Thank you to all alumni, staff, community, and students who participated in this year's Homecoming celebrations. We started the evening with a spirited volleyball contest between team "Old Blue" and our Mapleton volleyball team. Each game was competitive, with 10 former players (Coaches Molly Dooley, Kiana Moody, and Briena Jensen, staff members Kale'a Galbreath-Ford, Shawn Walker, Kelsi Allen, and Carly Duval, Board member Mizu Burruss, and parents Danell Sundstrom and Andrea Still) showing off their athletic prowess and competitive spirit; however, the students took the win 3 games to 1. Their record is now 7-9 and they have upcoming home games on Tues Oct 8th and Mon Oct 14th.

Competitions continued with our second annual flag football competition. The "Young Sailors" held a lead for most of the first half; however, the alumni team scored a touchdown and conversion to take the lead and never looked back. The students were led by Ramil Beers and Dom Stewart, with two touchdowns each. A number of middle school players earned significant playing time. Thank you to Coaches Zac Burtt for running the sideline crew and Justin Gaston for leading the umpire crew. Staff members Tucker Ford, Lou Burruss, Kelsie Allen, Carly Duval, alumni Caleb Lewis, Jeffrey Bernhardt, Mason Flansberg and parents Kaleb Kallas, Casey Duval, and Tim Moffitt out battled the students to a 32-24 win. We are grateful for all who came to support our Homecoming sports events.

National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 - October 15, recognizes the achievements and contributions of Hispanic Americans who have inspired others to achieve success. It first started as Hispanic Heritage Week under President Lyndon Johnson and expanded to a full month by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. The dates were chosen because September 15 is the anniversary of independence for the Latin American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition, Mexico and Chile celebrate their independence days on September 16 and September 18, respectively.

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If you are interested in working with students as a classroom education assistant, behavior support person, or as a classroom teacher, we would love to hire you! Please help us spread the word. Application link included here, but you can also reach out to Jeron Ricks jricks@mapleton.k12.or.us or Carly and Jamie in the offices.

https://mapleton.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

A reminder that HOOTS is hosting two clinics each week (Tues & Wed) for MS/HS students. Clinics are always free, confidential, voluntary, and available to all students. Clinic teams include a crisis worker and an EMT or RN, services are HIPAA compliant, and HOOTS can provide short term counseling, crisis intervention, basic first aid and community referrals. At the clinics, youth can meet with a professionally trained crisis counselor, an EMT or RN to discuss their needs and options. The team is there to provide extra support to students on a range of topics such as: mental health, physical health, accessing resources, school life, home life, interpersonal relationships, family relationships, substance use or abuse and more. The clinic can also connect students to ongoing resources such as assistance finding long term counseling and getting them signed up for OHP.

If your student or family need support with food, clothing, housing, counseling, or other resources, we have many partnerships that can help. Please contact our new Community Coordinator, Rosie Golden at rgolden@mapleton.k12.or.us or call the front office.

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