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Principal's Message for November

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Dear Everest Academy Parents and Friends,
So much has taken place in this first quarter of school all with your help and support. Lively events and accomplishments all are sure signs of a healthy and vibrant school environment. We are here for a purpose and each day we strive to live this out in an academically challenging, joyful and loving surroundings, a place where students will flourish as Christian leaders day by day.

Our latest and greatest event was the Harvest Fest. Many thanks to Susie Lambert, Annette Waligora, Nicole Stafford and their team for all of their efforts in making this event a huge success! I enjoyed seeing so many of our families participate. There were in the area of 150+ attendees in the day's festivities. All the details from pumpkin decorating, a variety of tasty food and snacks, fun and games, to Mr. Hamilton‟s roaring indoor bonfire …a great time was had by all! Thank you to all who participated in this event.

Everest Academy parents are so generously involved in our school. We see the Gala committee working hard and with all well underway, the Mom‟s Coffee‟s, Hot Lunch preparations, new moms coming out for breakfast, the strategic planning committees at work, all developing the future of our children and Everest Academy. Thank you to all of you.
We are very pleased at this time to announce that we have a new member on our Everest team. We welcome Natalia Bleka as our Marketing Coordinator. Natalia is now in her second week here at Everest Academy. She will be working closely with Sue Zabilka in developing our marketing effort as well as supporting in the Admissions role. Natalia will be at the school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We look forward to working with her in our goal of making the Everest family grow. Please join us in welcoming Natalia.

Our recently held parent conferences allowed time with our dedicated teachers and parents to meet. Thank you to the many families who participated. Parent involvement in their children's education is vital to their success and that of our educational program. Please do contact us if you would like more time to discuss your child‟s progress. We are working to make improvements in all of our programs, with a particular focus on the academics, human and the apostolic formation programs. We intend to bring you up to date on the direction for each of these areas prior to the New Year.

Prayer is the real power behind all we are doing in our school. We need it as much as the air we breathe. Certainly our team here at Everest counts on your prayers. We invite you to join us, as we will begin regular adoration of the Blessed Sacrament each month by class. Each class will take 15 minutes of prayer time with our Lord. These prayer times will be alternately led by Brother Juan and Miss. Teresa. All families are welcome for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on the last Thursday of each month beginning this month. As well the Lean on Me Holy Hour takes please every Thursday. These are opportunities to offer prayers of petition and thanksgiving.

With that said, we at Everest Academy have so much to be thankful for and very particularly some very exciting news to be especially thankful for, that you all may well already know, however we are officially announcing it now: A new playground is coming for our children at Everest Academy!! Thanks to the tremendous generosity of the Mr. and Mrs. Ed and Joan Bleka, our children will be soon playing on beautiful playground equipment. We are so grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Bleka for their ongoing kindness and generosity towards the school development and our families.

A school definitely becomes fully a school with a playground! We have the additional daily recess this year and now a very specific play area for our children to spend that recess time. I am personally elated and humbled by this beautiful gift for our children and by the Bleka family‟s dedication to the mission and progress of our school. We intend to have an official opening ceremony for our playground with the specific dates to be announced in the near future.
We have been very blessed in the foundation of this school by all of our families, so many who have given generously of their time and talents and have made great sacrifices that have brought us here today. This beautiful gift is another example of this. We thank God and we keep you all in our thanksgiving prayers.

Below is the playground structure that will be installed. Although not shown here there will be a set of swings included as well. Please see the enlarged plan that we have on display here at the school. The playground will be delivered very soon sometime in the area of November 12th. We are blessed to have the expert management and supervision of this project by Mr. Tom Girouard and his experienced team. Mr. Girouard has been instrumental in working with parents, Mrs. Awe, Mrs. Stafford and Mrs. Ramirez last year to initiate the playground project and this year to see to the promotion and development of the playground.

The construction site work officially began on All Saints Day. The playground will be installedquickly with all required except for the playground surfacing to complete in the week of November 16th. We are looking for volunteers to install the safety surface (mulch) once it is delivered to the site over the November 20-21 weekend. Please let us know if you may be able to come out for sometime on that day in order to have all up and ready for PLAY for our children.

This is so exciting for our faculty and staff that we will have to be sure we make room for the children and keep off the equipment ourselvesJ!

Your families are in my daily prayers.
God bless you,
Sincerely in Christ,
Christine Gamache


About Everest

Everest Academy Lemont, founded in 1995 as White Pines Academy, is a private Catholic school offering a Pre-K through grade 8 program.

Our goal is to offer each child the highest quality education through Integral Formation®, the pedagogical method developed by the Legionaries of Christ. Through Integral Formation®, each student benefits from a personalized approach that develops the whole person, from intellect and character to spiritual life and apostolic responsibility. The result: intelligent, responsible, and positive leaders who will transform society with the Gospel values.

Here at Everest Academy, with our brand new campus opened for the fall 2009 school year, we are poised for growth and ready to give our students a Catholic educational experience that will last them a lifetime. Find out more by taking a tour of our campus.

The Pilgrim Queen

The Pilgrim Queen
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Prayer for Everest

Prayer for Everest
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for making Everest Academy a reality. With the aid of the Holy Spirit, may we touch the lives of many people and bring to our community the joy of knowing and loving Jesus Christ. We thank Our Mother Mary for her help and ask for her continued care and protection. Amen.

School Masses

School Masses
Join us for All School Mass on Friday at 2:20pm or Morning Mass at 7:15 am Tues., Wed., and Thurs.

Lean on Me Holy Hour

Lean on Me Holy Hour
Spend some time with Jesus every Thursday, after morning Mass 7:45am

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