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Herold named Outstanding Jazz Educator

Mark Herold, Director of Bands at Legacy High School, was recently selected as the 2020 “Outstanding Jazz Educator” by the North Dakota chapter of the National Band Association for considerable contributions to jazz education in the state.

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Alexis Dressler, LHS, chosen as the female award winner of the NDIAAA scholarship

Alexis Dressler, a senior at Legacy High School was chosen as the female award winner of the North Dakota Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NDIAAA) scholarship. Click the headline for more information.

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Maggie Sorensen, LHS, accepted into summer medical program

Maggie Sorensen, a Legacy High School junior, was accepted into the Stanford Medicine Clinical Summer Internship program for the coming summer. Click the headline for more information.

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Leah Kelsch, LHS, named Member of the Month by the ND Assoc. of Student Councils

Leah Kelsch, a junior at Legacy High School, was named Member of the Month by the North Dakota Association of Student Councils. Click the headline for more information.

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BPS to-go meal locations & frozen food instructions

BPS expanded its food distribution sites to 23 total locations, so review the schedule for locations and times. For frozen food safe handling instructions, click here.

No BPS meals April 10, 13 & 27: There will be NO to-go meals on Good Friday, April 10; Parent-Teacher Conference Day off on Monday, April 13; and the Possible Storm Make Up Day on Monday, April 27.
COVID-19 BPS Fundraising

Donate to Family Assistance Fund
The Bismarck Public Schools Foundation (BPSF) has established a COVID-19 BPS Family Assistance Fund. Those that wish to donate may do so through the foundation website or by mail. To donate online, go to https://www.bpsfoundation.com/donate/ and click “COVID-19 BPS Family Assistance.” To donate by mail, send checks to the BPS Foundation at 806 N. Washington St., Bismarck, ND 58501 and write “COVID-19” in the memo line. Families seeking assistance are encouraged to reach out to their counselor or social worker who will connect them to established community resources as well as submit requests for funding needs that cannot be met within existing resources. The BPSF thanks those who have already reached out to volunteer and/or provide monetary donations to help those within our community who are struggling.

Donate to Student Feeding Efforts
BPS has had many kind offers to help with student feeding. If you want to make a monetary donation to help feed students in need, go to https://www.bismarckschools.org/Page/3381 and follow the instructions listed. If you are not currently a MyPaymentsPlus user, you can set up an account!
Personal care items needed
Community Food Assistance
Register kindergarteners for 2020-21
Apr. 10 Good Friday off; no BPS go-meals
Apr. 13, 14, 16 Order takeout & support BPS families!
The Bismarck Public Schools Foundation has partnered with Applebee’s to “takeout” the devastating effects COVID-19 has had on struggling BPS families. Applebee’s is hosting 3 takeout nights; 2 at their North location and 1 at their South location. Dates for these events are Monday, April 13^th at the South Applebee’s and Tuesday, April 14^th and Thursday, April 16^th at the North Applebee’s. Applebee’s has committed to donating 20% from the event days’ total meal prices back to The Bismarck Public School Foundation for the COVID-19 BPS Family Assistance fund. This fund currently serves as a safety net for struggling BPS families to provide essential needs that cannot be met through existing community services and resources. https://www.bpsfoundation.com/events/takeoutcovid-19/

If you would be willing to help these families in need, we ask that you help in the following ways:
1. Pre-register for the event. In order to “guarantee” the night we need at least 20 reservations at each location. We are attempting to have some fun with this, so we thought it would be fun to have “school nights” as shown below. (If you can’t make it on your night but can go another night- no problem! The money all funnels into the same fund, helping the same cause.) You can click on your preferred date below to pre-register. In order to guarantee the event it would great if we could get at least 2-3 reservations from each school within the district.
  - Monday, April 13^th- Bismarck High, its feeder schools, & SCHS, Applebee’s South Location
  - Tuesday, April 14^th – Century High School and its feeder schools, Applebee’s North Location
  - Thursday, April 16^th- Legacy High School and its feeder schools, Applebee’s North Location
2. Share this event to your followers on FB! Make sure your followers know that they can help people in this community and get a break from cooking! No need to generate your own posts, the Bismarck Public School Foundation will be sharing our posts on their Facebook page that you can share. This will help the foundation immensely as it will bring awareness of this fundraiser to our community that is outside of the foundation’s reach. Sharing a post this week to announce, next week for your followers to mark their calendars, and the following as a reminder either the day before and the day of that would be great!
3. Participate! We would love to have you join us in helping the struggling families within BPS that have been affected by this pandemic. In order to ensure that your bill is counted for the fundraiser, simply let them know you are participating when you call in and either remind the Applebee’s staff or show them the flyer upon pick-up. (Flyer for this event will be shared out on the Bismarck Public School Foundation’s Facebook page.)