure to enrich and strengthen your faith journey with and toward our Eucharistic Lord." Conference theme is "Mary, Mother of the Eucharist."
"We, as Catholics, recognize the Eucharist as the source and summit of our Catholic faith," Bishop Ricken said in a conference message. "With the help of Our Lady, Mother of the Eucharist, those who attend the conference will realize with greater visibility the hidden power of the Eucharist and the important role in which Our Lady serves to unite us with Jesus in the Eucharist."
Conference registration
To register for the conference http://a3.acteva.com/orderbooking/bookEvent/A309666
Conference presenters:
Bishop David Ricken Homilist
Fr. Rocky Hoffman
George Weigel
Mark Forrest
Immaculee Ilibagiza
Fr. John Girotti
Mother Assumpta Long
Fr. Seraphim Michalenko |
|
Uniform Closet | |
The Uniform Closet is located off the teacher's lounge in the elementary school. There is an abundance of nice lightly used clothing in all sizes to choose from. Parents are welcome to shop on school days from 8-3. Just sign in at the elementary school office before you head up to the 2nd floor. All clothing is FREE. Help yourself! If you have cleaned out your own closets and have donations to make, drop them off in the elementary school office. Thank you!
|
|
Notre Dame of De Pere Family Service Requirements | Family Service Hour Requirements 2011-2012
|
|
|
|
|
