WEDNESDAY, MAY 7TH RED DAY DAY 5

For just one GOT U you can enter the Prize Table Drawing!!! I will draw the winners on Friday afternoons! Good Luck

SILENT AUCTION SHEETS ARE IN THE OFFICE!!! Get your bids in! Items up for bid are a Fishing Game and a Dome Wireless Charger. Bidding ends at 10:45 am on May 16th.

Silver Cord Hours have been updated. Please be sure to check them and let me know right away if you have any questions. They are located right outside the office!!!

Also, for those 8th graders that received the silver cord banquet invitation please let me know by May 12th if you (and family) plan on attending on May 15th. Thanks

8th graders be sure to have detention time and any outstanding fees, etc. taken care of by May 30th… Also, These need to be taken care of in order to participate in Promotion.

ALL LIBRARY BOOKS NEED TO BE TURNED IN BY MAY 16TH!!!!

Spring Fling is this Friday…. THERE WILL BE CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE DURING SPRING FLING…… I WILL BE SENDING YOU A LIST OF ITEMS AND PRICES TODAY!!!!!

We have Kickball sign up sheets in the office for the Spring Fling coming up next Friday, May 9th. If you would like to participate you will need to have 4 girls and 4 boys per team. Please turn in your sheets to the office by the end of the day TODAY!! Thanks

Dysart Swim Team Registration Information has been sent out! Please let me know in the office if you have any questions or did not receive it. Thanks

Silver Cord Opportunity coming up on Saturday, June 14th from 7;30 am to 10:30 am for the LKLC-LPC 5K/Kids Fun Run in LaPorte. Please email Haley Peters at: haley.r.peters@gmail.com if you are interested in helping.

THANK YOU TO OUR STUDENT COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AND OFFICERS FOR HELPING AT THE NEIFB AND FOR DOING AN AMAZING JOB REPRESENTING UNION MIDDLE SCHOOL YESTERDAY! THANK YOU ALSO TO MS. AALDERKS, MRS. LORENZEN, AND MR. MOODY

There will be a GIRLS SWIM meeting for any 8th grade girls interested in swimming in the fall high school season on Saturday, May 17th at 10 am at the Central Middle School pool in Waterloo. They can email Coach Kamp at kampj@ahtcorp.com with questions.

Congratulations to the 8th grade girls on being the Champions at the Oelwein meet last night!! 7th grade finished 3rd as a team.

Some great times and distances occurred on what was an absolute beautiful night for Track and Field

The 8th grade Shuttle Hurdle Relay broke the school record!! The team of Finley Keegan, Peyton Brown, Austin Kirby, and Paige Pipho ran a 1:11.83. The old record was 1:12.05 and was held since 2013 by Anna Garwood, Megan Hudson, Kaitlin Holschlag, and Taylor Clapp. Congratulations girls!!! They won the event by 9 seconds!

Other 1st place finishes:

8th Distance Medley of Brooke Kotouc, Alyza Harting, Jewel Paine, and Olivia Schildroth

8th 4 x 200 relay of Brooke Kotouc, Kenley Hoover, Alyza Harting, and Austin Kirby.

Finley Keegan in the 100 hurdles.

Paige Pipho in the 200 hurdles.

8th 4 x 400 relay of Olivia Schildroth, Alyza Harting, Peyton Brown, and Kayla Toenges.

Audrey Pearson in the Discus.

Shout out to Maddie Schmitz for stepping up and running the anchor leg of the 4 x 800 relay!!!

The 8th grade girls won or got 2nd in 13 of the 18 events!!!

At Hudson on Monday, Union was 3rd as a team, just 1 point behind 2nd place Grundy Center.

1st Place finishes

Shuttle Hurdle Keegan, Brown, Kirby, Pipho

DISTANCE MED of Brooke Kotouc, Avery Foulk, Brynlee Davis, and Olivia Schildroth.

Paige Pipho in the 100 and 200 hurdles

Great Job! Good Luck Friday at Jesup!

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AWESOME TEACHERS AT UMS!! YOU ARE TRULY AMAZING!!!!