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Issue #2 - April 2009

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Students Compete in District Speech Contest

Winners of the District 129 Civic Oration Contest held at Greenman Elementary School on April 28 are: &...
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Peter Pan to Fly Across West Auditorium May 7-9

West Aurora High School drama students are taking "flying" lessons for their upcoming production of "Peter Pan." Their s...
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Math Bowl Adds Up to a Big Success

Goodwin Elementary School student Jacob Chaurize and Freeman students Katrina Kuhn and Elliot Barbel were the individual ...
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Bill to Remove State Financial Penalty on Dist. 129 Taxpayers Closer to Passage

A bill that would benefit School District 129 students by removing the state financial penalty on school districts whose taxpaye...
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Jefferson Student Wins National Science Award

Jefferson Middle School student Sheah Foster recently won a Young Naturalists Award in a national contest sponsored by the ...
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West High Students on Nationally Recognized Robotics Team

A robotics team made up of high school students from West Aurora, Batavia , St. Charles North and IMSA re...
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Goodwin's 40th Birthday Party May 21

To All Goodwin Friends and Family, Lucia Goodwin Elementary School will celebrate its 40th birthd...
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West Aurora Students Excel in State Drafting Competition

West Aurora High School's drafting team excelled in the state drafting competition at Illinois State University recently. ...
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Jefferson Musicians Entertain Senior Citizens at Band/Breakfast

T he Jefferson Middle School band, led by director Lila Fagan, entertained a gym full of senior citizens recently fo...
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West Aurora Students Shine in State Family Career Leadership Contest

West Aurora High School students won several medals recently at the state leadership competition of FCCLA...
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Jewel Social Studies Students Learn About the World

Jewel Middle School students learned about other countries in preparing their presentations for the recent, annual Social S...
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Blackhawk Throws First Pitch at the April 24 White Sox Game

West High senior Gilberto Chaidez threw out the first pitch at the April 24 White Sox game. The National Honor Society and Sp...
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Freeman Third Grade Musical

Freeman Elementary School third-graders cheer the city in the recent musical " Aurora, Our Community". For the show, students...
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Hill Webrangers Helping with "Green" Projects

Rhonda Bauer writes, " Sixty third-graders who are part of the Hill Elementary Webrangers completed a total of 608 online...
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Storms Force Hope Wall Special Olympics Contestants Indoors

Hope Wall students had a good time even though they were forced indoors by rain and storms at the recent Special Olympics eve...
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Grants Bring Historical Literature, Art to Jefferson Middle School

The Jefferson Middle School Library recently received a collection of books recommended for young readers that supp...
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West High Raising Funds for Prom Drinking and Driving Prevention Program

West Aurora High School has teamed with Nicole's Hallmark and Gifts to cover the $800 cost of the annual prom drinking and dri...
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Herget PTO BBQ April 30

The Herget Middle School PTO is sponsoring a Fay's Bar-B-Que from 4:30-7 p.m., April 30, at the school, 1550 Deerpath Road,...
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Jewel 5B's BBQ

The Jewel Middle School PTO is sponsoring a 5 B's Bar-B-Que from 4:30-6:30 p.m., May 7 at the school, 1501 Waterford, Nort...
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Washington Bar-B-Que Fundraiser May 5

Washington Middle School is holding a Bar-B-Que fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m., May 5 to help fund the eighth-grade trip to Great Amer...
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District Urges Legislators to Support Early Childhood Program Funding

Michelle Shabaker, district Early Childhood director, led a team to Springfield recently to urge legislators to support funding...
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The Math Tri-Chairs with Congressman Foster in Washington DC

Kathy Kostos writes- "We recently attended the NCTM (National Council of Teachers Mathematics) National Mat...
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Scholastic Book Fair Coming toJewel Middle School

The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Jewel Middle School . Parents and students can choose from a variety of new hardcover bo...
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Herget Hosts Scholastic Book Fair

A Scholastic Book Fair at Herget Middle School until April 30. Parents are welcome to shop at the Book Fair through April 30 fro...
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Help Us Solve this Mystery 129 Photo

The School District archives contain hundreds of unmarked pictures, like the one below. What is going on in this pict...
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Buzz129: Welcomes Your Stories

Buzz129 news - a celebration of student and staff accomplishments - is now published twice monthly during the school year and...
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