PENNIES FOR PATIENTS
As you know, developing leadership, community service, and good citizenship skills within each of our students is one of our primary goals at Hope Hall.
Our students are very excited about two new projects that will enable them to practice compassion and citizenship through service to others.
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Special Blessings for our Students and Staff
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sperandio gave our Hope Hall community – students, faculty, and staff – another wonderful gift.  They provided gift cards for each one of us for books to be purchased at Barnes and Noble during a special Hope Hall day.  This day will be on Tuesday, February 13th.

Every student and staff member at the school will be able to purchase books at Barnes and Noble on that day.  To help us get to the store, Mr. John Dukes, father of eighth grader Qzeta Jackson, has donated the use of a bus and Mr. Jim Burdick, one of our bus drivers, has donated his time to drive the bus back and forth three times to get everyone to the store and back.

Barnes and Noble Bookstore wants to show their appreciation to the Sperandios and their support of Hope Hall.  To do this, Barnes and Noble will hold a book fair in their store located in the Greece Ridge Mall (across from Dick’s, near Sears) on Tuesday, February 13th to benefit Hope Hall.  Book fair vouchers are attached to this newsletter.  Simply present a voucher when you make a purchase during business hours on the 13th and Hope Hall will receive a portion of your purchase. There are three vouchers attached, please share with family and friends.  We have more available if you need them.

United Way Donor Option
It is more important than ever for us to increase our United Way Donor Option base.  The cost per student for next year’s budget will be based on 115 students.  The deficit we’ll need to raise for each child is $5500.  Money received from United Way Donors is crucial to our operations.  Please, please, please consider becoming a United Way Donor yourself and designating Hope Hall to receive your gift.  Please ask family members, friends, and co-workers to do the same.
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Recognizing Greatness in our Students Eastridge Kiwanis Terrific Kid
Each teacher selected a student from their homeroom who demonstrated these qualities on a daily basis.  The January Terrific Kids are:
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School Closings

1. If the Rochester City School District closes school due to snow, Hope Hall will be closed.
2. If Gates-Chili closes, Hope Hall will also close because it means the weather in Gates makes it too dangerous for the children to come to school.
3. If the district you live in closes, they will NOT send buses to pick up your child even if Gates-Chili has not closed schools.
4. If Hope Hall is open and the district in which you live has closed schools, you have to make a prudent decision. If it’s possible for you to bring your child to school, please do so.  If it’s too dangerous, or if you have no way of getting your child here, call school to let us know and keep him/her home.
5. In case of bad weather, we will list our school closing by 6:00 AM on the following stations: