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St. Henry
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“I set the Lord ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall
not be disturbed.” Psalm
16:8
Since next week is so short – only
two days (not counting the conferences Monday night), we won’t send home an
official newsletter next week. But it’s
possible there will be things to send home in the weekly envelopes, so please
check them anyway. If you haven’t
called the Kellers yet about your children being part of next Saturday’s St.
Henry Christmas Parade float, please do so right away. That number again is
262-593-8368. And since I am on a
reminding bent . . . if you had Ms. Lyons as a teacher, it would be nice if you
could honor her family’s request that you send her a birthday card for her 60th
birthday on November 21. You can either
mail them directly to her or send them to school and we’ll see that she gets
them. Thanks.
Father Bernie and Mr. Ruehlow
(Mike) were hoping that we would have heat by this weekend. Mike then amended that prediction to by next
Tuesday. I hope I’m not going out on the
limb then by saying that we should be toasty warm when everyone comes back from
Thanksgiving break. But just in case,
you still might want to think layers for Monday, the 27th. It’ll be nice to have to take some of them
off.
Speaking of that Monday, the
27th. It’s a Student Council theme
day. Because of the Monday night
Packer game, the youngsters on the Council thought it would be a good day for
their “Sports Theme Clothing Day.” I
added a little in the calendar about what “counts.” You do understand that we would be horrified
if any of you ever felt obligated to go out and buy something so your child
could come dressed for a theme. These
days are completely voluntary. The
youngsters seem to like them, and the ideas come out of their Council meetings.
They are generally easy for us to say “yes” to since they don’t interfere with
learning and they just add a little fun to the school day. But let us know if they prove not so fun for
you! If we would hear that from a number
of you, we would certainly consider curtailing and/or revising them. We haven’t heard negatives so far so we are
presuming no news is good news.
We would like to encourage you to
occasionally check the sainthenryparish.org
website. In the school section, besides
back copies of this newsletter and other information, you can click onto
pictures of the students involved in some of our Student Council days’
activities and the like. Take a peek!
I am sending along two articles
with this newsletter for your perusal.
One is entitled “Latest Drug in Middle School – ‘Dusting.’” I had first considered just sending it to families
with children in grade four or beyond but then thought it might be information
you would want to share with family members or friends with children in that
age group. I often don’t have time to
download attachments from well meaning folks who send them – and I am very
concerned about downloading something with viruses – but for some reason I did
these two articles and thought both of them valuable. The second may strike you as odd coming from
me but the advice
on what to do in an earthquake is so contrary to what most of us have
ever been taught that I decided to share it.
Although Wisconsin is not earthquake prone, some of you vacation in
areas that are or have relatives living in them. The points made in the article seemed
reasonable and life-saving to me.
Thought I should share. May that be some information you’ll never need
to use! Have a wonderful
Thanksgiving! We are so blessed in
so many ways, aren’t we?
BAND NEWS
Christmas is coming!
Let it snow! Let it
snow! Let it snow! The snowfall last week put us in the
Christmas mood! And just in time as we
are starting to work on music for our Christmas Spectacular. Preschool through grade eight will be
performing in the holiday production scheduled for
Grades six through eight are finishing up a mini unit this week
about Latin music and instruments. They
composed their own rhythms, combined them with classmates’, and had the
opportunity to form ensembles while playing instruments commonly found in Latin
music. We will continue this study after
the holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Oestreicher
STUDENTS STUDY NATIVE AMERICANS
Isn’t this a wonderful time of the year? Our blessings are truly endless. It is my prayer that all of you enjoy the
gifts and talents that God has so richly bestowed on each of us.
As a culminating activity to our study of Native Americans in
social studies, we have constructed an Iroquois and a Hopi Native American
village. The third graders have been
quite creative. The teamwork involved
has been great and they have really had fun.
You can see pictures of our creations in process on the St. Henry
website – sainthenryparish.org. In
addition to the villages, each third grader is creating their own Native
American booklet. Look for the booklet
to come home soon.
This week marks the beginning of second quarter. Our Accelerated Reader points will be
different than first quarter. The points
will carry over. I will explain the
program in detail during conferences.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving holiday.
Mrs. Zache
Dates to Put on Your Calendar
NOVEMBER
Sat-Sun 18-19 Parish Holly Berry Fair
Monday 20 Parent-teacher conferences in late afternoon and evening
Tuesday 21
Saturday 25 St.
Henry HASA has entry in Christmas parade which begins at
Monday 27 Student Council Sports Day –any clothing (within dress
code guidelines) that represents any
sports team whether it be the Packers or other pros, St. Henry
Hawks, Park and Rec, etc. acceptable.
Does need to have a logo on it; colors alone not enough.
Wednesday 29 Grade
2 fills liturgical roles at 8:15 am Mass
DECEMBER
Friday 01 Student Council “Bring a Stuffed Animal to School” Day
Sunday 03 Parish “Town Hall” type meeting between the two Sunday
Masses
Tuesday 05 Grade
Seven going to Madison for “The Christmas Carol”
St.
Bernard/St. Henry Sub-committee meeting, computer lab,
Wednesday 06 Play
Group, PC,
HASA
sponsors a St. Nicholas visit
Athletic
Association mtg.,
Friday 08 Grade 7 fills liturgical roles at 8:15 am Mass – Holy Day
of Obligation
Market Day
Saturday 09 Children’s
Cantor Choir sings at
Tuesday 12 Grade
5 fills liturgical roles at 8:15 am Mass – Our Lady of Guadalupe
Education
Commission mtg.,
Wednesday 13 Grades
1-8 leaving for Bethlehem Marketplace at
Thursday 14 School Christmas Program,
Friday 15 Home and School Christmas Store Day
Saturday 16 First
Reconciliation for Grade 2 at
Friday 22
JANUARY
Wednesday 03 School
resumes
Memory
verse for November 27–December 1 Eucharistic Memorial
Acclamation
“Dying you destroyed our death; rising you
restored our life. Lord Jesus, come in
glory!”
First, I'm going to tell you a little about
my family and me. My name is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city, which is
known nationwide for it's crime rate. We have a lot of gangs and drugs. At one
point we were #2 in the nation in homicides per capita. I also have a police
K-9 named Thor. He was certified in drugs and general duty. He retired at 3
years old because he was shot in the line of duty. He lives with us now and I
still train with him because he likes it. I always liked the fact that there
was no way to bring drugs into my house. Thor wouldn't allow it. He would tell
on you. The reason I say this is so you understand that I know about drugs.
I have taught in schools about
drugs. My wife asks all our kids at least once a week if they used any drugs.
Makes them promise they won't. I like building computers occasionally and
started building a new one in February 2005. I also was working on some of my
older computers. They were full of dust so on one of my trips to the computer
store I bought a 3 pack of DUST OFF. Dust Off is a can of compressed air to
blow dust off a computer. A few weeks later when I went to use one of them they
were all used. I talked to my kids and my two sons both said they had used them
on their computer and messing around with them. I yelled at them for wasting
the 10 dollars I paid for them.
On February 28 I went back to the
computer store. They didn't have the 3 packs, which I had bought on sale so I
bought a single jumbo can of Dust Off. I went home and set it down beside my
computer.
On March 1st, I left for work at
I am a police officer and I had
never heard of this. My wife is a nurse and she had never heard of this. We
later found out from the coroner, after the autopsy, that only the propellant
from the can of Dust off was in his system. No other drugs. Kyle had died
between
I found out that using Dust Off is
being done mostly by kids ages 9 through 15. They even have a name for it. It's
called dusting--a take-off from the Dust Off name. It gives them a slight high
for about 10 seconds. It makes them dizzy. A boy who lives down the street from
us showed Kyle how to do this about a month before he died. Kyle had showed it
to his best friend and told him it was cool and couldn't hurt you because
it’s just compressed air. It can't hurt you. His best friend said no.
Kyle was
wrong. It's not just compressed air. It also contains a propellant called R2.
It's a refrigerant like what is used in your refrigerator. It is a heavy gas,
heavier than air. When you inhale it, it fills your lungs and keeps the good
air, with oxygen, out. That's why you feel dizzy, buzzed. It decreases
the oxygen to your brain and to your heart. Kyle was right. It can't
hurt you. IT KILLS YOU.
The
horrible part about this is there is no warning. There is no level that kills
you. It's not cumulative or an overdose; it can just go randomly, terribly
wrong. Roll the dice and if your number comes up you die. ITS NOT AN OVERDOSE.
It's Russian Roulette. You don't die later. Or not feel good and say I've had
too much. You usually die as you're breathing it in. If not you die within 2
seconds of finishing "the hit." That's why the straw was still in
Kyle's mouth when he died. Why his eyes were still open. The experts want to
call this huffing. The kids don't believe it’s huffing. As adults we tend to
lump many things together. But it doesn't fit here. And that's why it’s more
accepted. There is no chemical reaction, no strong odor. It doesn't follow the
huffing signals. Kyle complained a few days before he died of his tongue
hurting. It probably did. The propellant causes frostbite. If I had only
known…
It's
easy to say hey, it's my life and I'll do what I want. But it isn't. Others are
always affected. This has forever changed our family's life. I have a hole in
my heart and soul that can never be fixed. The pain is so immense I can't
describe it. There's nowhere to run from it. I cry all the time and I don't
ever cry. I do what I'm supposed to do, but I don't really care. My kids are
messed up. One won't talk about it. The other will only sleep in our room at
night. And my wife, I can 't even describe how bad she is taking this. I
thought we were safe because of Thor. I thought we were safe because we knew
about drugs and talked to our kids about them.
After
Kyle died, another story came out. A probation Officer went to the school
system next to ours to speak with a student. While there, he found a student
using Dust Off in the bathroom. This student told him about another student who
also had some in his locker. This is a rather affluent school system. They will
tell you they don't have a drug problem there. They don't even have a dare or plus
program there. So rather than tell everyone about this "new" way of
getting high, they hid it. The probation officer told the media after Kyle's
death and they, the school, then admitted to it. I know that if they had told
the media and I had heard, it wouldn't have been in my house.
We need to get this out of our homes
and school computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new that ”professionals"
know about. It just isn't talked about much except by the kids. They all seem
to know about it. April 2nd was one month since Kyle died. April 5th would
have been his 15th birthday. And every weekday, I catch myself sitting on the
living room couch at
Go to www.snopes.com and type in dusting, in the search box and read more about it. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/dustoff.asp
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This is very interesting - different from what we have been told,
but it makes sense! Please take the time to read this.
EXTRACT
FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief
and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the
world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save
lives in an earthquake.
I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue
teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a
member of many rescue teams from many countries. I was the United Nations
expert in Disaster Mitigation for two years. I have worked at every major
disaster in the world since 1985, except for simultaneous disasters.
In 1996 we made a film which proved my survival methodology to be
correct.
The Turkish Federal Government, City of Istanbul , University of
Istanbul Case Productions and ARTI cooperated to film this practical, scientific
test. We collapsed a school and a home with 20 mannequins inside. Ten
mannequins did "duck and cover," and ten mannequins I used in my
"triangle of life" survival method. After the simulated earthquake
collapse we crawled through the rubble and entered the building to film and
document the results. The film, in which I practiced my survival techniques
under directly observable, scientific conditions, relevant to building
collapse, showed there would have been zero percent survival for those doing duck
and cover. There would likely have been 100 percent survivability for people
using my method of the "triangle of life." This film has been seen by
millions of viewers on television in Turkey and the rest of Europe, and it was
seen in the USA , Canada and Latin America on the TV program Real TV.
The first building I ever crawled inside of was a school in Mexico
City during the 1985 earthquake. Every child was under their desk. Every child
was crushed to the thickness of their bones. They could have survived by lying
down next to their desks in the aisles. It was obscene, unnecessary and I
wondered why the children were not in the aisles. I didn't at the time know
that the children were told to hide under something.
Simply stated, when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings
falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a
space or void next to them. This space is what I call the "triangle of
life". The larger the object, the stronger, and the less it will compact.
The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the
probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be
injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings on television, count the
"triangles" you see formed. They are everywhere. It is the most
common shape, you will see, in a collapsed building. They are everywhere.
TEN TIPS
FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY
1) Most everyone who simply "ducks and covers" when
buildings collapse are crushed to death. People who get under objects, like
desks or cars, are crushed.
2) Cats, dogs and babies often naturally curl up in the fetal
position. You should too in an earthquake. It is a natural safety/survival
instinct. You can survive in a smaller void. Get next to an object, next to a
sofa, next to a large bulky object that will compress slightly but leave a void
next to it.
3) Wooden buildings are the safest type of construction to be in
during an earthquake. Wood is flexible and moves with the force of the
earthquake. If the wooden building does collapse, large survival voids are
created. Also, the wooden building has less concentrated, crushing weight.
Brick buildings will break into individual bricks. Bricks will cause many
injuries but less squashed bodies than concrete slabs.
4) If you are in bed during the night and an earthquake occurs,
simply roll off the bed. A safe void will exist around the bed. Hotels can
achieve a much greater survival rate in earthquakes, simply by posting a sign
on the back of the door of every room telling occupants to lie down on the
floor, next to the bottom of the bed during an earthquake.
5) If an earthquake happens and you cannot easily escape by getting
out the door or window, then lie down and curl up in the fetal position next to
a sofa, or large chair.
6) Most everyone who gets under a doorway when buildings collapse
is killed. How? If you stand under a doorway and the doorjamb falls forward or
backward you will be crushed by the ceiling above. If the door jam falls
sideways you will be cut in half by the doorway. In either case, you will be
killed!
7) Never go to the stairs. The stairs have a different "moment
of frequency" (they swing separately from the main part of the building).
The stairs and remainder of the building continuously bump into each other
until structural failure of the stairs takes place. The people who get on
stairs before they fail are chopped up by the stair treads - horribly
mutilated. Even if the building doesn't collapse, stay away from the stairs.
The stairs are a likely part of the building to be damaged. Even if the stairs
are not collapsed by the earthquake, they may collapse later when overloaded by
fleeing people. They should always be checked for safety, even when the rest of
the building is not damaged.
8) Get Near the Outer Walls Of Buildings Or Outside Of Them If
Possible - It is much better to be near the outside of the building rather than
the interior. The farther inside you are from the outside perimeter of the
building the greater the probability that your escape route will be blocked.
9) People inside of their vehicles are crushed when the road above
falls in an earthquake and crushes their vehicles; which is exactly what
happened with the slabs between the decks of the Nimitz Freeway. The victims of
the San Francisco earthquake all stayed inside of their vehicles. They were all
killed. They could have easily survived by getting out and sitting or lying next
to their vehicles. Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to
get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them. All the crushed cars had
voids 3 feet high next to them, except for the cars that had columns fall
directly across them.
10) I discovered, while crawling inside of collapsed newspaper
offices and other offices with a lot of paper, that paper does not compact.
Large voids are found surrounding stacks of paper.
Spread the word to everyone YOU care about and save someone's life!