Griggsville News – May 9, 2024

By Editor | May 6, 2024 |

Jill Kunzeman
309-264-3785
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Griggsville clean-up May 11

Congratulations to GP’s new Prom Royalty, Queen Jaime Syrcle and King Mason Bolton! I’ve seen a lot of prom pictures on Facebook the last few days. It looked like beautiful event!
GP’s sixthg STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Challenge Team, sponsored by Mrs. Dee Hoover, competed in their first STEM Challenge competition at DOT Foods last week. The team took second place overall, missing first place by less than one point. What a great first outing for this new group at GPMS! Team members include Izik Brown, Leo Dunham, Elliott Eveland, Lane Main, Raven Martin and Ava Rush.
Throughout the month of April, GP elementary students participated in the Bikes for Books program, which is sponsored by our local Masonic Lodge. For each book read, students earned one ticket to enter into a drawing for a new bicycle! Overall, 829 books were read, and the bicycle/helmet winner was first grader, Layla Lord! Thank you to our local Masonic Lodge for sponsoring this awesome program!
The middle school track team has several members heading to state competition in East Peoria this coming weekend. Eightth grade qualifiers are Eli Craig (200M Dash); Quentin Booker (800M Dash, High Jump, Long Jump); Eli Craig, Eli Musgrave, Kason Brown, Quentin Booker (4x200M Relay); Eli Musgrave, Logan Sidwell, Kason Brown, Kendall Scranton (4x400M Relay); seventh gradeq are Lydia Kurfman (1600M Run). Good luck!
Be sure to stop in at Courtyard Café in Pittsfield before this Friday to place a bid on the Pike County Home Extension Unit Scholarship baskets. This scholarship is funded solely by the bids placed on these baskets and the winning bid and scholarship recipient will be revealed Friday!
Pike County Cleanup Day is scheduled for May 11 from 8 a.m. to noon. Pike County residents, upon showing proof of residency, will be allowed to deposit one car or pickup load of trash for free at the Hickory Ridge Landfill Facility (32246 375th St., Baylis). Visit www.gflenv.com for a list of accepted and unaccepted materials.
The next Apple Festival monthly meeting will be May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at Griggsville City Hall. Please join us to help with the planning of our community festival that has been happening for over fifty years!
GP’s National Honor Society Chapter will sponsor an American Red Cross Blood Drive May 17 from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 . in Nichol Gymnasium. Please email Mrs. Cindy Conkright at [email protected] to get registered.Mark your calendars now for this years’ GP Snack Pack Memorial Day Fish Fry! The fish fry will be held May 27th from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Griggsville American Legion and will be for a free-will donation. Funds raised from this event will go to the GP Snack Pack Program which is run completely by volunteers who help coordinate with GP Schools to pack and distribute food bags weekly to school kids.The program is funded through the generous gifts of local businesses, community members and foundations. What a great cause!