Tuesday - January 12, 2010

BENTON WINTER HOMECOMING: Benton's Winter Homecoming is Friday, January 29th! The Benton Boy's Basketball Team will be playing the Platte County Pirates, as this year theme is "Show up The Pirates." Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors may nominate prince and princess candidates and seniors can nominate king and queen candidates by visiting Mr. Reigert's room before Tuesday, January 19th. Show your school spirit and nominate a candidate today!

FBLA LIFESMARTS COMPETITION: FBLA members who have not finished the LifeSmarts competition need to come to Room 111 at 7:10 AM on Wednesday or Thursday morning to take the tests. If you need to do it after school, come by Room 111 and arrangements can be made.

ALL-SCHOOL PLAY AUDITIONS: Auditions for the all-school play "And a Child Shall Lead" will take place on TODAY and Wednesday, January 13th, at 3:00 PM in the auditorium. See Mrs. Schultz in Room 102 if you have any questions.

OVERDUE NOTICES: Overdue notices will be passed out during CAMP today. If you have an overdue book, please return it to the library! As a bonus, if you show your book and overdue notice to library staff, you'll be entered into the Turn It In For the Win contest twice!

TURN IT IN FOR THE WIN CONTEST: Any time you check out a book and have NO overdues this month, you'll be entered to win your choice of either The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins or a book from the Chronicles of Vladmir Tod series by Heather Brewer, plus a bag o' free stuff. See library staff for details and don't forget to participate in our ongoing Read @ Benton Poster Campaign!