Good afternoon.

I am Michelle Shoemaker.

And I am Matt Willis.

Welcome to this afternoon’s segment of St. Mary’s school news.

 

This morning the eighth grade class ministered the 8:10 a.m. high

school Mass which was planned by Sister Anita. Father Lydell Lape

celebrated the Mass. John Hurley read the day’s scripture readings and

John McCarville read the petitions. Ministers of the Eucharist were Katie

Cameron, Joe Pongratz, Stacey Zakrzewski, Lyle Berryman, and Tom

Fletcher.

Several SMH students had traveled to Norfolk on Sunday, November

4th to be trained as lectors and Extra-ordinary Ministers of the Eucharist

for St. Patrick’s Parish in the Omaha Archdiocese. They returned to

Norfolk on Tuesday, November 6th, to attned a Mass at 7:30 p.m. at St.

Mary’s Church in Norfolk for the mandation ceremony. New lectors are

Stevn Binkerd, Jed Givens, Aaron Troester, and Ashley Braun. The new

EME’s are Dan Ascherl, Lyle Berryman, Brooke Earley, Tom Fletcher, Brent

Kelly, Adam Koenig, Kiel Neumann, Michelle Shoemaker, Jessica

Timmerman, Matt Willis, and Stacey Zakrzewski.

Congratulations goes out to the one-act play team for placing second

at the Niobrara Valley Conference one-act competition at Stuart on

Monday with the play “Do Not Go Gentle.” A public performance will be

held at St. Mary’s High School gym on December 2.

In class news this week the kindergarten children have been busy

making and tallking about Indians They have also been counting the days

until Thanksgiving and blending letters to make news words. The

kindergarteners said the week has been fun and they are all looking forward

to Thanksgiving.

Last Friday the SMH Student Council sponsord a junior high dance

from 7:00 until 10:00 p.m. According to Mrs. Atkeson, Student Council

sponsor, the turnout was “Very good. Everyone seemed to enjoy

themselves.”

On Monday the St. Mary’s junior high and high school students

attended the Veteran’s Day program at O’Neill High School. SMH Principal

Jim Troshynski presented diplomas from St. Mary’s High School to

veterans Mellvin L. Blum, James E. Gallagher, and Andrew Joseph Ramold.

Congratulations to all of the vaterans who received dipoomas that day!

The St. Mary’s cheerleaders have been busy. Members of the

cheerleading squad include Captain Shannon Holz, seniors Mary

Kersenbrock and Ashley Braun, sophomore Emily Walnofer, and freshmen

Rachael Gray and Courney Petersen. The cheerleader’s sponsor is Mrs.

Denise Litz.

The cheerleaders were busy during the football seaoson as they

performed on several occasions including Homecoming when they

performed a dance composed by Shannon Holz and Ashley Braun. The

girls have and stunts and dances to a new level of extreme which involves

the one-person stunt throw. We hope to see more of this in the future.

St. Mary’s has one member, Alex Ascherl, on the O’Neill Eagle junior

high wrestling team this year. Alex traveled to Creighton last night and

won a match and lost a match. Alex and his team will participate in the

Plainview Invitational tomorrow, Thursday, November 15, at 3:30 p.m.

Good luck, Alex!

It is once again that time of year for wrestling to begin. St. Mary’s will co-op with

the O’Neill Public school again for this year’s season. The 2001-2002 wrestling season

will officially start this Friday with a potluck supper at St. Patrick’s Parish Hall, at 6

o’clock p.m.

Wrestlers from St. Mary’s include, senior Aaron Troester, juniors Dan Ascherl

and Tim Krugman, and sophomore Tyler Cole. We wish the wrestling team good luck on

their upcoming season.

The high school girls’ basketball tam started practice Monday,

November 12. The coaches this year are head coach Jim Troshynski and

assistant coach M.J. Kersenbrock. Sixteen girls are out for basketball this

year. The girls only have a few practices before thier first game on

Thursday, November 29 at Clearwater starting with a junior varsity game at

5:00 p.m.

The Cardinal Basketball team is loking foward to a successful season

returning a lot of experienced players. The Cardinals will look to improve

upon a 14-8 record from the last two seasons and have a goal of making

some noise at the state tournament. The coaches will remain the same

this season with Mike Pardun returning as the head coach

with Tony Allen assisting him. Numbers for the team are looking good with

19 players participating -- one senior, seven juniors, eight sophmores, and

three freshman.

The Cardinals’ first game is at the Clearwater Cardinals’ court on

November 29, followed the next night with a game against the Orchard

Orioles in Orchard.

We want to thank _________________ and __________________ for

sponsoring St. Mary’s school news this week. School dismisses for

Thanksgiving vacation next Wednesday at 1:30 and resumes again on

Monday the 26 of November. We will join you again in two weeks for more

news from St. Mary’s. This has been Matt Willis and Michelle Shoemaker

with the St. Mary’s school news. Thanks for listening and have a good

afternoon.