Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 Day 1
STAFF SUPERVISION at BREAK |
Nov. 29 - Dec. 10 |
Dec. 13 – Dec. 22 |
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Grade 6-7 Lockers |
Mrs. S. McDowell |
Mr. T. Taves |
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Grade 8 Lockers |
Mr. R. Rempel |
Mrs. E. Berard |
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Grade 9 Lockers |
Mr. W. Koslowsky |
Mr. S. Warkentine |
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HS Cafeteria |
Mrs. L. Hall |
Mrs. A. Neufeld |
Daily Bulletin THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 2010 Day 1
GLOBAL FOCUS BRAZIL
FOOD IN BRAZIL
◄ Rice, black beans, and manioc (a root vegetable like a potato) are the main foods for many Brazilians.
◄ The national dish is feijoada , a thick stew of black beans and pieces of pork and other meats. It is usually served with orange salad, white rice, farofa (ground manioc), and couve (kale), a dark green leafy vegetable that is diced and cooked until slightly crispy.
◄ Almost every kind of fruit grows in Brazil, including apples, oranges, peaches, strawberries, bananas, papayas, mangoes, and avocados. Fruits, vegetables, meat, and flowers are sold at feiras (street markets). These outside markets are set up on streets, which are closed to vehicle traffic. The markets are set up in a new location every day.
◄ Churrasco , chunks of beef cooked on a metal skewer over hot coals, is another favorite. Sometimes the beef is soaked in a mixture of vinegar, lemon juice, and garlic before cooking. This "Brazilian barbecue" is served with rice, potato salad, polenta (fried corn mush), or, occasionally, a fried banana. Gaúchos (cowboys) living in the region of Rio Grande do Sul especially Maté, an herbal tea-like beverage, is enjoyed in many parts of South America. The cup, made from a hollowed-out gourd, and metal bombilla (straw) are carried by gaúchos, hanging from their belts.
General Announcements
● TEACHER QUOTES: Everybody loves to laugh at their teachers, and what better way to remember the goofiness than with teacher quotes? If your teacher says something funny, write it down and bring it to either the High School or Middle School office. It might end up in the yearbook.
● The Perogy Fundraiser: Runs until TOMORROW, Dec.3.
● "Children's Camps International of Steinbach presents High Valley in concert this Saturday in our very own concert hall at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $15 at the door but students can sign up for $10 tickets in the Middle School office. For more information check out highvalleymusic.com."
● The library is holding a book for Mikaela Rempel.
Music
● Grade 9 Band Student Executive: Meeting will be Wednesday, December 8, Day 5, period 3.
● Concert Choir
Thursday Dec. 2 day 1 is SA
● Junior Vocal Jazz meets at lunch today(Thursday) in the choir room.
Sports
● Grade 9 Boys Basketball Tryouts: Friday, December 3, Day 2 @ 3:30 pm.
● Congratulations to the Grade 8 girls volleyball team for tremendous season! We finished the round robin undefeated in the South and continued on to defeated John Pritchard in the Quarter finals, John Gunn in the semi finals to match up with Robert Andrews (undefeated in the North) in the Finals last night. The girls dropped the first game but the second game was dominated by the Hawks to make for an exciting 3rd match. Unfortunately a strong start was not enough to finish the game and strong serving by RA put them ahead for a final score of 25-16. Great work girls!! Thanks…Sandy
Daily Cafeteria Schedule
Monday :
Tuesday :
Wednesday :
Thursday : Hawks Burger and Fries
Friday : NO SCHOOL
Devotional THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 2010 Day 1
Hide and Seek
Matthew 28:11-15 ~ While the women were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day.
Some people today still imagine that the disciples played a game of hide-and-seek with Jesus' body. But a load of facts make that fairy tale impossible to believe. The stone, for example, that sealed the tomb wasn't the kind of stone you skip across a pond. According to textual information and the calculations of two Georgia Tech engineering professors, it might have been a five-foot-high circular stone weighing around two tons. When the tomb was first prepared, a team of laborers likely would have set the stone in place, using a wedge to keep the stone from rolling down a trench that sloped down to the opening of the tomb. When Jesus was buried, the wedge was removed and gravity did the rest, sealing the tomb so it could only be reopened with much noisy grunting by a gang of strong men. That's why the women, on their way to the tomb Easter Sunday morning, wondered who could roll the stone away (see Mark 16:3).
Besides that, the chief priests requested a detachment of soldiers from Pilate, the Roman governor, to guard the tomb. The Roman guard unit could have numbered as many as sixteen highly trained soldiers. Those who entertain the Stolen Body myth suppose that a scared little group of disciples confronted a guard of heavily armed, battle-trained soldiers. The disciples either overpowered the soldiers or snuck past them in their sleep to heave a 2-ton stone up an incline without waking a single man. Then, so the theory goes, the disciples carted off Jesus' body, hid it, and-over the next several decades, endured ridicule, torture, and martyrdom to spread what they knew to be a lie!
That's staggeringly ridiculous!
Harvard law professor Simon Greenleaf lectured for years on how to break down testimony and determine if a witness was lying. He says, "It was ... impossible that [the disciples] could have persisted in affirming the truths they narrated, had not Jesus actually risen from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact."
Like the first Christians, you can have complete confidence that the Christian faith is based on the solid historical fact of the empty tomb and the risen Christ!
Prayer: Dear God – Thank you that you can help me know that Jesus really rose from the dead. Though it’s many years from that moment, we can still know you just like the disciples did.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
By Josh McDowell, www.josh.org, 11/28/2010.