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Friday, February 13, 2015

From IHM School

IHM School Patrons

We thank our new patrons to IHM
School and thank you
for your generosity and concern.

For all of our Patrons and Guardian
Angels, we are truly grateful. You are
in our community's prayers every
day and you can feel confident in the
fact we are educationg our children
for a Catholic future.

From IHM School
Education •Tradition • Catholicism


12 - February - 2015 Month of the the Passion of Our Lord
Our New Website! We have been trying to show our appreciation to you more and more for supporting our school. We have long wanted a website that we could use to give you more ways to keep in touch with us and let you know what events are going on at the school. It is important to us that you see what heroes you are to us and what your donations provide to our students. Without your support neither myself, nor the Brothers, Sister and other teachers could do what we love so much: educating our next generation of Catholics! Please feel free to browse through the site. New information will be posted there as time goes on. Thank you again for being our hero! -Headmaster Brad Grinstead Click here to see our new website. Electronic Devices in Our Families (An essay written by one of our students.) What is the most important thing in the world to you? Other than God and my Faith, my family is number one to me. If you think about it, families are what make or break us as a society; they are the building blocks that hold us up. And when they break or fall, so do the rest of us. What is making the families break? I think it has a lot to do with electronic devices such as ipods, iphones, tablets, televisions, and the many other gadgets that so many people own. Don’t get me wrong- I don’t think that these devices alone are tearing us apart, but the addictive way people use them. They start to need the devices to function, and their minds get clogged up so they stop thinking straight. These people lose touch with reality; they stop seeing the people and things around them and get distracted from what matters in this life- family and the relationships we have with them and the rest of the world. They become selfish and start thinking only of what’s going on on their devices. I don’t need statistics to back me up-just take a look around! We see people ignoring each other or putting off relationships for more time with their TVs or the people online. F amilies are broken because the people in them are not working together. Some social people might say that these devices are bringing us more together as a society; people are communicating more than they ever could before! Yes, this is true- people can talk over long distances and to many more individuals now. All this is good to a certain degree, but when people online start becoming more important than the people at home, it becomes anti-social because these people are wasting their time with strangers online rather than talking to the people who matter and are right there for them. I’m not saying that we should only talk to our families, or that we should talk to everyone around us on the streets! I’m saying that we should pay more attention to those who are important to us and not offend them by preferring strangers online. -Maria, age 17 Sister Mary Joseph’s Puzzle Corner Two of Europe's top spies met in England, to exchange information. They were using a new secret code. Can you break this code in 15 minutes or less? Here is a hint: This code, like many others, was created by rearranging the sequence of the letters in the alphabet. It is often referred to as "The Looking Glass Code." 1st Spy: "WRW BLF TVG NB KSLGLH LU GSV VMVNB'H MVD HVXIVG DVZKLM?" 2nd Spy: "BVH, BLF WLOG! RG GFIMVW LFG GL YV Z KOZM ULI Z MVD VOVXGIRX VTTYZGVI! The Solution to Last Month's Puzzle: Q. Four Homeowners went to a hardware store to buy something. One of the home-owners bought one for just $1.00. Seven is also $1.00, but ninteen costs $2.00. If they needed one hundred twenty five, the total cost would have been $3.00. Even if they ordered four hundred, they will still only pay $3.00. Each home-owner bought what they needed and the total was $4.00. What did they buy? A. Numbers for their houses.