EHS Student Council "Adopt a Child" Program

The Student Council also hosted an “Adopt a Child” this year- with the help of faculty and the EHS FFA we were able to provide Christmas gifts for 77 kids in foster care. These children (ranging from 3 months-20 years old) would not have had any gifts this Christmas without the generosity of many!  It was so neat to see people coming in with their bags and boxes of gifts!  The receiving participants were so thankful and it truly made their year. :-) 

 

EHS Student Council Sponsored Blood Drive

The Eureka High School Student Council hosted our annual blood drive!  This year there were 44 donors present at our blood drive and we had 41 successful units of blood.  There were 21 first time donors this time which is great!!  Everyone that volunteered to give blood was entered into a drawing for a $50.00 gas cardJ  Jose Hidrogo was the lucky winner of this prize!!  He was so excited!!  All seniors who donated blood were entered to win a $250.00 scholarship and Elly Vance was our lucky winner!  It was a very successful day overall and we are looking forward to the next EHS Blood Drive in the fall of 2012! 

Spanish Students Learn to Salsa

Thanks to Mrs. Frazier and her dance partner, Abraham Ghantous, for volunteering to teach salsa dancing to all of the students enrolled in Spanish.

EUREKA HIGH SCHOOL HONORS ILLINOIS STATE SCHOLARS

State salutes 19 Eureka High School students as ‘academic blue chippers’


Eureka IL – Eureka High School Principal Richard Wherley is pleased to announce that 19 students have been recognized as “2012 Illinois State Scholars”.

The prestigious award is given annually by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) which is recognizing 17,093 high school students from across the state as this year’s State Scholars.

Illinois State Scholar winners rank in the top ten percent of the state’s high school seniors from 897 high schools in all 102 counties. Selection is based on SAT, ACT and/or Prairie State Achievement Exam scores, and/or class rank at the end of the junior year. High school guidance counselors work in conjunction with ISAC to determine the winners. At least a half million Illinois State Scholars have been recognized in the past 48 years. The 19 students receiving the award this year are:

Congratulations Eureka High School Illinois State Scholars

Anderson, Joseph
Cottrell, Kurt
Craig, Nathaniel
Cuffe, Emily
Fehr, Rachel
Frank, Abram
Garber, Erica
Hartman, Jacey
Hinrichsen, Kyle
Hunt, Andrea
Kuntz, Joseph
Noe, Quinton
Peters, Liesl
Ryan, Connor
Scherer, Chase
Schumacher, Seth
Swords, Gabriel
Zehr, Bradley
Zhuang, Thompson



While the recognition does not provide a monetary award, winners are encouraged to cite the award on applications for college admission and scholarships.

“Competition for college admission and financial aid is tough. Illinois State Scholar awardees have earned a real edge by hitting the books and getting good grades,” said ISAC Chairman Don McNeil. “These 19 Eureka High School students are shining examples that hard work pays off”.

McNeil urged high school students and their parents to visit ISAC’s website (www.collegezone.com) for more information about the many college financial assistance programs available. The innovative site also offers career counseling services, a planning timeline, virtual campus tours and online applications.

Created in 1957, ISAC is the state’s central provider of college aid. The agency oversees the successful Monetary Award Program (MAP), as well as the new MAP Plus program, Illinois Veteran Grant program, and service-related programs to encourage more students to pursue careers in teaching or nursing. Last year, ISAC issued 185,000 grants totaling $400 million and guaranteed $1.24 billion in loans to 232,631 students. Its 529 prepaid tuition program – College Illinois! – has allowed Illinois families to prepay more than $1 billion in tuition and fees.

Eureka FFA Teaming Up With Eureka Food Pantry

Blessings Working Together

By: Virginia Ely
(Eureka FFA Reporter)

Giving is the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return. The Eureka FFA is teaming up with the Eureka Food Pantry to help families this holiday season. From collecting cans around town to bringing in pickup truck loads of food to the food pantry, the FFA is up and running again with the Tons of Fun Food Drive!

Congerville, Goodfield, and Davenport grade schools along with the middle school and high school are all in competition to see who can collect the most food. Every Friday the FFA officers and Ag classes collect, weigh, and record the pounds each class collects. It is then sorted and loaded in pickup trucks to take to the Eureka Food pantry. This past Friday alone the FFA took three full truck loads to the pantry. The Food pantry alone feeds over 100 families from the surrounding area. They have eleven surrounding churches that help donate, but every three months they get helpers together and go to the grocery stores and spend thousands of dollars just to help these families. In addition to the competition between the classes members of the FFA walked around town on Thursday, going door-to-door collecting even more donations! With what the FFA received Thursday and Friday there are only good things to come in the following weeks!

It is a blessing to have helping hands collect, sort, and deliver the food. The FFA would like to thank all who donated by either sending food with their kids, or by giving to those who surprisingly knocked on your door Thursday night! It’s a blessing to have such giving people at this time of year working together for the bigger cause.

Wrestling Team Wins at Peoria Notre Dame Tournament

Congratulations to the Wrestling Team on winning the Peoria Notre Dame Invitational Tournament on Saturday. The following wrestlers placed:


1st- Matt Hill, Josh Schaidle, Ben Pintar, Chase Scherer, Derek Hartter

2nd- Bradley Brewer

3rd- Drake Bowald, Jerrid Keith, Jerrid Keith, Brock Merritt, David Beal, Connor Ryan

EHS Student Council's Good Choices Assembly

The Eureka High School Student Council hosted a Good Choices Assembly Tuesday afternoon!  Congerville, Goodfield and Davenport students came over to meet the Eureka High School Boys Basketball team, Girls Basketball team, Dance team, Pep Band, Cheerleaders and Student Council Exec Board!  Students of all ages really enjoyed the event and the event ended with a speech on how to make good choices!  It was a fun filled afternoonJ