BASEBALL
AND SOFTBALL TRYOUTS FOR GRADES 9-12
Baseball tryouts will begin on March 17th
for pitchers and catchers.
Full team tryouts for Baseball and Softball will
begin on March 24th.
Sign-ups will begin after February vacation.
BASEBALL
AND SOFTBALL TRYOUTS FOR GRADES 7 AND 8
Tryouts for middle school students interested in
baseball or softball will begin on April 7th. Sign-ups will begin
after February vacation.
HS
BASKETBALL AWARDS BANQUET MONDAY MARCH 3RD AT 5:30PM
All HS students that played basketball are required
to attend the “Pot Luck” style Awards Banquet that will be held on March 3rd
at 5:30pm in the Main Gym/Activity Room.
SPRING
COACHING POSTIONS AT L&G
Anyone interested in the following coaching
positions at Leland and Gray, please contact Marty Testo at mtesto@lelandandgray.org
Head JV Baseball Coach
Go Rebels!
ATTENTION
ALL GIRLS GRADES 7-12
Spring is just around the corner
and so is the softball season. Please come to OPEN GYM on the following
evenings prior to the start of official practices in order to get a chance to
throw and catch or hit a few softballs off the machine! Jeff Gouger will
be here to open the gym from 6:00 - 8:00pm on
the following Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays: 3/4, 3/6, 3/10, 3/11,
3/13, 3/17, and 3/18.
MIDDLE SCHOOL DANCE
This Friday, Feb.28th!
Back to the 80's
Main Gym
7-930!
Wear your 80's outfit!
Remember…bring socks…no shoes!
L&G
2014 PROM
Date: Saturday April 26th
Time: 7-11pm
Where: Stratton
Mountain Club
RESTORATIVE
JUSTICE TRAINING WITH DAN DeWALT
When will it take place? Thursday
March 13 and Thursday March 27.
At
what time? 2:45pm to 4:15pm
Where
will it happen? At Leland and Gray. Room location to be
determined..
Who
is it for? All interested staff and students in both
high school and middle school.
Why
should I come? Have you found yourself in a conflict with
another student or perhaps a teacher or other staff member? Do you wish you can
help your friends resolve their differences? Do you want to positively
influence the culture of your school? If your answer to any of these questions
is yes then you have a reason to get involved with restorative justice
practices. By involving yourself you will develop important and marketable
listening and mediation skills, enhance your college application, and earn
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) if you attend both training sessions. (Stipend
offered to students only).
What if I have questions? Speak
to Dan DeWalt or Jeremiah Burrow.
LELAND
AND GRAY’S SUMMER SOCCER CAMPS
The 18th annual Leland and Gray Soccer camp will be
the following weeks this summer:
July 14-18 for students entering grades k-6
July 14-18 for students entering grades k-6
July 21-25 for boys and girls entering grades 7-12
CLASS OF 2014
We are collecting pictures for the slideshow
traditionally done on class night. If you, your families, neighbors, friends, or
former teachers have any pictures of groups of seniors from when they were
younger we would love them! Email Megan Altshuler or Jeryl Julian-Cisse any
photos you would like to share. Please feel free to send in all those silly
shots from birthdays, school trips, and toddler play dates! Don't forget to
check the senior page on the L&G website for senior info, www.lelandandgray.org.
There is a link on the left side of the home page.
Senior Class Advisors
Megan Altshuler - maltshuler@lelandandgray.org
Jeryl Julian-Cisse - jjulian-cisse@lelandandgray.org
LELAND AND GRAY PLAYERS
Leland and Gray Players present HATS OFF 2014!
Come see your friends in this cavalcade of comedy,
song and dance. It's a two-hour show packed with scenes from classics to SNL
and with songs and dance that'll brighten up these cold March days.
Friday, March 7 at 7:30; Saturday, March 8 at
3 and 7:30. Adults: $5; students: $3. In the Dutton Gymnasium.
Leland and Gray Players announce Open Auditions for
Wm. Shakespeare's great comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Come to either
audition in the Gould wing of the Dutton gym: Tuesday, March
11 or Thursday, March 13, 2:45-4:30. Callbacks will
be Friday, March 14. The show runs from May 15 to 17.
Scripts for our shorter version of the play will be available March
5. See Ms. Landenberger in B4 for more info.
HEY!
You!!
The Late Bus will be running on
Monday and Thursday next week. On
Tuesday, there is no school for town meeting day, so there will not be any HEY!
programs or late bus. Wednesday there will be Winter Activities, so
there will not be any HEY! programs or a late bus. For information on the route
and the dates it will be available for the 2013-2014 school year, visit www.lelandandgray.org.
Look for HEY! Help Mon.-Fri. mornings (7:15-7:45
AM) and Mon.-Thurs. afternoons (2:45- 4:15 PM). On
Monday, ‘Ukulele will be meeting in the music room, and HEY! Help will be
meeting in A-11. On Thursday, there are many after school
programs happening including: LGTV in A-13, Jr. Iron Chef, Weight Training,
Floor Hockey in the gym, and CLEA ! Friday,
the GSA will meet with Ms. DeBisschop in B-14.
Student Counselors are starting a new session on Monday, March 3 and should stop by
to check in with Victoria Chertok, interim coordinator of HEY! Programs at
Leland & Gray, as soon as possible.
Look for Robotics, starting on Tuesday, March
11 and a Restorative Justice training
starting Thursday, March 13. For more information, please contact Victoria
at 802-365-7355, x 138 or email her at afterschool@lelandandgray.org.
Remember to check the HEY! website for updates on programs, and you can
always ask Victoria Chertok for information or email her at afterschool@lelandandgray.org.
TOWNSHEND ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL BINGO NIGHT AND SILENT AUCTION
The Sixth grade class of 2014 from Townshend Elementary
School is holding a family bingo night and silent auction which will take place
on Friday, February 28th at the Townshend School.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students (includes a game card for 10
games, 2 of which are $$ prizes and a special 50/50 game for an additional charge).
Doors open at 5:30
p.m. and first game begins
at 6:15 p.m.
The money received will help pay for the 6th grade class end of the year fieldtrip.
HUNGER
FREE VERMONT
•Dear
school nutrition professionals,
•Did
you know that 1 in 5 Vermont children live in families that struggle with
hunger? Many families are unaware that receiving the Earned Income Tax
Credit makes them eligible for food and nutrition benefits as well…
•And
this includes free school meals for their kids!
•Families
who receive the Vermont Earned Income Tax Credit and have dependent children
qualify for 3SquaresVT (formerly food stamps) without having to meet the income
test typically required to establish eligibility; and once receiving
3SquaresVT, the children then qualify for free school meals as well.
•
•This
tax season, Hunger Free Vermont is spreading the word about this important
connection, and we need your help! We have developed short
newsletter articles and a flyer for you to share with families in your
community (both attached). Please consider distributing and/or hanging up the
attached flyer (we can mail you printed versions) and share the short article
(attached) through your newsletters or bulletins.
•
•Thank
you for distributing these important materials on the connection
between EITC and 3SquaresVT. For more information about 3SquaresVT or
EITC, or for printed materials, contact Faye Conte at fconte@hungerfreevt.org or 802-865-0255.
IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
WITH YOUR TEENAGER
Parents, grandparents and caregivers of children
ages 10-19 are invited to attend a complimentary workshop to improve
communications with their children.
(Brattleboro, Vermont) Parenting does not come with a handbook but
Parenting Teens Wisely does. In an effort to promote positive communications
between parents, caregivers and teens, the Brattleboro Area Prevention
Coalition (BAPC) and Windham County Partnership for Success are offering the
Parenting Teens Wisely workshop, on Monday, March 3rd from 6:00pm to
9:00pm at the Marlboro College Graduate Center at 28 Vernon Street in
Brattleboro. This free three hour workshop teaches parents skills and
techniques to help them better understand and deal with children ages 10-19.
Participants will learn how to problem-solve and encourage cooperation with
their teen and learn to develop fair and effective discipline skills.
Two trained facilitators will guide participants to help build understanding and communication among all members of the family. The course teaches constructive skills proven to lessen drug and alcohol abuse in youth, school and homework problems, delinquency and other problem behaviors, as well as family conflict.
Two trained facilitators will guide participants to help build understanding and communication among all members of the family. The course teaches constructive skills proven to lessen drug and alcohol abuse in youth, school and homework problems, delinquency and other problem behaviors, as well as family conflict.
All participants will receive a Parenting Teens
Wisely workbook, a parent resource packet, and a certificate of completion. Snacks
will also be provided.
Space is limited. By calling BAPC at 802-257-2175 or
contact bapcprogram@yahoo.com. This workshop is
presented by BAPC in collaboration Windham County Partnership for Success
funded by Vermont Department of Health.
A NOTE FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE
Physical Education:
Does Ibuprofen Help or Hurt During Exercise?
Several years ago, David Nieman set
out to study racers at the Western States Endurance Run, a 100-mile test of
human stamina held annually in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The
race directors had asked Nieman, a well-regarded physiologist and director of
the Human Performance Laboratory at the North Carolina Research Campus,
to look at the stresses that the race places on the bodies
of participants. Nieman and the race authorities had anticipated
that the rigorous distance and altitude would affect runners’ immune systems
and muscles, and they did. But one of Nieman’s other findings surprised
everyone.
After looking at racers’ blood work, he determined that some of the
ultramarathoners were supplying their own physiological stress, in tablet form.
Those runners who’d popped over-the-counter ibuprofen pills before and during
the race displayed significantly more inflammation and other markers of high
immune system response afterward than the runners who hadn’t taken
anti-inflammatories. The ibuprofen users also showed signs of mild kidney
impairment and, both before and after the race, of low-level endotoxemia, a
condition in which bacteria leak from the colon into the bloodstream.
These findings were “disturbing,” Nieman says, especially since “this
wasn’t a minority of the racers.” Seven out of ten of the runners were using
ibuprofen before and, in most cases, at regular intervals throughout the race,
he says. “There was widespread use and very little understanding of the
consequences.”
Athletes at all levels and in a wide variety of sports swear by their
painkillers. A study published earlier this
month on the website of the British Journal of Sports Medicine
found that, at the 2008 Ironman Triathlon in Brazil, almost 60 percent of the
racers reported using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory painkillers (or NSAIDs,
which include ibuprofen) at some point in the three months before the event,
with almost half downing pills during the race itself. In another study, about
13 percent of participants in a 2002 marathon in New Zealand had popped NSAIDs
before the race. A study of professional Italian
soccer players found that 86 percent used anti-inflammatories
during the 2002-2003 season.
A wider-ranging look at
all of the legal substances prescribed to players during the 2002 and 2006
Men’s World Cup tournaments worldwide found that more than half of these elite
players were taking NSAIDS at least once during the tournament, with more than
10 percent using them before every match.
“For a lot of athletes, taking painkillers has become a ritual,” says
Stuart Warden, an assistant professor and director of physical therapy research
at Indiana University, who has extensively studied the physiological impacts of
the drugs. “They put on their uniform” or pull on their running shoes and pop a
few Advil. “It’s like candy” or Vitamin I, as some athletes refer to ibuprofen.
Why are so many active people swallowing so many painkillers?
One of the most common reasons cited by the triathletes in Brazil was
“pain prevention.” Similarly, when the Western States runners were polled, most
told the researchers that “they thought ibuprofen would get them through the
pain and discomfort of the race,” Nieman says, “and would prevent soreness
afterward.” But the latest research into the physiological effects of ibuprofen
and other NSAIDs suggests that the drugs in fact, have the opposite effect. In
a number of studies conducted both in the field and in human performance
laboratories in recent years, NSAIDs did not lessen people’s perception of pain
during activity or decrease muscle soreness later. “We had researchers at water
stops” during the Western States event, Nieman says, asking the racers how the
hours of exertion felt to them. “There was no difference between the runners
using ibuprofen and those who weren’t. So the painkillers were not useful for
reducing pain” during the long race, he says, and afterward, the runners using
ibuprofen reported having legs that were just as sore as those who hadn’t used
the drugs.
Moreover, Warden and other researchers have found that, in laboratory
experiments on animal tissues, NSAIDs actually slowed the healing of injured
muscles, tendons, ligament, and bones. “NSAIDs work by inhibiting the
production of prostaglandins,”substances that are involved in pain and also in
the creation of collagen, Warden says. Collagen is the building block of most
tissues. So fewer prostaglandins mean less collagen, “which inhibits the
healing of tissue and bone injuries,” Warden says, including the micro-tears
and other trauma to muscles and tissues that can occur after any strenuous
workout or race.
The painkillers also blunt the body’s response to exercise at a deeper
level. Normally, the stresses of exercise activate a particular molecular
pathway that increases collagen, and leads, eventually, to creating denser
bones and stronger tissues. If “you’re taking ibuprofen before every workout,
you lessen this training response,” Warden says. Your bones don’t thicken and
your tissues don’t strengthen as they should. They may be less able to
withstand the next workout. In essence, the pills athletes take to reduce the
chances that they’ll feel sore may increase the odds that they’ll wind up
injured — and sore.
All of which has researchers concerned. Warden wrote in an editorial this year on
the website of the British Journal of Sports Medicine that “there is no
indication or rationale for the current prophylactic use of NSAIDs by athletes,
and such ritual use represents misuse.”
When, then, are ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatory painkillers
justified? “When you have inflammation and pain from an acute injury,” Warden
says. “In that situation, NSAIDs are very effective.” But to take them “before
every workout or match is a mistake.”
