Good afternoon PR Families,

We are so very proud of our OM Teams that worked so hard this weekend and represented Pine Ridge well! See the message and pictures below. Thank you, Mrs. Brace! We appreciate you and all of the hours that you and our fantastic parent/coaches put into this awesome experience for our children. :)

General PTO Meeting tonight at 7:00 pm in the Media Center!

Upcoming:

• Thanks for sending in your change!
  
• See you Friday for our Valentine's Day festivities. :0
• SAVE THE DATE: The PR Auction is MAY 1st! Please see the details below.

Have a great week!

Tamasha

PR Families,

It was a fun, creative, thrilling, sometimes heart-breaking day yesterday at Eastern High School, where 39 Forest Hills Odyssey of the Mind teams and their peers from surrounding school districts presented their OM Long Term solutions and solved challenging Spontaneous problems!

We celebrate each and every student who participated in this year's event. Every team solved their problems, so every team came home winners! There also are many champions who will compete at the OM State Finals Tournament on March 14. Typically the top two teams advance, although additional teams move on when there are seven or more teams competing in a given problem and division.

Thanks again for supporting our students!!

-Ren Brace

PINE RIDGE

Primary Team #1

Brogan Malinowski

Evelyn Keast

Ian Rozek

Wren VanAllsburg

Selah Koller

Audrey Heslip

Isadora Winkleman

Division I, Problem 5 – Gibberish or Not – Who were recognized for their 6th place finish

Lucy Krug

Dexter VanAllsburg

Tyler Smith

Alyssa Griffioen

Jessica Roy

Luke Hooper

Audree VanVliet

Division I, Problem 1 – Longshot Solution – SILVER Medalists and State Finalists!

Charley Sanial

Marley Reiffenberger

Avery Kozial

Maddy O'Donnell

Dheeraj Khandavalli

Darshan Khandavalli

Division I, Problem 3 - The Effective Detective – GOLD Medalists and State Finalists!

Macy Satterthwaite

Ciana Fors

Alec Malinowski

Lexi Nims

Perrin Vandermeer

Julia Fisher

Evee Heslip

*Mia Menzies

Pine Ridge Families,

The PTO Auction committee is excited to invite you to SAVE THE DATE for our 2020 Pine Ridge Auction! Your student will be bringing home information about the auction in the next couple of days. We are looking forward to a great night of fowling, food, and fun-draising! We are also securing auction item donations and lane sponsors at this time. Please contact our committee chair, Britt Metzger, at brittmetzger@gmail.com with any questions regarding the event. Hope to see you there!

- Your Pine Ridge PTO Auction Committee

Please forward as you see fit.

• Please see full information at www.grpl.org/dyer-ives
• Submissions are being accepted from February 1 to February 29
  
• Competition is free to enter and open to poets ages 5 through adult who are residents in Kent County
• One poem per person will be accepted (poem must be original and unpublished)
• Writers whose work is selected will be published in Voices and will be invited to read at the Awards Ceremony during the Festival of the Arts in June
• 2020 National Judge is Keith S. Wilson
• Keith is an Affrilachian Poet and Cave Canem fellow. He is a recipient of an NEA fellowship as well as fellowships/grants from Bread Loaf, Kenyon College, Tin House, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, UCross, and Millay Colony, among others. Keith serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Four Way Review and Digital Media Editor at Obsidian Journal. His first book, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love, was published by Copper Canyon. Keith's work has appeared in Poetry, Elle, The Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Boston Review, Crab Orchard Review, Narrative Magazine, 32 Poems, Arts & Letters, Rhino, and Vinyl.

The “Direct Your Dollars” project is well underway and we are making a significant stride and earning $1000 for simply turning in receipts! Do you have a Forest Hills Foods, D&W, Family Fare, etc receipt that has this image on it? We would love that receipt as we tally up the totals on our way to receiving a check for $1000! It’s quite literally that easy… Send in your receipt to the front office and we take care of the rest. Who doesn’t love free money?! Help out Pine Ridge today by sending any receipts!