Mattoon Community Unit School District 2

MHS cheerleader clinic, tryouts scheduled

Mattoon High School has scheduled cheerleader clinics and tryouts this April. Click the link to view all the information in pdf or click the thumbnail. MHS Cheerleader Tryouts 2020

Mattoon Middle School eighth grade art students presented Executive Director Chris Davis of The Haven a donation of $170 Jan. 10 as part of a public art project they created in December. The collaborative artwork asked community members to sponsor advisory classes who agreed to adopt a Kindness Tree and engage in 25 random acts of kindness. Advisory students wrote each kind act on a leaf, which they hung on a recycled paper mache tree, . . .

McLain Schaefer, principal, Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School, presents a check in the amount of $435.14 to Kim Henness on behalf of One Stop Community Christmas. The funds were earned for One Stop Community Christmas through the Dollar Days program that WES sponsored during the month of December. The students raised $217.57. WES PTO matched that amount and the combined donation was presented Jan. 14, 2019 to Henness.

Anyone starting a ninth decade attending Mattoon High School basketball games rates an autographed basketball, and the Green Wave delivered one to Ken Wooddell at Tuesday night's game against Mahomet-Seymour. Wooddell began broadcasting Wave games on the radio in 1949 after moving to Mattoon. He spent 40 years broadcasting games and the past 30 attending as a spectator. A charter member of the Illinois Basketball . . .

Free and reduced meals available

Do you know if your child is eligible for free or reduced-price school meals? Would you like to save money in the New Year, and apply for free and reduced-price meals. Check to see if you’re eligible – it’s risk free and confidential. Applications are available at your school office for pick up, call to request to have sent home with your child or print from the link on the flyer. Take the . . .

FCA event rescheduled to Feb. 9

Mattoon High School and Mattoon Middle School FCA's Courts For Christ event originally scheduled Jan. 16, 2020 at MHS is rescheduled Feb. 9. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The event is open to the community.

Beth Hettinger, assistant librarian left, and Peggy Burton, librarian, right, with a copy of the book “Nim’s Island” by Wendy Orr. “Nim’s Island” is this year’s featured book for One Book/One School Project at Arland D. Williams Jr. Elementary School. Families and WES staff received copies of the book and are encouraged to read one chapter a night. Each morning, Principal . . .

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