Watch your Family Mail for updates on our MDA Shamrock sales.

SHAMROCKS AGAINST DYSTROPHY

Academy of St. Adalbert and Muscular Dystrophy Association

Working together to fight neuromuscular disease

SALE DATES: March 1st - 17th

Program Description

SMAD (Students Making a Difference) sell Shamrocks to students, faculty and visitors.

Green Shamrocks sell for $1; Gold Shamrocks sell for $5.

Shamrocks may decorate the A.S.A. school or be sent to Talyah who visited our students to decorate her dorm room.

Purpose

• To raise funds to continue research, patient care and services to those with neuromuscular disease.
• To focus attention and increase public awareness of MDA and its purpose
• To give the Academy of St. Adalbert a sense of community involvement.

M.D.A.'s Responsibilities

• Offer educational material to group to inform them about MDA and neuromuscular diseases.

Academy of St. Adalbert Responsibilities

• Advertise for the sale of Shamrocks
• Sell Green Shamrocks for $1 and Gold Shamrocks for $5

AN MDA FAMILY SAYS THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Nineteen years ago our family's life was devastated with the news that our baby girl had muscular dystrophy. We didn't know at the time what life would be like for her. We didn't know if she would live or if she would ever walk. Thanks to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, we found help! They provide us with clinic visits where doctors continually monitor her care. They conduct research to find cures for the more than 40 different types of dystrophy. The MDA provides us with adaptive equipment for our home, car, etc. They also have a wonderful support system in place where she can connect with other kids and as a family we can connect with others in situations similar to ours. Living with a debilitating disease can be uncertain, but the MDA has always been there for us. Our daughter is now in college. She continues to need some assistance, but she wouldn't be where she is today without the MDA. Please help us to help the MDA!

SMAD would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all the families of the Academy of St. Adalbert who helped to support this year's Pennies for Patients Money War!  We could not have had a successful money drive without your support.  Through your contributions during the Money War and our Catholic Schools Week Bake Sale, we were able to raise $950, $200 more than last year's total.  We, the teachers, cannot be more proud of our school and our students!

Congratulations to the top 3 teams winning a pennant to hang in their classroom, the 3^rd grade, Team 5-7-8, and Team K-1!  Congratulations to the top team and winners of the pizza party:  Team Kindergarten and First Grade!  The party will take place at a later date.

Below you will find the break down of donations by grade/team. 

Team Preschool/STEPS                          $47.04

6^th Grade                                             $95.44

4^th Grade                                             $104.30

2^nd Grade                                            $117.24

3^rd Grade                                             $150.01

Team 5-7-8                                          $203.29

Team Kindergarten and 1^st Grade              $233.46

This goes to show the

Academy of St. Adalbert is truly a

Small School with a Big Heart!

MONEY WAR!

It's that time again . . . time to help children from the Cleveland area who are suffering with Leukemia, Lymphoma and other blood cancers.

Check the couch, your piggy bank, and the cup holder in your mom's car. Bring in all your change and help your class win the WAR!  Winning class of the MONEY WAR receives a PIZZA PARTY! 

All money collected will go to the Pennies for Patients Program to help childrenwith Leukemia and Lymphoma.

The 8th grade students are holding a Basket Raffle to benefit a service project for preventing animal abuse. There is a basket with Christmas ornaments, wrapping paper, bows and tags.  The other basket includes The Nativity Book, a Christmas Book & Story, popcorn and Bible Books.  Click here to print an order form and see photos of the baskets.  Tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5.  Please return the form and money to the office by Friday, December 17th. Thank you for your support.

For the second year the Girl Scouts of the Academy of Saint Adalbert would like to aid those in need by having a Coat Drive. Gently worn coats will be collected through December 21. Before Christmas the girls will take the coats to the Westside Catholic Center to distribute them.

Your generous donations will not only warm the hearts of those in need, but could provide the only warmth a homeless man, woman or child may have this coming winter. Collect more by asking friends, neighbors, and family members to donate.

Help us Help the Homeless.

Collection boxes are available in the lobby.

For 30 years, the West Side Catholic Center has offered hospitality, hot meals, a women and children's shelter, clothing, household goods, advocacy and emergency services to those in need...at no charge.  The West Side Catholic Center relies on hundreds of volunteers to maintain its services. Their volunteers consist of individuals, civic groups, student organizations, area businesses and churches just like the St. Adalbert's.

It's time for our 3rd annual Canned Food Drive to support Church Street Ministries of Berea.  Clean out your pantries, make an extra stop at Marc's, Giant Eagle, or Walmart, or even donate $5 for your teacher to buy the food to donate!  Bring in your canned food the week of November 16-20 and help give someone in need a healthy holiday dinner.  Last year our school donated over 1200 cans, let's try to top that number! 

Sponsored by SMAD and the Second Grade class, each day the cans will be collected, counted, and amounts tallied on a poster graph outside the main office.  Classroom with the most cans donated will receive a Movie and Popcorn fun day on Tuesday, November 24.

Bernardone Family sponsors

6^th Annual Backyard Carnival

Benefitting the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Bernardone Family Home

427 Berry Ridge Dr.

Amherst, OH

(440) 984-3440

Just minutes from Ohio Turnpike or I-90/Rt. 2

All funds benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Directions from Cleveland Area: Rt. 90 / 2, Exit - Amherst, Rt. 58, Turn left off Exit onto Leavitt Rd., Turn left onto Middle Ridge Rd. (Dairy Queen / Sliman's Auto Sales will be on the Right), Go over overpass that crosses Train Tracks, Take left (after overpass) into housing development (This will be Eddystone) at stop sign, turn right onto Hidden Glen Dr., Turn left onto Moonstone, Turn left onto Berry Ridge Dr.

Directions From Turnpike: Exit - Amherst, Rt. 58, Turn right onto Rt. 58, Turn right onto Middle Ridge Rd. (Dairy Queen / Sliman's Auto Sales will be on the left), Go over overpass that crosses Train Tracks, Take first left (after overpass) into housing development (This will be Eddystone), at stop sign, turn right onto Hidden Glen Dr., Turn left onto Moonstone, Turn left onto Berry Ridge Dr.

Come join our SHAMROCK PROGRAM!

Green Shamrocks - $1

Gold Shamrocks - $5  

Fire Fighter and Shamrock School Challenge to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association

Here are the challenges for participating schools:

• A Pizza Party reward for the class with the most funds raised.
• An entry into our pizza party raffle for every $800 raised which sends a kid back to mda summer camp!

3 Small Steps towards ONE BIG CURE!

1. Shamrock mobiles are placed in a visible location at school.
2. Students ask everyone.
3. Shamrocks are signed by students and then hung to foster public recognition and goodwill.