Thursday, September 15, 2022
Exeter-Milligan Volleyball struggles against #1 Falls City Sacred Heart
Throwback Thursday 09/09/2012
9/9/12
The Timberwolves beat the Shelby Rising City Huskies 76 – 36 for their homecoming. The Timberwolves are now 3-0 on the season and will travel to Johnson-Brock next Friday night.
Exeter-Milligan Homecoming Court Sophomore Attendants Maitlyn Thomsen and Jarett Maxson, Princess and Prince Taylor Erdkamp and Jacob Kroll, Duke and Duchess Blake Papik and Jennifer Pribyl, King and Queen Robbie Androyna and Jackie Luzum, Junior Attendants Nate Oliva and Erica Yound and Freshman Attendants Janey Due and Jack Dinneen.
Exeter-Milligan Cheerleaders held the Homecoming Pep Rally to help the Timberwolf family get ready for Friday nights football game versus the Shelby Huskies. During the pep rally the senior girls made over the senior boy football players into cheerleaders and let the crowd decide who was the best cheerleader. The senior girls playing softball had to hit a t-ball while blindfolded to see who get hit a wiffle ball the farthest and the senior volleyball players had to serve while blindfolded. The Exeter-Milligan band played several numbers. The cheerleaders performed a dance number to end the pep rally
The Exeter G.F.W.C. Woman’s Club planted a rose just south of the Exeter Fire Hall downtown. Since it was planted the club has taken turns watering and caring for the rose. The red rose is the G.F.W.C. flower and was adopted in May of 1940 by the Milwaukie council. Club Member Reba Toothman shared the information along with the reason behind this particular rose. “In 2008 the current state president asked that we plant a red rose honoring our G.F.W.C. international president, Rose Ditto, in a visible public venue in our community.”
Despite hard soil, the club got the rose planted, Erma Adamson donated the beautiful heart shaped arbor behind it and it has flourished with the care that it has been given. Several times this summer the bush was loaded with blooms.
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
View From the Front Office
VIEW FROM THE FRONT OFFICE
In our 34 years of wedded bliss, vacationing with extended family members has ALWAYS been the norm. This year we decided to shake things up a bit and vacation with just us - no kids and no other family members. After ten days, two weddings, over 1500 miles, and celebrating my Sammy Hagar “I Can’t Drive 55”th birthday - we’re still all smiles! We even had to break out the paper road map as some of the areas we traveled did not have cell service and Google Maps couldn’t point us in the right direction.
During this little excursion, we had plenty of time to talk without many distractions or what I refer to as white noise. This white noise is what either distracts us from what is important or masks the true message. Webster defines it as “meaningless or distracting commotion, hubbub or chatter.” In one of my favorite sci-fi movies Contact, this white noise is most evident when a message from outer space is discovered. After filtering through the white noise (the distractions) they were able to identify the true meaning of the message. In this case, it was the “blueprints” for space and time travel.
Being able to tune out the white noise is so important. It seems we are inundated with white noise which we can now also classify as “misinformation” or even negativity. By tuning out the white noise, we are able to focus on the true message. My focus for the 2022-23 school year is to keep the white noise to a minimum and focus on our true message - providing the best learning environment and experience for the students and staff at Exeter-Milligan. By keeping the focus on others, as opposed to ourselves, we are able to keep that perspective and balance. We cannot be egocentric and do what is easiest for ourselves. As an educational leader, I have to balance not only what is best for the students and staff but also what is best for the district as a whole. Sometimes this balance is difficult and not everyone gets what they want. Please keep all this in mind as we move forward and work together to make E-M the place to be.
We start the 2022-23 school year with some new members of the pack. Please take some time to welcome Miranda Hornung (Ag/FFA), Kelsey Yates (2nd grade), and Ashley Arbuck (3rd grade). We are excited to have them join the E-M family and look forward to them sharing their strengths with our students and staff.
Probably the most exciting part to the start of the new school year is the new playground. It is SO close to being completed and I can’t wait to see the smiles on the student’s faces as they enjoy the new equipment. A great big thank you goes to the school board for their unwavering support for this project. It was not an inexpensive venture, but they saw the need for the new playground equipment that will meet the needs of all our students.
The start of my 15th year at
Exeter-Milligan (31st overall in education) is just around the corner and I am
just as excited as if it was my first. Here’s to a fabulous 2022-23 school year
and let’s all tune out that white noise and keep our focus on where it should
be - the students!
Sunday, September 11, 2022
EMF Takes Down Sandy Creek
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