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Welcome Nathan Richter as the new principal of the LSA High School.  Read more

Jerica Hawkins is the Macon County Player of the Year for the second year in a row!

LSA is pleased to announce that Tracie Yantis has been named the new head girls basketball coach replacing Mark Burgener.

Yantis was a 4 year starter at Okaw Valley high school, earning all conference honors, as well as IBCA All-State recognition. Yantis averaged 22.6 points, 8 assists, and 4 steals per game her senior year and was named the teams MVP.

 Tracie Yantis continued her basketball career at Millikin University and was a 3 year letter winner. Known for her hustle and defensive presence on the court, Yantis was named her teams defensive player of the year 2007-08 and she averaged 10 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3 steals per game her senior year.  Tracie Yantis was the  JV coach for the  Okaw Valley Timberwolves last season.

Millikin University Coach Lori Kerans had this to say,
“I am so excited that Tracie Yantis has decided to accept the position as Head Girl’s Basketball Coach at LSA.” 

  “She is an outstanding athlete who has enjoyed great success at Okaw Valley and at Millikin University.  Tracie has been exposed to excellence throughout her academic and athletic career:  excellent role-models and educators, outstanding family background, and community support.  The LSA Lions, the Yantis family, and Tracie are winners who expect to be successful in whatever they choose to do.  Tracie Yantis is the complete package who I trust will make a positive impact as an educator, coach, and servant for her student-athletes.”

 Coach Yantis, “I am grateful to LSA for this opportunity and I am very excited to meet the players and families from both the high school and elementary school. I just can’t wait to get started.”

 Yantis is already making plans with the assistant coaches for camps, summer tournaments and conditioning for the elementary and high school girls.

THANK YOU to all who volunteered at the LSA’s Feed My Starving Children Mobile Pack Event!

116, 640 meals were packaged at our event, which exceeded our goal!  That amount of food will provide 319 hungry children with meals for one year!   Your few hours of hard work made a huge impact on the lives of children around the world.

We give thanks to God for His abundance in providing these meals for His children and for bringing in 487 volunteers to do the work needed.  If this experience has moved you to want to thank Him, we would ask you to
consider giving a $5 thank offering this week.   It would be included in the classroom challenge, which has been extended to the end of April.  (Checks may be written out to Feed My Starving Children, Event 1204-44). For $5, a child could have three meals for seven days—the amount of meals a healthy American child is likely to eat in a week.

God has worked in amazing ways to accomplish His purposes through this event!  We are so grateful for all that you have done to support this special opportunity!  Many requests have been made for the black LSA Mobile Pack t-shirts.  We have several left in youth sizes, but we would need to place an order for adult sizes.  If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Bayles.

Re-Enrollment Cover Letter 2012

If you currently have students enrolled at LSA, you can simply fill out one Re-Enrollment Form for all of your students.  Return that form along with your registration fee of $50 per student by February 29th.

If you are new to LSA, please fill out the Registration Form for each new student and return them to the school office along with your registration fee of $50 per student by February 29th.

List of Fees 2012-2013

Collection Procedures

What is your favorite cartoon?
The Far Side

Who is your favorite band or artist?
I actually have several artists whose works I admire.  They include:  VanGogh, Monet, Seurat, O’Keefe, Michelangelo, etc. 

Do you have any pets?
One dog-Sassy

If you were stranded on a deserted island, what one item would you wish to have with you?
My Bible

What are your favorite hobbies?
Reading, antiquing and volunteering at the LSA ReSale Shop

What is your favorite food?
Beets

What were you like in high school?
A good student- I knew that I wanted to go to college, so I would have to work hard to achieve that goal.

Where did you go for high school?
Utica High School in Utica, Michigan

What is your favorite sport?
I don’t really watch any sports, but I always love watching our LSA teams play.  I always check the sports in the newspaper every day to see how our teams have done.

If you weren’t a teacher right now, what would you be doing?
I often thought that it would be great to be an attorney or an interior decorator.  Of course, I love retirement, so that is what I love to be doing.

What is your favorite animal?
Dogs

If you had a pet dragon, what would you name it?
Puff

If you could have any super power, what power would you want? Why?
Superiorvision-the better to spot those people chewing gum and not in dress code.

What is your middle name?
Lou

What nicknames did you have in high school?
I did not have any. 

If you could change your name, what name would you change it to?
I have lived with my name so long that I don’t know of a name that I would like to change it to.

What is your favorite thing about LSA?
I have several things that I love about the LSA.  The firrst is that I could teach about Jesus.  Religion classes were my favorites to teach.  My second favorite thing has to be the students, the staff and the parents. 

What is your favorite homecoming week event? Why?
Tailgating-It is fun to see everybody, and I usually like the food.

Who was your favorite teacher in school, and what were they like?
My favorite teacher was my first grade teacher, Mrs. Heenen.  She is the reason that I became a teacher.  She had grades one through eight in a one-room school house.  She was able to manage all of us and still have us excel.  The next year I was bused to the school in the city that was much bigger.  Because of her work, I was able to skip a grade and enter as a third grader. 

What is one extraordinary thing you want to do in your life?
I think that I have already done it.  I always wanted my students to be the best prepared English students and for them to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

I Corinthians 1-13

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.