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Tuesday, September 12;
HS Volleyball @ Otis; JV @ 4:00pm, Varsity to follow;
Thursday, September 14;
HS Football @ Lyons; Varsity @ 7:00pm;
Friday, September 15;
Jr High Volleyball vs Haxtun @ 4:00pm; C, B, A games to be played;
Jr High Football vs Haxtun @ 4:00pm, A team & B to follow
JH Cross Country @ Lyons @ 6:00pm
Saturday, September 16; HS Volleyball @ 1:00pm vs Simla; C, JV & Varsity
HS Cross Country @ Lyons @ 8:00am
REMINDER! Tomorrow is the last day to turn in your Elementary 100 Mile Club forms. Join the fun!
Keep an eye out for Oral Health Screening forms coming home this week K-6. Forms are due September 12.
Please check out the lunch menus for September! There may have been some changes!
Picture Day is Coming September 20!
Tuesday, September 5
HS Volleyball Holyoke vs. Merino 4:00 p.m. C, JV, and Varsity matches.
Thursday, September 7
HS Volleyball Merino at Wray 4:00 p.m. 1 set of D, C, JV, and Varsity matches. Schedule to follow.
Friday, September 8
JH Cross-Country at Ft. Morgan 3:00 p.m.
HS Cross-Country at Ft. Morgan 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 9
HS Football Merino vs. Mancos at South Park High School (Fairplay) 1:00 p.m. JH Volleyball at Akron 8:00 a.m.
Congratulations to Ann Barton on receiving the Colorado Association of School Board McGuffey Award.
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Activities: Week of 8/28/2023
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Boys Golf @ Wray
JHVB vs Sterling 4:30 D & B matches / A & C matches to follow
HSVB @ Peetz 5:00
Thursday, August 31, 2023
JHCC @ Sterling 3:00
HSCC @ Sterling 4:00
HSSB @ Wellington 4:00
JHFB vs Caliche 4:00 B scrimmage to follow
JHVB vs Caliche 4:00 D,C,B,A matches
Friday, September 1, 2023
HSFB @ McClave 7:00
Our Elementary Facebook Group has graduated to a PAGE!!! Please use the following link to join us!
http://facebook.com/merinoelementary
SAFER Grant, August 2023 - Press Release
The Buffalo RE-4J School District, Julesburg RE-1 School District, and Revere School
District, in collaboration with the Northeast BOCES, received the School Access for Emergency Response grant, referred to as the SAFER grant from the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The grant in the amount of $433,260 is a one-year project and furthers the ability of the school(s) to bridge their local radios with that of their emergency responder community and district-wide safety teams and other staff. Funding for the grant program was created by the Colorado State Legislature’s SB18-158.
Motorola Solutions, a partner in the grant, has developed a two-way radio emergency
communications solution with unique school-based interoperability equipment to allow schools, the district, and local emergency responder agencies to use two-way radios to communicate, when needed, to manage a school-based emergency or crisis event. School staff are often the first on-scene when an emergency event unfolds. This provides the opportunity for school staff to immediately work with community public safety agencies as they respond to the event. When interoperable communication is not needed, the district’s radio system will operate independently from public safety radio.
The grant work includes robust training and exercise programs based on the tenets of the National Incident Management System framework using school-specific crisis scenarios customized to meet the needs of each school district. SchoolSAFE Communications has developed the Certified Ready Program to clearly define and measure the outcomes of the grant work in five major areas: radio infrastructure, SchoolSAFE physical network, school safety team, training and exercise program, and a sustainability plan.
Public safety agencies are valuable community partners which school districts rely upon for school safety. As part of the grant application process, various agencies including local law enforcement, fire departments, ambulance and emergency medical services (EMS) were \contacted to establish a memorandum of understanding regarding interoperable communications.
Nine other northeast Colorado school districts, and Northeast BOCES, were recipients of SAFER Grant funds during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, specifically, Akron R-1, Frenchman RE-3, Haxtun RE-2J, Holyoke RE-1J, Lone Star #101, Otis R-3, Plateau RE-5, Wray RD-2 and Yuma-1. Northeast BOCES located in Haxtun, Colorado is the grant fiscal agent.
For questions regarding the article or the SAFER grant, please contact Alan Nall,
Director of Secondary Support Services, Northeast BOCES, 970-521-2771 or email to anall@neboces.org.
We’re celebrating our own William “Billy Jo” Ball one of 72,000 students from across the country who earned academic honors from the College Board’s National Recognition Programs!
He received the National Rural and Small Town Award (NRSTA). Eligible students apply on BigFuture. They have a GPA of 3.5 or higher. They’re the top 10% of PSAT/NMSQT® or PSAT™ 10 assessment takers in each state for each program or have earned a score of 3 or higher on two or more AP® Exams. They also either attend school in a rural area or a small town.
Congratulations Billy Jo! #RamProud
Just a heads up for the JV tournament at SHS. We will be taking tickets there, but it will be CASH ONLY. We will have stamps or markers at either site that way if someone has paid for one site, they will be able to get into the other site as well. At NJC we can take cash or card, and there will be a stand for CHSAA/Media Passes. Your fans can also go to gonjc.com and purchase tickets before hand for the event. They will just need to show the ticket table that they have purchased the tickets and how many they have purchased.
Game time has been changed to 6:00pm for Rams Football vs Front Range Christian on Saturday, August 26.
Admission: Adults-$7.00; Seniors/Students- $5.00
Booster Club will be serving Hot Dogs and Chips for $5.00
Hope to see you all there! GO RAMS
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Please join us Tuesday, August 15th at 6:00 p.m. for our back to school BBQ hosted by the Buffalo Foundation. This is an opportunity to see the teachers, check out the classrooms, bring school supplies, reconnect with friends and eat some great food, too!!!
For those of you with Kindergarteners joining us this year, we will have Kindergarten Orientation at 5:30 p.m. before the BBQ! Join us at the East entrance of the elementary school for information on the first day of school and the chance to see your teacher, classroom, meet the principal, and get all of your questions answered! Do not worry if you cannot make it to orientation, we will be available during the BBQ, as well!
See you soon!
The first day of school is Thursday, August 17th!!
Good morning from Buffalo School District!
Merino Schools, "Building Tomorrows Leaders Today"
6th graders giving the final pledge this morning over the PA! Nice job, y'all!
