Union-Scioto Local School District

Today Wednesday 10/19/22 and Thursday 10/20/22 bus # 5's students will be picked up approx 55 minutes late each morning and will be approx. 35 minutes late arriving home. Bus #5 services Adena Rd., Orange St., Appleton Rd., Lake Dr., Piatt Ave., Yaples Orchid, Suncrest Ct., Avalon Dr., Melrose Dr., and Baldwin Ct. Thank you.

Today, and the rest of the week, Bus # 27's students will be approx 30 minutes late arriving home. Bus #27 services #1021, 679, 154, 234 and 372 Clinton Rd., Witter Dr., Frontier, Sarah, Crosscreek, Copperfield, Patrician Dr. and Creekview. Thanks!

Today Monday 10/17/22 Bus # 27's students will be approx 30 minutes late arriving home. Bus #27 services #1021, 679, 154, 234 and 372 Clinton Rd., Witter Dr., Frontier, Sarah, Crosscreek, Copperfield, Patrician Dr. and Creekview. Thanks!

There will be no school for students or staff this Friday, October 21. The District Office will be closed as well. We will resume normal operating hours on Monday, October 24.

Breakfast and lunch menus are now available for November! Breakfast is free for all students and the cost of lunches is located on the right side of the menu.

Tomorrow Monday, 10/17/22 and Tuesday 10/18/22 bus # 5's students will be picked up approx 55 minutes late each morning and will be approx. 35 minutes late arriving home. Bus #5 services Adena Rd., Orange St., Appleton Rd., Lake Dr., Piatt Ave., Yaples Orchid, Suncrest Ct., Avalon Dr., Melrose Dr., and Baldwin Ct. Thank you.

All call for 4:00 pm today! Our Vision: By inspiring greatness, all students will realize their worth and potential. Our Mission: At Union-Scioto School District, students will learn, lead and make a difference. Our Motto: Today’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Leaders. The Unioto Marching band is having their annual Pearl Valley cheese fundraiser and it wiil go until the 17th, so hit up a marching sherman for some delicious cheese from Amish country! Congrats to our ladies soccer team winning the SVC again for the 5th year in a row! All undefeated seasons in the league. Nice job coaches and athletes!! Congrats to our boys soccer team going undefeated in league play and 15-1 overall. Tourney play begins next week! Congratulations to the Cross Country Teams who participated in their home invitational this past weekend here at the athletic complex. Over 840 runners participated in the meet. The boys and girls were both second to Lancaster. On the boys side, Lancaster is ranked 4th in the state in DI. The varsity 5 were Turner Markko, Seth Ogan, Ashton Beverly, Rowen Lloyd and Zack Wallace. Out of 32 schools, the boys were 100 points better than third place. The girls race was won by Cameron Walker with Briana Nelson following closely in 4th overall in the 200 runner field. Gwyn Eldridge, Ava Rooker, and Shyla Rinehart rounded out the scoring places. Hope all are able to attend our last home football game of the season which is also senior night, tonight. Game starts at 7pm. A special thanks to Chris Clark for coordinating a fireworks show for our senior athletes, families, and our community. A thank you to those that contributed to the fireworks as well. We really appreciate it. We plan to have fireworks at the beginning and throughout the game with a small finale at the end. A reminder next Friday, October 21 no school for students or staff. Enjoy the extended weeked!! Carry your own weather and remember hard work works! It really does. When you work hard good things will happen. It is not a guarantee that working hard will get you the results you want but not working hard will guarantee you won’t get the results. I believe talented people don’t actually realize or reach their highest level of talent without putting in real effort and working hard. You have to work hard to be talented. We have all heard hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard. Rarely, if ever, can you avoid the work and still get better or get the best results. It just doesn’t work that way. And I say great, it takes work because through the process of work you inherently become better. If it didn’t take work, real work, then there will be no real value because anyone and everyone could have it. Most rare items are considered higher in value. So the more difficult, the greater the challenge, the harder to get, the more scarce the results or the prize are, the more valuable they are. The easier it is to get a trophy the less valuable the trophy is. Everyone gets a trophy. Ok, then everyone has a trophy. Low value if any value. The value of a trophy is equal to the amount of hard work it takes to get it. Don’t take it if you didn’t have to work to get it. Don’t do it. Don’t take it. It’s worthless. The value is in the work not in the piece of plastic, wood, and inscription saying you are number 1. It is in the work. That is your trophy. True value comes from the work and effort. The trophy will be nice to look at on your shelf and might impress a few people. But you will know the trophy’s value. Set yourself a goal to work hard in all that you do. This will set you up for the greatest opportunity for a valuable and productive life. A true trophy life. Strive for a trophy life! Go Tanks!

Today, Tuesday 10/11/22 bus # 5's students will be approx. 35 minutes late arriving home. Also for the remainder of the week, bus # 5's students will be picked up approx. 55 minutes late each morning and will be approx. 35 minutes late arriving home. Bus #5 services Adena Rd., Orange St., Appleton Rd., Lake Dr., Piatt Ave., Yaples Orchard, Suncrest Ct., Avalon Dr., Melrose Dr., and Baldwin Ct. Thank you.

Tomorrow Tuesday, 10/11/22 bus number 5’s students will be approximately 55 minutes late being picked up. Bus number 5 services Adena Rd., Orange St., Appleton Rd., Lake Dr., Piatt Avenue, Yaples Orchard , Suncrest Court, Avalon Drive, Melrose Drive and Baldwin Court. Thank you.

Students will be dismissed two hours early on Friday, October 14.

All call for 4:00 pm today! Our Vision: By inspiring greatness, all students will realize their worth and potential. Our Mission: At Union-Scioto School District, students will learn, lead and make a difference. Our Motto: Today’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Leaders. We apologize for the adjustment in bus routes but as announced earlier you can expect this to be an ongoing issue. We will do our best to communicate to families as soon as possible. I would add we are accepting applications for bus drivers. If anyone is interested, please contact me directly or our transportation supervisor, Shawn Ost at 773-6031 or email at sost@gotanks.org. Congratulations to the boys cross country team who finished 10th in the championship division of the Saturday night lights CC race at Centerville last weekend. The meet featured 3 of the top 4 teams and 5 of the top 15 in Ohio DII as well as 5 DI ranked schools and 5 of the top DI schools from Kentucky. The boys are ranked second in Ohio DII this week. Congratulations to the girls cross country team for finishing 19th in the A race at the same meet. Cameron Walker won the 285 runner race overall followed closely by Briana Nelson who was 8th. Please come out to watch the teams at our home meet this Saturday (tomorrow) at 9am. We will be hosting over 30 schools and 1000 athletes at our home course. Congratulations to Caitlin Pennington for advancing to the district tournament in girls tennis. Caitlin will play Wednesday October 12th at Ohio University in Athens for the first round of the district tournament. Congratulations to our boys golf team on an outstanding season. The boys won the SVC Championship once again and advanced to the district tournament with a 4th place finish in the sectional. Individually, Charlie Lewis earned his 2nd consecutive SVC player of the year honors and narrowly missed a trip to the state tournament by 1 stroke during district play. Congrats to our athletes and coaches! Youth Boys Basketball signups Wednesday, October 12th from 6-7:30 PM in High School Commons. Grades 3-6, cost is $50. Please make checks payable to Unioto Hoops Club. The Unioto Marching band is having their annual Pearl Valley cheese fundraiser and it wiil go until the 17th, so hit up a marching sherman for some delicious cheese from Amish country! This time next Friday is the end of the first 9 weeks and we have a 2hr early release for students. Friday, October 14. As we approach the end of first 9 weeks and the fall season I encourage you to focus on gratitude. As difficult and challenging as life can be, there will always be things to be thankful for. Develop the habit of reminding yourself to be thankful and start your day with thinking about 3-4 things you are blessed with. And if that seems too much, find at least one. One thing to be thankful for. You do this consistently for a month or two and it will become part of who you are. You can literally transform yourself into a more positive, appreciative, and friendly person. It will become a habit for you. Negativity, complaining, victimhood, bitterness, positivity, appreciation, accountability, and friendliness are all potential habits of thinking you can adopt. It is a choice. A real choice. Your choice! Make it a good one. Hope to see you all at tonight’s home football game. It will be a bit chilly as the weather is changing but remember, it is your choice to carry your own weather! Be a force for gratitude! Carry your own weather! Be thankful! Go Tanks!

I wanted to inform parents that the middle school received a report of a potential incident involving a student making threats via social media. Immediately upon learning of the threat, we contacted law enforcement and cooperated with the law enforcement investigation and they determined it was unfounded and not a credible threat. The situation has been resolved and we appreciate the responsiveness and assistance of the law enforcement. We have additional law enforcement available at our schools as well and as always, the safety of our students and staff are our top priority. Thank you Mr. Thornsberry

This Saturday, October 1st, Ohio University-Chillicothe is hosting a special Community Health & Safety Fair and Touch a Truck Experience! The event will run from 10am to 1pm and will be held in the Shoemaker Center Gym. It is open to the public and free of cost. There will be over 25 booths to visit and learn about resources and services available from local health and safety providers. The Touch a Truck Experience will be held in the upper parking lot adjacent to the Shoemaker Center.

Wednesday 9/28/22 Bus # 27's students will be approx. 30 minutes late arriving home. Bus #27 services 1021, 679, 372, 234 and 154 Clinton Rd., Witter Dr., Frontier, Sarah Ct., Crosscreek Dr., Copperfield, Patrician Dr., Creekview and Larrick Lane.

We are currently accepting applications for bus drivers. If anyone is interested, please contact Matt Thornsberry, Superintendent at mthornsberry@gotanks.org or the Transportation Supervisor, Shawn Ost at 773-6031 or email at sost@gotanks.org.

Unfortunately, we have to postpone our bonfire event this evening. Rescheduled for next Thursday, September 28 at 8:30pm. Go Tanks!!

All call for 4:00 pm today! Our Vision: By inspiring greatness, all students will realize their worth and potential. Our Mission: At Union-Scioto School District, students will learn, lead and make a difference. Our Motto: Today’s Learners, Tomorrow’s Leaders. We apologize for the adjustment in bus routes but as announced earlier you can expect this to be an ongoing issue. We will do our best to communicate to families as soon as possible. I would add we are accepting applications for bus drivers. If anyone is interested, please contact me directly or our transportation supervisor, Shawn Ost at 773-6031 or email at sost@gotanks.org. The girls cross country team competed at the Troy Invitational this weekend having a break out race to finish 8th of 25 plus schools in the DI race. They were led by Cameron Walker who finished 3rd of 166 runners with Briana Nelson in 12th. Gwyn Eldridge was in with a time of 21:11 and then Ava Rooker with a time of 22:17. Shyla Rinehart rounded out the top 5 with a time of 23:37. Ava Fyffe also ran a MASSIVE PR with 24:47. The boys cross country team also competed in the Troy Twilight this weekend and came home as the team champions in the most competitive section. They nearly doubled up state DIII number 5th ranked Botkins who were runners-up. The team was led by Seth Ogan in 7th place of 229 runners. Ashton Beverly not too far behind in 12th and Turner Markko 17th and Caden Larue 19th. Rounding out our top 5 was Rowen Lloyd in 27th place, Zack Wallace was 32nd and Eli Peck rounded out the varsity in 17:12. The boys are ranked second in Ohio this week in the AP/Coaches Poll. Congrats to our golf team for winning the SVC once again! Great job golfers and coaches. Several activities/events this weekend with our homecoming game tomorrow vs Adena followed by Saturday’s homecoming dance. Also on Saturday our XC team will be competing at Rio Grande, JV football will be away at Adena, and boys and girls soccer will be at Circleville. No school this Friday, September 23, 2022 for students due to staff participating in professional development. No school this Friday. Enjoy the extended weekend! Students: I read a brief article recently that posited that one possibility for people not bringing their best each day is because they may lack confidence in themselves and their abilities. I have to admit this really struck me hard and literally opened my perspective to some degree. The idea that people wouldn’t aspire to be the best they can be because they view themselves as less, or shameful of their deficiencies or weaknesses, and lack confidence is real. It also reminded me of the concept that a person can be in a really bad place. I don’t know if anyone is ever immune from experiencing this. It is ok and it will probably happen; it is ok to not be in a very good place as long as if what you are trying to do with that not so good place is to make it better. Even when you are in a good place, if you are moving upward and making it better, that is better. But make no mistake, life is hard. Being a child is hard. Being a student is hard. Being a person is hard. As you have heard me say before, tough situations and experiences make you tougher. See challenges as opportunities. Obstacles comes before opportunities in the dictionary and that is not on accident. I argue they are the same thing. I encourage you to voluntarily accept challenges as opportunities to strengthen yourself. This simple shift in your mindset could have a profound impact on how you approach and experience life each and every day. Don’t be too hard on yourself and be thankful and proud of the smallest of improvements. You cannot underestimate the value of incremental progress. So, students I encourage you to set an aim to bring your very best everyday. You can do it. Maybe not everyday to start, but you can at least start. Any improvement, no matter how little is of value. Parents: I know you know this - you cannot underestimate the power of encouragement. Even the smallest bit of encouragement can go way beyond your expected impact. And it is easy to find reasons to encourage. Look for those opportunities to encourage and support our students, your children. There should be no doubt that we believe in who they can become. So, when they encounter the challenges and experience the bad places they will be more prepared and equipped to meet them with strength and confidence. Go Tanks!

Wed. and Thurs. 9/21 and 9/22 Bus #25's students will be picked up approx. 55 minutes late in the morning. In the afternoon they will be delivered approx. 35-40 minutes late. Bus #25 services Zickafoose, East Valley, Kinnamon, Wildflower, Marigold, Goldenrod, Foxglove, Arlington, Woodland Way, Grant, Unioto, and Custer.

Breakfast and lunch menus are now available for October! Breakfast is free for all students and the cost of lunches is located on the right side of the menu.

Tuesday 9/20/22 Bus #4's students will be approx. 45 minutes late being picked up. In the afternoon they will be approx. 30 minutes late arriving home. Bus #4 services Golfview, Goodale, Scioto Woods 1 & 2 and 176 Clinton Rd (Northcreek Apts.)