HOLY CROSS STUDENTS "TICKLED PINK" TO RAISE CANCER 
AWARENESS
Holy Cross Regional Catholic School students will raise cancer awareness beginning September 29 through October with various "pink" activities and events. Organized by the school's Booster and Key Clubs, the kickoff on September 29 will include five unique school games, a bake sale, and a rainbow of ribbons denoting various forms of cancer.
The halls, fields and gymnasium of Holy Cross School will change color on Monday, September 29, as both student body and team athletes don pink. Each team athlete at the following games will play in honor or memory of someone with cancer, not just breast cancer. The gymnasium and path to the school soccer field will be lined with various ribbons - dark blue for colon cancer, teal for ovarian cancer, white for liver cancer, light blue for prostrate cancer, and the list goes on. The game balls will also be bright pink for breast cancer.
- New Covenant @ Holy Cross Varsity Soccer, 4:00 pm - 5:30pm
- New Covenant @ Holy Cross JV Soccer, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
- New Covenant @Holy Cross Middle School Volleyball, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
- New Covenant @Holy Cross Middle School Volleyball, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
The student body shirts proclaim "Holy Cross Cares" and are symbolic of the school's focus on community service, outreach and kindness. A day-long bake sale will benefit the American Cancer Society.
Reminder to all parents ...
FluMist Vaccination is on Wednesday, October 1st.
Consent forms must be turned in by Monday, September 29th if interested.
Warm Up & Holiday Shop with Spirit Wear! 
Our Fall Spirit Wear Sale is going on now through October 15th! Cooler weather is coming, and these items make great Christmas gifts for the extended family! Show your Gael pride and spread the spirit! We have long- and short-sleeved t-shirts, hoodies, fleeces, bags, beanies, hats and a whole lot more! Drop off your order form with cash or check payment to the front office!
Link to Spirit Wear Order Form
The push is "on" for collecting and turning in more "Box Tops for Education" and "Campbell" labels! Sara Luther is clipping away and wants MORE!! She asked that everyone collect and turn in to her as many "Box Tops" and "Campbell" labels as you can gather! Her goal is to send in at least $700 worth before the upcoming deadline. Can she do it?? With all of us helping she can!! Please ask your friends and family to collect these as well and get them in as soon as possible!
Thank you for your help!
Tom Adams
PTO President
Subway Night at the Forest location on Rt. 221,
Friday, October 3rd from 4 PM until 8 PM. Holy Cross Elementary Student Government will earn 5% of all sales that evening. Thanks for your support
Key Club News:
--Calling ALL bakers! We plan to have a bake sale during both lunches and during the games on Monday, September 29th. Also, if you would like to help sell baked goods and 50/50 raffle tickets during one of the games on Monday, September 29th, please let me know. All proceeds will be donated to cancer research.
--We will be making sandwiches after school on Wednesday, October 1st. Please plan to join us and/or send in supplies. [Loaves of 100% wheat bread are needed at this time!] We also collect bags/boxes of healthy cereal-such as, Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios, Raisin Bran, etc. -to be individually bagged for breakfast and/or snacks for the children who visit the Lynchburg Daily Bread.
-- We also need volunteers to serve at the Lynchburg Daily Bread, on Sunday, October 5th from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Middle School students may help, but a parent MUST volunteer with them. This is a wonderful way to earn service hours while helping the needy in our community. So far, no one has signed up to serve.
---Please consider doing what you can. Thanks so much!!!
Pam St. Angelo
pstangelo@hcfaculty.com
CONGRATULATIONS TO GABI BRAXTON, senior at Holy Cross School, who has received a special Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Program for outstanding performance on the PSAT. "Commended students demonstrate outstanding potential for academic success," comments a spokesperson for Nation Merit Scholarship Corporation. "These students represent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advancement of educational excellence in our nation." Well done, Gabi! Your school is proud of your commitment to academic excellence!
Join the "One Family Challenge"
The temperatures may be dropping, but fall events give us the opportunity to show off our school with all its warmth and uniqueness!
We are asking each of our families to invite at least one other family to our upcoming events highlighted in the flier which is linked below. We have our Welcome Wednesday tours on October 22, November 19 and December 10 from 9-10 a.m., the Chili Cook-Off on November 1, and Breakfast with Santa on December 1! Please let Cat Mosley (cmosley@hcfaculty.com) know in advance if you expect any of your guests at specific events. We will have welcome packages and a little thank you gift for you as well.
HC 3 Great Reasons
A few notes from Mrs. Main
NATIONAL LIBRARY CARD SIGN UP MONTH
The month of September is 'National library card sign-up month'. Did you know that the Lynchburg Public library is now free for residents who do not live in the city? Just go on to the city of Lynchburg website, click on library and download the application. I encourage all of our students to 'check out' their free public libraries as there is a treasure of resources and books available that we do not have here in the Holy Cross library.
BOOK EVENTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Save the dates: Scholastic Book Fair will be at Holy Cross from November 7-12!
Barnes and Noble book fair days: Saturday, Dec. 13-Wed. Dec. 17
Help is needed for the Scholastic Fair. Please contact me if you can help; hmain@hcfaculty.com
Stay tuned for more information in the upcoming weeks!!
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Fall Cleaning? Perhaps we can help!
Please consider donating any used items to the Causeworthy collection box in the school parking lot! Each year in Virginia, over half a billion pounds of clothing, shoes and textiles will be disposed of in one form or another. Statistically 88% of this will end up in landfills, yet the EPA shows that over 95% of this is still recyclable. Causeworthy containers placed locally in Central Virginia over the past 12 months have reaped rewards of $30-200 per month per container! Please limit donations to shoes, clothing, books and other textiles.
Summer Trip to Italy in June 2015! 
For 11 days we will visit Rome, Florence, Venice, Sienna, Assisi, Pisa, Lucca and Cinque Terre. Led by local Global Explorers, LLC. and organized by Kaky Bowden. Interest meeting on Wed, Sept 24th at 7pm in Snidow Chapel at LC. Open to anyone! Email Kaky at bowden@lynchburg.edu for details and itinerary. Cost is $3300.00 max, all inclusive. It will be awesome!!!
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