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Tuesday, September 15, is Picture Day!!!We will be taking individual pictures of students for the yearbook on Tuesday, September 15. Students were given order forms offering a choice of packages to purchase. All students should have their picture made whether they are going to purchase or not. Please note - there is a new company, Strawbridge, doing yearbook pictures this year.
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NC Arts In Education Week
Our governor has proclaimed September 14-20 NC Arts in Education Week. Thank you Governor McCrory, for being the first Governor to recognize Arts in Education Week and the abiding value of ensuring that every child in North Carolina has a complete education that includes arts training, arts integration, and arts exposure.
The arts are an essential part of a complete education, no matter if it happens in the home, school, or community. Students of all ages – from kindergarten to college to creative aging programs – benefit from artistic learning, innovative thinking, and creativity. Celebrating National Arts in Education Week is a way to recognize this impact and share the message with friends, family, and communities.
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MPMS PTO FUNDRAISERStudents brought home on Wednesday, September 2, five School Zone Fundraiser packs. The School Zone Pack is a program that will save everyone money! Each School Zone Pack contains both a Discount Card and a Coupon Sheet that is a collection of the most popular merchants in our local area.The customer receives two items when they purchase the package from the student. The first item is the COUPON SHEET; the second item is the DISCOUNT CARD. The person then may use the Discount Card over and over again, and then use the coupons to save even more money. Each student is responsible for returning the items not sold. Cost of School Zone package is $20.00. Students collect cash/check at time order is placed. Turn in dates are September 11, September 18, and September 25. Click here to see a list of prizes that students can win!
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You Are Invited to Curriculum NightTuesday, October 6
6:30 - 8:00 pmSchedule of Events6:00 - 6:30 pm: AIG Meeting in the Auditorium6:30 - 6:50 pm: PTSO/Parent Meeting in the Gym6:50 - 8:00 pm: Grade Level Team VisitsPlease Join Us!
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Summer Reading CelebrationPlease join us in congratulating students who completed the summer reading program. Over 250 students read three or more books this past summer. At the end of last school year, students were given handouts in their report cards and were asked to complete the program. Requirements included having students self-select both fiction and nonfiction books from a recommended reading list. Then students completed specific activities that correlated with their books. All work was due to English Language Arts teachers upon return to school this year. In celebration, we are had an ice cream sundae party on school grounds.
Click here to see pictures from the celebration.
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Soc-tober
The MPMS Student Council is sponsoring Soc-tober next
week, October 27-30. Students are asked to donate new socks and Student Council
will be giving them to a local homeless shelter. Collections will be done via
homeroom each day during Venture. Grade level posters will be updated daily (to
be hung in grade level hallways). There will be Pizza Parties for the winning
Venture classes in each grade level. Crazy Sock Friday will be observed on
October 30. To watch the Kid President Socktober announcement, please CLICK HERE
. Additional resources and videos can be found at HERE
. Thanks for your support!!
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Voices From the Titanic: Exploring History Through A Poet's Eyes
Mt. Pleasant Middle School Media Room
Tue * Oct. 13 @ 7PM
8345 Hwy. 49 North, Mt. Pleasant
The iconic story of the RMS Titanic continues to capture imaginations young and old. North Carolina author Allan Wolf will feed that interest with an engaging presentation based on his award-winning book, The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic through storytelling, music, poetry, and audience participation. Sponsored by the Mt. Pleasant Friends of the Library.
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Beta Club Inducts 76 New MembersOn Thursday, October 1, the Mount Pleasant Middle School Beta Club inducted 76 new members. The Induction Ceremony honored the seventh and eighth grade students who had been invited to join the National Junior Beta Club. They received this honor by meeting the requirements of high academic excellence, good character and creditable service. To maintain membership in the National Junior Beta Club, students must have a 95 or higher cumulative average, be on gold level and participate in service projects thoughout the academic year. Sponsors for the club are Mrs. Little, Mrs. Stoker, and Mrs. Holshouser.
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Curriculum Night was held on Tuesday, October 6The evening started with a meeting of the AIG parents in the auditorium followed by the PTSO meeting in the gym. Mr. Farrar welcomed the parents, Ms. Hoyle told of upcoming school events, and Tina Conder, PTSO president, reported that the School Zone Card Fundraiser was quite a success - $25,000 worth of cards were sold with the school receiving 50% of the money. The evening ended with the parents and students visiting their teams and participating in activities that the students had done in class. Everyone really enjoyed the event!
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MPMS Spirit Week was held October 12-16For pictures from each day, click on the name of the theme:Monday - Military (Camo) DayTuesday - Twinsie DayWednesday - Pink Out DayThursday - Throw Back Thursday (Retro)Friday - Blue & Gold Day
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Softball Team Wins Conference TitleCongratulations to our softball team on their amazing first place undefeated finish in the conference for the season. The conference championship game ended after the 9th inning with a loss, but our girls played a tremendous season. The team scored 163 runs this season and only allowed 25 runs in 13 games. Congratulations again on a great season!
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8th Grade Students Compete With High School Band
On October 17 the Mt. Pleasant High School marching band participated in the Mooresville Band Competition. The show this year is titled “Fire” and is specifically a show to remember and honor the ladies and gentlemen that serve our communities, as well as communities everywhere. Here are the placements: Percussion – 1st place; Marching – 1st Place; Color Guard – 1st Place; General Effect – 1st Place; Overall Class (out of 4 bands) – 1st Place; and Grand Champion (out of 15 bands)!!!!!!!!The season started with Rookie Camp in May, where all those interested started learning the basics of marching. June and July were optional band workouts and opportunities to learn the music for the show. The very first Monday of August started the 2 weeks of full band camp. The students worked from 8am to 8pm Monday through Friday learning the show.
Starting with the beginning of school, the students travel to the high school every day to practice. On Fridays the students participate in the Friday night football games by not only performing the show but also providing music in the stands to support the high school football game. Saturdays consist of competitions. Competitions are a daylong event.
These nine 8th grade students have been participating and performing with the high school marching band. Whereas the high school students have a band class during the day to practice, these students must practice extra outside of school just to keep up. They have been working very hard and it is paying off.
On October 10th the band competed at the Bands of America Regional Competition in Winston Salem. The band did very well with placing 1st in their class.
The marching band will perform on October 24th at Newton-Conover High School and will be traveling down to Atlanta at the end of the month for the Bands of America Competition. They will also perform at the home football games at MPHS – come and support your classmates!!!!!
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For those of you that are familiar with Butter Braid® pastries – you’ll be glad to know that they’re back! For those of you that are not familiar with Butter Braid® pastries – you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them! Please visit www.thepastrylady.com for more information on these incredible, filled pastries. The proceeds from this fundraiser will go to support the 8th grade field trip to Atlanta. Each individual has a goal to sell 10 pastries. For each pastry sold, our group will earn $5.00 towards achieving the final goal of $5000! Feel free to contact us with any questions, and thanks for doing your part to make this fundraiser a success! Contact a participating 8th grader or one of the 8th grade teachers for purchases!
Important Details to Remember!
Fundraiser Starts:
Nov 9, 2015
Fundraiser Ends:
Dec 1, 2015
Delivery Date/Arrival Time:
Dec 16, 2015 At 4:00 PM
Fundraiser Purpose:
8th grade Atlanta Trip
Group Sales Goal:
$5000
Goal Per Person:
10 items
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First Nine Weeks Honor Roll LuncheonCongratulations to your child if he/she made the A/AB Honor Roll for the first nine weeks. To celebrate this honor we invited parents and families to have lunch with their child on Friday, November 6th during their lunch time.They brought lunch such as fast food, food from a restaurant, packed their lunch or just enjoyed the time sitting with their child and their friends Please visit our school's facebook page to see pictures of as many families and students we were able to get. Thank you for your support, and we know you enjoyed this time with your student. It is an honor to be able to celebrate with MPMS students and the recognition of Work for Success that our PAWS represent.
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Thanksgiving Dinner Boxes
Mt.
Pleasant Tigers are participating in our 9th annual Thanksgiving
Service Project. The students and staff at MPMS are putting together
turkey dinners for families in our community that are in need. The
dinners consist of a frozen turkey, trimmings, vegetables, drinks and
dessert. If you are able to donate a few items for others in need,
please choose items listed here: stuffing boxes, gravy packets, instant
mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, green beans, canned corn,
non-perishable dessert (cake mix and icing), macaroni and cheese,
several packs of tea, and candied yams. If you are donating items,
please have your child give the items to their homeroom teacher or you
may drop off items at the school office. All items need to be turned in
by November 20th. If your family is in need of assistance, please
contact our office (704-436-9302). Thank you and have a wonderful
Thanksgiving holiday!
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Beta Club Sponsors a Can Food DriveA very huge thank you to all the Beta Club members who brought in can food for our November service project. A total of 470 cans were donated and will be taken to the Mount Pleasant Food Pantry this week. Students who brought in the most cans were: Dakota Shaul (71 cans), Ryan DeVitto (40 cans), Scott Hoover (24 cans), Garrison Clapp (20 cans), Augstin Shue (20 cans), and Elijah Walker (20 cans). Way to go MPMS Beta Club for helping out those in the community in need.
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Homeless ProjectAlyssa Gray would like to thank the MPMS Junior Beta Club and their families for supporting her and donating items for her homeless project. She was able to make about 30 essential bags and about 20 food bags with the donations. A LOT of food cans were collected and she would like to extend a special thank you to Jaden. Again, Alyssa would like to thank the whole Beta Club for helping her collect items for her project!
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Gracie Cook Wins Regional Art AwardCongratulations to Gracie Cook. Her drawing advanced to the state final for finishing first in her media at the regional North Carolina Association for Scholastic Activities (ncasa). Her artwork will be displayed and judged at the ncasa state final and eligible to win the top award in her media. This final competition is December 5th. Way to go Gracie!
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Groundbreaking Bonfire Bonanza: Let's Get Fired Up!On Saturday, February 6, from 4-7 pm, MPMS will host a Groundbreaking Bonfire Bonanza: Let's Get Fired Up! at the new school site next to the high school. We are asking for food, drink, snack, showcase (like the Sundrop Monster truck) items for this event. If you would like to participate then either contact Tina Conder, PTSO president, at 704-213-3200 or Brit Childers, SIT chairperson, at brittany.childers@cabarrus.k12.nc.us. Thanks to all who are willing to help or will attend! It should be a very fun event!Want to order a t-shirt, hoodie, or headband? Click here for information and prices!
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Congratulations to Ms. Michele TurnerMPMS Teacher of the Year
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Spelling Bee WinnerCongratulations to Gabe Ross, the winner of our school Spelling Bee, and to Keeley Darbutt, the runner-up. Gabe is a 7th grade student who represented Ms. Harrington's Venture and Keeley is an 8th grader representing Ms. Hauber's Venture. The winning word was "collude". Gabe competed in the county contest on January 6th at 7:00 pm at Winkler Middle School.
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Mock Trial Team Competes in CharlotteCongratulations to our 1st Mock Trial team for a job well done. Participants were Sawyer Austin, Abby Bulger, Kristin Culp, Kelsey Hall, Dylan Morgan, Jessie Phillips, and Josie Thompson. Lead attorney was Kelsey Hall. They competed in two rounds in Charlotte Friday, December 11. Four students won awards. Kelsey Hall and Abby Bulger were awarded best attorney. Sawyer Austin and Dylan Morgan were given best witness awards.
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PTSO FundraiserOn Thursday, February 6, each student received the Cookie Caboodle Cookie Brochure. The Cookie Dough brochure contains selections of the most popular flavors of both Tubs and Pre-portioned Gourmet cookies. Each student also received the Heritage Candles Hand Poured Candle Brochure. These Hand Poured candles are proudly made in the USA, long burning and highly fragrant. Each candle is gift boxed with a wonderful selection of scents.- Place all orders on the back of each brochure
- Make sure student first/last name and homeroom teacher is on forms
- Collect cash/check at time order is placed. Turn money in with orders
- Checks payable to Mt. Pleasant Middle School PTSO
- All Orders & Money due back on February 24th
- Click here to see flyer with prizes.
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Spring Portraits
Thursday, March 3Made during Health or PE classSend no money now, but please return this form. Students were given copies of this form but in case you need one you can click on the link. Select a pose from a choice of four. After Picture Day, portraits will be send home for review.
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Beta Club Sponsoring Pennies for PatientsWe are excited at Mt Pleasant Middle to participate this year in a special service learning project called Pasta for Pennies. We will collect spare change in our classrooms from February 22 through March 18. We join the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in their mission for a cure for blood cancers – leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma. Did you know the leukemia takes the lives of more young people under 20 than any disease in our country? We are helping LLS find a cure and make ours a WORLD WITHOUT CANCER!We will emphasize character and service during this project: community awareness, compassion, caring and working together as a team to make a difference.
We have a great new opportunity this year to donate online! LLS has provided an exclusive Pasta for Pennies webpage just for our school family here at MPMS and YOU can invite anyone anywhere to join in and support our students! We hope you will share this link with family and friends near and far. It’s an easy way to join in our special project. Here’s the link to our school webpage.
http://events.lls.org/pages/nc/MtPleasantMiddleSchool
The top class at MPMS gets to enjoy a luncheon at the Olive Garden. What a fun way to celebrate generosity and caring for others. Our staff truly believes that service learning is an important part of our students’ academic and personal development, and we are very excited to have this opportunity. We hope you’ll join us and invite others to support this great project!
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Hour of CodeWe live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning computer science, and less students are studying it than a decade ago. That’s why our entire school joined in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code. Our 6th graders participated during their math classes on Thursday, December 10. Our 7th graders participated during math class and our 8th graders participated during science classes on Friday, December 11. If you would like to join in with the activities that they did you can find them at https://code.org/learn . If you would like to see more pictures of our students working on Hour of Code, please visit our facebook page.
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MPMS Science Fair Winners
Congratulations to the following students for placing in this year's science fair. Honorable Mention award goes to 6th grader, Madalyn Brafford for her experiment on "Do White Candles Burn Faster Than Colored Candles?" Third pace is awarded to 6th grader, Brady Duke for his project called "Soda Stains: Be Careful What You Drink!" Second place also goes to a 6th grader, Jakob Craver for his findings on "Which Steam Boat Bow Design is the Fastest?" The first place award for his research on making football helmets safer from concussions is awarded to Joshua Gray in the 8th grade. His project was titled, "That's How the Melon Falls!" These award winning projects are on display in the media center. Joshua also won the William States Lee College of Education STEM Award for Best Junior Engineering Project at the regional Science Fair on Saturday, February 13.
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Shakespeare Recitation CompetitionMembers of the MPMS Stagecrafters class competed in the Annual Shakespeare Recitation Competition on February 18 at Wingate University. Students performed a Shakespearean monologue and sonnet and competed against over 100 middle school students from the region. Way to represent MPMS
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Goodbye Mr. Lee! We Will Miss You!It is with mixed emotions that we are saying goodbye to Keith Lee as he takes a military leave of absence to be placed on active duty for the North Carolina Army National Guard. These military orders are for three years and Mr. Lee will be working out of the Gastonia Armory. He has been the band director at MPMS and the assistant band director at MPHS for the past twelve years. He works diligently to make sure all of his students are successful in the band program. Mr. Lee is a leader in the band community and sets a tone of excellence with his students as they prepare for contests and concerts. He is resourceful and always seeks methods to improve the band program at MPMS each year.
Mr. Lee would like to share the following message with his MPMS family: “I want to thank you all for being such great colleagues to work with. I have made many friends here that I will hold dear for life. As you can imagine, I am experiencing a mix of emotions. I am excited about this new opportunity but saddened to leave a program that I have worked so long with and have put a lot of sweat equity in to. I will miss the staff, the students, and this community. It has been an honor to have been given an opportunity to work with such great people.”
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Third Nine Weeks Honor Roll LuncheonCongratulations to the students who made the A/AB Honor Roll for the third nine weeks. To celebrate this honor we invited the parents to have lunch with their child on Monday, April 18th during their lunch time. They could bring lunch such as fast food, food from a restaurant, pack their lunch or just enjoy the time sitting with their child and their friends. Thank you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed this time with your student. It is an honor to be able to celebrate with MPMS students and the recognition of Work for Success that our PAWS represent.
Click here to see pictures on our school's facebook page.
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Battle of the Books Team Wins County Competition!
Congratulations to our Battle of the Books Team for winning the county competition on Friday, February 26. Team members are Austin Barrier, Mary Kate Key, Aubrey Love, Jaden Maxwell, Cameron Mullinax, Richard Sanchez-Gomez, Nikki Stephenson, Abigail Valentine, Taylor Walker, Britton Weems, Kasi Wilson, and Valeria Zambrano Macias. Sponsors are Mrs. Julie Stephenson and Mr. Matthew Lamb. The team was recognized on our morning TV show and will compete at the district level in late March in Gaston County. Good Luck to the B.O.B. Team!
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Proctors NeededMPMS will need proctor volunteers (must be at least 18 years old and out of school) to help with county and state required testing (EOG, EOC, and NCFE)onMay 25th and 26th (40 proctors needed each day)June 1st, 2nd, 3rd (25 proctors needed each day)June 6th, and 7thfrom 8:40 am until 12:30 pm (at the latest)Please contact Melinda Helmintoller or Jennifer Lumley at 704-436-0302 with any questions. Or you may send an email to melinda.helmintoller@cabarrus.k12.nc.us or jennifer.lumley@cabarrus.k12.nc.us
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Beta Club Sponsored Pennies for PatientsCongratulations MPMS! We raised $3331.87 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Special congratulations to Ms. Barrier's Venture for raising the most money, $599.19. Ms. Barrier's homeroom wins the trip to Olive Garden! The following homerooms were the top in each grade level and played in a dodge ball tournament fundraiser on Thursday, March 24, during Encore. Students were able to watch the dodge ball game for a $1 donation to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Homerooms that won the dodge ball tournaments were: Ms. Joyce, Ms. Sirse, and Mrs. Barrier. Congratulations! Top two homerooms in each grade level were: 8th grade: Ms. Clapp $548.49 and Ms. Joyce $180.33, 7th grade: Mr. Williamson $225.50 and Ms. Sirse $116.36, 6th grade: Ms. Barrier $599.19 and Ms. McDonald $194.66. Thank you to everyone who made a donation!
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Mt. Pleasant Middle School Awards Programs8th Grade - June 6th at 2:00pm7th Grade - June 8 at 9:30am6th Grade - June 8 at 10:40am
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Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office Summer CampsThe Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office is sponsoring two summer camps for middle school students in Cabarrus County Schools. Activities will include lessons and presentations on Cyber Safety, Communication Skills, Safety Education, and many more. Activities will also include games, field trips, group activities and much more.Camp #1 Location: Mt. Pleasant Middle School
Camp Dates: June 13-17
Times: 8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Cost for Camp: $40 (Sponsorships for students may be available - contact Officer Thousand)Click Here for More Information for this MPMS CampCamp #2: Location: Frank Liske ParkCamp Dates: June 20-24Times: 8:30 am - 3:30 pmCost for Camp: $40 (Sponsorships for students may be available - contact Officer Thousand)Click Here for More Information for the Frank Liske Park Camp
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County Soil and Water Speech Contest Winner
The 7th Grade Soil and Water Speech Representative for Mount Pleasant Middle School was Gavin Moose. Students were asked to research and speak about the topic, “We All Live in a Watershed”. Students then presented their speeches and were judged on their content and speaking skills. Gavin won the county competition and won the regional competition in Statesville in March. He competed on May 6 in the state competition. We are very proud of Gavin!
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MPMS Impact Through Education Awards Winners for March
Congratulations to London Little, Ryan DeVitto, Keith Lee, and Tonya Taylor for being selected by the MPMS staff as Impact Through Education Award winners. Sponsored by BB&T Banking & Trust, the Impact Awards honor individuals who exemplify the qualities of initiative, hard work, and respect for others. Impact Award honorees were joined by their families and members of their schools’ administrative team as they received their awards at the March 14 Board of Education meeting. Mrs. Ronnye Boone, Director of Communications presented Impact Through Education Awards to students and staff for their respective schools.
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Eagle Award for YCI/FCACongratulations to Lainey Love who won an award for the YCI (FCA)! She was nominated and won the 2016 Eagle Award Outstanding Christian Leadership award for middle school on April 29 2016. She is a seventh grade student on the Avengers team and is one of the leaders of the Fellowship of Christian Athletics/Youth Commission International Club here at our school. We are very proud of Lainey!
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MPMS Marksmen TeamCongratulations to our MPMS Marksmen Team. They finished their last competition in Ellerbe. Our blue team earned third place in Archery and Trap and fourth place overall. We are proud of all of you!
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Congratulations to our Retirees: Dianna Whitten, Steve Absher, and Susan Hamiltion shown here with Mr. Farrar at the Celebration of Service hosted by Cabarrus County Schools, We are going to miss these staff members!
