Personality Portraits by Emily Myerow

Personality Portraits by Emily Myerow:
Graciela, Miguel & I visited the www.SaxonvilleStudios.com in Framingham, MA yesterday. The artists have an open exhibition this weekend, and of course we walked and talked with many of them. Cousin Emily (Goldfield side) is a professional artist and I love her intuitive art and presentation of perspective. She captures individual nuance and insight; I enjoy art with meaning. Please visit her studio today. Directions are at the Saxonville Studios website.
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Soaring...

Although Jake's plan to arrive at graduation via helicopter was thwarted by a New England storm, he took it in stride and he and his fellow graduates heard amazing writeups about themselves written by caring and compassionate teachers.  As the speakers spoke, the storm drummed overhead and passed allowing Jake to make a spectacular exit flying himself, his mom and Raine from the graduation ceremony.  And Jake is just one of the amazing students who participated in the graduation ceremony.  The entire class is made up of extremely talented young men and women who put their all in everything they do from flying to roller coasters, from to poetry to community service, from equestrian to drama, from boat builders to artists....this class is both talented and passionate about their dreams and beliefs.

Keep soaring class of 2013!

Sparhawk High School Class of 2013 Graduation

On Monday, June 17th, Sparhawk School hosted its High School Graduation for the Class of 2013.  Although the weather did not cooperate 100%, the thunderous rain storm waited until all were seated and then passed overhead as the graduates and their guests participated in a very well orchestrated and personal ceremony.

Best of luck to the Sparhawk Class of 2013...my you find your dreams and carry the Sparhawk spirit with you as you start this next phase.  You are all very compassionate and gifted individuals who came together as one and helped build and make the Sparhawk community what it is today.

Sparhawk Spotlight Spring 2013 Production

This past week, Norah took her band of spotlighters to the stage in their spring production of The Pajama Game.  Many thanks to the cast, crew, those helping out back stage and in the front office (Daniela, Shannon, Kaitlyn, Tori, Jen, Cheryl), the orchestra pit (Kathleen, Joe), Gino for doing everything Gino does and Norah for putting all her effort into creating a fun and spirited show for all to enjoy.

Stop-n-Shop A+ Rewards...

We are off an running and after a month we have earned $7.44 in Stop-n-Shop A+ Rewards money.  The program runs thru the end of March so there is still plenty of time to participate.  Not sure what it is?  Well check out the details on the PTO web site's Stop-n-Shop page.  It is simple to participate...you just need to register your Stop-n-Shop card using you card number and selecting Sparhawk as your school choice (Sparhawk code is 05245).  It takes up to 7 days for your card to be registered and after that, any qualifying purchase generates a donation from Stop-n-Shop which will be given to the Sparhawk PTO in the spring.

So register your card and watch the dollars grow!

Halloween Party

A fun time was had by all....

School Cancellation Alerts

You can get text messages to your mobile device for school cancellations.  To register for school closing alerts sent out by our local Boston CBS station, go to:
        cbslocal-school-closings
This will bring you to the SCHOOL CLOSINGS TEXT MESSAGE REGISTRATION page.  If you are already registered with CBSBoston, you can login right from here, otherwise, click on the registration link and you will be brought to the first registration page.  It is a brief form that you fill in.  After you click on the Create button, you will be brought to another form where you enter a lot of the same stuff, but also get to enter your mobile number and your email address.

Once you have completed the form and have signed up, if you signed up with a mobile device, you will receive a text message with an activation code that you enter on the page you did the registration from (technically a different page...but it is the next page in the activation process).  You will also be sent an email confirmation.

Now that you have registered....
Since Sparhawk School is closed whenever the Amesbury public schools are closed, you can go to the School Closings link (you must be logged in to get to the School Closing page).  Once there, click on the Public School Edit link.  From there, you can check off which ever public school systems you want to track...check Amesbury to get the Amesbury public school cancellations...which are also the Sparhawk School cancellations.