Wildcat Weekly

Our hearts go out to the millions of Texans who have been displaced from their homes, jobs, and schools this week due to Hurricane Harvey. It has been heartbreaking to see the news stories of families in danger and the lives of so many being disrupted by this storm. It is also heartwarming to see people coming together to help in any way they can. I am reminded of what our own community went through as a result of a storm last April. The events were devastating and heartbreaking for us all. During this difficult time, Palestine came together with love and support from within this community and with the help of other communities.

As those affected by the hurricane work to get through the coming days and months, I encourage each of us to help out as we are able

and to remember them in our thoughts and prayers.

Larissa Loveless, PISD Director of Public Relations, is coordinating a fundraiser to help victims of flooding caused by the hurricane. Each campus will be collecting monetary donations that will be used in the relief efforts. Those attending our first two home football games will also have an opportunity to donate at the

games.

Palestine Independent School District September 1, 2017 Volume 6: Issue 2

Athletics 2

Campus Happenings 3-8

PISD Food Service 9

Looking Forward 10

Inside this issue:

DISTRICT EVENTS

Friday, September 1

4:30 pm - 9th/JV/V Volleyball vs. Mabank (Home)

Friday, September 1

7:30 pm - Varsity Football vs. Mabank (Home) $1 Hot Dog Night

Saturday, September 2

7:30 am - Boys & Girls JV/V Cross Country @ SFA

Monday, September 4 Labor Day

Student & Staff Holiday

Tuesday, September 5

4:30 pm - 9th/JV/V Volleyball vs. Edgewood (Home)

Go Gold Night

Thursday, September 7 Tennis vs. Madisonville

(Home)

Friday, September 8

4:30 pm - Varsity Volleyball vs. Jacksonville (Home)

7:30 pm - Varsity Football vs. Jacksonville (Home) Youth Football Night/

$1 Drink Night

from the Superintendent: Jason Marshall

Have a great 2017-2018 school year!

Hurricane Harvey

Fundraiser

Monday, September 4, 2017

LABOR DAY

Student & Staff Holiday

Thank you PISD staff for a great

start to the school year!

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Welcome back, Wildcat fans! We are excited to kick off the new school year with a full athletic calendar. Our student

athletes have worked hard in preparation for the new season. Cross Country is ready for their first meet in Union

Grove on Saturday, Volleyball is in full swing with the varsity team competing in the Groesbeck tournament today and

tomorrow, Team Tennis hosted their first home match of the season on Thursday, and varsity football will kick off

their season on September 1st versus Mabank. We encourage our fans to come out and support all our fall sports.

As a reminder, please don’t forget Meet the Wildcats, Monday, August 28th, 7:00 p.m., Wildcat Gym! We look forward

to introducing our football, cross country, fall tennis, and volleyball teams, as well as student trainers, band

members, cheerleaders and Kik Kats. Representatives from the PISD Athletic Booster Club will be available, also, to

answer any questions you may have about memberships and volunteer opportunities.

For up to date information, schedules, and upcoming events, please visit the Athletic webpage at

www.palestineschools.org, Departments, Athletics.

WE WILL PUT FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE INFO HERE….COACH ROBINSON IS WORKING ON THAT…..

In Volleyball action:

The Ladycats played Pittsburg at home last Friday night in their first home game of the season. JVB lost a tough

match in 3 ( 25-13, 18-25, 11-15). JVA defeated Pittsburg (25-22, 22-25, 25-23)! The Varsity girls lost in three (20-25, 17-

25, 17-25). Faith Newman picked up 22 digs. McKenzie King had 22 assists. Destiny Mathews had 10 kills while Shayla

Arthur added 8 kills. The Ladycats will resume play in the Eustace tournament playing at 9 am vs. Mabank in the

Championship bracket.

The Ladycats hosted Alba-Golden Tuesday night. The JVB team fought hard in a 3 game match, but came up short (25

-20, 21-25, 23-25). Our JVA team won in exciting fashion coming from behind in the 3rd set to win (15-25, 25-16, 25-20)!

Our varsity girls showed heart and fight in their 5 game match with Alba-Golden. We came up short, but very proud of

the effort the girls gave (26-24, 15-25, 25-23, 22-25, 12-15). We will be playing in the Groesbeck tournament this Friday

and Saturday!

Go Wildcats Athletic Director: Robby Clark

Palestine Athletics

Boys Cross Country: Congratulations to the boys Cross Country Varsity and JV teams for winning the Union Grove Invitational over the weekend. The Varsity boys defeated 26 teams at the meet with Michael Guzman coming in second out of 206 runners. Other runners were Luis Rangel (fifth place), Cristian Guzman (eighth place), Francis Sis (11th place), Daniel Sanchez (15th place), Garrett Bowden (17th place) and Cristian Castillo (24th place).

The JV Boys defeated several 5A schools to win their division and were led by Alexis Mendoza’s third place finish. Other top 15

finishers were Brian Armenta (seventh place), Michael Chaidez (eighth place), and Michael Flynn (12th place). Great job by both

squads and good luck this weekend at the SFA meet.

Football:

The Junior Varsity Football team defeated Mabank 28 to 7 Thursday night. The Wildcats begin the season 1 and 0. As a Coaching

staff we were very proud of the Team's attitude, effort and hard play. The Wildcats led 14 to 0 at the Half. Christian Hutchinson

threw two touchdown passes. Christian completed one touchdown to Marquis Thompson and one to Tre Calhoun. Mario Gonzales

kicked both extra points. The entire Defense played great the first half allowing no points. The second half the rushing game was

led by Tony Handsborough, Jaylon Conley, and Cameron Spurlock. Jaylon Conley and Cameron Spurlock each scored 1 touch-

down. Tony Handsborough scored on the two point conversion. The Freshman team won their game 28-7.

The Wildcats will travel to Jacksonville September 7th at 7:00 pm.

The Wildcat Varsity Football team will take on the Mabank Panthers tonight at Wildcat Stadium. Kickoff is at 7:30.

“OT with the Wildcats”, will be aired on KYYK postgame. Interviews with coaches and players will be conducted after each home

game from Little Mexico. You are invited to eat out after the game and interact with the coaches and

players.

Volleyball: The Ladycats traveled to Lufkin Tuesday night. Our JVB team was defeated (18-25, 20-25). Our JV team lost (22-25, 19-25). The Varsity girls lost a tough one in 4 (14-25, 24-26, 25-21, 26-28). The girls fought hard making some really big plays at the net. Jabria Simmons led in blocks with 7. Shayla Arthur had 4 blocks and 6 kills. Destiny Mathews led the offense with 9 kills. Mckenzie King had 17 assists on the night. Faith Newman had 11 digs and Jenna Rogers and Ke'Ondra White each added 10 digs. The Ladycats will play Mabank at home tonight with varsity starting at 4:30 pm followed by JV and F in 2 gyms. We look forward to seeing our fans pack the gym!

Tennis: The Palestine team tennis team defeated Mexia 17-2 Thursday night in first home match of the year and the first time to play

under the new lights. Palestine swept all the singles matches and boys doubles matches in the win. On the boys side, players to get wins included Alex Shiller, Isaac Fulgham, Seth Sheeley, Edgar Ayala, Jorge Giron and Hunter Harroff. On the girls side, players to get wins included Monique Ybarra, Camryn Lupo, Serena Coker, Taylor Kelly, Cassidy Lupo and Kassidy Turner. The Wildcat Tennis team will host Madisonville next Thursday, September 7th starting at 4 p.m.

Thank you for all the support of the Palestine Tennis program.

BRING THE HEAT! Whataburger is hosting a “Bring the

Heat” event for Palestine High School on September 7th.

Coaches will be competing against administrators to see

who can eat the most jalapenos in 60 seconds!

This will be an exciting event with band, Kik Kats,

and cheerleaders cheering for their favorite contestant.

The event is open to the public and will start at 6:00 p.m.

Door prizes will be given.

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Palestine High School Principal: Dr. William Stewart

Bobby Stanley and Shane Alford in

Mr. Sloan’s Robotics class building robots.

Mr. Scoggin’s Welding class burning arcs

on a new welding project.

Alexa Sanchez and Aislin Ramirez

taking notes in Mr. Florence’s

Health Science class.

Mrs. Lawson’s, Pre-Ap Chemistry students

working with a Bunsen burner

for their lab project.

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Palestine Junior High School

Principal: Stephen Cooksey

Volleyball in full swing!

Students are

excited about

learning

writing

techniques.

PJH students

learn their way

around the

Science Lab.

LAB

SAFETY

LESSON

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A.M. Story Intermediate

Principal: Jaime Clark

Students learned how to safely view the

Solar Eclipse on August 21, 2017.

Students enjoying the new cafeteria tables!

STORY IS READY TO

TACKLE GOALS!

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Southside Elementary Principal: Grace Mancilla

“Who had the straightest line,

Ms. Gatewood?”

When it’s raining at Southside,

and the floors are wet,

everyone helps keep the students safe!

Students learning in Ms. Massey’s room.

Reading in the tent with Ms. Starnes.

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Northside Primary Principal: Barbara Dutton

Showing our Palestine spirit at

Meet the Wildcats!

Giving our change to help victims

of Hurricane Harvey.

Our AMAZING

PTO moms and dads

are getting ready

for a SUPER year. We love celebrating Northside birthdays!

Ms. Rubalcava’s students are hard at work.

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Washington E.C.C. Principal: Sheila Bradley

While learning how to use

paint and other liquids,

Ms. Carrizales’ class read the book,

"I Ain’t gonna Paint No More."

Then students painted with

shaving cream on the tables.

Mrs. Blank’s class working in small groups.

Mrs. Afanador’s class practicing

how to work in small groups

during math time.

Mrs. Hudson’s class practicing

how to play in stations with a partner.

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Palestine ISD Food Service Director: Mimi Spreen

Free/Reduced applications are online. Parents can access from home computer, their students

iPad, a computer at the campus, or a computer at the library.

www.palestineschools.org click on Departments, then click on Food Services,

Look for Meal App Now – Online Meal Applications link on right side of page.

Parents must fill out a new application EVERY YEAR. If you print out the application from the

PISD Website, it can take up to 10 working days for our office to process the app. If there are

errors on the app, we have to send it back to parent to correct. Online apps prevent mistakes

because the program won’t let the parent submit it if required information is missing. If we

receive it electronically, it takes just a few clicks and the app is processed.

Menus are accessed by clicking on the Nutrislice apple icon (bottom left of page) on the

Food Service page of PISD website or go to www.palestineschools.nutrislice.com.

Meal prices are the same as last year and located on the PISD website.

Each campus will be offering meals to teachers/para’s/admin beginning in September.

An email will be sent with menu options and instructions on how to place your order.

Lunch is only $3.25.

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Looking Forward

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

3 4 Labor Day Student/Staff Holi-day

5 4:30p 9th/JV/V Vol-

leyball vs. Edgewood

(Home) Go Gold

Night

6 7 Tennis vs.

Madisonville

(Home)

5:00p JH Volleyball

vs. Frankston

(Home)

5:00p 9th/JV Foot-

ball vs. Jacksonville

(Away)

8 4:30p Varsity Volley-ball vs. Jacksonville (Home)

7:30p Varsity Foot-

ball Game vs. Jack-

sonville (Home)

Student Night

9 8:00a Girls JH/JV Cross Country @ Grapeland

8:00a Girls & Boys V Cross Country @ Sam Houston

JH Volleyball Grovet-on Tournament

10 11 5:00p JH Volleyball

vs. Madisonville

(Home)

12 5:00p JV/V Volley-

ball vs. Neches

(Home)

13 14 Tennis vs. Athens (Away)

5:00p 9th/JV Foot-

ball vs. Fairfield

(Home)

15 8:00a Girls & Boys JV/V Cross Country @ Lear Park

4:30p 9th/JV/V Volleyball vs. Kilgore (Away)

7:30p Varsity Foot-

ball Game vs.

Fairfield (Away)

16 JH Volleyball Leon Tournament

17 18 7:00p Regular Board Meeting

5:00p JH Volleyball

vs. Fairfield (Away)

19 5:00p 9th/JV/V Volleyball vs. Brownsboro (Away)

20 3:00p Girls JH Cross

Country @ Latexo

21 Tennis vs. Mexia (Away)

5:00p 9th/JV Foot-

ball vs. Van (Home)

22 End 1st Six Weeks

4:30p Varsity Volley-ball vs. Mexia (Away)

7:30p Varsity Foot-

ball vs. Van (Away)

23 8:30a All Girls & Boys Cross Country @ Palestine-Davey Dogwood Invitational

JH Volleyball Mabank Tournament

24 25 Begin 2nd Six Weeks

5:00p JH Volleyball

vs. Athens (Home)

26 5:00p 9th/JV/Volleyball vs. Athens (Away)

27 1:00p All Girls & Boys Cross Country @ Elkhart

28 Tennis vs. Madi-sonville (Away)

5:00p 9th/JV Foot-

ball vs. Kilgore

(Away)

29 7:30p Varsity Foot-

ball Game vs. Kilgore

(Home) Foam Finger

Night

30

September 2017