October 17, 2025

MARY... OUR HOPE AND OUR HELP

October Title of Mary: Our Lady of Charity

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

Help us celebrate the accomplishments of our students by sending in updates on the great things that they're doing.

• Congrats to the two 1st grade boys flag football teams for winning championships this weekend!
• Congrats to the 1st Grade boys “The Hawkeyes” for winning the Flag Fanatics Champions (Hull/Lehman coaches)! 
• Congrats to the 1st grade boys “The Ravens” for winning the I9 Flag Football Champions (Perdrix/Kennedy coaches)!
• Congrats to the varsity and 6th grade Academic Team for winning their weekly NKAL match against Twenhofel!

Uniform reminder

Please review the handbook regarding the dress code policy to make sure your child is following the guidelines.

Employment Opportunities

We’re Hiring!

After School Program

The After Care team is responsible for supervising students during the after-school program, both in designated indoor spaces and on the playground. This position ensures the safety and well-being of all students, assists with snack distribution, provided homework support, and helps with check-in and dismissal procedures in accordance with after care policies. For more information, please contact Timothy Mains (tmains@sjscrescent.org).

Morning Drop Off Safety Reminders

Please remain in the car line with the flow of traffic when dropping of your child in the morning. Do not drive around cars or buses that are still unloading students. Thank you for your help keeping everyone safe.

SJS Music and Art

A combined Music and Art Instagram page has been created. It is a private account that we will only allow SJS families to join. It will be for us to showcase our SJS students and their work, plus our ongoing programs/projects here at school.

CAVS on the RUN UPDATE

SOCKTOBER

TRUNK-OR-TREAT

A huge THANK YOU to our event sponsors, Alloy Personal Training and Katie Moore Photography. Register your trick or treaters and help make this a spooky good time by signing up to decorate a trunk and pass out candy at the signup genius linked. Prize awarded for Best Decorated Trunk!

Blossim donuts food truck will have donuts and drinks available for purchase.

Holy Name Society has generously offered to provide burgers and hotdogs in Noll Hall. Please make a comment if you plan to eat. 

Sign up at the link below! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084DAAAB2DA2FDC61-59034008-sjstrunk

School Lunch Accounts

Don't forget to put money into your child's school lunch account through the My School Bucks website. A maximum of $20 can be charged.

Cafeteria Volunteers

Please review the link below to volunteer in the cafeteria for the month of September. Check in at the school office by 10:30am. Make sure to wear athletic shoes or rubber soled shoes. No open toed shoes or flip flops. Also no younger siblings please. All volunteers must be VIRTUS trained. New this year: students will be using regular silverware instead of disposable. Please watch students so the silverware is not thrown in the trash. Thank you!

First Shift: lunch for grades K and 6-8

Second Shift: lunch for grades 1-5

October to December cafeteria volunteer sign-ups

PTO Announcements

SJS PTO is excited to partner with Clementine (formerly Bunches of Bows) and Herzog jewelers this year for your holiday shopping needs by supporting local businesses and benefiting St. Joseph School! Check some holiday shopping off your list, treat yourself to a little jewelry, and then join us next door for Mom’s Night Out at Braxton Barrel House! 

Clementine

On Wednesday, November 5th, shop at Clementine all day and enjoy 20% off your purchase with a $20 donation to SJS PTO. 

Send $20 via Venmo (@SJS-PTO) with “Clementine Coupon” in the comment box or send cash in an envelope marked “SJS PTO Clementine” with your child’s name and homeroom to the office in order to receive your discount coupon. Coupons will be sent home in the coming weeks to be used on November 5th. Clementine’s hours are 10:00am-7:00pm on Wednesdays. 

Herzog Jewelers

On Wednesday, November 5th, stop into Herzog Jewelers to purchase permanent bracelets or anklets. Mention SJS and a portion of the sales will directly benefit St. Joseph PTO and the events we plan for our students and families. 

Herzog is open on Wednesdays from 10:00am-5:30pm, or shop their pop-up at our Mom’s Night Out. There will be a Herzog associate with several permanent bracelet options available from 6:00pm-8:00pm.

Moms Night Out

Join us for a relaxing night out with fellow SJS moms after shopping! We will be at Braxton Barrel House on Wednesday, November 5th from 6:00pm-10:00pm. 

Nacho bar provided, cash bar option, and raffle prize entry just for showing up! Grab a friend, enjoy a drink, and support our SJS Community all in one evening!

No Photograph List

If you would like your child to be included on the no photograph list, email Brooke Bilz (bbilz@sjscrescent.org) with the subject "No photograph" and the first and last names of the students.

Ski Club

We are excited to announce that we will have a ski club with Perfect North again this year. By using the link and login information below you can receive a 30% discount on all memberships. This is open to anyone (kids, friends, family) so please pass along information to anyone interested. We need a minimum of 15 passes sold to have a "club" and receive the discounted pricing.

Website: www.perfectnorth.com/clubs  (Please click on "S" to find St. Joseph Crescent Springs).

Username: sjcs

Password: deception

Deadline: November 3rd

Equipment: Ski/Snowboard rentals can be added see pricing below. 

Passes: Will be mailed to you after you purchase them. In the mail you will receive a RFID card that will serve as your lift ticket. No need to get a sticker anymore. Please place RFID card in jacket (arm, shoulder, waist). You will have to place the RFID near the scanner to get on lift. RFID cards will also be used for ski rentals and can be used to put money on them for food. 

Rentals: Please purchase rentals if needed when buying the passes.

By purchasing through the club you will get a free beginner lesson (just show up at the lesson location at the top of the hour and tell them you are part of the ski club). 

By using the club you can also purchase 4 or 5 visit passes that allow you to show up 4 or 5 separate times throughout the year.

Please pay attention to what days you select for these passes. Rentals for the 4 or 5 visits are also at a discount rate. 

The ski club is the only way to purchase these 4 or 5 visit passes. 

The more people registered the more rewards we will get. We will have a St. Joe's day at Perfect North one day in January where we will have a drawing for some prizes.

Please reach out to me if you have any questions or issues with the system. 

Eric and Katie Kiely (KatieAKiely@gmail.com 859-992-2218). 

Eric's cell: 859-801-1014

Parish Stewardship Forms

In August, Stewardship forms and brochures were mailed to all Parish families. Please remember to send yours by placing it in the collection basket, or dropping it off at the Parish Office.

Covington Catholic High School News

Experience the Brotherhood. Join the Future Colonel Club.

The Future Colonel Club is your ticket to the CovCath brotherhood in action. From the chants of the Colonel Crazies to the roar of the Friday night lights, this is your chance to be part of it all.

Membership includes:

• Free admission to select CovCath events—including this Friday’s football game and next Thursday’s soccer game
• An exclusive Future Colonel Club t-shirt
• A front-row look at what makes CovCath more than just a school—it’s a brotherhood

Don’t just hear about the Colonel Crazies. Stand with them. Don’t just visit CovCath. Live it.

Sign up now: www.covcath.org/fcc

Colonel Youth Wrestling

Colonel Youth Wresting is accepting sign up for boys in grades 3-8, now through October 31st. Practice starts October 15th for 6th-8th grades and on October 20th for 3rd - 5th grades. For more information visit Colonel Youth Wrestling Club (CYW) - Covington Catholic High School, or contact CYW Director Hummeldorf at James.hummeldorf@gamil.com.

Tech recycling day

Shop Local, Support SJS Families

Did you know many of our St. Joseph School families own local businesses? By choosing to support them, you’re giving back to the people who make our community so strong. It’s a simple way to shop small and show big love for SJS! Check out and share this year's SJS Business Directory, which is also available under the Current Families tab on our website.

Thanksgiving Food Drive

LANDS END SALE

Sacred Art Pilgrimage

Message from Parish Secretary

If you do not have attendance cards (especially new families), please reach out to me. I can print some up for you and send them home with your student! Even if you contribute money electronically, you still need to put attendance cards in the collection basket to document your presence/participation at Mass.  

Also, if you don't have cards yet or forget their card at home, you can just use a plain empty envelope or even just a scrap of paper with your family name or household on it and put it in the basket. Please put your family's last name, as well as a first name of head/co head of household. I am receiving slips of paper with last names only, but I sometimes have multiple families with the same last name. It will be VERY helpful to me if a first name is included to make sure that I mark participation for the correct family. If I can't figure it out, then I can't record it.

If you miss Masses, please don't put multiple weeks of cards in the collection basket. You will only get "credit" for one weekend- the one you attended.  

Susie Alcini

Parish Secretary

salcini@stjosephcsky.org

Office Reminders

• If you are dropping off an item your child has forgotten, please put the item on or in the blue bin by the front door. Your child’s name should be on the item. Please email the office and the child’s teacher to let them know that an item has been dropped off for the child. The office staff will retrieve the item and your child will pick it up from the office. 

• If you need to make an appointment for your child during the school day, please refrain from picking your child up after 1:30 p.m. The office is very busy at the end of the day, and reducing early pick ups at this time will allow our office staff to focus on making sure everything is ready for our school dismissal at 1:55 p.m. 

• If your student is going to be absent, please email their teacher and the office at bbilz@sjscrescent.org and aborchers@sjscrescent.org

• If there is a transportation change for dismissal, please email your students teacher and Mrs. Bilz in the office at bbilz@sjscrescent by 12:00 p.m.

Newsletter Calendar – October 18 – October 24

October 18 Junior High Mixer 7:30-9:30

October 20 Middle School Academic Team Practice 2:00-4:00

October 21 Elementary Academic Team Practice 2:00-3:30

October 21 Mozart Strings 2:00-3:15

October 22 Mass Grade 4-8 9:00

October 22 Robotics 2:00-3:30

October 22 Villa Mocha Day 7:00-2:00

October 23 Mass Grade K-3 9:00

October 24 Trunk or Treat 6:00-9:00

If you have any information that you would like included in the newsletter or sent out, please email the information to one of the addresses below.

tmains@sjscrescent.org

ebeiersdorfer@sjscrescent.org

aborchers@sjscrescent.org

bbilz@sjscrescent.org

St. Joseph School

(859) 578-2742

www.sjscrescent.com

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