Mena School District

The Mena Jr. Ladycats & Bearcats will be competing in the Booneville Jr. High Relays today at 3:30pm...

Monday, March 1, 2021 Clubs & Activities: Monday - There is a junior spring gala planning meeting today during enrichment in the library. For any juniors interested in benign involved in the planning and decorating processes, please go to the library for the meeting. Tuesday - NEHS meeting in the Library during Enrichment Wednesday - Cheer Candidate meeting in the Library during Enrichment Thursday - Friday - Sports: Monday - Junior High Track at Booneville Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - There is a junior spring gala planning meeting today during enrichment in the library. For any juniors interested in benign involved in the planning and decorating processes, please go to the library for the meeting. FBLA: State Conference registration money is due to Mrs. Torix TODAY at noon. Registration is $15. If registration is not paid, you cannot compete. Students be sure to place your votes for the Teacher’s Who’s Who ballot, which is part of the 2021 Mena High School yearbook. The ballots are on a Google Form that has been loaded into your Class of Enrichment Google Classrooms. Please vote by the end of the day Tuesday, as results will be pulled Wednesday morning. The HUB is taking applications for the 21-22 school year. If you are an upcoming senior graduating in 2022 and would like to apply for the HUB program, please fill out an application and return them to Mrs. Threlkeld in the HUB, Room 111. If you plan to work your senior year and would like to attend The HUB, please also fill out the AE JAG application form. Applications and HUB expectations were emailed to the Class of 2022 students on Tuesday. Please email Mrs. Threlkeld or stop by Room 111 with any other questions. MHS blood drive on Wednesday March 10th. Please come to see Nurse Bobbi to choose your donation time! For any students who are still interested in purchasing a Senior shirt or an Underclassmen shirt, please see Mr. Philpot in room 205. There are limited sizes available that can be purchased for $15 with cash or check. If you are interested in the EF international trip go to you “class of” page to find out how to attend the information meeting or see Ms. Catlett, Ms. Hooker, Mrs. Hoyle, or Ms. Kropp. This Wednesday is the cheer candidate meeting during Enrichment. Please meet in the Library after announcements. Due to having to postpone the candidate meeting last week, this pushes back the parent meeting to NEXT Wednesday. REMEMBER these meetings are mandatory. Please contact Coach Hughes with scheduling conflicts.

MMS ANNOUNCEMENTS Monday, March 1 st   I. Mrs. Lunsford is out today, so the students needing yearbook photos will have that done tomorrow or later in the week. However, at the end of these announcements, there is a list of FBLA students that need to go to Mrs. Sikes’ room for pictures. II. 6 th grade Quiz Bowl will meet in the Conference Room right after these announcements. III. There is still a phone and charger in the front office that was found outside last week. Come to the office to claim it. Today is the last day we will announce this. IV. Lunchtime Weather: V. Lunch Menu: * Hot Dog * Chicken Sandwich * Waffle Bar * PB&J Sandwich * Deli Sandwich * Chef Salad VI. Club / Group Meetings: 1) At this time, the 6 th grade Quiz Bowl team is dismissed to the Conference Room.

The Mena Ladycats defeated Nashville 45-39 on Saturday to claim the 7-4A Tournament Championship. Mena was led by Madi Lyle with 21points. The Ladycats will enter next week's 4A South Regional as a #1 seed & will face Crossett on Wednesday 3/3 at 10:00am. GO LADYCATS! https://scorebooklive.com/.../2021-arkansas...

The Mena Ladycats will play Nashville in the 7-4A Tournament Championship on Saturday. The game will be played at Nashville & the time has been changed to 3:30pm... GO LADYCATS!

First year high school FFA students took part in the annual Greenhand Ceremony this morning at Mena High School.

Friday, February 26, 2021 Clubs & Activities: Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - * Thursday - Friday - FFA Greenhand Ceremonies will be held Friday during Enrichment in the Ag Building. If you are a ninth grade or first year FFA Member, please attend this event! *There will be FFA CDE competitions today from 2nd through 4th period in the ag building for the Nursery/Landscape, Forestry, Livestock, Food Science, Vet Science, Meat Science, Ag Mechanics, and Electricity teams. Sports: Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - *There will be FFA CDE competitions Friday from 2nd through 4th period in the ag building for the Nursery/Landscape, Forestry, Livestock, Food Science, Vet Science, Meat Science, Ag Mechanics, and Electricity teams. *The Ladycats would like to thank all everyone that came to the game last night. It was great to have the drumline there. The Ladycats will play tomorrow evening at Nashville at 6:00 p.m. in the District Championship game. Please make the trip to Nashville and cheer on the Ladycats as they try to win the District Tournament. J2 Staff meeting in Mr. Philpots room at the beginning of Enrichment. FBLA: State Conference registration money is due to Mrs. Torix no later than Monday, March 1 at noon. Registration is $15. The HUB is taking applications for the 21-22 school year. If you are an upcoming senior graduating in 2022 and would like to apply for the HUB program, please fill out an application and return them to Mrs. Threlkeld in the HUB, Room 111. If you plan to work your senior year and would like to attend The HUB, please also fill out the AE JAG application form. Applications and HUB expectations were emailed to the Class of 2022 students on Tuesday. Please email Mrs. Threlkeld or stop by Room 111 with any other questions. MHS blood drive on Wednesday March 10th. Please come to see Nurse Bobbi to choose your donation time! For any students who are still interested in purchasing a Senior shirt or an Underclassmen shirt, please see Mr. Philpot in room 205. There are limited sizes available that can be purchased for $15 with cash or check. If you are interested in the EF international trip go to you “class of” page to find out how to attend the information meeting or see Ms. Catlett, Ms. Hooker, Mrs. Hoyle, or Ms. Kropp. Lunch Menu: February Monday Feb. 22 - Feb. 26 Salisbury Steak, Backyard Burger, Chicken Tenders, Pizza

MMS ANNOUNCEMENTS Friday, February 26 th   I. Those of you that were to have yearbook photos taken today will have it done Monday, instead. II. Any 6 th grader interested in playing 7 th grade football next year will meet with Coach Bentley in the Cafeteria today, right after these announcements. III. From Mrs. Sikes: Our Mena Middle School FBLA members represented our school very well!  We had 5 1st place winners, 3 2nd place winners, 4 3rd place winners, and 1 4th place winner. Trinaty Richmond, Kate Wilson, Makenzie Vega, and Dax McMellon have the opportunity to compete at the state level in the Business Math & Financial Literacy competition and the Digital Citizenship competition. Other winners were Eli Swall, Max Rocha, Isabel Vacca, Christian Staggs, and Stella Smith. Congratulations to our FBLA Team! IV. From Mrs. Rose: To conclude the Through with Chew Week: Did you know that many companies will not hire tobacco users. Be employable! Be through with chew and all tobacco!    V. Today is the 120 th day of school with only 58 school days remaining. Just a reminder that we have only two weeks until this grading quarter ends and only three weeks until Spring Break. VI. There is a phone and charger in the front office that was found outside yesterday. Come to the office to claim it. VII. Lunchtime Weather: If we’re able to go outside today during lunch, you will need to stay on the hard surfaces only. VIII. Lunch Menu: * Salisbury Steak * Backyard Burger * Mini Corndogs * Pizza * PB&J Sandwich * Deli Sandwich * Pizza Salad

The game will be at 3:30 now instead of 6 on Saturday at Nashville  Mena Ladycat Basketball will play in the 7-4A Tournament Finals on Saturday at Nashville. Mena defeated Arkadelphia in the semi-finals by a score of 45-19. Nashville defeated DeQueen in the other semi-final game 65-35. Mena & Nashville split their two previous meetings this season. Tip-off was scheduled for 6:00pm.but has been changed to 3:30pm.

MHS Theatre III students are presenting "To Burn A Witch" this morning, in the Performing Arts Center, for classes reading "The Crucible".

The Mena Ladycats have advanced to the 7-4A Conference Tournament Finals with a 45-19 win over Arkadelphia at the Union Bank Center. Mena will play at Nashville on Saturday at 6:00pm. GO LADYCATS!

The Mena Ladycats will be playing in the 4A South Regional Tournament in Star City next week. Here is the ticket information to the 4A South Regional Basketball Tournament. Tickets must be purchased at this link - https://gofan.co/app/school/AAA. This link will open 24 hours before scheduled game time. Tickets are $5.00 each. This event is a mobile entry event - tickets must be presented on a smart phone for entry. Printed tickets will not be accepted. Admission will be charged for ages 5 and up. Only current year AAA passes and lifetime AAA passes will be accepted. Please watch these video links to assist you, bit.ly/BuyPlayoffTickets, bit.ly/AccessingPlayoffTickets, bit.ly/ValidatePlayoffTickets.

HHE 4th graders speaking with Andrew Crippen, an electrical engineer major at The U of A, helping them with building and programming their Lego's EV3 robot.

Gifted & Talented 4th & 5th graders at HHE wrote letters to someone in their life that encourages them to think creatively, solve problems critically, and look at problems from a different perspective. This week is Gifted & Talented Awareness Week in Arkansas.

Spring Break at Mena Public Schools will be March 22nd-26th ! Check the full calendar on our website. https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/828040/Calendar_2020-2021.pdf

This is National FFA week & today is Ag Teacher Appreciation Day. We appreciate these gentleman for their hard work.

The schedule for the Mena Bearcat Baseball Tournament has been released by Coach Matt Sandifer. Games will be played at Union Bank Park on the campus of Mena High School. Thursday March 4th 4:30 Mena vs Waldron Thursday March 4th 7:00pm Mt Ida vs Mansfield Friday March 5th 4:30pm Mena vs Mt Ida Friday March 5th 7:00pm Mansfield vs Waldron Saturday March 6th 10:00pm Waldron vs Mt Ida Saturday March 6th 1:00pm Mena vs Mansfield The season opener is scheduled for March 2nd at Lake Hamilton. Check the entire schedule on our website. https://www.menaschools.org/o/athletics/athletics...

This week is National Through with Chew Week. MMS Project Prevent team set up an information/prevention booth today at lunch. Team member Kinley read off chew tobacco facts encouraging her peers to choose to be tobacco free. Students were given the opportunity to sign a banner as a pledge to "Pick"le to be Through with Chew. Students who made the pledge were given a pickle. Close to 300 pledges to stay tobacco free were made. Special Thanks to team member Kili for making the cool banner.

The Mena Ladycats will host Arkadelphia in the semi-finals of the district tournament on Thursday. Arkadelphia defeated Ft. Lake 62-45 on Tuesday to advance. The game will be played at the Union Bank Center with tip-off set for 6:00pm. Vouchers for tickets are normally given on the day of the game at the administration building but tickets for this game will be sold at the door & no vouchers will be needed.

A crew from UAMS is administering round two of the covid vaccine to MPS employees today. Quarantine numbers continue to fall in the district mirroring the national trend.