Another successful tournament right before Districts. Alycia Stainbrook placed 5th in Novice Storytelling Lexis Fleshner placed 6ty in Novice Drama Ally Ehlers and Emersen Christensen placed 4th in Novice Duet. Gabe Ehlers, Lexis Fleshner, and Rylee Heinrich placed 1st on Varsity Readers Theater. As a team we placed 7th out of 26 schools! #TrojanPride

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice! Happy Halloween from Parkston Elementary!!

❤️ Help Us Make the Holidays a Little Brighter! 🦃🎄

We’re looking for families, teams, organizations, businesses, and community members who would be willing to provide a holiday basket meal for a family in need for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or both!

We’ve had a few forms come back already, and we’re hoping to get the rest in by next week. Once we know how many families need assistance and how many sponsors we have, we’ll match them up!

Here’s how it works: ❤️ You let us know if you’d like to help with Thanksgiving, Christmas, or both. ❤️ Once the forms are returned, we’ll assign you a family and let you know how many adults and children are in the household. ❤️ You prepare the meal basket and return it to the school, where it will be delivered to the family.

We do our best to help as many families as possible, but it all depends on the number of people willing to sponsor a meal. Every family we can match with a sponsor is one more family that gets a little extra help during the holidays.

If your family, team, organization, business, or group would like to participate, please reach out! We’ll get a form to you and answer any questions you may have.

📧 Contact: colleen.metti@k12.sd.us

Thank you for helping our community take care of one another. ❤️

Good grows here! 🌱

**Thanksgiving and Christmas Meal Assistance Forms**

This is a two-part form. The **top portion is for families who would like to receive meal assistance**, and the **bottom portion is for individuals, families, or classrooms who would like to help**.

If you are a student who needs assistance, please take a form home for your family to fill out. Extra forms are available in both the elementary and high school offices. You can pick one up from either office or stop down and get one from Mrs. Mette.

**All forms must be returned by Friday, November 6th.** No forms will be accepted after this deadline, so please make sure they are turned in on time.

Thank you to everyone who helps make sure our Trojan families have what they need for the holidays!

**Junior Class Sheet Sales!**

Our sheet sales are happening now, and we expect orders to arrive just in time for the holidays, as long as we get all orders submitted on time!

These sheets are only available through our junior class fundraiser every other year, so if you've been asking when they would be back, **this is your year!**

Contact any junior or email me at colleen.mette@k12.sd.us, and we'll help you get your order placed.

Don't miss out! Once this sale is over, you'll have to wait another two years for sheets. Next year will be the year for painted P's!

Thank you for supporting our junior class!

Congratulations to the Oral Interp season on ANOTHER successful tournament. All of these students continue to learn and grow!

In Humor, Lexis Fleshner received a superior and Gabe Ehlers received a superior plus.

In Serious, Rylee Heinrich received a superior plus and Zach Ehlers received a superior plus.

In Storytelling, Zach Ehlers received a superior, Kam Brumley received an Excellent, Emma Konrad received an excellent plus, and Alycia Stainbrook received a superior plus.

In Duet, Ally Ehlers and Emmy Christensen received a superior.

In Poetry Nora Shepardson received an excellent plus and Emma Konrad received a superior.

In Non Original Oratory, Brody Kaufman received a superior.

In Reader's Theater, Lexis Fleshner, Gabe Ehlers, and Rylee Heinrich received a superior and Alycia Stainbrook, Ally Ehlers, Emmy Chirstensen, Teri Fink, and Nora Shepardson received an Excellent.

We will be travelling to Sioux Falls on Friday and DISTRICTS are next week Wednesday in Mitchell!

HUGE congratulations to the Parkston FFA Chapter's Horse Evaluation team! After two long days and early mornings of competition, they earned AWESOME results! They placed 8th in the NATION and Gold as a team. As individuals Abby Goehring earned Gold; Kahris Tapio, Emelia Tapio, and Kenley Henke earned silver. Additionally, all four girls earned their National Horse Judging Team Coaches Association (NHJTCA) Equine Management and Evaluation Certification by earning over 70% of the points in Placings, Keep/Cull, and Oral Reasons as well as over 70% on their certification knowledge exams! We are all SO proud of you and your accomplishments!

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR HOME!! If you have lightly used shoes you are willing to donate, there is a tote at the T in the 6-12 hallway. Our Home receives money each pair of shoes that are donated. The shoes are cleaned up and repurposed to those in need. Please drop off the shoes by this FRIDAY, Oct. 30th!!

Congratulations to the Ethan Parkston XC Team on a great season! Results from the State Meet today at Hart Ranch!
Nora Shepardson - 57th
Emma Perry - 58th
Emmy Christensen - 81st

Congratulations Competitive Cheer on placing 2nd in Small Stunt/Tumble Division and 6th Overall!! Congratulations to our All State Athletes Claire Sommer and Tori Lindeman!

Congrats to the Oral Interp team on another great tournament! Serious Lexis-superior plus (2nd place) Zach-superior (3rd place) Humor Payton-excellent plus Gabe-superior (3rd place) Lexis-superior (2nd place) Ally-superior Non O Brody-Excellent Plus Storytelling Zach-excellent plus Emma-excellent plus Kam-excellent plus Poetry Emma-excellent plus

Best of luck to the Competitive Cheer team as they take the mat to compete at State this evening at the Monument. Competition starts at 6pm CST. The team will take the mat around 6:30pm CST. Watch on SDPB online! https://www.sdpb.org/hsactivities/sports/cheerdance/

ALERT: Avera (school nurse) will be conducting a Flu Shot Clinic at school on Thursday, October 29th. Any parent/guardian wishing to have their PK-12 child participate will need to return the permission form to the school nurse’s office, filled out with ALL relevant information, insurance, and payment, by Wednesday, October 28th. Shots WILL NOT be given without a completed form. Forms will be sent home with PK-5. 6-12 forms are available in the HS office.

Reminder: SDHSAA sets admission prices for all post-season FB and VB games. Adults: $7 & Students: $5. Local activity passes DO NOT APPLY. All K-12 Students and adults must pay an admission fee to attend post-season games.

There is a Pep Rally today at 2:30 for XC, Comp Cheer, and all Fall sports in the Armory.

Also, a reminder that there is NO SCHOOL Friday, Oct. 23rd.

The Oral Interp team had HUGE SUCCESS In Humorous, Lexis Fleshner and Gabe Ehlers each received a Superior Plus. In Dramatic, Rylee Heinrich received a Superior Plus and 2nd place and Zach Ehlers received an Excellent Plus In Duo, Ally Ehlers and Emmy Christensen received an Excellent Plus In Non-Original Oratory, Brody Kaufman received an Excellent. In Poetry, Emma Konrad received a superior and Nora Shepardson received an Excellent Plus. In Storytelling, Emma Konrad received a Superior, Alycia Stainbrook received a Superior, Kam Brumley received an Excellent, and Zach Ehlers received an Excellent Plus. In Readers Theater, the team of Alycia Stainbrook, Ally Ehlers, Nora Shepardson, Emmy Christensen, and Teri Fink received an Excellent. The team of Gabe Ehlers, Lexis Fleshner, and Rylee Heinrich received a superior plus and 1st place!! As a team, the Parkston Oral Interp team placed 1st overall!!

It is NEVER too late to sign up to do community Pep Band with the Parkston High School Pep Band! We would LOVE to have you at our next game, Thursday October 22nd!

If interested, please fill out the Google Form so we can get the information out to you:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfet2TTUpb9BQdgczPzB3JI8tvzREUi_2Khfke1wqep9f-iuw/viewform?usp=header

HOSA is hosting their first blood drive of the year on Tuesday, October 27th at the Trojan Fitness Center. Scan the QR code or go to www.lifeservebloodcenter.org to sign up!