MILANO NEWS
Congratulations to Milano Elementary School for earning a spot on the 2017-2018 Texas Honor Roll School from the Educational Results Partnership (ERP) and the Institute for Productivity in Education (IPE). The honor roll is part of an effort to identify higher-performing schools and districts that are improving student outcomes.
The program recognizes public schools for demonstrating consistently higher levels of student academic achievement, improvement over time, and reduction in achievement gaps. Honor Roll is the only school recognition program in the state using only student achievement outcomes as the criteria.
BASKETBALL CAMP— Girls summer basketball camp for incoming 6-8 graders on May 29-31 at the high school gym. Time is for 9-10:30 a.m. Camp for incoming freshmen will be held from 9-11 a.m. on June 4-8. For more information, contact Coach Jordan Merkord at jmerkord@milanoisd.net.
EAGLE BLANKETS—The Milano Parents Club is selling Milano Eagle blankets. Orders are due June 1 and will be in at the beginning of school, just in time for football season. Contact Milano Elementary office for more information, 512-455-2062.
KRUSADERS—The annual Kristi’s Krusaders MS Rally for a cure event will be held Sept. 8 at Nat’s in Milano. The event will include a motorcycle run, barbecue meal, live auction, a raffle, 50/50 drawing, T-shirt sales and live music from Brooke Graham and Chris Kleiber. T-shirt purchases are encouraged prior to the event on the events Facebook page or at ssditto@gmail.com. For more information, contact Ray Ditto (512-760-0143), Amber Ditto (254-214-3042) or Kristi Bode (512-429-8942).
Be sure to send me any of your events, fundraisers, summer vacation adventures or articles of interest to run in this column weekly. You can reach me at m _ lagrone@yahoo.com or 254-718-0133.
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