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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
March 12, 2010

Operation Rice Bowl — U.S. speaker tour

Posted by : ambria

MESA — Students at St. Timothy School heard a firsthand account March 5 of how funds from their second annual Operation Rice Bowl collection transforms lives.
The global hunger awareness initiative, which coincides with Lent, is a project of Catholic Relief Services.
Thomas Awiapo and his three brothers ate from a single bowl as children. His younger [...]


October 22, 2009

Veterans Day writing

Posted by : ambria

For the second straight year, a Catholic elementary school student has earned top honors in a local Veterans Day essay contest.
Andrew Johnson, an eighth-grader at St. Timothy School in Mesa, placed first in the junior high school category of the annual contest sponsored by the Phoenix VA Health Care System. His reflective essay on what [...]


June 17, 2009

Schools roundup

Posted by : ambria

 
I sort of thought that since publising our graduation issue, that we wouldn’t have much school news until we work on our “back to school” issue in August. I was wrong.
Schools stay plenty busy during the summer running summer school programs and camps. That’s also a “upgrade” time, both for the campus and for classroom [...]


May 9, 2009

Girls w-i-n in Spanish too

Posted by : ambria

Remember Jennica Dumond, the St. Thomas the Apostle eighth grader who won the diocesan spelling bee two years in a row?  She apparently set a trend for girls to excel in diocesan spelling bees.
At least a dozen of the 18 students who competed in the 13th annual Diocesan Spanish Spelling Bee at St. Mary-Basha School [...]