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December 12, 2014

Dear Credo Families,

Hopefully everyone enjoyed the surprise days off. Note below for rescheduled dates for concerts and Poetry Slam.

Coming Soon • Monday, December 15, Lottery applications due for 2015-16 enrollment (extended) • Monday, December 15, 7 PM: World Percussion Concert in the gym (rescheduled) • Tuesday, December 16, 7 PM. College Finance presentation by Margaret Mann • Friday, December 19, final day, 1 PM dismissal. Parents welcome to our annual

Festival of Light at 12:30 PM in the gym • Friday, January 9, 7 PM: Club Credo Poetry Slam (rescheduled) $10 at the door • Thursday, January 15, 7PM: American Music concert in the Assembly Room

(rescheduled)

Congratulations Scrooge cast and crew! Congratulations to Ms. Bragonier, Scrooge himself, Michael Esquibel, pictured below, and the cast and crew of Scrooge’s Christmas for three sold-out and amazing performances last weekend! Well done all!

Also huge thanks and congratulations to Kelly Gast and our Funding & Events Committee—Monica Conway, Kim Holland, Marcena Hopkins Peterson, Deanna Kempthorne, George Leap, Kathy Werner-Leap—for our very successful, second annual Holiday Faire. Thank you to the many parent and student volunteers who helped make the play and the faire so memorable, especially Alpidia Barraza, Jodi Boyle, Maria Bragonier, Susie Butler, Kellie Fuller, Peter Gast, Andrea Gregory, John Hinkle, Kelley McNeal, Gayla Overmeer and everyone who worked a shift or donated food or decorations. Humbug at Credo? NO WAY!

Photo: George Leap

A video of the 2014 Scrooge’s Christmas production is now on our website, thanks to videographer, editor and Credo dad Nick Yardley. Go to www.credohigh.org, under the About button, and click on Credo Videos.

First  Online  Auction  a  Big  Success!  Our first online auction closed last Tuesday and exceed our goal of raising $15,000 for Credo! Huge thanks to Monica Conway, auction manager; Mark Mills-Thysen, donations

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wrangler; Susan Evans and Wendy Barton, item entry; Funding and Events Committee (Monica Conway, Kelly Gast, Kim Holland, Marcena Hopkins Peterson, Deanna Kempthorne, George Leap, Kathy Werner-Leap); and everyone who solicited or donated to the auction. Thanks to the bidders and buyers too! Future Credo Site at Sonoma Mountain Village Site Moving Forward!

Last Wednesday, Credo seniors Griffin Boyle, Leah Newton and Nadia Haugen joined me and about 20 other stakeholders for a visioning session at Sonoma Mountain Village. This development, just a mile down Camino Collegio from our current campus, is where we intend to locate Credo in the future. Sanctioned by the international nonprofit One Planet Communities, Sonoma Mountain Village is planned to be the most sustainable development in North America. It will include 1900 homes, shops, a farm, our school, a senior community, parks, playing fields and many other attractions. Credo students were seen as future homebuyers and offered great suggestions about how to make the village a most satisfying place to live. The development has been on hold for the last few years due to the recession, but now it is coming fast to life. I will keep you abreast of developments. Visit: http://www.bioregional.com/oneplanetliving/ and http://www.sonomamountainvillage.com

Credo-made Gifts Available The Holiday Fair was a huge success, yet we have some products left to sell!! All products have been made by 10th and 12th grade students in Farming class, with high quality, organic products. For your winter health, there is Fire Cider and Elderberry Syrup (must refrigerate), both revered for their ability to help prevent flu and cold symptoms or shorten their duration; both are immune boosting, anti-inflammatory, anti bacterial, anti-viral. Fire Cider is warming, sweet and spicy, and elderberry syrup, made from local elderberries, is sweetened with local, organic honey…Hippocrates is said to have called it his “medicine chest.” There are a few left of our lovely Ruby Chest Rub…made with echinacea, oregano grape root and a number of herbs and essential oils to warm and bring healing during a cold. Our body products include high quality Spritzers, Bath Oils and Body Roll-on Oils and Lip Balms, created by 12th graders. A few Orange Blossom Face Lotions are left as well as Heavenly Hand Cream. Salt or Sugar Body Scrubs to exfoliate and refresh your skin in the shower and Epsom Lavender Bath Bags to relax and sooth sore muscles are available. Please come to the office to purchase and support our students. All products cost from $1 to $15. Thank you for your support!!

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Ice Skating Social and Fundraiser: Save the Date: Saturday 1/17— 8:30 –10:00 pm at Snoopy’s Ice Arena in Santa Rosa _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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LOST: High quality REI-brand rain jacket. It's entirely black with a hood, longer than usual jackets and does not gather at the waist. Grey checkered-pattern lining with "Benjamin" written in large in black sharpie. It's not at school. We think it accidentally went home with someone else, maybe two weeks ago. Contact adamhill@sonic.net, or 707-795-0989. There's a Peet's Coffee card in it for whoever finds it!

OF INTEREST:

inter Craft Faire

Baked Potato Bar & Delightful Desserts

Thurs Dec 18

Time: Craft Faire 9:30am-6pm ! Lunch 12:45pm ! Children Activities 1-3pm

Crafts include:

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House sitter: May I help lighten your load this holiday season? I am a Colorado mother of two (my son is a graduate of Boulder's Shining Mountain Waldorf School and my daughter a U of Oregon alumnus), and I am exploring relocation. Grounded, conscious, and brimming with spirit, I would love to housesit over break or assist with myriad projects around your home, business, or organization. Professional writer, gifted organizer/clutter-clearer, and all-around angel. Available 12/15 and into the new year, ideally in the Santa Rosa-Sebastopol-Cotati area. Excellent references, including Céline Haugen and Thom Schaefer. Please contact Céline or Thom to be put in touch with our Colorado visitor. Host a Japanese Student! We have six Japanese girls who still need host families, and they arrive in two weeks!! They are here for only 10 days and are involved in a daily program. Please if you can host call us, if not may, I ask that you pass this on to your friends and family? For more information visit our website, call or email me Suze Cribbs, Executive Director Exchanging Values 707.480.3006 https://www.facebook.com/exchangingvalues www.exchangingvalues.com

Happy weekend,