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2. Box Tops & Labels for Education Totals: Team A 2217 Team A (6 th Gr & Connections Teachers) – 2217 Team B 1687 Team B (7 th Gr, Media/Custodial/Cafe Staff) – 1687 Team C 1381 Team C (8 th Gr & Front Office Staff) – 1381 Congrats Team A

3. 3 Members of Hightower Trail’s Design Team will meet Thursday (10/16) morning in the Business Lab at 8:40 a.m.

4. Chess and Checkers Tuesdays 8:00 Ms. Flood’s room 7B3 All levels welcome

5. Friday Mornings in Room 6D1 See Dr. Schmid for a Permission Form

6. Math Counts WILL NOT MEET Wednesday October 22 nd

7. CREATIVE WRITERS – UPDATED DATES & LOCATIONS (WE CAN NOT MEET DURING CONFERENCE WEEK!) Join our club! New members are welcome to join us for any or all meetings. OUR OCTOBER MEETINGs: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014 Ms. Johnson – 7A5 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Remember to bring your permission slip OR make sure to pick one up at the meeting!

8. UPDATED MEETING DATES! We can NOT meet during CONFERENCE Week! WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 *** NEW DATES due to Conference Week *** Ms. Mann & Ms. Smith – MEDIA CENTER 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mission/purpose - To produce, polish, and publish a variety of film/audiovisual media.

9. You are cordially invited to Hightower Trail’s Coming December 5!

10. Attention Running Club!!! During conference week next week, we will NOT run immediately after school. You MUST go home. If you would still like to run, you can come back up to school at 4:30pm to run.

11. Attention FUTURE CITY Members… NO Meeting next week due to Conference Week, early release.

12. BOX TOPS AND LABELS FOR EDUCATION CONTEST TEAM A TEAM A – 6 th Grade and Connections, is The winning team & will celebrate with a Wacky Hat Day on Friday, October 24!!!

13. LUNCH!!! Friday, 17 th October Grilled Chicken Sandwich- Regular or Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich Popcorn Shrimp & Mac N Cheese PB&J Grab and Go Salads: Tuna, Chicken Caesar or Veggie Chef Veggies: Seasoned Fries, Tossed Salad

14. From Administration…. Students, please remember that you need to place all additional purchase items (cookies, chips, juice, etc.) on the top of your lunch tray, so that it can easily be seen by the Café Cashier.

15. Hi, all! Picture retakes for students and faculty will take place Wednesday, 10/22 in the theater.

16. FALL YEARBOOK SALE Don’t miss this amazing opportunity… Limited time offer $10 off! Buy now for $35! Only $5 extra to get your named engrave d on the front cover.

17. Buy personalized TRIBUTE pages now! 8 th grade only Buy soon so you have a guaranteed spot. See link on school webpage for more info. An eighth of a page $40 (fits 1-2 pics) A quarter of a page is $75 (fits 3-4 pics)

18. SAVE THE DATE!!! SCHOLASTIC BOOK HTMS SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR OCTOBER 20-24, CONFERENCE WK

19. CAREER DAY Students, Do you have interesting parents? Do those parents have interesting jobs? Do you ever wonder what your parents do all day while you are at school? If you can answer ‘yes’ to any of these questions, then you should tell your parents to volunteer to be a presenter at the Hightower Trail 2014 Career Day! Career Day is scheduled for Tuesday, November 18 th from 8:00 - 11:30. All interested parties should have their parents email Ms. Norris at Jeni.Norris@cobbk12.org or Dr. Land at Christy.Land@cobbk12.org. Jeni.Norris@cobbk12.orgChristy.Land@cobbk12.org

20. BRING ‘EM!!!

21. Public Safety Awareness Week Ms. Zetta Lowery Thank you to our wonderful crossing guard, Ms. Zetta Lowery, and our own campus police officer, Mr. Bill Kretzmer. We appreciate that you look out for us everyday!

22. WE LOVE OUR GREEN TEAM!!! THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!!!